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Fewer people are visiting Las Vegas. One insider thinks hotel resort and parking fees are to blame
latimes.com ^
| 5/2/2018
| Jay Jones
Posted on 05/03/2018 8:43:55 AM PDT by rktman
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Even self parking costs now. In the past, valet was "free". If you wanted quick pick up, you tipped well when you dropped the car. I've even got "up front" parking for as little as $5.oo. Now valet parking is not free at most casinos unless you are a certain level or above in their players club system. Not a fan of this. So, we stick closer to home.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:43:56 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
The nice thing about fees (to them) is that the sucker probably finds out about them when its too late.
If people stop going to those hotels they will eventually change
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:48:09 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Florida school safety bill=gun grabbing)
To: rktman
Resort vacations are no longer fun. The expense has taken the fun out of it. Vegas, Disney, theme parks, any tourist spot now has more hand in my pockets than my shorts can bear.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:48:57 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
To: rktman
Resort fees typically cover in-room Wi-Fi and local phone calls as well as access to fitness centers and swimming pools. Of course, the fee is charged whether or not you use the amenities.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. Why not a "fee" for electricity and water, too?
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:48:57 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
To: rktman
The whales will keep coming but it will keep the riffraff out.
To: rktman
I would wager that the average cost to stay 3-4 days in Vegas is still far far cheaper than the same stay in a Disney theme park.
To: Snickering Hound
You sayin’ we’re riffraff? LOL! I been called worse.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:51:17 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
The strip is not at all walkable
I love the weather
Any decent restaurant is crazy expensive, as are all non-gambling activities
I was surprised how often I smelled weed.
I want to see the Vegas Knights win the Stanley Cup
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:51:20 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: rktman
Been a few years but when you have to hold your nose from the stench and fend off the hawkers it is no fun.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:51:25 AM PDT
by
TexasGator
(Z1)
To: rktman
Resort fees to me are a form of fraud and false advertising.
If my room costs $100 but I am REQUIRED to pay a $25 ‘resort fee’ to reserve the room then my actual reservation costs me $125.
By shuffling costs into the resort fee category the hotels are then advertising a lower and UNTRUE room rate.
The practice is fraudulent and should be put to an end ASAP.
But for now my family refuses to stay anywhere that has a resort fee.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:51:31 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: rktman
Fewer people are visiting Las Vegas. One insider thinks hotel resort and parking fees are to blameYeah, because it couldn't POSSIBLY be due to the biggest mass shooting in U.S. history, still basically unsolved.
Just because the media has tried to memory-hole the massacre, doesn't mean people have forgotten.
To: Responsibility2nd
Well, if you discount the gambling losses part.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:52:46 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: PGR88
I always enjoyed Vegas when I went back in the 90s.
Went a few years ago, hated every minute of it, and I vowed never to go back.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:52:52 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: CodeToad
I watched how much work my daughter put into her Disney vacation for *months* leading up to it. I'm amazed she had any fun at all.
Actually, I know she did -- I can't imagine how someone who didn't put all that work into it has any fun.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:53:22 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: rktman
One insider thinks hotel resort and parking fees are to blame.... Or it could be no one is interested in getting gunned down in a mass shooting only to have the authorities cover up, hide the facts and put out some BS story line.
Nah, its probably the parking fees....
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:54:11 AM PDT
by
Envisioning
(Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
To: rktman
You sayin were riffraff? LOL! I been called worse.The crowd that drags in coolers to Vegas, hits the buffet instead of the tables.
They can use less of those...
To: rktman
The resort fees keep going up and up. Some casinos charge $43. Then they charge an early check in fee. Then exzorbanant ATM fees after they take your money.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:58:32 AM PDT
by
willk
(everyone)
To: PGR88
I agree. Walking on the strip was impossible, and almost everything not inside the most expensive casinos and hotels was cheap and filthy dirty.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:58:33 AM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: M. Thatcher
And, believe me, the democrap can’tidates are using the shooting in their bid for gov. Ban ar’s, ban bumpstocks, ban silencers........
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:59:05 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
I was in Vegas in 2004, and again last year. In 2004, it was sleazy, but nowhere near as bad as it is now. Filthy lowlifes everywhere, and young prostitutes on every corner, many of whom certainly didn't look old enough to be driving, much less selling themselves on the streets of that disgusting town.
I really don't get the allure of Vegas, but then I am not really a gambler or a customer of prostitutes, so maybe that's it.
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posted on
05/03/2018 8:59:11 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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