Las Vegas’ Club 55 Offers the Best Discount Deals

The Four Queens Hotel’s Club 55, the hotel’s discount club for seniors, has been rated the best discount deal in Las Vegas for mature travelers, according to the Seniors Issue of the Las Vegas Advisor, a monthly Las Vegas travel newsletter.

Visitors who belong to Club 55 get a 15% discount on rooms in the hotel every day. The same 15% discount goes for meals and snacks at Four Queens’ restaurants, except Hugo’s, where the discount is 10%. There is also a 10% discount on all bar drinks.

Also singled out for praise in the newsletter was the Tropicana’s 25% Sunday-through-Thursday discount on rooms and buffet meals for mature travelers 60 years and over, or for members of the American Assn. of Retired People (AARP), and the special low rates averaging 30% at the Las Vegas and Flamingo Hiltons for members of Hilton’s Senior HHonors Club.

Other Las Vegas hotels with senior discounts of 10% to 15% are the Nevada Palace, Silver City, Gold Coast, San Remo, Palace Station, Dunes, Sahara, King 8 and Bourbon Street.

A weekly schedule of Las Vegas entertainment (other than big shows) that may appeal to mature travelers is also included in the six-page October newsletter. For a copy, write to Las Vegas Advisor, Seniors Issue, Huntington Press, P.O. Box 28041, Las Vegas, Nev. 89126. Individual copies cost $3 per month, and can be ordered on a subscription basis for $30 per year.

A “49ers Festival Hootenany Hoedown” and Death Valley is being offered by Next Stage on its “Desert Rat” tour set for Nov. 7-11.

The four-night motor-coach tour also includes sightseeing, three meals and a performance at the Amargosa Opera House at Death Valley Junction. Accommodations are at the Amargosa Inn. Cost is $390 per person, double occupancy.

For information on the Death Valley trip and many others, such as a four-day Thanksgiving weekend rail tour to San Francisco aboard a deluxe private dome car for $680, contact Next Stage, P.O. Box 35269, Los Angeles 90035, (213) 939-2688.

Golden Tours for Seniors in Alhambra has several Thanksgiving trips listed. These include “Thanksgiving in Las Vegas,” with three nights at the Flamingo Hilton, departing Nov. 26. Cost is $190 per person, double occupancy. Also, “Thanksgiving in Reno,” three nights at Bally’s Grand, departing Nov. 26. Cost is $175 per person, double occupancy. “Thanksgiving at the Grand Canyon, Sedona and Flagstaff” is a four-night Arizona motor-coach tour that leaves Nov. 28. Cost is $265 per person, double occupancy. A three-day motor-coach trip to Hearst Castle leaves Nov. 28. Cost is $200 per person, double occupancy.

A five-day California coastal Thanksgiving tour leaves by motor coach Nov. 26 for San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Pismo Beach, Monterey and Carmel. The price of $599 per person, double occupancy, includes a Thanksgiving dinner.

For more information, contact Golden Tours, P.O. Box 1070, Alhambra 91802, (213) 283-7876 or (818) 289-6271.

Due to erroneous information from Desert Adventures, its “Thanksgiving Adventure” was incorrectly listed in the Oct. 6 Travel Section as being held Nov. 21. The date is Nov. 28.