A great hotel with a decent price would be the Chateau. You can read my post for details on that. The price there varies from about $110-130 a night. If you want to go cheaper than that, your best best is stay at a hotel that isn't located on the beach. There was the Plaza Motel that was across the street. It was still on the strip, but not on the beach. I'm not even sure if that place is still around. Otherwise, there's a Travelodge located a couple of miles off the beach that's pretty cheap. There's ton off cheap motels around there, I just don't know all the names of them. I would try to scrape the money together to stay on the beach if you can, it's definitely worth it. You'd still have fun somewhere else, you would just have to go somewhere else to party 'cause you wouldn't have many people to party with at your hotel.