I used to visit Vegas pretty frequently and if you played your cards right (pun intended) you could make a fairly inexpensive vacation out of it. Nothing super exciting. I finished reading a lot of books lounging by pools at various hotels, eating and drinking a bit more than I normally would. Avoiding the tourist traps and just relaxing.
Nowadays the casinos don’t want to comp anything and the prices they charge are outrageous. Last time my wife and I went, which was a few years ago, I went to the pool bar and ordered two drinks. Nothing fancy. When the cashier told me the bill was $60, I was blown away. $30 a piece. A complete rip off. It’s gotten to where a lot of places pull that kind of shit anymore.
There are way better and cheaper places to visit than that glittering desert shithole.
Why don’t you want to come and eat at our $80 buffets and pay $60 to park?
I enjoy Vegas to some extent, but it isn’t worth the cost now. I can go on an international trip or to a classier city that isn’t in an ever heating desert.
Gambling and shows are fun for a few days, but if I’m dropping thousands, I want to have real experiences, not some amusement park nonsense.
Surely the feeling of being shamelessly ripped off is a “real experience”!???
You can have a real experience without dropping thousands by playing Russian roulette.
Don’t, though!
It’s always the same answer.
Why aren’t people having kids any more?
Why aren’t people going to bars anymore?
Why don’t people want to work anymore?
Because 8 lazy lucky fuckers own 50% of everything that we’ve built.
Wealth redistribution would unironically fix the majority of social and economic problems
Hell yes.
Every year, we should take the richest person in the country and redistribute half their assets.
Also, if you use unrealized assets as collateral for a loan, you should be taxed on the value of those assets.
Americans can’t afford Vegas, and foreigners who could won’t go until Trump and his GeStaPo is history.
He wasn’t satisfied with just bankrupting his own casino. He’s a mission to bankrupt every other casino, too.
He’s going to bankrupt Wall Street the biggest casino in the world
Was in Vegas in June to see weird Al concert. Believe the stories about $20 bottled water. Apparently Vegas decided it wanted to be like Monte Carlo and cater to the ultra rich. There is no reason for anyone who doesn’t have oodles of fuck you money to go to Vegas anymore. It’s just not affordable which makes it not fun for normies.
Warning: masked men stealing people kidneys to put on ICE for Vegas weekend money
How many kidneys you need?
Hands down, the oddest thing to display inside a trenchcoat, NGL. Hats off for originality, though.
Curious: how do you keep them fresh, anyhow?
You do keep them fresh, right?
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I am hijacking my own comment here. Apparently the occupancy of Las Vegas hasn’t really shifted at all since the 90s. What the guy in the video is saying is true enough but I think the video is still a little sensationalised.
https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/historical-visitation-statistics-1970-2024/
https://res.cloudinary.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1740683821/clients/lasvegas/Las_Vegas_Historical_1970_to_2024_143e51ff-0c5d-4878-a682-9a85c2925c59.pdf (check out the occupancy percentage)
Okay final draft: The truth is more complicated than that. Apparently the visitation rates are still the same. It’s the gaming revenue that’s down. Which you can see down here here. Which makes sense I suppose. So apparently people are still visiting Vegas they’re just not gambling as much any more (or people have just gotten more and more lucky over the years 🙃).
https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/lvcva-executive-summary-of-southern-nevada-tourism-indicators/ (check out these excel reports over the years looking at the gaming revenue on the bottom right)
The executive summary for June 2025 says that visitation rates are down 11% YoY.
Gambling is also widespread enough now if that’s why you were going to Vegas, you don’t have to anymore. Even in NC we have a pretty sizable casino in Cherokee. And the shows in Vegas seem to really just be the same shit you could see in other big cities, or at least something equivalent.
Yeah, the Vegas shows are generally residencies where a performer goes after they aren’t popular anymore. I think one of the ‘big headline’ shows is still Carrot Top… for whatever reason…
DraftKings killed Vegas by taking the main money-maker of Vegas and putting it on people’s phones.
give it 6 months more… it’s about to get biblical
It’s a cesspool in the desert, why would I go there even if I had money?
Canadians: How aboot no!
Wonder how many Las Vegas big wigs voted for the Trumpcession.
This shouldn’t be hard for business owners of any size. You look at the stats. You see that our economy always fares better under Democrats, then you vote Democrat because a better economy means people are spending more money at your business.
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.
