Everything stays in Vegas, except jobs.
A mom-and-pop casino in Las Vegas
They’re trying to blame this tourist slump on Trump and not their $80 pizzas, which you can’t even reheat because they took all the microwaves out of the rooms (unless you rent one).
They all use Covid as well as restaurants to artificially jack up the price to ridiculous numbers. Screw them all.
In another year or two Las Vegas will be BEGGING the mob to come back and operate things. Sure there will be a ‘mob tax’, but the streets will be safe and clean and cost of going there will drop by an order of magnitude.
Allowing the city to be run based on Universal Voting has destroyed the city, the same way Zimbabwe was destroyed by Universal Voting, and the Vegas reaction will be the same “Come back! PLEASE come back!!”
$50 minimum on the strip at night, no free drinks, no comped rooms, no free parking, expensive food, 6/5 blackjack etc.
Covid turned most things into “CHARGE WHAT THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR” and they found out there is not much of a limit on that for many products and services. Only people who remember what things cost not too long ago balk at the prices expected. Youngsters who never bought or people who don’t remember prices shrug and say that’s what it costs you either buy it or you don’t so they do if they can.
I have seen only one thing come down since Covid, Glyphosate. It went as high as $129 at TSC and I bought it for $49 at Coop last Thursday.
It is all about supply, demand and utility. Only when we quit buying and paying high prices will prices come down. There is a whole lot of stuff you just don’t need right now. Vegas is sure one of those things. $129 Glyphosate was another for me.
vegas greed killed the golden goose
I realized Lad Vegas was a snake eating its own tail back in 2013. You could not walk through any building without multiple pitches from timeshare herders. Why the hell would I want to buy a timeshare in Las Vegas, so I can spend my free time visiting Las Vegas to get hassled by more timeshare herders?
Wake me when one of the main casinos closes.
Casinos have jacked up hotel and restaurant prices. Comps have been drastically reduced. People can bet on sports on-line and gamble on-line. Why go to Vegas?
Las Vegas was a great place to visit when the mob ran everything.
Sixteen-dollar bottles of water. Fifty-dollar minimums at the tables. Resort fees. Fifty bucks a day for parking. They know they’re doing it.
Gambling is for losers, literally.
Haven’t been in nearly 20 years. It was an expensive hassle even then.
I hope Cugino’s Italian Deli on Maryland Parkway stays in business. I often eat there when I visit Las Vegas. I never go to the Strip.
Vegas has simply become too d***ed expensive for most Americans to visit.
It used to be reasonably affordable (and with free or almost-free food as a good incentive). ‘
Something’s gone wrong
I could be way off base, but I personally think people in general have significantly less disposable income come than they’ve had previously. ‘Circuses’ become less important when ‘bread’ becomes more expensive.
if rip-off prices are the big problem, then why is a low-rent casino the one that goes out of business?