Has anyone ever used hotwire.com to book hotels in Vegas?

Never used hotwire to book a room, but heard they are pretty reliable.

However I do recommend this.

Go find the properties own website and look at the rates on their website for the same time frame, the hotel will generally match or beat the price you find on any of the Meta Sites like hotwire, orbitz, hotels.com etc... If you call them and say you have xyz price on .com site they will try to meet or beat it because they don't want to have to pay out agent fees.

The last time I used Hotwire you picked your own hotel. Keeping it secret is a bunch of BS, I wouldn't pay for an unknown hotel.

I've stayed at TI and Caesars, there's a big difference. Treasure Island has small rooms that are a bit beat up like a cheap motel. The resort itself is not that big since it was originally going to be a second room tower for the Mirage rather than a standalone resort. Canter's Deli has been replaced with a hot dog stand.

Caesars is a huge resort, well kept, with an upscale food court and over 200 stores in the Forum Shops. The rooms in the Augustus and Octavius towers are fantastic, I stayed in one in December. They're huge, sparkling clean and modern. Even numbered rooms overlook the Bellagio fountains. There's a private check in desk and taxi stand on Flamingo Rd.

Palace Tower rooms are nice but you don't get the private check in desk. Roman Tower and Forum Tower rooms are old and run down. So Caesars Palace in itself can be both an upscale luxury experience or a low budget nightmare.

Mirage is similar to TI, small rooms, not that big of a resort. The Griswold family checks into the Mirage in the "National Lampoons Las Vegas Vacation" movie. You can see how small the rooms are. They could barely fit a camera in there to shoot the scenes.

I would never use Hotwire or any "opaque" website to book a hotel in Las Vegas. That is because just about every hotel in Las Vegas has a resort fee that you pay at the hotel. That resort fee will not be in the price quoted and is mandatory of all guests unless you are a high roller who can get it comped. The resort fees can vary greatly from hotel to hotel. So you might thinking you are going to pay X when you are really paying Y.

Unfortunately, Las Vegas hotels have made it harder to truly find the best deals. Not only do you have to take into consideration the rate but the resort fee as well.