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.
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Thanks for running those numbers.
Wow. Dreadful.
The thought of Mickey's hand in my shorts doesn't exactly stimulate a desire to drop in for a visit.........
Laughlin, NV.
You can get rooms during the week for 40 bucks a night—no kidding.
Free parking, no resort fees.
No traffic.
But, they do have some shows of various kinds.
Great for us older folks.
Vegas is way too crazy for us.
“There are about 5% of those compared to several years ago.”
Wow. Now they are only #8 in the nation!
On the up side, I did conceal carry almost everywhere, which you cannot do in Europe. And did so as I walked around the Vegas version of the Eiffle tower.
If it isn’t the Whyte House Hotel, no Vegas for me.
Vegas is banking on the "sin city" and "what happens here stays here" concept to keep them going regardless. But if that reputation gets too ingrained one has to wonder how many bachelor party weekends it will take to keep them going?
No. I just enjoy what LV has to offer. Some who don’t distort things.
EVERYTHING used to be cheap in Vegas. They wanted you there to gamble your life savings away.
Now it costs a small fortune to fly there, food and everything else is just as much as LA or NYC.
They’ve taken all the fun out of that town.
We have 6 guest rooms, so we already have lots of friends come to visit... its a blast!
The casinos and hotels in LV have only one goal. Separating people and their money while lining their pockets. That’s it!
Fortunately for many who live in LV but don’t work in the hospitality industry; there are other ways to make a decent living. Other industries to work in while avoiding the strip and resorts. Even the downtown Fremont Street area has gone full bore strip style of charging far more than they use to. Greed is killing it.
When the mob ran things in LV they gave back. Buffets were very inexpensive but very good. Shows were reasonable. Rooms were routinely comped for moderate gamblers and the atmosphere was more festive. Now it’s all business and expensive. Not worth staying there at all anymore.
“Some who don’t distort things.”
Who was the dude that said LV had reduced its homeless population by 95%?
No, Rita. I was not kidding.
Last Fall, Andrew McCabe, the now disgraced FBI coup plotter, was put in charge of the Las Vegas shooting investigation. This was before the revelations about McCabe’s treasonous behavior became public knowledge.
I don’t know who is in charge now, assuming there still is an “investigation.”
Your post reminds me so much of the comic-relief scene in “Les Miserables”, where the innkeeper, Thernardier, does a song and dance about squeezing every last centime out of the customers — “so much for the lice, extra for the mice, 2% for looking in the mirror twice”, etc...
A 3 Star European vacation is cheaper than Disney World (staying at the Contemporary Hotel).
Ever been sand-blasted along the strip?
We drive to Vegas every few years for maybe two weeknights and have a great time. We don’t gamble or see shows anymore. It’s just fun to walk around and see the hotels, the lights at night, some free public shows, etc. It’s great exercise, and I get to see things I don’t normally see. The stripper ads are annoying but overshadowed by all the other sights. I almost got to see Donald Trump at a rally there last time. I only found out about it accidentally, but by the time we made our way there, the rally was over. But it was paradise to see all the people walking around with MAGA hats. You don’t see that in California.
“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. “
nothing to do with taxes ... it’s so they can offer what looks like cheap room rates on all the hotel booking sites ... AND force additional payment on top of all of the advertised rates on all of the all-in-one packages ... just good ol’ fashioned gouging, like th old undercoating scam on a new car ...
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