Reading your comment “but this happens all the time without anyone noticing when done well. The framing and communication can make a big impact” was insane. Let’s not rationalize this. This isn’t a hard topic. Las Vegas shouldn’t be doing this. It’s immoral, blatantly slimy, and reeks of MBA-thinking (and the fewer of those slightly below average IQ ladder-climbers, the better). It’s not cost-cutting. It’s greed, plain and simple. I used to love Las Vegas – and I’ve spent a lot of money there and done a lot of business, but the city has changed, and not for the better. I own a company and I have made it company policy to avoid Vegas, and especially trade shows. Vegas views you as a mark…no…as prey. It’s that predatory attitude that’s turned me off to it. Resorting to “surge pricing” is gouging – I don’t want to hear “it’s just supply and demand”. Not being able to put a price tag on ****ing toothpaste because you, as a casino, “need” to make an extra $5 on something because lots of people are staying at your hotel is predatory. Anyone that thinks differently is a psychopath. Vegas sold its soul if it ever had one. I used to love the city, but if it keeps going with their predatory, MBA-thinking slimeball tactics, I hope it fails. Vegas needs to go back to its old self. It used to have charm. Cheap flights, amazing food, cheap rooms…anything to get you in to the city and onto the strip. It was a vibe. Now…pay to park, deceptive per room prices and $50/night resort fees, $75 for a pass to the buffet and it’s only meh food, $28 for a beer at Caesars, going only a few miles from the airport to the strip is somehow $40 in an uber, and shows with $275 tickets. This is just the latest tactic to squeeze that last dollar out of you. People are starting to be done with Vegas, and rightfully so. Vegas only has itself to blame. Think on your sins, sin city.
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]]>They do because people are lazy or ignorant or both. I buy bottled water and snacks at the grocery store before leaving on my trip.
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]]>I tried asking them to waive to no avail, so I paid the resort fee then; never been back to an MGM property or any hotels on the strip. Then sometime later they added parking fees.
I still go 6-8 times per year. Now I stay off the strip where there are no resort or parking fees and the hotel I stay, in a suite, offers free breakfast.
]]>In most countries (and US states?), you have to display a price clearly for any item on sale. Also in the UK for example, a price of a hotel room advertised must be the price charged … which neatly avoids the whole idea of resort fees. Amusingly, Trump Turnberry in Scotland tried to introduce them and had to reverse them in a hurry when the press got hold of it and pointed out that they were now trading illegally.
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