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AzCoug posted:unless you like sitting in a loving musty sweat box, making 40 stops through the ghetto and just happen to have an overwhelming urge to piss away a couple hours of your Vegas vacation, STAY AWAY FROM THE CITY BUS. If you're that worried about cost, find someone to split a cab with. If you're near Tropicana Rd, there's a bus that stops outside NYNY's valet that just drives up the freeway and then stops at the big bus terminal just southwest of the downtown casinos. Wouldn't recommend walking the remaining distance, but then you transfer to another bus which gets you there in 5 minutes. Overall thing takes about 10 minutes. The route you're looking for is called Westcliff Express and it also serves the airport in the southbound direction (Tropicana Hotel). After downtown it goes to the northwest suburbs quite a ways so avoid that, but god knows as a resident of those distant northwest suburbs I encourage you to use this route as a quickie to get downtown because I rely on it and don't want them to shut it down on me. 
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JustinMorgan posted:Looking thru all the hotels, are all of the casinos pretty much the same? Slot machines? When your rear end in front of a Star Wars slot trying to line up Darth Vaders for a jackpot, every place feels exactly the same. What type of slot you're playing has more to do with your chances than the name of the property. The big progressive jackpots are linked statewide so you have as good a chance of becoming a Megabucks millionaire at Bert's Shithole as you do Caesars Palace. quote:So what's to prevent you from staying at one hotel and seeing a show or whatever at another? That said, it helps to gamble at the place where you want to stay sometime in the future, or within their chain if applicable, so that you can use their card and get snail mail spam that often includes come-ons. So, for instance, if you want to stay at New York New York in the future (dunno why, just an example), they're part of MGM Grand's big chain of casinos. So their players card works at Mandalay Bay, Luxor, MGM, as far away up the street as Mirage, and all the points you make gambling at all of their places add up into the same account. Caesars, the other company, owns both Caesars Palace (durr) and the middle-class Flamingo in addition to a whole bunch of other hotels. So you could gamble at Caesars Palace and even if you aren't a high roller they might eventually invite you back to stay at Flamingo. Or, if you're gambling at Flamingo, you can walk over to Caesars and blow your points on a free dinner there, etc. Or, they might offer you a room at their Rio hotel which isn't even on the Strip (but has shuttles), and you can go to their Strip places and gamble there and not feel like you have to gamble at Rio. And on and on. What you need to understand most of all is that the town rapidly turned into a two-man monopoly about a decade ago, with just a few exceptions. More and more hotels are being consumed by the duopoly (Planet Hollywood and the Palms in recent years are owned by Caesars or their affiliates). The only exceptions on the Strip are Wynn/Encore, Venetian/Palazzo, The Cosmopolitan, Tropicana, Treasure Island, Riviera, and the Stratosphere. Each one of those places or sets has their own ownership and card. The rest of the Strip used to be four or five highly competitive companies, but loosely regulated free market = good and all that, so LV casinos are about as franchised as Wal-Mart.
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Tuxedo Jack posted:1. As a single guy this trip, would I have more fun staying at PH or Cosmopolitan? My understanding is that Cosmo is much nicer, but that the younger/hipper crowd is at PH. Truth? Cosmopolitan has great restaurants and the biggest collage of hipster aesthetics ever found in a multi-billion dollar hotel. It's the only giant strip hotel a boho/indie type could take seriously. On the other hand, they charge out the rear end for meh rooms because they have gorgeous, no net, fall down and kill yourself balconies and there's something crazy about that from a "being able to see the world from your hotel room" standpoint. Keep Planet Hollywood unless you really think having a small open-air balcony suspended 40 stories off the ground is going to make a difference in getting you laid.
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Tuxedo Jack posted:6. I have a huge interest in the Sinatra/Rat Pack/Louis Prima days of Vegas, and was looking for clubs/bars/restaurants that exude that flavor, though google and all of my research is somewhat failing me in this category. Any ideas? If you wanted a room Sinatra actually stood in, you just missed the boat by about nine months, as the Sahara and it's House of Lords steakhouse was pretty much the last operating hotel of the rat pack era that they ever frequently visited (Tropicana, not really.) If you just want the mood and vibes and historical relics in a contemporary setting, there's a few places to do that. I know that Encore has an actual Sinatra-licensed restaurant that serves mostly high class Italian food (there's a lasagna in there, but it's $35) with bits of his career all over.
