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Paid parking on Vegas Strip starts in June with many rules
AP ^ | May 12. 2016 | Sally Ho

Posted on 05/13/2016 11:01:28 AM PDT by C19fan

Drivers were given a long list of rules Thursday involving MGM Resorts International's game-changing move to charge for parking on the Las Vegas Strip.

Sin City's largest hotel-casino operator has said the changes will go into effect beginning on June 6 at some properties, with all of its facilities falling in line by June 13.

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: las; lv; vegas
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F that MGM. This is what happens when the LV strip becomes an oligopoly.
1 posted on 05/13/2016 11:01:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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Pay yet more to lose your money. Makes sense, no?


2 posted on 05/13/2016 11:04:39 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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We’ll see how well this works. As a Vegas resident, this move means I will never visit an MGM property again.


3 posted on 05/13/2016 11:05:38 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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Free Parking is what made America Great! I eschew going anywhere where I have to pay to park. Generally too crowded.


4 posted on 05/13/2016 11:06:16 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: hal ogen

To discourage the locals from hitting the all-you-can-eat-buffets?


5 posted on 05/13/2016 11:06:22 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: C19fan

I’m sure if you stay at the casino parking will remain free.


6 posted on 05/13/2016 11:08:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Maybe they could make the parking meters look like itt-bitty slot machines.


7 posted on 05/13/2016 11:09:07 AM PDT by GingisK
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I used to know every inch of the MGM... spent 2 years going there installing technology for their Television City testing studios. I even got to use some of the “secret” rooms they have right off the gaming floor. Those were fun times... except my wife liked to come along alot and would keep tossing money into the slots all day while I was working. I would have to stay up half the night to win it back at the blackjack tables.


8 posted on 05/13/2016 11:10:03 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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Don’t follow leaders, watch the parking meters.


9 posted on 05/13/2016 11:10:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Talk about arrogance. This is why I avoid the Strip. If you have to go down there and don’t feel like driving, use Uber. Cheaper than the pirate ships masquerading as taxis.


10 posted on 05/13/2016 11:10:52 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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“Hotel guests can use their room key, with the charges billed to their room.”


11 posted on 05/13/2016 11:11:39 AM PDT by lacrew
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“Maybe they could make the parking meters look like itt-bitty slot machines.”

You have an invention there - be sure to apply for a patent. I would make it so that it’s a real slot machine that would pay off once in a while, but you have to drop a buck or two to park there.


12 posted on 05/13/2016 11:20:34 AM PDT by aquila48
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MGM Resorts International ... to charge for parking
So, taking 90%-95% of gamblers' money isn't enough for these SOBs? Greed is not good.
13 posted on 05/13/2016 11:28:59 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Locals get Free Parking.


14 posted on 05/13/2016 11:30:35 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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We stayed at a hotel in San Antonio for a meeting last month. Were charged $25/day for parking and it wasn’t even valet. We used to go to this hotel a lot for weekend trips and never paid to self-park. Seems like everybody wants a piece of the pie which has shrunk a lot in size during the past few years. Surprised they don’t have a meter on the door to charge you using the bathroom.


15 posted on 05/13/2016 11:36:02 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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Maybe they could make the parking meters look like itt-bitty slot machines.

Hey, they might offer better odds.

16 posted on 05/13/2016 11:36:33 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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17 posted on 05/13/2016 11:38:11 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Put in your money, and the meter will tell you how many minutes of parking time you've "won."

"Woo Hoo! I got 24 hours!"

18 posted on 05/13/2016 11:42:17 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: C19fan

Its a strip alright— getting stripped of one’s hard earned money. Hate glitzy places anyway-—give me wide open nature with zero riff raff messing it up.


19 posted on 05/13/2016 11:54:48 AM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Can’t see how this isn’t anything but a plus for the locals casinos.


20 posted on 05/13/2016 12:03:35 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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