Traveling to Las Vegas is exciting. Often it is the destination for an entire vacation. But consider making Las Vegas a stopover for a different vacation. The Las Vegas airport, McCarran, is the hub for Southwest and a secondary hub for Allegiant Air and US Airways. What I’m trying to say is, you can find a lot of flight options. My husband and I just drove down from Salt Lake City to catch a direct flight to London on Max Jet, an all business class airline. The real benefit, however, is that we got to stay in Las Vegas before and after our trip to Europe. Not only was the flight much cheaper than we could find from Salt Lake City, but parking was free. Yes, free. You see, the valet service that hotel/casinos offer is free. They want you to come in and gamble. So, we just stayed at the Paris hotel at either end of our vacation and left the car in the valet lot for 3 weeks. Free. We checked the cost of leaving it in long term parking at McCarran, which is similar to any airport’s rates, and it would have been approximately $260. That pretty much paid for the 2 nights of lodging at Paris hotel. I suppose you could even valet without staying at the hotel if you needed to drive home on the same day as one of the flights. So essentially, you could drive to Vegas, valet your car, cab to the airport and fly away. Then fly back to Vegas , cab back to get your car, and drive home. I suppose this is only valuable if you live within driving distance to Las Vegas. But you may even want to consider it if you have to fly. Make it a long layover. Did I mention there are slot machines right in the airport…