This is already it spreading from a few places on the strip to even service bars..... A few places have had Concession fees and the like for a bit now like Cabo Wabo, Beer Park Paris, and the like.
Yeah but who really wants to go to Tunica or some other place like that?
Vegas has quite a bit more than gambling. Other destinations don't. On the Las Vegas strip, the majority of revenue does not come from gambling any more. That isn't true of other gambling places including Downtown Las Vegas. So yeah if all you want to do is gamble and you don't care about atmosphere or much else, one of those places may be fine. But increasingly people want more than just gambling. And the Vegas strip is providing it. Tunica, not so much. Metropolis, other places, not so much.
On one of our trips we took the bus up the Strip to Downtown . Walked around and got the bus back to The Strip in under an hour.
To me, downtown vegas is like a lot of other gambling places. There isn't much else to do besides gambling and bars to be honest. The strip is where a lot of the non gambling things to do are. And unfortunately, that's where you'll also get fees to the death. Of course everyone has to go see Freemont St. once. But once you've seen it, you've seen it. If downtown is all Vegas had, I'd never go there.
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Vegas is accustom to hefty profits from gambling. This model has been failing slow but surely for a decade now. Now when your operation is as large as they are in Vegas ( MGM comes to mind ), you have little choice but to over charge on everything just to stay afloat. Step 2 is to downsize the operation. Or in this case, sell a third of the resort as condos. Without folks willing to throw money away, the resorts have to earn it now and those big fancy resorts cost big money to operate.
