Does the $50 Mandalay Bay resort fee cover parking?

No. Parking is a separate charge: hotel guests pay $20 a day to self-park and $40 a day for valet. A three-night stay with a car is $170.07 in resort fees plus $60 in parking.

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

Last updated: November 8, 2026

Mandalay Bay Resort Fee 2026: $50 a Night (What You’ll Actually Pay)

Q: Can you get the Mandalay Bay resort fee waived or lowered?

MGM Rewards Gold members and above get the fee waived, if they book direct with MGM, under their own name, with their account attached, up to two rooms per trip. Below Gold, the only path guests report is asking a host after play is reviewed, decided at checkout, not guaranteed.

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

MGM does not publish a reason. The verified table shows Mandalay Bay at $50 a night ($56.69 with tax) while Bellagio, Venetian, Wynn, and ARIA are $55 ($62.36 with tax). The gap is $5.67 a night with tax.

Bottom line

Mandalay Bay charges $50 a night for its resort fee, before tax. With the 13.38% lodging tax, that comes to $56.69 a night out of your pocket. 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 Mandalay Bay parking page.) Book Mandalay Bay on Booking.com

What you’ll actually pay

The headline number is $50. What you pay is $56.69. The tax is 13.38%, so the math is $50 × 1.1338 = $56.69 a night, self-calculated from the official $50 (mandalaybay.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026) and the 13.38% Strip lodging tax rate (theresortfee.com/resort-fee, verified Oct 18, 2026). Here is what that adds up to:

1 night: $50.00 + $6.69 tax = $56.69
3 nights: $150.00 + $20.07 tax = $170.07
4 nights: $200.00 + $26.76 tax = $226.76
7 nights: $350.00 + $46.83 tax = $396.83

Four nights is the number that stings. Four comped nights at a $0 room rate still carry $226.76 in resort fees, self-calculated as $50 × 4 × 1.1338. A $0 room rate does not mean a $0 bill.

Four comped nights at Mandalay Bay: the room rate is $0, the resort fee is $226.76, and you still pay $226.76.

What the $50 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 $50.00 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.” (mandalaybay.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. A third person in the room costs extra on top: $40 plus tax per occupant, per night, above two occupants. That is $45.35 with tax, self-calculated as $40 × 1.1338 (mandalaybay.mgmresorts.com, verified Oct 28, 2026).

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 (subject to eligibility and other terms and conditions available at https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/mgm-rewards/daily-resort-fee-waiver.html)” (mandalaybay.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. Your MGM Rewards account number must be attached to the reservation.
Two rooms per trip, maximum. The waiver covers “up to two room reservations per trip.”
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.

Guests confirm the split. The question surfaced on r/vegas on September 30, 2026, in a thread titled “Are there any tips or secrets to get resort fees waived,” from a poster who had four nights comped and still had to pay the resort fee. A different guest, writing on royalflushervegas.com, booked four nights, three comped and one paid, and wrote: “I booked four nights. Three were comped, and one I have to pay for. I have to pay resort fees for all four nights as a lowly ‘Cardboard tier’ member of the rewards program.” Another poster, on vegasmessageboard.com, answering whether MGM charges the fee on a comped room, wrote: “MGM hasn’t made resort fee waivers totally contingent on tier level yet. If your play level is sufficient, which it apparently is, resort fees can be waived for comped nights, as part of your offer.” The rule that follows from these accounts: 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.

There is one more tripwire. If your offer waives the fee but only on comped nights, an extra paid night breaks the pattern. A poster on vegasmessageboard.com put it this way: “If you are not Gold or higher, and resort fees are waived as part of your offer, the waiver only applies to comped nights. ... If you were Gold, you’d get out of the resort fee on the 5th night as well.” So a four-night comp offer plus a fifth paid night means a fee on the fifth night, $56.69 self-calculated as $50 × 1.1338, unless you hold Gold+.

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.

Why $50 when Bellagio is $55

Bellagio, Venetian, Wynn, and ARIA charge $55 a night before tax, $62.36 with tax, per the site’s verified table (theresortfee.com/resort-fee, verified Oct 7–Nov 2, 2026). Mandalay Bay charges $50, $56.69 with tax. 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.

Mandalay Bay's resort fee is $56.69 a night with tax, $5.67 less than the $62.36 a night at Bellagio, Venetian, Wynn, and ARIA.

MGM does not publish a reason for the tier. Some tables online list Bellagio and ARIA at $50. That number is wrong: the official pages put them at $55 ($62.36 with tax), per the site’s verified table. If you are comparing hotels by the fee, use $55 for Bellagio and ARIA and $50 for Mandalay Bay. The $5 gap is real.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do comped rooms still pay the Mandalay Bay 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: Can you get the Mandalay Bay resort fee waived or lowered?

A: Gold+ status waives it, if you book direct with MGM, under your own name, with your account attached, up to two rooms per trip. Below Gold+, the only path guests report is asking a host after your play is reviewed, and that is decided at checkout, not guaranteed. There is no published way to lower the $50 itself; it is a flat daily rate.

Q: Does the $50 resort fee cover parking?

A: No. Parking is a separate charge: hotel guests pay $20 a day to self-park and $40 a day for valet (MGM Resorts unified parking page, verified Oct 22, 2026). A three-night stay with a car is $170.07 in resort fees plus $60 in parking, self-calculated as $50 × 3 × 1.1338 plus $20 × 3.

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

A: MGM does not publish a reason. What the table shows is a tier: Mandalay Bay is $50 a night ($56.69 with tax) while Bellagio, Venetian, Wynn, and ARIA are $55 ($62.36 with tax), per the site’s verified table (theresortfee.com/resort-fee, verified Oct 7–Nov 2, 2026). The gap is $5.67 a night with tax. Some tables online list Bellagio and ARIA at $50; the official pages say $55. The frustration is real. One thread on r/mildlyinfuriating (Jan 7, 2026) is titled “Wtf Mandalay Bay and any other Vegas hotels that pull this crap”. But the fee itself is $5 less than the center-Strip tier, not more.

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