GOBankingRates, a personal finance company, recently ranked the most expensive vacation spots in the United States. One Nevada city made the list.
To create the rankings, GOBankingRates cross-referenced TripAdvisor’s Top Destinations, Travel + Leisure’s 2024 Top U.S. Cities and U.S. News & World Report’s Best Cities lists. It then pulled data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey, Numbeo’s Cost of Living, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Hotels.com to estimate how much a trip would cost.
The study assumed two adults traveling for three nights, with airfare searched June 4 for the weekend of Aug. 7-10. Costs factored in 15 meals (three mid-range, 12 inexpensive), six beers, six sodas, flights into the nearest airport and the average of the three cheapest hotels within