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Posted on 11/10/2024 12:39:01 PM PST by DallasBiff
In this video, we take a look at the 14 best & worst buffets in Las Vegas for 2024!
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The Cesars breakfast buffet was $6 bucks.
lol! I’m literally on a plane headed there right now.
I played music on the Casino circuit in the late 70’s, early 80’s. Vegas was cheap and a LOT of fun. Reno was cheaper and I liked it even better. The guys doing these days say Vegas has gone pretty bad.
That Wynn Buffet looks pretty good.
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Only way you could get me to go again would be everything free.
Went 2 years ago and wrote a report on it here.
Saw fights, homeless walking around with machetes and boards, zombie like people, homeless dudes taking showers out of fire hydrants in speedos…and more. Less than e8 hours after we left all those show girls were cut up by the illegal alien on the strip (2 died).
It was wild…and not in a wild and crazy guy fun kind of wild.
If you are in the Sahara watch your butt in that neighborhood.
The MGM Grand is a dump. The last time I was there it was filled with obese women (yep) brawling over the lobster tails and crab legs
Only trip for me was when I was 14, in 1975. The Strip was still intact and we stayed at Caesars Palace, where we saw Sinatra. My folks had taken my sister and me to the National Tire Dealers Association annual conference. I have absolutely zero desire to go there today— heard too many stories like yours.
They are all way too expensive now. The “Buffets” are just really expensive restaurants in masquerade.
Stayed at the Silverton many years ago, they had a western-style outdoor steak buffet every Sunday that was cool. There was an off the strip casino(cannot remember the name) that everyone kept talking about their great buffet...went there once and paid for it(wasn't Vegas cheap) only to find out it was seafood day...I hate seafood.
Something tells me the days of under $5 steak and eggs and free (watered-down) drinks are looooong gone.
Years ago the Bellagio buffet was dynamite with unlimited Alaskan King crab legs. Tasted even better with a casino comp and line pass.
I remember the $.99 breakfast at the Carson City Nugget. 1985-ish. Minimum wage was something like $3.15/hr. Man that was a fun place to be a teenager.
Vegas was a blast 30+ years ago. Have heard it sucks now.
Laughlin is what Vegas was fifty years ago—one main drag so you can’t get lost if you had too much to drink.
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I think it might have been in the 90s when the casinos realized they didn’t have to lure gamblers with cheap food, because the gamblers would come anyway. Before then, you could dine cheaply and well in Las Vegas.
All the casinos were crap, compared to the early 90s which was the last time we went there (before 2022 and stayed several days). The Sahara , our hotel, didn’t even have free coffee. We went across the street to McDs and from there saw several of the events I mentioned. We went to maybe 4-5 casinos besides ours and they were all rip-offs.
ONE EXCEPTION.
We discovered a casino of the old style; You know cheap black jack tables, affordable good food, free drinks etc. it was Ellis Island. You have to drive to it though, maybe 30 min off the strip but well worth it.
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Sounds like the Rio. I lived in Vegas for a couple of years in the early aughts and they were plasting ads everywhere about how great their buffer was. And, Friday night (I think it was), was seafood night. IIRC, back then, it was $35 a person for the seafood buffet.
Was there 30 years ago, lived there for a couple of years 20 years ago, went back LAST year. NOPE! Nothing there for me, and it’s gone to hell. The Luxor (Pyramid) is an absolute dump. I remember when the only dump on the strip was the Circus Circus, and you KNEW it was, because it was the “Family hotel”. Now, they’re all kinda crappy.
There are casinos where you have to PAY for parking! That was NEVER the case 20-30 years ago. They want you to PARK there, as you might come into the casino and place a bet.
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