Vegas used to be fairly cheap because they wanted you to spend money gambling
I was there from January to March, to visit my son, who is an Air Force officer, in Vegas. The price to see a Vegas Golden Knights hockey game, was ridiculous. Then I went to California, where a pizza cost $50. That was ridiculous too.
> Vegas used to be fairly cheap because they wanted you to spend money gambling
This is true. You could get a pretty schmantzy room comped if you lost a lot at the tables.
My friend recently went to Vegas, lost $1000 at BlackJack, and all they got was a $50 voucher for the restaurant.
I wanted to go to Vegas for my birthday in the fall and the only decently nice rooms for a reasonable price are off the strip, which is definitely not as fun. And the food prices are insane.
It pays better to rip you off for $33 for a coffee and bagel.That’s about $32 pure profit.
various factors
resort fee skyrocketed to build stadiums most visitors do NOT want or need.
pandemic got rid of some very good value buffets (some station casinos had fabulous cost/value ones)
the derivative-like split of ownership of the mgm and caesar properties into property owners and leaseholders surely is putting some financialization pressure on company policies as well
on top of that, strip has changed for the worse. in many ways it is a latin american party street now. open air drug use everywhere. and fremont is 10x worse, open air drug bar. I used to take my son there 10 yrs ago during the day. I would never now.
Drinks and food and to a degree, even rooms used to be free. I think they figured out that they didn’t need to do that.
But I think they may now be revising that thinking.🤣