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Tuxedo Jack posted:I do want to say that at all costs, you should avoid staying at or giving your money to the Cosmopolitan. We stayed in a 1 Bedroom Suite and had nothing but problems the entire stay. Cosmopolitan is an awesome place to visit as the guest from another hotel. Their food & beverage service is great and if you like the indie-hipster vibe they have it in spades. But their hotel operation is a serious sore spot and you're probably the, let's see, 16th or so such story I've heard in this first year of it's existence. Everyone I know has a terrible time and begrudgingly books it again for the fabulous terrace views.
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TheLing posted:1) in the US european debit cards are prettymuch useless and creditcards are king quote:2) it's better when reserving a hotel to get the basic room and then ask for an upgrade once you arrive since it's cheaper than just booking a better room quote:3) public transit in the US is nonexistent so you'll prettymuch end driving a taxi around for your whole stay in vegas since you don't have a lisence The public transit people runs buses up and down the Strip with pretty good frequency, with one route stopping at every hotel and taking forever to get anywhere, and the other one making fewer stops and thus less time spent in congestion. While it's lovely to live here on transit, like everything else in the city they coddle the tourists with frequent, but very expensive, routes that serve to move people between casinos. There's a couple of free overhead trams along the Strip, too. Basically: So long as you want to gamble, drink, see tits, lose money, etc you'll be all right. If you plan to leave that bubble and come out to where the residents live you're kinda boned. And you can't go out into the desert to see the natural wilderness at all. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Nov 8, 2011 |
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TheLing posted:not planning to gamble until the last night though, mostly i'm there to see the sights and visit places as seen on tv...Also i want to visit walmart (theres one 5 miles from rio) and eat at a mc donalds once(shouldn't be too hard to find right?) There's a ton of McDonalds on the Strip, and down and across from Rio at the Palms. I'm not sure what European country you're from, but The Rio also has a special Burger King restaurant concept inside of it called the "Whopper Bar" (Whopper being one of their burgers) that is unique even among American towns. Walmart might be only a few miles away but chances are it's in a not so great part of town, and you'll have to rely on the absolutely bonkers/poo poo residential public transit to get there. For convenience's sake, if you want to just see a big American retail box store, Flamingo Road (the street that the Rio sits upon, and which connects it to the Strip) has a really frequent bus service that you can take east to Maryland Parkway where you can find a Target. They're the biggest Walmart Clone, whose niche is having better public relations and more fashionable marketing than Walmart's southern Ma and Pa Kettle appeal. They're just as big, boxy, anti-union, and full of Chinese crap though. And you'll just need to take one bus route, which is a godsend. Also possibly appealing, on a somewhat distant trip south from the casinos (on the same road, but you'll need wheels) is a Fry's Electronics, which is a big warehouse full of nerdy computer stuff in addition to mainstream gadgetry like TVs and video games. Spike McAwesome posted:Stick around for a NASCAR race and you'll probably leave with a US passport. Go IndyCar. Same drunkenness, less male shirtlessness, more chance for deadly horror show. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Nov 8, 2011 |
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TheLing posted:For that part of the day i intend to just walk there and back, good excercise and i get to see the city more, and it's specifically walmart i'm intrested in visiting (read way too many stories about that place and i'm a retail worker back in Finland) Uh, okay.  I'm having flashbacks to my Canadian friend and I being chased by thugs up Paradise because his t-shirt angered some gang members and being from relatively crime-free Canada he had never encountered any til then.Google estimates a 4 mile walk which is crazy most times of the year (don't know when you're coming) and drat near impossible during an entire block of months. A few tips: People drive highway speeds on regular roads, insane speeds on highways, and many of the cars are stolen so some of the driving resembles that Finnish race I saw on TopGear where children and grannies were driving junkers to destruction. If you cross the street anywhere but a crosswalk, the Nevada legal system believes it's your fault that you got hit by a car; so don't try to imitate the impoverished minorities you see jaywalking on even the busiest streets. It's a 30 minute bus ride you could do with a 10-30 minute transfer (Flamingo and Rainbow), and the bus fare is something like $3 for 2 hours of riding and $4 for 24 hours (which doesn't cover the Strip tourist routes but I think you can add it on for something like 50 cents a ride.) It's going to be a lot better than walking. I've waited for a bus on Flamingo/Rainbow and it was okay except one time at dusk where I watched two men try to persuade a woman into sex from their cars and then pull over after she refused, at which point I quickly left the scene because there were many other strangers and I'm a coward. The general rule when not owning a car in this town is that you're probably okay if the sun is up and you're not anywhere known to be stupidly criminal (such as north of the Stratosphere). The Strip itself is as safe (or not, depending on the media's idiotic scare of the month) as it always is no matter the hour of the day. (PS: If I make it sound like the town is a mafia movie writ large, it isn't; it's just everyone is driving cars and safe in their auto-bubbles as the sidewalks are prone to a lot more criminal activities from an increasingly unemployed, desperate population in an area where seedyness is somewhat glorified. Just be careful.) Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Nov 8, 2011 |
