The Cheapest Places on Earth: Laughlin
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, January, 1999 by Hal Morris
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Imagine a couple spending two nights in a first-class hotel and feasting on a total of 12 cowboy-size meals - all for a paltry $42 outlay. Not possible these days? Wrong, pardner. A glitzy Las Vegas yesteryear flavor and 1950s prices all blend into each other in Laughlin, Nevada, a rare example of an exciting U.S. destination at bargain-basement prices. Room rates are actually lower than in 1985.
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In the desert, across the Colorado River from Bullhead City, Arizona, Laughlin is fairly new. Some maps still don't show it, at the southern tip of Nevada, 90 miles from Las Vegas. Now with more than 11,000 affordable rooms and 11 hotels, each with a distinctive theme along a 2.5-mile strip, the permanent population has soared to 8,000 from only 90 in 1984. The riverfront community, surrounded by stark mountains, is named after Don Laughlin, who bought a little ...
