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Fewer people are visiting Las Vegas. One insider thinks hotel resort and parking fees are to blame
latimes.com ^ | 5/2/2018 | Jay Jones

Posted on 05/03/2018 8:43:55 AM PDT by rktman

Daily resort fees and parking charges are rising and spreading in Las Vegas, adding as much as $45 a day to visitors' hotel bills. The publisher of Las Vegas Advisor blames the extra charges for a recent decline in the number of visitors.

"Everyone hates resort fees, but the parking [fee] is even worse," said Anthony Curtis of Las Vegas Advisor. "Everyone wants some kind of comp, [and] the most basic comp is free parking. That was the one comp that everyone got."

The Advisor, a decades-old, monthly newsletter highlighting what's new in Vegas and featuring deals for visitors, provides lists of parking costs and resort fees across southern Nevada.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Philosophy; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: bluezones; casinos; debauchery; freeparking; gambling; lasvegas; playerslife; prostitution; resortfees; tourism
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To: Snickering Hound

Trust me. The buffets are NOT a bargain anymore. Unless you’re going to gorge and then barf and gorge some more.


21 posted on 05/03/2018 9:00:56 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Been to Vegas once and parking was free. Have no desire to return...so I don’t have to worry about parking/resort fees.

HOWEVER...I’m currently binge-watching the Dennis Quaid/Michael Chicklas series “Vegas” on Prime...and it’s great. It’s set in 1960 and love the old cars (even if some of the prop cars are newer years).


22 posted on 05/03/2018 9:01:00 AM PDT by moovova
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To: sickoflibs

We didn’t find out about the parking and report fees until we got there. You think the room costs you a certain amount then you check in. Surprise! As for parking we self parked and figured the hotel would validate. Surprise again!

And the restaurant prices are ridiculous. $30 for a hamburger, fries and two cokes.


23 posted on 05/03/2018 9:01:51 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: rktman

So, the decline wouldn’t have anything to do with that mass slaughter and coverup, right?


24 posted on 05/03/2018 9:03:08 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: PGR88

The cruise industry is doing its part to RIP OFF travelers too. Nickel and dime-ing everyone at every turn. Greed is all that’s left in the world of sin.


25 posted on 05/03/2018 9:04:12 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: sevlex

It wouldn’t play a part in my decision to go. Did people stop going to NYC out of fear of planes flying into skyscrapers?


26 posted on 05/03/2018 9:05:54 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: PGR88

I remember Vegas as a place with cheap food (meant to keep you in the Casino gambling), free parking, good shows cheap and great ones at a price. I’m not a city person, so it wasn’t high on my list...but I could understand it.

Went a couple of years ago to show it to an exchange student. Meals were expensive, parking expensive, good shows expensive, and very crowded (so SOMEONE must like it). Me? I liked it better when the Mob ran Vegas.


27 posted on 05/03/2018 9:05:57 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: rktman

“Resort fees” are false advertising and fraud, plain and simple.


28 posted on 05/03/2018 9:06:51 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: rktman

If you’re not getting comped to stay at a casino hotel, you’re not doing it right.


29 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:11 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Terry Mross

” $30 for a hamburger, fries and two cokes.”

Close to the same price at Five-Guys.


30 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:30 AM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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To: Tax-chick

Not a tax reason. It’s to get a better spot on the pages of the travel search engines, and also just plain “fine print” fraud.


31 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:33 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Tax-chick
I assume there's a tax reason that this sort of overhead is booked as a separate fee rather than rolled into the room charges. Why not a "fee" for electricity and water, too?

Maybe, but it makes it very hard to travel there for work. We do not get reimbursed for the resort fee. I usually end up taking a room with a higher total cost, just to avoid the fee.

32 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:55 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Tax-chick

And sheets, water glass, toilet paper, the little note pads and the pens next to the phones and.......


33 posted on 05/03/2018 9:08:56 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: rktman
It is convenient to be able to stay at the casino where you do the most gambling, but there are a few decent hotels right off the strip that don't have resort fees, and the walk to the strip is not along the strip so very little harassment and smoke.

There's a trick where you slip a $20 in with your credit card when you check in to get an upgrade. It was on the internet so it might be so overused now that it's no longer a thing, but it's worth a try.

The California train to nowhere should have gone between LA and Vegas. If that had happened there would be a lot of people who wouldn't have to park a car.

34 posted on 05/03/2018 9:10:10 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: rktman
We were just in Vegas last week, my first visit in a year. What a change... incredible resort fees and now parking fees everywhere. $9+ after an hour!!! Big turn off.

Definitely not in a rush to return.

35 posted on 05/03/2018 9:11:59 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: jiggyboy

Thanks, that’s informative. I wasn’t looking at it from that angle.


36 posted on 05/03/2018 9:13:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Mr.Unique

Good point.


37 posted on 05/03/2018 9:13:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: jiggyboy

On cruises the advertised price is not what you pay. You get loaded with “taxes and fees” before your credit card is wiped clean.

Try to get them to itemize the taxes and fees — they won’t. I had to threaten a credit card dispute to get anywhere once.

Taxes and fees are ...
additional baggage fees
many cost of doing business with you
like the cost of checking you in at the terminal in the port — that’s a third party company, and billed to you as taxes and fees.
Security at ports is part of the separate fee, etc

Then you got mandatory gratuity. Not optional anymore.
You have a service issue and one cruise line forces you to wait until your trip is over and then you have to write the corporate office to try to get any tip fees back.

In the end a cruise will be 50 to 70% more costly than the adv price. Fraud allowed by off-shore registrations.


38 posted on 05/03/2018 9:14:02 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Terry Mross

Disney in Orlando just announced last month that it will be charging daily parking fees of $20-$25 in its luxury resorts for hotel guests. That’s on top of importing foreign workers to replace Americans and raising ticket prices. The hourly workers are getting stiffed too.

I have no desire to return to DisneyWorld and I live 10 miles away.


39 posted on 05/03/2018 9:14:29 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Tax-chick

Beg pardon — it is a form of tax fraud, as the “resort fee” itself isn’t subject to the two or three local hotel taxes, but that is a nice side benefit, not the reason they do it in the first place.

You’d think the local government would be on this like white on rice, but Las Vegas and Nevada government have been examples of unprincipled government for decades.


40 posted on 05/03/2018 9:14:58 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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