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Do you want to stay at a hotel with a casino? There are a couple of family-friendly resort-ish type places just off the strip (Holiday Inn Desert Club Resort and Wyndham Grand Desert), but they don't have casinos. I think they both have two-bedroom condos with kitchen, washer/dryer, etc. I haven't stayed at either but we're planning to stay at one of them when we go this summer with kids (on our way to the Grand Canyon). They also don't charge the crazy resort fees that the casinos do, and I believe both provide transportation to the strip.

Second @erinbaderin: on the Cosmopolitan. Awesome views if you get on the Bellagio side and they have great balconies that you can hang out on and watch the fountain go. It's right on the strip and central to basically everything. The Cosmo has a lot of varied dining including Secret Pizza, which was some of the best pizza I've had outside of New York. The pool is pretty nice as well.

We always stay at the Cosmopolitan. Definitely check it out, it's my favorite!

I like Aria and Paris for location and price. Paris can be really inexpensive (which is why I like it) and the rooms are pretty standard (not fancy but clean) but the location is excellent and my favorite location on the strip for the price. I really like Aria, it can be more pricey depending on the day but if it's a weekday it shouldn't be too costly. Cosmo might be nice for a suite and it's very popular with the bachelorette crowd but I'm not a huge fan of their casino or sportsbook personally. So I also prefer Aria because the crowd isn't quite so young it seems. Great buffet as Cosmo though. My husband likes poker so their favorite places to go for that are aria, bellagio, and the wynn so we usually end up hanging around bellagio and aria.

@SugarplumsMom: The Cosmo is cool, but it's not somewhere I would think to stay with LO if I didn't gamble and basically just wanted a place to crash. It's very trendy and I'd totally stay there with DH or on a girls' getaway, but I think the resort fees are crazy and would be even crazier if you weren't planning to use the amenities anyways. The pool is nice and the location is good, but I don't really think of it as family-friendly like some of the other options. Just my two cents!