How to Get Las Vegas Out Of The Great Recession

How to Get Las Vegas Out Of The Great Recession 1. Round up the homeless Downtown and move them all somewhere else, Main Street Tent City S Of Jerry's Nugget the likely best spot, it's already happening. 2. Make it illegal to hand out the porn on the strip. 3. Have every casino bring back late night dining great deals 4. Get a new Arena....put it on the Former Wet And Wild Site 5. Finish a Bullet Train to Anaheim 6. Get the Monorail to run to the Airport 7. Make it a $500 fine for taxis to take STrip tourists through the tunnel 8. POUR funds into I-15 construction, make sure the artery to Los Angeles is always open and running at max speed. 9. Require every hotel to have a max wait at hotel registration of 45 minutes. Fines to any Hotel not complying. 10. Require EVERY Casino Senior Management to study and review Ellis Island, and realize that if you give your customers great food deals at great prices, you will get LOTS of losing gambling customers.

[QUOTE=Fezzik;23426]1. Round up the homeless Downtown and move them all somewhere else, Main Street Tent City S Of Jerry's Nugget the likely best spot, it's already happening. 2. Make it illegal to hand out the porn on the strip. 3. Have every casino bring back late night dining great deals 4. Get a new Arena....put it on the Former Wet And Wild Site 5. Finish a Bullet Train to Anaheim 6. Get the Monorail to run to the Airport 7. Make it a $500 fine for taxis to take STrip tourists through the tunnel 8. POUR funds into I-15 construction, make sure the artery to Los Angeles is always open and running at max speed. 9. Require every hotel to have a max wait at hotel registration of 45 minutes. Fines to any Hotel not complying. 10. Require EVERY Casino Senior Management to study and review Ellis Island, and realize that if you give your customers great food deals at great prices, you will get LOTS of losing gambling customers.[/QUOTE] Solid plan. 11) All casinos adopt Ellis Island recipe for root beer :D

Cabs can pick you up on the Street anywhere - no need to wait at hotels. Vegas is the only city this ridiculous on cabs and it wastes so much time to have them all come to one spot to pick everyone up. And then the guy making you wait in line and waste 45 minutes wants a tip!

[QUOTE=sean1;23442]Cabs can pick you up on the Street anywhere - no need to wait at hotels. Vegas is the only city this ridiculous on cabs and it wastes so much time to have them all come to one spot to pick everyone up. And then the guy making you wait in line and waste 45 minutes wants a tip![/QUOTE] Just a visitor to the fair city of Las Vegas but it is obvious to me that the city cannot have cabs stopping anywhere on the strip. That would create the certainty of people dieing. Can you imagine how bad the traffic jams would be? You think its bad now.... oh and of course they don't want you actually leaving the casino.

Fezzik for mayor!! Why not? Isn't politics just about gambling on which line to take and following your head? After all, most politicians talk the talk, but rarely do they walk the walk!

Vegas is doomed. At this point you can gamble anywhere in the country. I am amazed at what I have seen in recent trips outside of Las Vegas. If you want to "fix" Vegas, continue on with the attractions and advertising because people have no other reason to come here. I hear Macau and San Diego are doing more gambling volume or are close to it.

This is kind of silly, but you know all those Travel Channel shows that AC was on? I mean for a while that station was The Vegas Channel. That needs to happen again. I mean, the names that perform there are still better than 30 years ago. In the 70s, celebrities performed there because no one else would have them. It is still a destination for certain demos. But they will lose an entire generation if they stop marketing. I haven't seen anything since "Your Vegas Is Showing."

[QUOTE=EdTeach;23469]Vegas is doomed. At this point you can gamble anywhere in the country. I am amazed at what I have seen in recent trips outside of Las Vegas. If you want to "fix" Vegas, continue on with the attractions and advertising because people have no other reason to come here. I hear Macau and San Diego are doing more gambling volume or are close to it.[/QUOTE] I watch the MLB on demand and you get all the local commercials. Seems like 75% of the teams have ads for nearby casinos.

[QUOTE=EdTeach;23469]Vegas is doomed. At this point you can gamble anywhere in the country. [/QUOTE] While I agree the availability of gambling throughout the country does hurt Las Vegas, by no means does that portend Vegas is doomed. Indian Tribal gaming revenue actually fell for the first time ever last year, albeit just 1.8%. Considering the economy, that is a very good mark. After spending a few days at Planet Hollywood over the Fourth and walking the Strip, the handing out of the porn on the Strip really gets on your nerves. It creates a helluva lot of trash and the people handing it out add to the congestion on the sidewalks. While the monorail is great to use if you are going a distance on the Strip, the wiser location would have been down the middle of the Strip so hotels such as Wynn & Encore would be accessible. The walk to the monorail stations from some hotels is a fair hike. You fly into McCarran and you are subject to a long taxi wait depending upon the day and time of your arrival. I have never understood why it takes so long to check people into a Vegas hotel. The lines at hotel check-in are ludicrous at times. The Sahara hotel used to have a "self-check-in" where you swiped your credit card you used to reserve your room. It took literally one minute to get your room key. One thing that surprised me was how many of the 24-hour buffet passes Harrah's sold for their properties. The line to the buffets over the weekend were unbelievable. I can't believe people wait so long in line for a buffet. Traffic on the Strip would improve a bit if crosswalk lights were enforced. I'm surprised a couple of pedestrians aren't hit every day. I know if I was driving the Strip more often I'd probably get one or two a week.

[QUOTE=Kruger;23606] After spending a few days at Planet Hollywood over the Fourth and walking the Strip, the handing out of the porn on the Strip really gets on your nerves. It creates a helluva lot of trash and the people handing it out add to the congestion on the sidewalks. [/QUOTE] The congestion issue can be argued as a public safety concern. This is the only way I can see a court victory for this sort of thing. [QUOTE=Kruger;23606]While the monorail is great to use if you are going a distance on the Strip, the wiser location would have been down the middle of the Strip so hotels such as Wynn & Encore would be accessible. The walk to the monorail stations from some hotels is a fair hike. [/QUOTE] This is because the monorail was privately financed, so it could not travel on public land. If the talk of making a dedicated bus lane comes to fruition, the Deuce could effectively put the monorail out of business. (I am surprised that it is still running, to be honest.) [QUOTE=Kruger;23606]One thing that surprised me was how many of the 24-hour buffet passes Harrah's sold for their properties. The line to the buffets over the weekend were unbelievable. I can't believe people wait so long in line for a buffet. [/QUOTE] Could be because people view the LV buffet as a "rite of passage" or because they figure it would take that long to wait to be seated/have order taken at a "real" restaurant. The food variety may have a hand in it, as well. Or perhaps they just don't know better. A lot happens in town because people just don't know better. (6/5 blackjack comes to mind.)