re: Las Vegas tourism decline

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Everyone nowadays goes to Nashville for bachelorette and bachelor parties.

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or Austin or Charleston...

I have had some great times in Vegas so hopefully they figure it out...

Vegas is fine but it is down by "vegas standards". They really are nickel and diming everyone so this needs to happen. They went to far to get rid of the Spirit airlines crowd.

I go to vegas alot and the pricing has just become a little too much. it would cost them like $2 to throw us a case of water in the room upon arrival... but they cant even do that. Its like they have designed vegas to extract every possible nickel from you and they dont even try and give you a little lube. oh you want water? 8$ ....have a headache from drinking and not enough water because you dont want to overpay for water... 4 pack of aspirin $12. and lets not even get started on the price of drinks shots and food. I dont think its possible to eat for less than $30 on the strip.

but what I will say is the strip is ran really well. I usually book up alot of shite on a trip and to jump from one casino to the next for shows even on a time crunch it always works out. Its a fine tuned machine.

This exactly….

The point of Vegas was cheap food/drinks, with gambling and entertainment.. you could afford to go bc that was cheap, and have money for gambling.

Now it’s $50 for a couple to get a burger and fries for lunch…

It’s been a while since I’ve been lol…

Yea went 20 years ago, then again about 10. Big difference even then…

I did find a little casino across from TI with $3 craps…. Royals maybe? Just remember it had a White Castle in it…

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Little by little Vegas is leaving the old gambling model and isn't the place it was 20 years ago.

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It was in the middle of that change when I moved from there in the 90s. You can go further back when the corporations and Hughes moved in. With the mafia they didn't mind taking a loss on food and beverage/hotel as long as they made money on the floor to skim. You had great customer service and felt like you could get bang for you buck. Now they have to make money everywhere so the comps suck and they squeeze everything out of you they can. They got through covid on the low income crowd and now they want to shed that "necessary evil" to get back to a different model. Politics very much comes into play behind the scenes. Check out the last time the NBA all star game was played there. You would be surprised to see how long it has been for a place like Vegas to not have hosted it. While Vegas wants a team that weekend was choas and the Mayor even came out to say so. You struggled to find Hennessy served on the strip for a time after that

The 4th floor of the mob museum is a good spot to share family stories for us

From a business standpoint I think they wanted to get away from the cheap retiree destination and move to the hip young crowd with night clubs, bars, concerts, pool bars, etc. I know about as many people going there for something other than gambling (and not work) as I do to gamble.

But yeah it’s not nor will ever be my thing to just get hammered on prices.

The thing is I get paying high prices in San Fran and New York and a Caribbean beach, it’s about location and demand. But in Vegas land is cheap and logistics to get supplies is super easy. The only reason for the expense is massive profits. They are in a business to make money so I don’t blame them, but it’s just not for me.