If someone is staying in a strip hotel, playing casino games there, buying stuff in the shops, and eating meals in the restaurants, the trip is costing them in the thousands. They are not going to care about an extra fee to park. On busy nights it would actually be much nicer to pay money than have to struggle dealing with a packed parking garage. When a company is selling a half pound of meat for $80 and a handbag for $2500, most people think renting a piece of land for $10 is actually a pretty good deal.
Plus there will be an NHL team there next year, which I think has a lot to do with this. Finding a parking spot will be a pain in the ass on game nights. If they were smart they'd do validation. If you gamble the pit boss or sports book or whatever validates your parking pass and it's free, the same for people that have rooms. That way you don't have strip walkers or people going to the NHL games taking up all your parking spots, and if they do they pay. That's how Harrah's does it in Reno.
I haven't been to Vegas since I moved to Reno in 2006, so I'm not sure how it's set up.
Gambling revenues have been declining for years in Vegas and the gaming industry as a whole. Casinos are forced to find other ways to create revenue. Resort fees were invented because these revenues are not shared with wholesalers, (like Travelocity, Expedia, etc.) which book the hotel rooms. In some cases the discounted reservations made by these wholesalers leaves the hotel/casino with little profit after overhead.
Most casinos downtown charge for parking because of it’s limited space. Not unusual for them to be filled. They all allow for validation. Some have ticket punches at the cage to self validate, (for limited number of hours), or just have a pit boss sign/stamp the ticket for no limit.
In some cases the garages will fluctuate the fee depending on what large events might be taking place there, like the “Life is Beautiful” festival.
Also, as someone mentioned above, some casinos actually charge their employees to park at their own garage whether they are working or not.
Free drinks galore here in Reno, they're not stingy with the drink tickets at the sportsbook either. Parking still free too, and black jack rules are still good here too. Who needs the glitz of Las Vegas, I'm gambler.
Should still be some skiing this spring with all the snow we're getting.
I drove to Vegas a few times ago. I drove to MGM the day I was leaving to place some hockey bets. The parking there sucks. It's in the back and not much of it from what I remember. The sports book is one of the worst in Vegas. Shit Hole. Not surprising they are charging. No reason to go to MGM unless it's for a boxing match.
Not till June. Peppermill pool is heated and open. Atlantis has indoor year round and outdoor too.
It is becoming more and more for suckers. I was there over Thanksgiving and many of the strip casinos (Paris, Caesars, Planet Hollywood, MGM) had the worst Video Poker returns I have ever seen. Couple that with 6/5 Blackjack, dealer hitting on soft 17. The list goes on.
I recommend you don't stay downtown though. Atlantis and Peppermill are both family owned, they comp on sports bets and poker play. Peppermill just got an award from the American Lung Association, using technology not banning smoking to eliminate second hand smoke. Plus they're the only major property in the world that that produces 100% of they're electricity on site. They are the good guys, and they're thriving unlike the bean counters.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-85698566/
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[h=5]John Locher / Associated Press[/h]Cars drive into the MGM Grand hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Jan. 14. MGM Resorts International announced that it plans to begin charging visitors for parking this year at some of its properties in the city.
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By C. Moon Reed
January 27, 2016, 8:00 a.m.
You know that hollow feeling brought on by, say, the death of a favorite celebrity? As the tributes stack up on social media, you can only stare at the screen in disbelief.
That is how I felt on Jan. 15, the day MGM Resorts International announced the end of Las Vegas. By which I mean the end of free parking at the Bellagio, Mirage, Mandalay Bay, Aria, MGM Grand, Luxor, Excalibur, New York-New York, Monte Carlo, Delano and Vdara resorts. That's more than half the Strip, if you're counting. Parking fees will set you back up to $10 per night, with valet service costing even more.
Paying to park may be nothing to New Yorkers or Angelenos, but in Las Vegas, it's sacrilege. MGM's chief operating officer acknowledged as much in the company's news release, calling the move “a significant departure from a long-established paradigm.”
Jay Sarno, who created Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, knew the value of setting the tone at the entrance. According to his biography “Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas,” the majestic driveway at Caesars Palace was built to “transport the guest out of time, out of space, away from his workaday life and into a fantasy world … with gratification only a throw of the dice or the flash of a smile away.”
People, that is the magic of getting parking right. Parking isn't just car storage. It's a symbol. Free valet in particular makes Joe Gambler feel like a high roller, like Lady Luck is on his workaday life and into a fantasy world … with gratification only a throw of the dice or the flash of a smile away.”
People, that is the magic of getting parking right. Parking isn't just car storage. It's a symbol. Free valet in particular makes Joe Gambler feel like a high roller, like Lady Luck is on his arm as he breezes into the air-conditioned lobby. That Cinderella experience — call it hope — is what Vegas offers the world. Mix in a few free cocktails, and you've got the formula that turned a dusty desert outpost into a global destination.
