Tourism continues steady decline in Las Vegas

[dora_da_destroyer]

Love Vegas. Over the top, gaudy hotels, that extra oxygen, lights and sounds of the casino. Spas, restaurants, shows, pools, shopping, bars…ain’t into clubbing no more but the club scene back in the 00’s and early 10’s going to breakfast before heading back to your hotel at 7/8am oh man, and the fukkery of being out there for work trips/conventions.


Edit: and all star weekend Vegas will forever be a top 5 memory

 

[2 one 3]

Love Vegas. Over the top, gaudy hotels, that extra oxygen, lights and sounds of the casino. Spas, restaurants, shows, pools, shopping, bars…ain’t into clubbing no more but the club scene back in the 00’s and early 10’s going to breakfast before heading back to your hotel at 7/8am oh man, and the fukkery of being out there for work trips/conventions.


Edit: and all star weekend Vegas will forever be a top 5 memory

Dog that all star weekend will NEVER be topped

I was a fresh 21 that past December and all star weekend was in February. We was VIP all weekend…

 

[Saint1]

Same. But I genuinely thought it was a fun family experience and I felt like I was having fun in the hotel. As a kid I was a little suspicious about why we never went to any of the amusement parks during our "family" Vegas trips but I thought my folks just forgot .


I swear I was a grown man planning my own adult trip to Vegas , as I realized that they basically just ditched me and my siblings in the hotel room to go play poker.

I remember my grandma staying with me at night in the hotel rooms.

 

[3rdWorld]

Trump.
Tarrifs and constant harassment of international travelers.. It'll only get worse from here.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

I moved to Vegas back in January and it does feel really slow.

I love it here tho......Much better than living in Philly. High end shopping, restaurants, nature (red rock), boxing, just endless things to do......I have a pool in my downtown condo and I'm close to the arts district and Fremont, 10 minutes from the strip, 15 minutes from Summerlin.

I'm probably never moving back to the east coast.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Hadn’t been to Vegas since triple g vs canelo back in 2017…went a few months ago for an annual guys trip to wrestlemania and felt like everything had changed for the worse …definitely more expensive…lowkey pissed they canceled New Orleans to run it back in Vegas next year …chicas bonitas is a hell of time though

 

[Chrishaune]

Good

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

All this explaining in here.

Maga. Trump tossed the economy in the bushes like it was a paper towel roll. This what America wanted. No friends, no tourists

 

[southpawstyle]

they’re pulling a Disneyland and only accommodating whales

 

[International Playa]

Same. But I genuinely thought it was a fun family experience and I felt like I was having fun in the hotel. As a kid I was a little suspicious about why we never went to any of the amusement parks during our "family" Vegas trips but I thought my folks just forgot .


I swear I was a grown man planning my own adult trip to Vegas , as I realized that they basically just ditched me and my siblings in the hotel room to go play poker.

Weren't you parents scared you would sneak out of the hotel room & get up in to some bullshyt????

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

You can gamble on your phone now. Vegas is screwed

 

[Brosef]

@itsyoung!!
What's the deal breh
And folks talking about gambling in here but how are the large clubs like Omnia, XS etc doing? Dance floor booths were the thing pre covid

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Just got back from there a few weekends ago. Flamingo pool party and NBA Summer League

I know a lot of people hate Vegas but I love it, we always have a great time. I can definitely understand why tourism would be declining though, we ALWAYS spend a grip there. Hard to find tables under $25 minimums on the strip, mixed drinks are $25 each, rooms getting more expensive and they stingier with the comps, restaurants more expensive.

People just ain't got it in this economy.

You need to join a rewards program, to save you money. I'm in a rewards program and I get comp rooms all the time, room credits and discounts on shows. It depends on the hotel but I get comp rooms for 5 days.

I gamble and always leave vegas on the positive side, and I always use my players card. We also rarely eat on the strip, we always go outside the strip to support Black business in vegas (Gritz, court cafe, bleu's kitches, Braud's Funnel Cak, Hattie Mary's, etc)

Vegas is struggling, even the 304's working the carpet looking broke and struggling. The 304's be sharing Whataburger combos and sharing drinks and shyt, clothes be cheap looking.. those 304's are down bad lol

 

[CopiousX]

Weren't you parents scared you would sneak out of the hotel room & get up in to some bullshyt????

It's embarrassing now, but us kids were just happy to watch HBO in the hotel room, I still remember us singing to Mulan and Aladin in the room while Mom and Dad were having fun on the casino floor



Didn't even occur to me to go down

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Why the decline? Because private equity happened.

Private equity said fukk the budget-friendly Vegas vacation of the 80s, 90s, 2000s and early 2010s. They cut costs on everything while simultaneously making everything 10x more expensive.

When all the juice is sucked out of the fruit, the private equity parasite will move on to its next victim and Vegas will be a decaying carcass of what it once was, similar to what happened to Atlantic City.

This can be presented well as a South Park episode