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Well if you just want to see guns behind glass, rifles and like are sold in the sporting goods section of that Wal-Mart you're going to. That's increasingly uncommon in parts of the US, since it's up to the state and mass-market guns make people nervous. You're probably better off at some niche boutique store if you're really into that, though. Vegas has a whole cottage industry in people spending money to fire guns, including occasionally ridiculous hardware that has no purpose outside of a movie prop or military deployment. As always, it depends on how much money you're willing to spend. I don't know much more than that. I'm a Lefty McLefterson who doesn't like the second amendment. Maybe a TFR crossposter will show up here or something. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Nov 14, 2011 |
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Gatts posted:I got a price of about 800 bucks for a room at the MGM. Now I check and it's over 1000. I was thinking Bellagio though that's getting more to $1500 or Signature/MGM for $950. But then I have to add $100 for resort fees and get to $1050. What kind of rooms are these? I just checked Vdara and it's $768 and while that place doesn't immediately have gambling downstairs, it's a nice newish place surrounded by nice casinos, with rooms that are far better than the basic rooms at MGM Grand (they're renovating, but charge you extra for a new room.) Unless you do Vegas the gooniest way of perpetual endless drunkenness and never achieving true REM sleep, or unless you want to smoke in the room, I would shell out the extra $100 for that over a trashpile in a lousy stretch of the boulevard like the Riv. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Nov 29, 2011 |
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Luxor has horrible rooms no matter what the quality of the water is. This is the kind of thing that happens one time because if it happened repeatedly the hotel would shut down. Also, it speaks more of incompetence on the part of the health department, who had taken positive samples previously through late 2011 but repeatedly spoiled their samples and thus never told the press until they did it a third or so time and finally got a pure positive sample. Of course by that point someone (who was probably either very young or very elderly) died from the infection. Which is par for the course. "Southern Nevada Government" is a total comedy sideshow that serves as a crash course on how to be as corrupt and incompetent as humanly possible. Third world nations could consider our public servants and services a model for hosed-uppedness.
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I would not rate Wicked Spoon that highly, having done it for both dinner and brunch. If you do go, go for dinner, because the brunch is overpriced by any other buffet's standard of either breakfast nor lunch and neither is very thorough. I go to Strip buffets for either breakfast or lunch about once a month, and I usually go for either Bellagio (good but can have long lines) or Aria (much shorter line, food almost as good as Bellagio, service started out bad but has seriously improved in the past year.) Planet Hollywood is spectacular food in a bad location. South end, Mandalay Bay, period, no questions asked. Luxor has always been horrid service, Excalibur's is designed poorly so to discourage repeat trips to the food, MGM's food isn't good. North end, forget buffets and just go to the Peppermill where the portions are enormous. Really, as bad as Circus Circus is on buffets (I haven't tried it, but I almost did once), the rest of their food isn't bad. I once had a dinner platter at their Garden Grill dinner-only cafe back near the AdventureDome about four years ago and it was great food for the price. Lots of turkey, big mashed potato, corn on the cob, etc. I can only assume it was such a value because people slam Circus Circus for food so much that they can't attract customers. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Mar 5, 2012 |
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quote:With approximately 90,000 fans who have cleared the turnstiles as of 1am tonight, Insomniac, the producer of Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas asked fans to calmly head to the stands of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway as high-winds posed a possible threat to fan safety. Hope everyone at the EDC is having fun tonight. 
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SKEET SKEET posted:What is the consensus on the Monte Carlo resort? Are the rooms nice? Any good restaurants/clubs? Good pool? Their room elevator core is on the wrong side of the casino from the Strip sidewalk. So it's a long way out if you want to go walk with the masses along the road. On the other hand, a tram to Aria and Bellagio is very close by, so you can use the place as a hotel, while going downstairs and roll to a much nicer property to have your casino resort experience. diapermeat posted:In-room safe.. are they safe? Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jun 18, 2012 |
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TheReverend posted:Has anyone done the new mega buffet at Caesar's? It's called Bachannal I think. People I know who are definitely not paid shills loved it, but it's among the highest priced in town. You're talking a couple bucks above Bellagio/Aria and into Wynn/Cosmopolitan territory. You'll get what you pay for, but drat you will pay. I should note: my people who are definitely not paid shills also loved Wicked Spoon Buffet at Cosmo, and I thought it was merely an okay dinner but an awful value for "brunch".