The change hurts Californians far more than tourists arriving by plane; 94% of Southern Californians drive here. Well, gas is cheap.
But even if you rich Angelenos don't mind getting ripped off, Las Vegas locals are outraged on your behalf. “The End of Days is upon us!” proclaimed Las Vegas *************** columnist Steve Sebelius, in the first of many primal cries in print. A reader survey in the same paper garnered more than 10,000 votes, with 73% responding “No free parking!? Never going there again.” There's a petition, a Facebook group calling for a boycott and angry memes. In a nod to burning draft cards, local gamblers are cutting up their MGM loyalty cards and posting pictures of the shards on social media.
Meanwhile, I'm like one of those Medicare-loving, antigovernment protesters, yelling, “Get your corporate casino hands off my free Strip parking!” But this is no time for dignity.
Historically, only one property on the Strip has ever imposed a similar fee-on-arrival at a casino. Circus Circus, when it opened in 1968, charged $2 admission (about $14 in today's money) to cover the “free” circus acts. Tourists paid. Locals protested. And the fee disappeared after a few months.
Memes are great, but I fear Vegas residents, being only 2 million strong, lack boycott-level numbers. If the 41 million-plus annual tourists don't join the revolt, it's only a matter of time before we have to pay to park everywhere, even off the Strip.
MGM's official rationale is the cost of building a $54-million, 3,000-space parking structure, plus $36 million to upgrade existing parking. But parking fees are just part and parcel of the very un-Vegas trend of nickel-and-diming guests: tighter slots, lower payouts, fewer comped rooms, mandatory $25-a-day “resort fees,” etc.
In truth, all these are a matter of packaged versus a la carte costs. We've always paid to be at casinos. But the seduction of Las Vegas is the feeling that you're getting something for nothing, even while you're losing at the blackjack table. Why call attention to a cost that brings no joy? At least an overpriced mojito gives you a buzz.
The Las Vegas Strip is a uniquely American landmark, an amalgamation of public square and private space, famous around the world for projecting bounty to all comers. MGM has for decades benefited from being part of that, but now it has violated the public trust. It might propose strip-mining the Grand Canyon next.
If profits don't bend to the greater good, Las Vegas risks becoming a failed state. Like Atlantic City.
C. Moon Reed is a writer in Las Vegas.
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[h=5]John Locher / Associated Press[/h]Cars drive into the MGM Grand hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Jan. 14. MGM Resorts International announced that it plans to begin charging visitors for parking this year at some of its properties in the city.
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Related ContentWith Warren Olney's 'Which Way L.A.?' ending, where can we turn for civil discussion?Time for reform at the DWPThe coastline belongs to all Californians—but maybe not for longThe Supreme Court's good news for juveniles sentenced to life
By C. Moon Reed
January 27, 2016, 8:00 a.m.
You know that hollow feeling brought on by, say, the death of a favorite celebrity? As the tributes stack up on social media, you can only stare at the screen in disbelief.
That is how I felt on Jan. 15, the day MGM Resorts International announced the end of Las Vegas. By which I mean the end of free parking at the Bellagio, Mirage, Mandalay Bay, Aria, MGM Grand, Luxor, Excalibur, New York-New York, Monte Carlo, Delano and Vdara resorts. That's more than half the Strip, if you're counting. Parking fees will set you back up to $10 per night, with valet service costing even more.
Paying to park may be nothing to New Yorkers or Angelenos, but in Las Vegas, it's sacrilege. MGM's chief operating officer acknowledged as much in the company's news release, calling the move “a significant departure from a long-established paradigm.”
Jay Sarno, who created Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, knew the value of setting the tone at the entrance. According to his biography “Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas,” the majestic driveway at Caesars Palace was built to “transport the guest out of time, out of space, away from his workaday life and into a fantasy world … with gratification only a throw of the dice or the flash of a smile away.”
People, that is the magic of getting parking right. Parking isn't just car storage. It's a symbol. Free valet in particular makes Joe Gambler feel like a high roller, like Lady Luck is on his workaday life and into a fantasy world … with gratification only a throw of the dice or the flash of a smile away.”
People, that is the magic of getting parking right. Parking isn't just car storage. It's a symbol. Free valet in particular makes Joe Gambler feel like a high roller, like Lady Luck is on his arm as he breezes into the air-conditioned lobby. That Cinderella experience — call it hope — is what Vegas offers the world. Mix in a few free cocktails, and you've got the formula that turned a dusty desert outpost into a global destination.
The change hurts Californians far more than tourists arriving by plane; 94% of Southern Californians drive here. Well, gas is cheap.
