Fee verified: October 28, 2026 · Source: Bellagio’s official terms page (bellagio.mgmresorts.com), page updated August 26, 2026

Last updated: November 8, 2026

Bellagio Resort Fee 2026: $55 a Night (What You’ll Actually Pay)

Bottom line

Bellagio charges $55 a night for its resort fee, before tax. With the 13.38% room tax, that comes to $62.36 a night out of your pocket, self-calculated as $55 × 1.1338. The fee lands on every reservation. The official terms page says it “will be applied to all reservations.” The only exemption the hotel itself states is MGM Rewards Gold+ status, and only on a reservation booked direct. A comped room is not an exemption. Parking sits on top of the fee, not inside it. (Parking: our Bellagio parking fee.) Book Bellagio on Booking.com

What you’ll actually pay

The headline number is $55. What you pay is $62.36. The math is $55 × 1.1338 = $62.36 a night, self-calculated from the official $55 (bellagio.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026). Bellagio’s page does not name the tax rate. It says only “$55.00 plus applicable tax.” The 13.38% is the Clark County Room Tax, and some hotels state it in words on their own official terms pages. The Venetian’s says: “Daily rates do not include the applicable Clark County Room Tax of 13.38%.” (venetianlasvegas.com, checked Oct 29, 2026). Every with-tax number on this page is Bellagio’s official pre-tax fee with that county rate applied and the result calculated here. None of them is read off Bellagio’s page. Here is what that adds up to:

1 night: $55.00 + $7.36 tax = $62.36
3 nights: $165.00 + $22.08 tax = $187.08
7 nights: $385.00 + $51.51 tax = $436.51

A third person in the room costs extra on top: $50 plus tax per occupant, per night, above two occupants. That is $56.69 with tax, self-calculated as $50 × 1.1338 (bellagio.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026). Bellagio’s third-person charge is $50. Mandalay Bay’s is $40 ($45.35 with tax). The $10 gap is Bellagio-specific, and it only shows up when you read the two terms pages side by side.

The fee is set when you book. The terms page says: “Room rates, resort fees, additional occupant charges, cancellation fees, and cleaning fees are based on rates and fees applicable at time of booking your reservation, not at time of check-in (unless date of booking/check-in are the same or as otherwise provided herein).” That is the rule as the hotel states it, with one exception: it does not hold when the booking and check-in dates are the same, or when the terms provide otherwise elsewhere.

What the $55 covers

The official terms page lists the inclusions in one sentence. Quoted in full, because the limiters are the point:

“A daily resort fee of $55.00 plus applicable tax will be applied to all reservations. The resort fee includes: In-room wireless internet access; unlimited local, domestic long distance (the 50 United States and DC) and toll-free calls; access to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME On Demand via in-room television; airline boarding pass printing; digital newspaper and magazine access; and fitness center access for guests 18+. Amenities, such as fitness center access, are subject to availability and guest demand.” (bellagio.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026; page updated Aug 26, 2026)

Two limiters to notice. The fitness center is 18+ only, and every amenity is “subject to availability and guest demand.” The hotel can limit access when it is busy. What the list does not mention is parking. Parking is not in the fee. It is a separate charge, covered below.

Who skips it

One group skips the fee by status. The official terms page says: “Daily resort fees will be waived (i.e., removed from the bill at check out) for eligible members with Gold+ Tier Level status with eligible reservations” (bellagio.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026).

The waiver page adds six conditions, and each one can cost you the waiver:

Gold+ status at the time of stay. You must hold Gold or higher when you stay, not when you book.
Book direct. The waiver applies in the waiver page’s words: “Applicable daily resort fees will be waived on up to two room reservations per trip when an eligible member books direct, under their name, with MGM Resorts International and his/her eligible MGM Rewards account number is attached to such reservations.” A third-party booking does not qualify.
Account attached. Leave the number off the reservation, and this condition alone costs you the waiver.
Two rooms per trip, maximum. Add a third room to the same trip, and that room pays the fee.
The front desk may need to confirm it. You “may be required to visit the Front Desk during their stay to confirm eligibility and request waiver of the daily resort fee.”
No convention or group rates. The waiver is “not applicable to reservations associated with convention, trade show and/or group sales unless billed to the qualifying member.”

Gold takes 75,000 tier credits a year (networkinvegas.com; vegas-guide.pro gives the same number). That figure comes from third-party guides, not from an MGM announcement. MGM’s own waiver page names the tier but not the points.

Now the comp question, which is the one that actually decides whether you pay. The official terms page says the fee “will be applied to all reservations” and names Gold+ as the only waiver. It never says comped nights skip the fee. That silence is the answer: a comped room does not come with a waived fee unless your offer says so. The waiver lives in your offer, not in the comp. If your offer does not include it, you pay. Even on the nights the room itself is free.

This is the question real guests keep asking. A thread on r/vegas from September 30, 2026, is built around a guest with four comped nights who still had to pay the resort fee. One commenter in that thread wrote: “There’s no secret You can ask if they will waive them but be prepared for them to say no If you gamble big amounts they might waive if you ask towards the end when they can see your money played” (r/vegas, Sep 30, 2026, 3 upvotes). Another wrote: “Either build status in the rewards program or can try complaining about an issue at checkout I’ve seen people get the resort fee waved [sic] for that” (r/vegas, Sep 30, 2026, 5 upvotes). Those are guests’ accounts, not MGM statements. The pattern in these discussions is consistent: the comp covers the room, the fee is a separate line, and it stays unless the offer or the status removes it. Check your offer before you go, and ask your host before checkout.

