Comments on: Stripwalking

By: HillBilly

HillBilly — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:04 +0000

I stayed at Wynn this weekend and it (along with Encore) was sold out. XS must make ridiculous amounts of money. 2,000 women wearing about a yard of fabric between them. Unreal.

The problem I see with the pedestrian traffic, along with all the things you mentioned, is that several thousand rooms have opened up in recent years but the sidewalks are the same size. It’s the same idea as what happens to surface streets when you build a 3000 home subdivision with no additional freeway access. Add to that the broken escalators, water peddlers, and the jackass hustling 3 card monty at the chock points around Caesars and walking the strip on these busy weekends has just become unappealing.

I have never seen a place that is a fucked up from a city planning view point as the Strip. This is what happens when you let each casino dictate the access plans. They build plans with only that property in mind and the idea of keeping people on site. (Bellagio, City Center…)

By: wrxrob

wrxrob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:42:03 +0000

I wonder if the stock market beating had anything to do with the smaller crowds.

Your mid-atlantic tourists were in Delaware this weekend, as they had their table games grand opening. And yes, Blackjack pays 3:2, while the dealer must STAND on soft 17. Minimums were almost Atlantic City high, but its probably still cheaper than a plane ticket and a hotel room.

By: Andy Steiner

Andy Steiner — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:04:04 +0000

All last week, Alicia Jacobs of Channel 3′s news team, interviewed Steve Wynn. Each night was a different topic and I only caught two of the broadcasts. Tuesday night, Steve railed about the Strip calling it nothing but a big carnival.

I tried to search Channel 3′s website, http://www.mynews3.com/index.php, but that website is a horror show that doesn’t seem to sort anything, nor archive its broadcast segments.

Jacob’s has her own blog for the Stage 3 segment, but the bitch hasn’t updated it in a month. Too busy pimping Steve’s newest attraction and schmoozing with the Sex in the City crowd .

By: Howard Park

Howard Park — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:45:40 +0000

Reading Rex’s post I’m struck by how I’ve felt from the 1970′s right up to today reading about and experiencing Times Square in NYC, the grandfather of the Vegas Strip or even Chicago’s Rush Street in the 1980′s. Time Square has always managed to attract and repel me at the same time no matter how much it changes. Most people are on foot, the traffic is so bad that nobody drives (thanks to Yogi Berra) and everybody who isn’t moving has a hustle. I’ve been to Times Square many, many times but haven’t had much of a desire to go back since the last reinvention of the place. I’m more attracted to the Vegas Strip these days but I can get weary of it very, very quickly.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:24:30 +0000

I used to love The Strip and I used to rationalize coming to Vegas because there were better odds and lower limits than my local Indian casino.

Now, my local Indian casino has 24 hour $5 Blackjack tables that actually pay 3:2. Lots of $5 Craps as well. And my wife’s modest slot play gets us free rooms there, but even if they didn’t give us the rooms, it’s about a 35 minute drive and we would go anyway. The Strip doesn’t offer this any more, and the Harrah’s properties have not offered this for many years now. There is no longer an incentive for the average-means gambler to go to The Strip. Why don’t the powers-that-be in Vegas recognize this?

I would love to love Vegas in general and The Strip in particular again, but unless I can get super cheap airfare from the East Coast on a nonstop flight, I won’t be coming, and if I do it will definitely be Downtown. I’m sure there are many others like me in this respect.

By: coolpacific

coolpacific — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:16:10 +0000

You’re not imagining things. I’ve been a Vegas regular since 1989 – the strip needs to get its act together.

By: moe

moe — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:05:56 +0000

This is why we enjoy Laughlin so much. We would rather put up with the oxygen tanks and blue hairs then some French prick hogging the sidewalk on the Vegas strip. Oh yeah how about the a-holes that stop in the middle of the sidewalk to ogle something or take a picture, screwing up the flow. I could go on and on, but why, you get the picture. Strip has lost its class(middle that is).

By: par88

par88 — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:30:18 +0000

I tried to book a room on the strip for the weekend but the rates were not so cheap Rex. Fri night and Sun night were OK – about $120, but they wanted $300+ for Sat night! This is for a 4 star strip hotel and many of them were sold out. I decided to stay home and come up some other time.

BTW traffic in LA is noticably lighter this weekend; maybe they’re not all in Vegas but people have gone SOMEWHERE.

By: The Fonz

The Fonz — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:40:01 +0000

i was never a big rap fan, but i enjoyed my share of it back in the day. just like today’s rock, i don’t get it, for the most part, but i swear the rap industry has perpetrated the greatest hoax on the music buying teens of the 21st century. where’s susan powter? somebody stop the insanity.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:22:00 +0000

I can stay at home and gamble at the local casinos and sleep in my own bed.
Las Vegas NEEDS to lower their holds and take in less so people WANT to come to Vegas.
That’s what they think about ‘If I go to vegas I’ll have better odds’, but right now they don’t.
Vegas NEEDS to give the players better odds on the machines. All the players want is to have fun, but right now we lose TOO FAST. We want to play. We understand casinos are in business to make money and they will, but we want to play so were staying home and using the Room Moneys and Food Moneys and not even to mention the travel expenses getting there and back, to play longer and more LOCALY.
Come on Vegas casinos help out us out of town players.