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I no longer have contacts within the industry of manufacturing poo poo for casinos, which means I can tell you what I know from those contacts, so let me just tell you: Those skill-based games you hear about are bullshit. Imagine Wheel of Fortune, but you have to be really good at some minigame for the top prize to appear on the wheel. You're still not guaranteed to win it, because if it was Tetris and you were a Tokyo Grandmaster or something you could be winning the jackpots up and down the Strip. That isn't sustainable, that isn't how these places work.
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Tab8715 posted:Am I walking or driving everywhere? Everywhere you live, you're driving everywhere else. Most people here live in suburbs and drive around everywhere. It's basically a 2,000,000 person city spread out into a bunch of single family dwellings meant for people with kids and pets and so on. Public transit is a lot better than it was 10 years ago with much more frequency, but because the blocks are so enormous, the heat is 100+ for a big stretch of the year, and everyone lives in these inward facing housing development fortresses that are designed to make you drive into the middle of the development and then back out to where you live. That makes getting to your nearest transit stop a chore unless you live near one.  Our city streets are a giant grid of lines going clear from one end of the valley to another in one long straight line. But everyone lives in master planned communities in the accursed Loops & Lollipops setup that is designed to maximize space for developers but leaves seniors and people who can't drive trapped in the grounds of their housing community, walking long distances before they leave the private road and association-owned spaces to reach the city street which may actually be directly behind their house over a giant wall. I live in such a disaster, but fortunately I live near a clearing you can shortcut through to get to the city street fast without a lot of walking the wrong way and looping back around that's so obviously focused on cars. If you want to drink at bars and walk home, I'd suggest you live downtown. Check out The Ogden or Juhl. Downtown was home to a rough crowd a decade ago that was trying to resist the gentrification of their neighborhood by wealthier people through burglaries and high crime that would drive them away. In recent years a few monolithic condo towers were built, the Zappos CEO has been throwing money into a flaming wastebin to gentrify it into a dot-com hipster bar zone for his employees/cult followers, and the police have become far more aggressive about relocating any scruffy-looking patrons further down Fremont to the part where the drugs and prostitution dens are still rampant. The low income folks who used to call downtown home have lost the battle, and wealthy millennials who want to walk everywhere and find the rest of the city's car culture abhorrent are slowly taking over. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Vegas is mostly limping along on drive-in traffic from California, offering very little beyond casino floors where only 25% of the machines are active. The nicer casinos kindly took all the chairs away from the machines that are shut down. As of this week, reservations are required for any dining room in the state. Customers only come in fits and starts, so on most days the reservations are plentiful and quick, but having to make a reservation for a buffet, a coffee shop, or even the deli is a little weird. The conglomorates that own multiple towers are beginning to close some of the hotel towers mid-week, so if you want to spend Monday night you can stay at Wynn or Luxor for now, but not at Encore or Mandalay. Nevada followed the typical profile of a state that closed until summer started, then reopened faster than initially laid out due to public pressure for MAH BUSINESS and MAH HAIRCUT and MAH BOOZE. Masks weren't required at any casinos until the state required it, because no casino wants to put a requirement on visitors without all the other casinos requiring it too, but for a while in late May casinos were actually giving you free playing money for wearing a mask. Masks became mandatory about three weeks after the touristy poo poo reopened, which was three weeks too late. For a while there were casinos but no bars, but so many people work in the tavern/bar industry including bars outside of the tourist corridor that litter the suburbs. So against better judgement the bars reopened. Then out of work showgirls and magicians and whatnot started complaining about how the arts have been neglected, so soon we had like 50 person gatherings, until again under pressure again from entertainment and whatnot it went to 250, with large venues being able to seat more than 250 if they can present a plan to create bubbles of 250-person pods with no crossover. So the new NFL stadium, for example, could seat 6,000 fans but in separated groups of 250. All of this came crashing apart when positivity rates started spiking a few weeks ago. It is now spreading with