Will Las Vegas become a ghost town in the next 25 years?

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I sure as shite ain’t going. I have people telling me two beers and some chicken wings will run you over $50 on the strip.

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Yes, if you are not gambling, everything on the strip is high as frick. I’m talking $25+ a person for a shitty fast food meal.

We did have “decent” meal on Fremont St, that was about $80-$100 for 4 people. It was a BBQ place, it was ok, basically a Sonny’s BBQ level food (I like Sonny’s BTW)

Have you been there lately? Vegas is literally one of the fastest growing cities in the country

For a while there was a hack where you could get Ceasars Diamond by just having a certain credit card and so we went for a few years in a row. Old company I worked for had 40 yard line Raiders season tickets so it was a fun time. It was $50 a night in resort fees that we avoided with the status so it made staying there "reasonable". But yeah, wtf do you get in Vegas for resort fees?

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These are slowly going away. The new “all inclusive” packages are not charging this. I saw a package for Luxor, it was $500 for two people, included resort fees, three nights, a few meals (maybe one a day or something, plus one nice meal) and a show.

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Learn to gamble and visit a few MGM properties and enroll in their players club.

I visited last week and got 3 nights no resort fee, 250 in room credits, and over 100 bucks in free play. Went to the Tournament of Kings Dinner Show, used the room credits for parking, ate a lunch buffet, ate at the sports bar, had nachos, a burger, and ordered some chicken tenders for about 60 dollars. The buffet was a little disappointing as the food was very bland and dry. It reminded me of Vegas vacation buffet scene, but wasn’t that bad with blue and yellow.

Another disappointment on the buffet was drinks, at the buffets I have been to in Mississippi drinks were handled by servers, at the MGM properties in Vegas, this was a self serve item, and the buffet was only open for brunch. No dinner or crab legs.

Cost Zero. Of course I did leave a few hundred at the casino. So that did balance out the trip.

Pro tip bring your own cash from home. Those ATM’s are greedy. 12 dollar service fees and more if your bank charges an out of network fee.

Excalibur has a game room aka a kids casino in the basement.

When I was there 2 weeks ago for the Eagles concert at the Sphere, one of my Uber drivers told me that last year he only made 50% of what he made in 2024. This year he says looks to be 50% of last year.

I used to go 3 times per year, but I hadn't been since LSU football played at Vegas. I did have a free room (no resort fee) at Golden Nugget, but I just didn't have a desire to spend more than one night there. Went there on Friday, had dinner at Battistas ($34), attended concert, and was home a little after lunch the next day.

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Will Vegas be dead in the next 25 years?

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Let’s see, they have an NFL team, they’re about to have MLB and will soon have an NBA team. They’re situated in a state with no income tax and well off people from Cali are flooding in. Every time I’ve been over the last couple of years it’s been packed. Yes, things are expensive there. It’s not the Vegas of old. But a ghost town? I don’t think so.

Will it be a ghost town? Absolutely not.

But it may undergo a big change. With new additions like the sphere and NFL games, and soon MLB games, the city may shift toward entertainment outside of the casinos.

I’ve never been and have zero desire to go. Complete trash.