....why would they? And Americans are conserving their money due to the whiplash tariffs. Haven't been there in years. Not going back.

changing the odds at Casinos, ridiculous prices at restaurants, sky high event tickets Vegas is doing everything it can to push away visitors.

If so, how?

I stopped going to Vegas 20+ years ago, when they raised table minimums above what I am willing to risk. But my commute started taking me through Reno, where I could still play. After COVID, that went away, too. Casinos would rather have dealers standing around an empty Craps or Pai-Gow table at $15 minimum bet than have a bunch of low-rollers playing $5 min and there not be a spot for their mythical whale.

Not a gambler, so never went to the strip , but the entire town smells like weed. There's are pot stores and gun stores on every corner.

Everything legal is off strip at least from what I could tell.

But before weed, it smelled like cigarettes and booze. Pick your poison I guess.

no dispensaries on the strip itself, but they will deliver to your hotel.

Throw in a little Jim Beam. What could possibly go wrong?

Away from the strip, is really is just a normal place to live. People dropping kids at school, grocery shopping, going to the bank...just every day normal life. I lived on the west side of town which is really quite nice.

Car insurance is astronomically high though. 24-hour drinking town = lots of DUIs and crashes.

(I doubt different opinions about a city are a valid indication of foreign birth)

won't mess with you on the strip unless you basically walk right up to them and light a joint in their face. They just look the other way.

in to a family friendly destination to increase tourism, having your entire tourist district smell like weed is absolutely moronic.

been to Vegas, we win the "smells like pot" contest.

I've been to Vegas twice in the last two years for conferences and you comment was exactly what I said to friends and family when I got home.

I'm no prude but the pot smell is obnoxiously ever present and the prices have become ridiculously high on everything in the city, from hotels and food down to a simple Uber/Lyft ride.

...due to uncertainty. This matters a lot because international tourists typically stay longer, gamble more, and spend more on shows and dining than domestic visitors. New trade policies have made traveling to the US more expensive for foreign tourists, while Canadian airlines have reduced flights to Vegas as demand dropped."

Of those billionaires that own casinos, restaurants and Hotel’s in Vegas trump sugar daddies?
Who better to get the full shit in their face than his peeps? Funny he may bankrupt all the Vegas Casinos. He is great at that.

To the 60th Anniversary Star Trek Convention at the Rio. I haven't been to Vegas in over 20 years. The room rates are astronomical - even with the convention rate. We're going mainly because there's one star that we've been trying to get his autograph for years, but he doesn't do cons very often. (Colm Meaney).

This is costing us about as much as the Star Trek Cruise - only it's in Vegas in the summer.

was recently completely renovated. Enjoy!

I went to Vegas on a Sunday when I was in SoCal the weekend before a plant visit.
I drive there because the MGM Grand had The Star Trek Experience.
I went through it twice, including the shuttle attack thrill ride, stopped to eat at the Luxor, and drove back to LA.
I've never been to a Trek convention. Hope you have fun!

with Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in New York in 2007. We stood outside the stage store for autographs after the play and he was very nice and gracious. I was a big fan of Kevin Spacey back then. Not anymore.

I've never gone, and any knowledge I hold comes from 70s police dramas and 90s films.

skeazy

It's 97 degrees there currently. No thanks, even if I'm at a pool.

The sheep will return to be fleeced when it cools off.

with 8% humidity today. When I lived there, my cutoff 'uncomfortable temperature' was 105°

Well, Native Seattleites start to whine at 80. Imports have a little more tolerance.

I moved to LV from San Francisco where it was basically 65° every day for 30 years

At night with aggressive homeless people on drugs everywhere. I had one take a swing at me while walking with my children.

They have also changed the odds on blackjack and roulette( payout). It’s just not fun. The buffets are $75 a plate.

Greed has destroyed this country and made it harder to just live your life.
If I could afford to move to another country I certainly would not hesitate. Every thing here is a fraud, a shakedown or a lie.