more intensity and speed locally than ever before. The hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed, presently at 80% capacity with people who thankfully mostly aren't in serious enough condition to need ventilators but are taking up most of the beds anyhow. Due to the fact that many people are not testing positive until they arrive back home, the Las Vegas Tourist Experience(TM) is presently a danger to the entire nation's recovery, since it's possible people here are catching bugs that infect people in their hometown and fill a bed or two in their hometown hospital. But Mitch McConnell isn't bailing out any state or local governments, and Nevada will gradually die without it's vice industries since we failed to diversify and object to taxing anything but tourist activities, so being a nuisance to the nation is the logical path remaining. MGM was, for a couple weeks, running some of their smaller shows in larger rooms. You could see Carrot Top performing in a huge and mostly empty ballroom, or a titty show in a huge and mostly empty ex-Cirque showroom. Jabbawockeez was performing in the arena where they used to have Mayweather fights. The current state of Vegas entertainment after the most recent restrictions is a comedi-magician doing standup to crowds of fifteen people. But do know that Fremont is still packed on weekends with people shoulder to shoulder with basically no control over the swarm of humanity there. Some sort of testing validation would work wonders. Wynn seems to have put more thought in aggressively pursuing new ways to do business in this climate, and paid a local hospital to build a testing lab on their premises that they proposed could allow for same-day testing for showroom visitors. But right now it's an absolute mess. The current message from government is that people who live in the state should be masked if they see anyone around them they don't live with, and ideally just never leave home at all, but tourists are encouraged to violate all those rules to get from where you live to here and spend big. Tourists are, uh, invincible to contagious diseases, if you didn't know.  Stay home and do not come here until either things settle down nationwide or there's some sort of travel regulations are put into place. While New York and other states were requiring 14 day quarantines for people arriving from problem areas, they never did anything like that here, so there's nothing but a mask (which often isn't covering the nose) to stop some member of MAGA Nation from coming here the same time as you and making you sick. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Restaurants are now back to 50% capacity, up to 250 people. A limited number of shows are re-opening in larger venues than before: think small cabaret shows in the large showrooms, showroom shows in the large arenas, David Copperfield in a converted convention hall, that sort of thing. This puts us back to where we were around late September before a rash of Trump rallies around Nevada, combined people's inability to spend the holidays alone or with their own household, ruined last year's progress. Business is still bad and probably will be until Vegas finds something new, because we overinvested in things that are probably either a year away from restarting in earnest (conventions) and things that will probably never again be as mainstream as pre-COVID and we now need less of (clubbing). But to the average visiting tourist, the two big omissions from the Strip are Cirque du Soleil and buffets. CDS laid off a bunch of uniquely talented people from around the globe and declared bankruptcy last year, so re-casting is no easy feat. Buffets have proven to be a failure and something the public doesn't trust anymore, the Cosmopolitan will be trying again soon and the locals places like Orleans will probably always have a buffet, but the executives who run the Caesars chain (including Baccanal at Caesars Palace, and the buffets at Paris/Rio/Planet Hollywood) have already told investors that their buffets are gone permanently. Music festivals will probably be back in the fall. EDC's current May date is so laughable, there's no way the government will allow that so soon when Biden isn't promising public gatherings until July. The alt/indie Life is Beautiful festival's September date feels far more realistic. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Wynn tried buffet with people ordering off a menu. It wasn’t very popular. The Cosmopolitan has already tried to re-open a buffet once and failed, and will try again in the next week or so. Some of the locals places switched to “you go up to the station and we serve you” but before the government restrictions in November that required reservations for everything they had packed the lines for those locals buffets so full of people that it was obvious they weren’t taking COVID seriously. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 16, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/ClarkCountyNV/status/1382129084977664001 All restrictions will move to a county-by-county specific plan on June 1st, save for masks which will remain statewide.
