Paid Parking

MGM Resorts Paid Parking Launches Website to Explain Pricing


Late last week, MGM Resorts launched a website to explain the new paid parking rates.

The website gives a breakdown on what you’d pay as a resident, an MLife Member, a short-term visitor (1 hour), and as a hotel guest.

The “It’s gonna be ok, we’ll get through this together” site also provides a downloadable pocket guide. Here are a couple of images from that (1 above, 1 below):

Paid Parking

Of this, I ask, who visits for only 1 hour?  \_(:/)_/

Nevada residents get free parking up to 24hrs through December 29, 2016.

MLife members, (Pearl and up) get complimentary self-parking. No love for sapphire.

Tiers Gold and above receive complimentary valet parking. No love for sapphire or pearl, the struggle is real.

The new parking fees will launch next month (June of 2016).

For more details, see Marc (EDGeVegas)’s breakdown article here at Travel Vegas.

[Images: MGM Resorts International]

18 thoughts on “MGM Resorts Paid Parking Launches Website to Explain Pricing

  1. Email just popped in my box and VERY anxious to read and show my husband. This should be interesting. Thanks so much for this.

  2. Ok so if I understand this correctly as long as you stay at an MGM resort your parking fee is the same at all MGM resorts or just your hotel? Sat I’m staying @ Mirage and then go to MGM and park for a few hrs…I’m confused arrgghhhh

    1. Pay for self park or valet parking at the hotel where you’re staying, and you get the same style of parking at all of the other MGM properties at no extra charge, because they’re already fleecing you enough.

      1. Thank you so much. That’s an easier pill to swallow cause we like to casino hop on a daily basis for day and night clubs and other things. A few per day I can handle but not multiple

  3. For myself, and probably thousands of others, this announcement just serves as a “top-ten”-style list of reasons to avoid these properties. I know I will – it’s already become a habit to immediately delete any room-offer emails I get from the various MGM casinos.

    And once again, like the Harrahs’s/CET PR spin on “no resort fees” becoming “you asked for them”, MGM’s official email sounded like they were doing guests a favor by “improving the experience”. I’m not sure who heads for Vegas to have a “parking lot experience”, but people who do are more likely to be paying for something besides the right to enter the garage.

  4. I’m honestly surprised it has taken them this long to start charging for parking. There is no free parking around Nashville, even when staying at one of the insanely high priced hotels. The no parking fee was always a positive for visiting Vegas and having a rental car. These properties won’t get much business from me when I do make it back out there.

    1. I always drive from L.A. These properties won’t get *any* business from me.

  5. Hmmm…. so, being the photographer that I am, I can get in there and shoot photo-updates and clear out in 59 minutes (tires screeching) or less for free. I guess that answers the question of “Who visits for only and hour?”….so that actually works…..

  6. If you decide to avoid these properties, and do not quallify for free parking, I doubt MGM will miss you.

    1. They will, if enough people choose not to patronize the MGM properties because of the parking charge.

  7. This is just another reason to dislike MGM properties kinda thing. Between the resort fees, drink rationing on the casino floor, limiting VP drink comps at bars, and now parking fees its really chafing my @ss! Cosmo who had “upgraded parking” since opening charged zero, nada, nothing for self parking. So why did MGM decide to be so generous to upgrade our parking experience. It’s all corporate bs with resort visitors taking the hit for the new area parking costs and staffing reductions being disguised as a benefit. The slow intro just means they are nervous about po’ing their customer base. I made pearl this year and MGM will get nada from me during my next Vegas trip in protest.

  8. MGM won’t miss me, this is true, HOWEVER, if enough people like me (and Funkhouser, who would matter to MGM) avoid those properties, they WILL start missing us. I choose to spend money with people/companies who appreciate my business, no matter how little I spend.

  9. OK…if you have ever parked at Planet Hollywood it takes over 20 minutes to get to the casino from the garage so that gives you 18 mins to look around, gamble then 20 mins back to the car and 2 mins to leave before getting charged. Sounds like a well thought out plan.

  10. you cant do much in any of these megaresorts in under an hour. the Vegas experience is totally different in so many ways it is no use to compare it to Nashville or any other city. I spend about 18 nights a year in Vegas and I am sure MGM would like to have a chunk of my dollars but they don’t get one cent. I doubt if I will ever use the new arena. probably at least 75% of my Vegas budget is spent on GAMBLING. for that I “earn” free drinks, rooms, food, parking, even cigarettes once in a while. I am not really interested in upscale dining, or clubbing. paying money to park that would be free elsewhere would not make me feel privileged, it would make me feel like a FOOL! and yes I know, some would say that the gambling is the foolish part, but that is how I spend my entertainment dollars. I get enough perks to make it fun, and sometimes win some money too. the parking fee is as bad as some of the sucker bets on the table games.

  11. I’m not actually comparing the cities and entertainment of Vegas and Nashville. I AM saying that even as a guest of a downtown hotel for a weekend, they charged an additional $30/day to park so no parking fees was something that jumped out to me last time I was there. :) (And no, I didn’t pay $30 a day to park. I used Lyft from my office at $6 a ride and that was the “inflated” rate for the NHL All Star weekend.)

  12. As someone who visits Las Vegas several times a year and who rents a car on each visit, these parking fees in addition to the resort fees will ensure that I will avoid staying at all MGM Resort properties. If the other Strip resorts adopt similar parking fees, I will begin staying at off-Strip resorts or avoid Vegas altogether. Part of the allure of Vegas to me is the relatively low cost of visiting there. If Vegas resorts are going to nickel and dime me to the point that it becomes too costly to visit there, I may as well go visit the real NY or real Paris instead of the fake ones in Vegas!

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