Meeting and entertainment · Las Vegas · reviewed 2026-09-07
What a two-day corporate meeting in Las Vegas costs, with sourced hotel rates and taxes, and an evening plan around the Sphere, the Strip and Downtown.
The brief this is written for
Sixty people, a one-day sales kick-off with two breakouts, one group dinner and one evening the team will talk about afterwards. Two nights on the Strip.
Las Vegas is the one city where the evening programme sells the meeting internally. Nobody has to be persuaded to attend, and the convention hotels are built for exactly this size: a ballroom for the plenary, breakouts on the same floor, and the dinner and the show within a ten-minute walk. The trade-off is that the same hotels run their own show, restaurant and resort-fee economics, so a headline room rate tells you less here than anywhere else.
The cost table below is built from the tourism authority's published room-rate figures and the Nevada tax rules a group actually pays, not from a quote. Hotels here rarely publish a day-delegate price; they quote food and beverage per person and room hire separately, and the resort fee is a line of its own. Put the resort fee, the ballroom hire and the audio-visual minimum in the brief as fixed items, and the auction compares what is left.
A two-day itinerary
Meeting hours, transfers and evenings as a sourcing desk would lay them out. Named venues link to their own pages; times are typical, not booked.
Afternoon
Check in on the Strip
Ask the hotel to hold a block on the same tower and floor range so the group is together; Strip hotels are big enough that a scattered block adds twenty minutes to every call time. Confirm the resort fee per room per night in writing, because it is charged to the guest unless the contract moves it to the master account.
18:30
Welcome drinks with the Fountains of Bellagio
The fountain shows on the lake in front of Bellagio run every half hour in the early evening and every fifteen minutes later on, and cost nothing. A drinks reception on a Strip-facing terrace nearby gives the group a first-night anchor without a ticket.
20:30
The immersive film in the Sphere is the show most groups now ask for. Groups of nine or more book through the Sphere's group desk rather than the public calendar, and pricing is by quote; the public single tickets vary by date and seat.
08:30 to 16:30
Plenary and two breakouts in the hotel
Ask for a fixed per-person food and beverage price covering two breaks and lunch, and a separate line for room hire and the in-house audio-visual minimum. Nevada charges sales tax on the food and beverage, and hotels add a service charge; both belong in the fixed package so the hotels compete on the rest.
17:30
A 30-minute rotation of the 550-foot observation wheel with the whole group in adjoining cabins is a standard corporate booking. The Happy Hour cabins with a bartender are limited to adults and priced above the standard ticket; group and private-cabin bookings run through Caesars.
19:30
O at Bellagio remains the reliable group choice: a resident production in its own theatre, dinner in the same building beforehand, and group sales that can block a section. Ticket prices are set per performance and are not published as a flat rate.
Morning
The Mob Museum or the Neon Museum
Both are Downtown, twenty minutes from the Strip by coach, and take about ninety minutes. The Neon Museum's boneyard of restored signs is the better group photograph; the Mob Museum is the better story. Both sell timed tickets online and offer group rates on request.
What it costs
Every figure below is one we read on the linked page on the date shown, in the currency it is published in. None is an estimate of ours, and none is a quote: the tender sets your price, and hotel group rates come in below the citywide average in most weeks.
| Item | Published price | Basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel room, city-wide average daily rate A record for May and 6.3% above May 2025. Convention-hotel group rates midweek sit above the average in show weeks and below it in summer. | about $211 | per room per night, May 2026 | LVCVA figures reported by FOX5 Las Vegas, 30 June 2026checked 2026-09-07 |
| Sales tax, Clark County Effective 1 January 2020. Applied to banqueting food and beverage before the hotel's service charge. | 8.375% | on food, beverage and most purchases | Nevada Department of Taxation, county sales tax mapchecked 2026-09-07 |
| Live entertainment tax Built into the price of show tickets and ticketed attractions; worth knowing when a venue quotes a group price before tax. | 9% | on admission to venues of 200 or more | Nevada Department of Taxation, live entertainment taxchecked 2026-09-07 |
What the table leaves out, and why
Sources · guide reviewed 2026-09-07
Prices change; if a figure above is out of date, the linked page is the authority. How hotels build a per-person price is explained in our day delegate rate guide; the RFP template fixes the items that make quotes comparable.
Questions
What buyers ask about the cost side of this city. The venue detail is on the destination page.
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