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Well, well, well, look who came back after all. https://twitter.com/CaesarsPalace/status/1390699765663404038
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Admittedly most of the people I know who take trips out here are from SoCal, but I think that's the first time I've heard of someone call Wynn trashy. EDIT: Maybe their standards are slipping from not calling enough people back while capacity is rising? Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 18:48 on May 20, 2021 |
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Chainclaw posted:Look I hadn't been to Vegas before. The whole ground floor reeked of tobacco which I haven't been around in years, everywhere else has banned indoor smoking forever. The light fixtures all over were dusty, especially in the elevators. There were ads on the walls in the elevators. The parking lot had some trash. There were very few electrical outlets in the hotel room. The shower head was one of the cheapest I've ever seen in a hotel room. The stuff in the bathroom (shampoo, soap, other random toiletries) was OK but they didn't have things I'd expect from upscale places like mouthwash. They hosed up stocking and gave me two body soaps and no shampoos the first day. They hadn't done a great job cleaning the hotel room before we checked in, we found a bit of trash. Write a letter and tell them this (address to Marilyn Spiegel, as she's the executive in charge of this sort of thing.) Maybe don't share that you're a little OCD on on light fixture dust (I've seen that on the place in 2006 when it was less than a year old) but particularly the part about trash and the bathroom amenities. Housekeeping staff are overworked, and many people are using the rooms like party flophouses and dodging on tips which in turn has made the problem worse, but Wynn as a company cares about the kind of poo poo like this more than probably any other operator on the Strip, and they're actually in the opening stages of renovating their rooms this year. They might not give you anything, or even reply, but maybe they will. Before he was revealed to be a terrible rapist and kicked out of the company, Steve Wynn was very much a "chew people's asses out because of dirty wall sconce" kind of guy, and sweating small details like that is their calling card in a way. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 00:07 on May 25, 2021 |
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None of them do, that's why they exist. Some of the smaller downtown operators that are more transparent about their business than the big listed corporations have tried not doing the resort fee thing, and it doesn't work because their hotel is way more expensive than everyone else on travel search engines as a result. Just mentally calculate $30 a night for anything on the Strip, $45 for the five diamond style hotels, and $20-30 for downtown.
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I'm not sure I understand, resident are you coming here unvaccinated? Life is Beautiful will require a vaccine card or negative test taken in the last 72 hours. People are required to wear a mask anywhere mixed parties exist in indoor climates (including casinos, shows, etc) but as the vaccine drive goes aside from really large events of 10,000+ people there's no verifying health documents. You can show up, gamble, pool, club, whatever as long as you wear a mask when you're inside except when you're eating a meal at a restaurant. Nevada is culturally not a state warm to the idea of forced identification, if you got rid of the undocumented immigrants who have had trouble getting a vaccine and the libertarian assholes who would both feel oppressed by such rules for different reasons there would not be many Nevadans left. I wouldn't worry too much about casino workers, MGM is already demanding public-facing workers be vaccinated by October. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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So in the past week, Caesars just cancelled a (no poo poo) QAnon "Great Awakening" convention which will probably just move down-market, Raiders fans are forfeiting their season tickets due to a policy requiring vaccination to go inside, and you can't hold a local government meeting of any kind right now without a line out the building of people waiting to scream anti-doing-anything rhetoric. State directive is "do what the CDC says" which is why the masks are enforced. A few concert venues and special events like LiB have vax card checks, but yeah, the general Strip is viewed as impossible to do that with unless you've got Disneyland-style screening at every entryway making going into each casino a hassle.
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Love Stole the Day posted:First time. You want a really big suite or a really expensive gadget-laden suite that's half the size? Assuming midweek because it sounds like that's what you're talking about : The really big suite: Mirage Tower Suite The really swank suite: Aria Corner Suite A Suite With A Really Nice View: Cosmopolitan Wraparound Venetian/Palazzo are okay hotels but I think they're better if you're familiar with Vegas (especially Palazzo). Depending on what you're doing in Vegas, you may want to also look at the Delano penthouse. People give Mandalay Bay flack for being far from the five-star hotels of the late 2000s "nightclub era" of Vegas like Encore and Cosmo, marooned amidst a bunch of themed 90s casinos remaining from the family-friendly boom. But with the sports arenas nearby there's more activity on the corner of Tropicana again, and Mandalay keeps the transportation options and elevator cores pretty close together while still having quite a bit under it's own roof. So if you're going to an event at T-Mobile or Allegiant those hotels will be more attractive than they were back in the days the OP was written. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Neither MGM Grand or Treasure Island are close enough to the convention center to skip paying anything for transportation and go walk. You want the Westgate, Encore, or maybe Resorts World for that. Convention Center to Sahara is walkable on foot except at the worst of times, though their rooms last I saw are pretty small and garish and not for everybody. The Monorail is locally a joke but moving people to the convention center is the one thing it does very well. No idea what frequency is like during the pandemic, as it used to have a line going out the station at big conventions with people packed in like sardines that you wouldn't do now. The city also has a bus system that services the convention center, with a route that passes right in front of it that connects between the airport on the extreme south end and downtown on the north. Most people coming to Vegas are splurging cash and don't mind being overcharged for taxis or reserving limos because they're there to live beyond their means and pretend they're in a higher tax bracket than reality. If you're interested in doing Vegas cheap, just let me know what you're trying to accomplish because god knows locals are accustomed to pinching pennies and finding value. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Google Maps says 30 minutes from Treasure Island to walk around Wynn's golf course to the center, is the route not actually pedestrianized or something? quote:I'm not on a super tight budget but $13 a day for a monorail that only goes directly along the strip doesn't sound great, maybe not the end of the world though. Are the buses okay? The buses are fine. Use Google Maps for routing/navigation as it often gives the best directions. If you're set on Treasure Island, it's not the hardest hotel to reach but not the easiest because there's no way to reach the Strip from Desert Inn, forcing you to use either Convention Center Drive (which can be pretty rough neighborhood at times) or walk south to Sands Avenue, where there's a bunch of casino employee parking garages and an indoor theatre currently under construction. If you can consider other options, Virgin is on the same bus line as the convention center. Sahara is kind of not to everyone's taste but is walkable. If you can walk to Sahara you can also take the regular Sahara bus which runs at a high frequency and stops at Palace Station on the other side of the freeway. Palace is one of those "locals casinos" where the gambling is very video poker focused, but the place was dramatically renovated the other year. If you're the kind of person that's more interested in your hotel having a cheap buffet and a movie theater inside of it rather than a celebrity chef restaurant, you'd be okay with it.
