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And treasure island doesn't have a pirate show any more, they must've thought it was too dangerous after what they did to the dunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIrnntfgqc
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smellmycheese posted:The Stardust famously destroyed in Con Air oh thats horrible, i should tell my friends at the Landmark, they're gonna be devastated
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Heads up a new pool is opening at the palms, night swim grand opening event tickets are free https://www.vegasandchill.com/post/sammy-s-island-sammy-hagar-palms-las-vegas-2024
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I have still not gone because I’ve procrastinated the poo poo out of my planning, so I have a new question: would I be a complete moron to go to the desert in summer months?
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Unless you had a bunch of outdoor activities in mind, it makes no difference. It sounds like you've mostly mentioned in shows, they'll be air conditioned to the same temperature any time of year.
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when did this resort fee nonsense start? I managed to find a super cheap room for a couple weeks from now and the resort fee will add 60%
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It started when online booking and short term rentals used vc money to get into a price war with the hotels they were buying the rooms from. Just pull up the nightly prices of hotels in the middle of nowhere and you'll feel a lot better when you see joe schmo wants like 140/night
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Fate Accomplice posted:when did this resort fee nonsense start? I managed to find a super cheap room for a couple weeks from now and the resort fee will add 60% It's never ending psychological sales bullshit. It's a way basically get more money out of customers. A lot companies are adding "fees" that way they don't have to show you the final price (unless you read the fine print) until you check-out but you'll still book the hotel, flight, cruise, etc.
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Fate Accomplice posted:when did this resort fee nonsense start? I managed to find a super cheap room for a couple weeks from now and the resort fee will add 60% like 2004
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Sentient Data posted:It started when online booking and short term rentals used vc money to get into a price war with the hotels they were buying the rooms from. Just pull up the nightly prices of hotels in the middle of nowhere and you'll feel a lot better when you see joe schmo wants like 140/night Short term rentals have tight regulations here (they're banned entirely in City of LV limits last I checked, and the county unincorporated areas recently implemented registration where each one has to be a certain distance from any other). Nobody who lives here wants to live near tourists visiting because tourists tend to get more loaded, more loud, more violent, and basically fall into the spell of Vegas as some sort of outlaw town where you can be your worst self and nobody remembers it after you've left. That's not the kind of neighbor anyone wants. The resort fee stuff happened because a few hotels were angry at how much online booking took out of their sales. I remember Sheldon Adelson complaining that Expedia made more money selling Venetian rooms than the hotel itself, and telling any reporter that would listen about how Expedia, Orbitz etc were so flush with money that they had corporate headquarters that made casino companies look dowdy by comparison. So they began hiding more of the room rate in a resort fee so that the rate quoted for Expedia/Orbitz/Travelocity/etc was lower, and thus the booking agency skim was lower. Some hotels tried not doing the resort fee thing, but because of that they were always higher priced than the hotels that advertised $19 a night with a $65 resort fee. And they always had lower occupancy rates because people kept falling into the trap. They eventually gave in and did the same thing. Much like 6:5 Blackjack, it dominates because people kept choosing convenience over advantage when there was still a choice to be made. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 01:29 on May 15, 2024 |
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True, i guess the rental thing was more of an Orlando problem which is where i first ran into resort fees/taxes. Always worth remembering that customers as a general class don't have the best critical thinking skills https://business.time.com/2012/05/17/why-jcpenneys-no-more-coupons-experiment-is-failing/ Also it's stated to hit over 90 at night, so here's a reminder to 
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They've got short term rentals in Vegas but it's a minimum of 30 days. If you are traveling and just need a place to live that isn't a casino it works really well.
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So Mirage is going to close in July and spend about 3 years being refitted into Hard Rock. Maybe I got the wrong end of the such but I thought they were going to try to stay at least partially operational. Curious if this will impact prices and availability with the Strip losing 2 major resorts so close together. Fountainbleu is open now but that's a different market I think.
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Overshadowed by the loss of an entire resort, but one for the foodies: if you want to try Picasso (Bellagio) you have until August. Just be aware they sold the paintings years ago.
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