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re: Las Vegas tourism discussion
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:12 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:12 pm to East Coast Band
I don't know, really. I read a couple of days ago that the US is the only major country where tourism is down and projected to finish the year down.
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Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:12 pm to East Coast Band
All of the above. It's not anywhere close to worth it anymore.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:13 pm to CHiPs25
I go a couple of times a year for work (trade shows).
It has gotten exponentially more expensive in the past five years. I used to like Vegas and now I dread it. Drinks, food and rooms are off the chart expensive.
$12 beer
$18-30 cocktails
$100 steak
$25 hamburger
You can’t find a blackjack table under $20-25 a hand.
It has gotten exponentially more expensive in the past five years. I used to like Vegas and now I dread it. Drinks, food and rooms are off the chart expensive.
$12 beer
$18-30 cocktails
$100 steak
$25 hamburger
You can’t find a blackjack table under $20-25 a hand.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:14 pm to East Coast Band
Folks gotta pay them student loans back now so no extra for gambling.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:15 pm to East Coast Band
I think #1 is a bigger reason than people account for in these threads. Younger people just don’t have the desire to gamble anymore. Losing money just isn’t much fun.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:16 pm to East Coast Band
I live in New Orleans. I can get wasted anywhere I want and bet on sports from my phone. If I want to go to the casino, Caesar’s is a quick uber away and really nice.
I love Vegas but there’s no reason for me to spend 5 grand on a weekend there when I can do everything I want closer to home.
I sit in my neighborhood bar drinking 3 dollar miller lites in front the tv with an app to bet or go to Vegas and drink 20 dollar beers with people I don’t know.
I love Vegas but there’s no reason for me to spend 5 grand on a weekend there when I can do everything I want closer to home.
I sit in my neighborhood bar drinking 3 dollar miller lites in front the tv with an app to bet or go to Vegas and drink 20 dollar beers with people I don’t know.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:16 pm to East Coast Band
Vegas’ prices have gone out of control. I’m there on business every three months, and it is so much more expensive than it was a decade ago.
We briefly considered it for my bachelor party, but the prices were so out of control that we found a much cheaper and nicer cabin on Lake Tahoe for like half the price. So glad I didn’t do Vegas for my bachelor party regardless, but I don’t see how someone fresh from college and his friends are paying for a bachelor party in Vegas.
We briefly considered it for my bachelor party, but the prices were so out of control that we found a much cheaper and nicer cabin on Lake Tahoe for like half the price. So glad I didn’t do Vegas for my bachelor party regardless, but I don’t see how someone fresh from college and his friends are paying for a bachelor party in Vegas.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:17 pm to East Coast Band
3 through 5 are all true statements. Are those things impacting the numbers in Vegas? It makes sense that they would, but I don’t know.
I don’t know the specific numbers or what’s included, but my anecdotal observations from visits to Vegas this summer are that the place is still packed.
I don’t know the specific numbers or what’s included, but my anecdotal observations from visits to Vegas this summer are that the place is still packed.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:17 pm to East Coast Band
Vegas used to be middle class luxury, now its priced at all levels as a luxury vacation but the types of people who take luxury vacations can see through the veneer. You have to suspend disbelief a bit to convince yourself Vegas hotels and restaurants are 5* quality.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:23 pm to TheWalrus
quote:
Younger people just don’t have the desire to gamble anymore. Losing money just isn’t much fun.
Tell that to all the 20s-30s age guys sports betting all the friggin time
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:27 pm to jbgleason
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You can’t find a blackjack table under $20-25 a hand.
plus all the blackjack tables are 6:5
000 roulette that seems rigged. I saw the same number hit 4 times in a row. According to chatGPT i saw a 1 in 2,313,441 event
luckily i had red 2/4 spins.
The hotels and pools seemed busy. Sphere and EDC were going on but all the tables were empty. I would have considered playing more if it weren't for the $25 mins
Hard to justify dropping a few hundred quickly on the tables when i am being charged for booze and about to spend an arm on dinner
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:29 pm to East Coast Band
There was literally an entire thread on this just the other day
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:30 pm to East Coast Band
Vegas has turned trashy and ghetto and the whole strip stinks of weed.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:35 pm to TheWalrus
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Younger people just don’t have the desire to gamble anymore. Losing money just isn’t much fun.
Also, apparently younger people don't have the desire to party hard and binge drink anymore either.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:39 pm to East Coast Band
The quality of the hookers has really tanked and finding one without an STD that will raw dog is nearly impossible.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:41 pm to Yaboylsu63
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Yet another example of “it was better when the mob ran it”
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:47 pm to Ten Bears
Water is $8 a pop. No fountains or any type of way to hydrate after walking from one to the other through hell. All Blackjack tables are $25 while 3/4 of them sit empty. Crazy expensive. Went for the LSU game and won’t be back anytime soon.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:50 pm to East Coast Band
quote:
Prices for lodging, meals, etc have surged to unreasonable levels
Everything in Vegas has gotten outrageous in price. Probably the single largest driver.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:54 pm to East Coast Band
STD Tiger will be in here to tell us its all good
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:55 pm to East Coast Band
Its prices, by a landslide.
No one wants to go drop $500 per day on drinks and food… ridiculous
No one wants to go drop $500 per day on drinks and food… ridiculous
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