Vegas forgot the entire reason it was popular in the first place:

Because it was CHEAP. You could go to Vegas and get a nice hotel and go out every night for less than you could go anywhere else because they made their money on gaming instead of the accommodations.

During Covid they pivoted to trying to be a "destination" by ripping off everyone at every corner. The rooms are loaded down with fees, the food and drinks are ridiculously expensive.

The reason to go to Vegas was that a regular middle class person could FEEL like a rich person. That doesn't work when you are priced out of everything.

They hike the prices through the roof and drop quality and it’s the consumers’ fault for not wanting to pay extra for crap

1. it's a tacky nightmare
2. anyone can just gamble on "martket prediction" apps now, I still have no idea how or why those are legal

Canadians boycotting travel to the U.S. doesn't help, either.

As a Nevada resident you can see this all over the state. The state voted Trump and it’s now gonna pay the price for it. I do feel bad for employees in the housekeeping and food service department. But I do know most of them also voted for trump including a friend of mine who drives taxi in Vegas and complains about everything being expensive. So in that case fuck them, but to the few good ones in the silver state, you have my respect.

Nevada voted Trump. They gambled and lost. Time to learn the hard way.

It's okay, the Dow is over 50k.

They want to cater to the 1%, they're only going to get traffic from the 1%

Hmm yes. That's the only thing contributing to its visitor drop. Nothing else

Looks at costs of a flight to Amsterdam. Looks at costs to domestic US.

Gee I wonder why.

Everyone is holding onto what little cash they have due to great uncertainty. Doesn't matter which party or which country you belong to. I think history will show us that trump was not a good money man at all. Nothing more than an evil little shit stumbling upward because of dad's money. From that point on it was all grifting schemes and tween dreams.

You can milk a cow many times, but you can only slaughter it once.

As someone that loves gambling and always wanted to go to Vegas, I'd rather just go somewhere local if I wanna go to a casino. Vegas is as expensive as any other destination vacation (if not more expensive) but that's not why most people want to go there no matter how much they try to change their image. If you're not someone that likes gambling it's probably cheaper and more worthwhile to go to Disney Land. And if you're someone that likes gambling it's cheaper to go to literally any other casino in the country.

It's called recession. Soon to be the Second Great Depression.

Good.

Fuck vegas.

And the fact that most of the support staff are scared to death of ice throwing them in a concentration camp.

Leisure spending in fascist regimes is certainly waning. Leisure spending overall continues unabated from where I'm sitting....

They got what they voted for.

Caesars and MGM don't care about your US$5k vacation to Vegas anymore. They just want to deal with the Epstein class that are going to play US$100k hands at their card tables.

So, it's getting worse. There were videos last summer of how empty the Las Vegas Strip was.

It’s not solely local leisure spending. It’s tourism. Who wants to come to the United States now?

I’ve also been told there’s been a switch up in the way the machines work such that it’s just not fun any more.

That's fine, I'm sure billionaires will pick up the tab when all regular people clear out of the Strip.

Might qualify as a leopards eating face moment considering a narrow majority of Clark county voted for Trump :o