MGM Grand Resort Fee 2026
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Fee verified: October 14, 2026 · Source: MGM Grand official terms and conditions (page footer: Updated on August 26, 2026)
Bottom line
You'll pay $50 a night on top of the room rate at MGM Grand. It's mandatory, not optional. The official terms list a $50.00 daily resort fee plus applicable tax on every reservation, which comes to $56.69 a night once Clark County's 13.38% lodging tax is applied. Book MGM Grand on Booking.com
What you'll actually pay
The $50 fee plus 13.38% tax lands at $56.69 a night. Three nights: $170.07 in resort fees alone.
What the $50 covers
Per the official terms: in-room WiFi, unlimited local and domestic long-distance calls, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, boarding pass printing, digital newspaper and magazine access, and fitness center access (18+). The standard MGM Resorts bundle.
Who skips it
MGM Rewards Gold members and above get the fee waived. Status must be active during the stay, the booking has to be direct and under the member's name, max two rooms per trip, and the waiver page notes you "may be required to visit the Front Desk during their stay to confirm eligibility and request waiver." (MGM waiver page)
Three questions the terms don't fully answer: award stays booked with points — the terms apply the fee to "every reservation" with no carve-out for points bookings. Comp rooms — the terms don't mention them at all. Asking as a non-member — the waiver page only covers Gold members and above; there's no documented path for everyone else. The only hotels with no resort fee as a standing policy are Four Queens, Casino Royale, and Binion's.
What competitors get wrong
a site (marked "Last Updated: October 2026") still opens with "$39 Daily Resort Fee." MGM's current fee is $50. Same site, same habit as our Luxor page. (Page re-checked October 14, 2026; the $39 figure and October 2026 date were still showing.)
2010: the year MGM switched the machine on
Here's a chapter of the story most current guides skip. In late 2010, MGM announced that every one of its Strip properties not yet charging a resort fee would start. All twelve of them, effective early 2011: Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, Luxor, MGM Grand, the Signature, Skylofts, New York-New York, Monte Carlo, Aria, Bellagio, Vdara, and Circus Circus (vegastripping.com, November 2010). That was the moment the resort fee went from experiment to Strip-wide standard.
Why a separate fee instead of a higher room rate? No hotel says this outright, but the business logic points one way. Booking platforms take their commission as a percentage of the room rate. But a fee collected separately at the property isn't part of that rate. None of it goes to the platform. Every dollar stays with the hotel. Same logic as concert tickets: keep the advertised price as low as possible, then extract the real revenue through fees the platform never touches. The resort fee lets the hotel capture the room's true book value while staying competitive in search results.
The cultural side is just as blunt: hotels want to raise room rates, but travelers now book off a spreadsheet of advertised rates. Raise the rate and you lose the spreadsheet. Add the fee and you win it. Then collect at checkout. Advertise the lower number to win the click, collect the full fee at the desk.
The math back then: one reader estimated Aria alone would pull roughly $32 million a year at 100% occupancy, about $21.9 million after tax at a more realistic 80% (vegastripping.com comments, November 2010). Extrapolated across the twelve Strip properties, that's on the order of $200 million a year — my calculation, not the source's.
Don't mix these up
What about those "No Resort Fee" Signature listings? Expedia lists private Signature at MGM Grand units advertising "NO RESORT FEE." Those are third-party condo rentals, not MGM Grand hotel reservations. Different property, different rules.
Good to know
Self-parking is $20 a day, valet $40. Separate from the resort fee (per MGM's official parking page, 2026). Expect the usual incidental hold at check-in on top of that.
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