This is one. If you move to EU, there are cities with the same or worse street crime now. Here it is drugs. There it is other social issues with rampant pickpockets and scammers, and mugging and assaults at night. You are running from this issue unless you choose carefully.

already posted the video I was going to.

He said: "Was rather a good job and paid well and watch the doggies."
"I was concerned when trainers/owners of the place started giving me tips that night...and lots of nights"
"I mean, I was afraid the FBI or someone would raid the place..: The tips were NOT who is going to win"
"It was who WASN'T going to even run 4th or last. It was like the proverbial candy from a baby.....except"
"..One thing those "Tipsters" forgot. The average person got sick and tired of NEVER WINNING"
"So...in 2009...the place closed....why would you bet on a dog that looked good only to trail the pack..
...and walk out of the place broke ,,every night... .
That was in Hudson Wisconsin..

And the Grinder probably took his ten million and his rail back to Florida.

Based on the increase of available houses on the market currently.

We started seeing shit we never saw before in Las Vegas...cigarette butts in the swimming pools, trash on the streets, people wearing pajamas and crocs. At the same time the hotel-casinos have devolved into clip-joint shopping malls with crappy smelly rooms, bedbugs and constant break-ins.

Now the tariffs and harassment of non-citizens are depressing room occupancy even further. I say forget Vegas...go visit a national park instead while we still have them.

It's $20 to park your car when that used to be free or if casino's did charge, it was $5. Food at dining establishments have skyrocketed and so have show/event tickets. And never mind the price of the room, they advertise a cheap rate and then tack on a bunch of extra's like "resort fee's" to use the internet and pool (and the pools are closed during the winter).

And quality has gone down on everything.

And of course most people don't gamble anymore, they know the odds are stacked against them. But the casino's keep raising the minimum bets to the point people for sure won't bother. Having some cheap table games, even if electronic, is more likely to get people to actually play (seen it in Native American casinos). Heck, if you make the parking fee a voucher to play on the games you would actually encourage people to play beyond that.

The level of greed is pushing people away and of course the clown in the Whitehouse isn't helping with foreign tourists.

I can say the same thing about Fisherman's Wharf in SF on a Sunday in July..



Where are all the tourists?

Was friends with a bookie in Detroit. I use to pick up and deliver cash for him, so he rewarded me with tickets for some major boxing matches.
Back then there were no greater bargains than Vegas. Great room for $20/nights, all you could eat buffets for $1.99 and so on. The casinos were getting rich on the gamblers, so they gave everything else away.
Don’t know what happened, but that all went away.

especially if you went in August (nobody wanted to go to the desert in August) or the week before Christmas. The airfare was cheap; the rooms were cheap; the food was cheap; they had all kinds of freebies all over the place. The last time we went was 2013 and all of that was gone already. Everything was just as expensive as any other big city and don't get me started on "resort fees" which is an extra charge they gouge you with even if you don't use the services they're supposedly for. It's too bad because we really loved going there.

I can only imagine it's gotten worse since 2013.

here.

That is supposed to be a video from this past Saturday morning at 1:00am. Here's what was happening late Friday evening.

There are WAY too many Vegas bloggers to make an idiot believe that this video was filmed at 1:00am last Saturday morning.

You have to click to watch...

I agree with others in that It has gotten increasingly expensive, but I’d have to check the stats to see if it has necessarily become more crime ridden or violent.

But I think international tourists will find alternatives to a town mostly known for casinos and being flashy. In many ways Vegas just isn’t that unique anymore.

If ICE crackdowns continue the city will definitely suffer a drop in tourism. I can’t see why Asian tourists especially will continue to flock there. They may as well head to somewhere like Macau. And if they want over the top glitz some may consider a place like Dubai. Oh well, self inflicted wound if it turns out that way. Nevada did vote for Trump. I know, I know Clark county didnt, but nevertheless it’s supposed to be the firewall.