But even if you rich Angelenos don't mind getting ripped off, Las Vegas locals are outraged on your behalf. “The End of Days is upon us!” proclaimed Las Vegas *************** columnist Steve Sebelius, in the first of many primal cries in print. A reader survey in the same paper garnered more than 10,000 votes, with 73% responding “No free parking!? Never going there again.” There's a petition, a Facebook group calling for a boycott and angry memes. In a nod to burning draft cards, local gamblers are cutting up their MGM loyalty cards and posting pictures of the shards on social media.
Meanwhile, I'm like one of those Medicare-loving, antigovernment protesters, yelling, “Get your corporate casino hands off my free Strip parking!” But this is no time for dignity.
Historically, only one property on the Strip has ever imposed a similar fee-on-arrival at a casino. Circus Circus, when it opened in 1968, charged $2 admission (about $14 in today's money) to cover the “free” circus acts. Tourists paid. Locals protested. And the fee disappeared after a few months.
Memes are great, but I fear Vegas residents, being only 2 million strong, lack boycott-level numbers. If the 41 million-plus annual tourists don't join the revolt, it's only a matter of time before we have to pay to park everywhere, even off the Strip.
MGM's official rationale is the cost of building a $54-million, 3,000-space parking structure, plus $36 million to upgrade existing parking. But parking fees are just part and parcel of the very un-Vegas trend of nickel-and-diming guests: tighter slots, lower payouts, fewer comped rooms, mandatory $25-a-day “resort fees,” etc.
In truth, all these are a matter of packaged versus a la carte costs. We've always paid to be at casinos. But the seduction of Las Vegas is the feeling that you're getting something for nothing, even while you're losing at the blackjack table. Why call attention to a cost that brings no joy? At least an overpriced mojito gives you a buzz.
The Las Vegas Strip is a uniquely American landmark, an amalgamation of public square and private space, famous around the world for projecting bounty to all comers. MGM has for decades benefited from being part of that, but now it has violated the public trust. It might propose strip-mining the Grand Canyon next.
If profits don't bend to the greater good, Las Vegas risks becoming a failed state. Like Atlantic City.
C. Moon Reed is a writer in Las Vegas.
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[FONT="]Answer: It kinda ain’t. The Tropicana is charging non-guests for parking when events are taking place in the area, primarily at MGM Grand and the T-Mobile Arena. Though the charge is $15, it’s offset by a $10 food-and-drink voucher at Robert Irvine’s Public House restaurant. Parking remains free for non-guests at non-event times.[/FONT]
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After the massive backlash unleashed by paid parking at Las Vegas resorts, Wynn Resorts seems to have embarked on a mission to put an end to the trend… sort ofIn a Monday statement, the hotel and casino giant said that it has decided to drop fees for self-parking. The company first reversed its parking policy in July 2017, when it introduced paid parking at its Wynn Las Vegas and Encore properties on the Strip. To say that guests and visitors were outraged is putting their reactions lightly. Last summer, Wynn moved to reverse its policy. The company announced that starting July 1, 2018, it would be treating overnight guests and patrons to free parking as long as they spent at least $50 at its properties.The company said Monday that starting May 1, self-parking will be free for all guests of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, without limitation. Valet parking will remain free for overnight guests at the two properties. Commenting on the Monday announcement, Marilyn Spiegel, President of Wynn Las Vegas, said that creating a seamless experience for their visitors and guests “is a cornerstone of the five-star service” they provide and that this “extends to [their] complimentary parking facilities, where [they] take great care to ensure they are safe, spotless, and accessible” for all guests. Wynn’s new parking policy is hoped to reverse a trend that could otherwise have a dangerous impact on Las Vegas at a time when the city seems to have finally overcome the worst effects of the 2008 great recession. However, it seems that Wynn might have increased resort fees from $39 to $45, or at least this is what Las Vegas sources claim. [h=2]Is Dropping Parking Fees Becoming the New Trend?[/h]
Paid parking first became a thing in Las Vegas in 2016, when MGM Resorts International announced that it would start charging guests and visitors of its many Las Vegas resorts a parking fee. Other major gaming and hospitality companies followed suit, including Wynn and Caesars Entertainment Corp. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, a luxury Strip resort, also introduced paid parking at some point. Last summer, Wynn became a bit of a pioneer by nixing, to an extent, parking fees at its properties. Many hoped that the paid parking trend would finally be reversed, and indeed some progress has been made in that direction. Late last year, The Cosmopolitan announced that it was dropping parking fees and that its visitors would not be charged separately for parking and valet service. The parking fees were incorporated into the resort fee, which increased to $39 from $35. The new policy took effect on January 1, 2019.
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