Vegas used to be inexpensive. But friends went there a couple of weeks ago and said prices were outrageous.
Vegas has been ruined. I used to go once in a while during the heyday of the themed resorts, such as Luxor, New York New York, the Mirage, etc. It was a lot of fun back then, in large part because all of the different themes were interesting and let you relax and feel like you were a thousand miles away from daily reality.
Now, though, they’re intentionally removing every piece of the old theming that they possibly can, without just imploding those resorts completely (which I’m sure is coming before long). New replacements like the Cosmopolitan, Aria, etc., are spectacularly beautiful and luxurious inside, but they all look the same and after a while they just get boring because there’s no sense of escape. You just feel like you’re in any other casino around the country, just with more glitz. And as everyone knows, along with that generic glitz has come truly insane prices for everything.
There’s just no reason to go anymore.