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Not to sound like a simp for the place, but I would take Palace Station over Four Queens to go to a convention anyday. 108 Paradise doesn't even reach Fremont, though the BTC is walkable. If you had to take a taxi/Lyft/whatever downtown is further away, too. Stratosphere gets flack for being in a bad neighborhood but the property itself is safe, I've walked to it from Sahara before in the day and I'm pretty fuckin' bougie weak to ghetto rust, just don't leave the hotel on foot in the venings. Another fun Vegas public transit truck on a budget is that the [url= https://rtcws.rtcsnv.com/routepdf/119.pdf]119 bus[/url] runs on Koval behind the east casinos, starting on the Strip across the street from Luxor and going up to the back of Venetian and Wynn by the golf course. If you want to stay at a dive like Excalibur or a neglected almost-dive like Luxor on the cheap and go to a convention, it shouldn’t by any slower than the jam packed Monorail. It also serves Palace Station if you wanted to reach south strip from there. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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Yeah the naked city is really to the immediate north and the immediate west. Edit: By the way, if anyone is into zany Vegas history, the story of the Stratosphere and its creator Bob Stupak is one of the zaniest funny yet depressing stories ever. It’s basically one big story of a carnival barker shyster who just friggin’ loves gambling shamelessly scamming his way to success in the clowniest dream-big way possible. The time he challenged Donald Trump to a competition over millions of dollars is particularly good fun. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Second, it crossed my mind I might save myself paying for a night in a hotel by taking an overnight flight from Vegas to NY, how would that be? With the time change it would be a really short night and I'd need to wait a bit to get into my NY hotel, so would be out and about, possibly with my bags, for a while on reduced sleep. Worth it? I'll just disagree with Midjack a little, because I am a resident and I have taken a lot of red-eyes out of our airport, and a couple times to the east coast. It's going to depend on the person because I'm more comfortable with being slightly fatigued in the late morning and powering through another seven hours than I am with landing in what feels like mid-day but it's dark and everyone is going to bed. If you get delayed many hours, there's a crap-ton of traditional nongambling hotel chains around the airport and adjacent. Hilton just opened a Hampton Inn and a Home2 a bit south near the outlets mall and Tahiti Village, and also has a Homewood next to 215 where it goes near the airport. BizarroAzrael posted:The event I'm going to is at World Market Centre, so it seems like it would make sense to stay Downtown, although the thread seems pretty down on staying around there? Can imagine noise will be an issue depending on where your room is pointing. Maybe I'm better of overall staying mid-to-north Strip and taking the Duece up? A cab ride from somewhere like TI or Strat actually doesn't look too bad. I would also say consider MGM Grand, Tropicana etc if you want to do some stuff on the Strip, because the Centennial Express bus links the Tropicana/Strip intersection with World Market Center, just get off at the downtown outlet mall. It also serves as an airport shuttle as well. So in terms of accessing the stuff you want to get to it's probably better than Treasure Island, Resorts World etc. Just be sure to head out of downtown back to south strip by 10PM if you want to avoid a sizable taxi bill. Another note about the LVB/Trop area is that NYNY just announced their next hotel refurbishment yesterday, which might make it noisy to stay there. However, I have an anecdote of staying there during their last major refurbishment, and not only did they do it piecemeal so the work way down the hall didn't bother me, but I got an amazing room on the corner of the Empire State Building and one of the most enjoyable tourist stays I had. So I wouldn't advocate writing it off entirely but just be aware. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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I would say The Linq so that it's not too much of a trip. Try to avoid "District 3" if you can simply because it's in the way back of the hotel. Still should be cheaper than Bally's or the Flamingo.
