HUMBLE, The two weeks before Christmas here in Vegas is usually the quietest time in town and just a few years back, you could get a 3 nite stay in a few LV hotels for FREE. (The Boyd group in particular while most of the other joints capped off at $39 a night with no so called RESORT/EXTORTION fee.)
Free stuff has changed since them good old days but the couple of weeks prior to Christmas still remain relatively void of tourists .... so hotel room and convention facility rates are somewhat lower.
But .... This town has been making more money lately than any other time throughout the history of Las Vegas so the above is damn likely to change.
There is no longer "free stuff", nor $39 room rates, nor $12 buffets , nor $5 BJ or Craps tables , but you'll have a hard time finding a room on the weekends and that $12 buffet is now 30+ with a 2 hour+ wait in a very long line, and table games start at $15 or $25 and roulette wheels now have three 'double zeros'.
So it's advisable to bring lots of money or load up your VISA card
BTW ... The Olympia photo that RON posted above is about 30 stories high.
I'm off to see the WIZARd in booth #2407!
There's no place like this place .... especially during this crazy Olympia week!