The Cheap Eats Capital, audited
Planet Hollywood's fame is arithmetic, and this page checks the math twice. The 2025 worth-it test hunts the deals the resort is known for: $5.50 house drinks, a 48-ounce margarita for $15, a $5.99 Ketchup Classic burger — the deals mostly survive, the verdict follows them — with one sad sight noted, the old Ocean One space still sitting dormant. A 2022 budget tour runs the older ledger ($3 drink specials; a 100-ounce super yard at the Rock Bar for $42, as filmed) and argues the resort's core trick: breakfast, lunch and dinner for under $20 a day inside one property — the Miracle Mile Shops carry the food value — then splurge on the room instead. Prices are the hosts' as-filmed figures; the pattern, not any single number, is the point.
The resort, walked and slept
The orientation standard is the 2024 walkthrough, filmed after the casino's renovation finished — new carpet, Center Bar complete — starting at the below-grade valet and circuiting past the Caesars Rewards desk, with Earl of Sandwich praised for cheap, good breakfasts at the Miracle Mile's edge. The room tests split by tower and year: a 2024 cheapest room facing the Bellagio fountains (prices crept since the host's last stay; the Bakkt Theater's residency wall gets its moment — Scorpions that week; Britney, Shania, J.Lo and Clarkson in years past), and an Ultra Hip room in the south tower with a mini-fridge hidden under the TV and a mostly parking-garage view, whose host recommends the hotel constantly while naming the pool as its weak spot — another host credits that same pool's surf ride as a plus; both verdicts stand in our summaries.
The scene
Tipsy Robot's robot bartenders mix an afternoon drink in the Miracle Mile; Cabo Wabo Cantina wins one host's 'best people-watching spot in Las Vegas.' A 2020 stay ($45 Friday room, as filmed; a grumbled-at $30 early check-in fee) notes the standard room's odd dark window film and concludes that mid-Strip at that price was hard to beat. Opened in 2007 with some 2,500 rooms across a full city block, Planet Hollywood remains the Strip's value engine — an eleven-minute ambient casino walk closes the page for the floor's feel.
Sources: the seven videos on this page — a post-renovation walkthrough, a 2025 deals audit, two cheapest-room stays, a 2022 budget tour, a 2020 stay, and a casino walk — summarized from their entries in our catalog.