We bowl the 7th and 8th, booked flight and hotel thru vegas.com, they give customer ratings and comments on all of the hotels. The wife is going this year so we are staying on the strip, but the more reasonable hotels are from the Stratosphere/Hilton area and north into the downtown area. I stayed at the Hilton a month ago while there on business and it was ok for that, but I would probably stay on the strip or downtown for fun.
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Patrick