The Non Political Thread-For Those Who Want to Chat and Say Hello

Have a great time, Lee! And hit Cafe du Monde for all of us.

Off to Maui on Sunday!! Hello, Bev Gannon and Peter Merriman eats. Hello, Wailea golf.

Thanks Ken,

And by the way, this is now my Honolulu trip.
Airfare got crazy and thanks again for your
and Marc's Hawaiian advice !

Thankfully I found a travel window. And having access to San Diego often is a godsend for Hawaii.

I used to enjoy finding out about promotions, etc. and hear about the matchplay runs. Guess what-the good deals have pretty much disappeared. Unless you've never been to Vegas, that is.

Lee, have fun. Ken, you too.

I made rosemary potatoes the other night using rosemary from the yard. They were delish.

jm002546, are there less promotions or are people writing about them less?

I'd go with the latter, Lisa. I look at the path and trajectory of how we've vegased over the years, and there's no one single track. We chased the cheap crappy cheeseburger specials for a while, knocked about town tossing coupies around, hell, we even hit Smellis Island. I think you almost are required to do that. I'm sure the deals are still out there -- changed, perhaps not as great in number, but still substantially present -- and we just don't care. We came to vegas how we wanted to vegas. It's akin to our gambling mantra: We'd rather play 9/6 DDB at a Red Rock than "maximize value" playing 10/6 at a hole like Arizona Charlie's.

And you need to take into account attrition of another kind: Participation here. Lotta folks driving the chatter here for so long have moved on, and some of the most involved posters now almost exclusively spew political flotsam, or is it jetsam?

I don't think the long-standing LVA demographic has fundamentally changed: Middle-aged, center-of-the-country-residing value-seekers. The chatter's just been turned down.

awe Ken, I thought you were going to ask about my rosemary potatoes as they were wonderfully awesome . . . j/k

There are a handful of casinos where I don't have a players card. Unless, I plan to give serious play and get on their radar, I'm not signing up.

French Quarter Festival,

4 day event going on here down in New Orleans
Lots of food and music and Everything!!

Having fun and food for everyone !

I don't do trip reports, just saying Hi

I think that it may be a combination of less offers and less writing about it, but offers can still be found for those who know how (and where) to look for them!

But also, it may have something to do with the fact that people now have less disposable income to work with and so maybe less people can come out to visit LV.

Also, it's definitely possible that as for the people who come to LV on a fairly regular basis, for them, casinos may feel that these people don't necessarily need more attracting (by offering them more incentives).
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