Is Gold the same as a host comp? No. Gold status waives the fee by the written terms, if you book direct. Guests report that a host can also take the fee off your bill after reviewing your play. But that is the host’s call, not a published rule. It is decided at checkout, not at booking. Do not count on it before you arrive. Of the routes guests describe, only the written ones hold: Gold status on a direct booking, or a waiver written into your offer. Asking a host at checkout and complaining about an issue are luck; one guest's success story is not a rule. If it were me, I would not spend extra money at the tables for a waiver that may never come.

Why $55 when others write $50

Bellagio charges $55 a night before tax, $62.36 with tax, per the official terms page (bellagio.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026). NerdWallet’s dedicated Bellagio hotel review (nerdwallet.com/travel/learn/bellagio-hotel-vegas-review, checked Oct 28, 2026) writes: “The hotel charges a mandatory $50 daily resort fee, whether or not you use the included amenities, like the gym and pool area.” That number is wrong. Bellagio is $55, not $50. That was the figure on that page on Oct 28, 2026, the day this site read it. If you are comparing sources, the official page says $55. That is the number to trust.

The $50 figure is not an isolated slip. One concrete case: unleashvegas.com’s multi-hotel table, “Las Vegas Resort Fees by Hotel,” lists Bellagio at $50.00, $56.69 with tax (checked Oct 28, 2026). On Bellagio’s official terms page the fee is $55.00, $62.36 with tax. The two numbers do not match. This site’s table, compiled hotel by hotel from each property’s official terms page, puts Bellagio in the 11-hotel $55 tier: Bellagio, Venetian, Wynn, Palazzo, Encore, ARIA, Vdara, Cosmopolitan, Resorts World, Fontainebleau, and Waldorf Astoria. Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand are $50. The gap is $5 a night before tax, $5.67 with tax, self-calculated as $62.36 − $56.69. Over three nights that is $17.01, self-calculated as $5.67 × 3. Over a week it is $39.69, self-calculated as $5.67 × 7. MGM does not publish a reason for the tier. The gap itself is verified; the reason is not stated anywhere.

The fee and parking are separate lines

Bellagio’s $55 resort fee does not cover parking. Parking is a separate charge on the same bill. Registered guests pay $20 a day for self-parking, any day of the week. Visitors pay $20 Monday to Thursday and $25 Friday to Sunday. Valet is $40 a day (MGM Resorts unified parking page, verified Oct 21, 2026). A three-night stay with a car is $187.08 in resort fees plus $60 to $75 in parking, self-calculated as $55 × 3 × 1.1338 plus $20 × 3 to $25 × 3. The combined three-night total is $247.08 to $262.08. (Where Bellagio lands against the other Strip hotels: our Las Vegas parking fees page.)

Guests remember when neither line was there. In an r/vegas thread from June 17, 2026, about a hotel charging a $50 resort fee plus $25 a day for parking, the top comment reads: “A decade ago most of those were free You can tell why people are upset” (r/vegas, Jun 17, 2026, 64 upvotes). Another comment in the same thread adds: “Parking used to be free though” (r/vegas, Jun 17, 2026, 18 upvotes). Neither comment comes from a hotel. Back to now, parking starts at $20 a day.

Guests mix these two up because both appear on the same folio. They are separate lines with separate rules. The resort fee is per night. Parking is per day. What you pay depends on whether you are a guest, a visitor, or a valet user, and on the day of the week. If you are budgeting a Bellagio stay with a car, add both lines. The fee alone understates the stay by $60 to $75 over three nights.

Three nights at Bellagio: the $187.08 resort fee is the big part, with parking of $60 or $75 charged on top, for totals of $247.08 or $262.08.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is Bellagio’s resort fee really $55 a night?

A: Yes. The official terms page sets it at $55.00 plus tax, applied to all reservations, verified Oct 28, 2026. With the 13.38% tax that is $62.36 a night, self-calculated as $55 × 1.1338. NerdWallet’s Bellagio review, checked Oct 28, 2026, writes $50. That number is wrong. Trust the official page.

Q: Do comped rooms still pay Bellagio’s resort fee?

A: Yes, unless your offer or your status says otherwise. The official terms page applies the fee to “all reservations” and names only the Gold+ waiver. Whether your comp includes the waiver is in your offer. Check it before you go, and ask your host before checkout.

Q: Does the $55 resort fee cover parking?

A: No. Parking is a separate charge. Registered guests pay $20 a day for self-parking; visitors pay $20 Monday to Thursday and $25 Friday to Sunday; valet is $40 a day (MGM Resorts unified parking page, verified Oct 21, 2026). A three-night stay with a car is $187.08 in resort fees plus $60 to $75 in parking.

Q: Why is Bellagio $55 when Mandalay Bay is $50?

A: MGM does not publish a reason. What this site’s table shows is a tier: Bellagio is $55 a night ($62.36 with tax) while Mandalay Bay is $50 ($56.69 with tax). That table was compiled hotel by hotel from each property’s official terms page (verified Oct 7 - Nov 2, 2026). The gap is $5.67 a night with tax. Bellagio sits in the 11-hotel $55 tier with Venetian, Wynn, and ARIA. Mandalay Bay sits in the $50 tier with MGM Grand.

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