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The Strip's usual Halloween haunted house used to be at Circus Circus and it went away years ago, the people behind it bought a warehouse in the bad part of town around the Stratosphere and run a SAW and Blair Witch licensed escape room, which is the kind of thing you can run year round is likely more lucrative than a few days Halloween house. Haunted Museum is supposedly pretty good. There's actually quite a few Halloween temporary haunted houses in the city proper, but they're all out in shopping centers using dead mall space in the part of Vegas that's less world-class and more Walmart.
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Business is supposedly starting to recede so maybe things will get priced better soon. Vegas has been kind of in a post-pandemic holding pattern for a while. Resorts World opened with a bit of a thud, an okay place that makes very few reasons why you should be there. The Adele shows at Caesars feels like the first "Vegas doing something extravagantly expensive" project to take off in a long time. The Native American casino tribes own casinos on the east (Virgin) and west (Palms) side of town and are about to take control of The Mirage in a few weeks, at which point the volcano show and all remaining Siegfried & Roy references will be pending removal. Bally's is being rebranded to Horseshoe but who knows how extensive that will be, right now they got as far as painting the eastern towers beige. Personal opinion as someone who does not stay in hotel rooms: Someone said the 90s casinos are suffering, but I think the mid-Strip ones are fine. Park MGM is like a lower-budget, younger person Bellagio compared to the bland as hell place it used to be. NYNY just redid it's hotel rooms again and being so close to the Park/Aria/Bellagio trio it might be the best mid-tier option on the Strip? Like how 15 years ago everyone was staying at Treasure Island for the proximity to Wynn. Casinos do strike me as different now in terms of who they are targeting. One thing I've noticed, if you can allow me a minute to be weird about something minor: Many of them play 1965-1985 hits, which is something I first noticed at Mirage but heard up and down the street. It's not like the old days when Bellagio played Sinatra and other standards, but it's like now that Katy Perry and Lady Gaga are over-the-hill enough to residency in Vegas and Taylor Swift got occupied rereleasing old albums, you don't hear them overplaying Billie Eilish or any other stars of the TikTok era they used to with Britney, Coldplay, Maroon 5, and the other 2000s acts. So don't be surprised if the muzak is playing Talking Heads or Aretha Franklin instead of Arianna Grande. I mean, I guess we did have our brief BTS phase earlier this year with that concert. And the reopened Palms is still bouncy pop at all hours. Also none of the ticket redemption machines give you change anymore so if you don't want to passively enrich the casinos you gotta take tickets to the cashier cage. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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Gabriel Grub posted:(Furiously booking hotel rooms) Why not try an Off-Strip But Close property, like The Orleans or Palms? You can park for free and Flamingo/Tropicana roads have buse routes that run on a high frequency so you never have to wait too long. You could also consider Virgin (a.k.a the previous Hard Rock) but since Harmon isn't well designed for transit just be sure to budget some Uber money and tell the app to take you to Cosmopolitan. That'll keep the ride shorter, the Cosmo property is physically small so you won't be dropped on the rear end end of nowhere like some casinos Uber (hi Caesars), and Cosmo is a great property besides. As far as downtown: it has its fans but if you're going to spend most the majority of your time on the strip anyway there's really no point. There are things to do over there and free shuttles that take you around to the container park, outlet mall, etc. There's even iirc a self driving car app thing that for free will take you as far south as the Stratosphere, but I don't know if it's running anymore. You asked about public transit, and The Deuce route runs slowly through the sketchy neighborhoods between the strip and downtown and can take quite a while to reach mid Strip. There's an express route that connects downtown to Tropicana/NYNY but it's a commuter express route that ends on it's 10-11PM run. That's fine for people going to Mandalay Bay for a convention but not an option for late night party clubbers. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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Gabriel Grub posted:Orleans is great, I've stayed there several times. If I was going on a solo trip I might even spend the whole time there. Maybe, conventions forgiving, consider Resorts World then. No parking fee, rates for the Hilton and Conrad wings can be reasonable, and there's a southbound Deuce stop just outside the property to take you where the action is concentrated. The food is overpriced there but the awesome Peppermill is nearby. Just be very careful with the street crosswalk between Resorts World and Encore. You're taking your life in your hands there. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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