I'm going back for visit #10 over 28 years for my retirement vacation in October. What are the chances you won't have a mask mandate? I just got stuck for the 3rd time.
Will hotel costs and table minimums be back to normal?
I'm planning 9 or so days and my daughter and son-in-law will get their first looks for 4 of those!
SPretire22, I think we can hope for the expiration of a mask mandate by October 2022. I only say that due to one observation in my hometown last week: I went with husband for his followup with a large orthopedic facility, and was shocked that they have removed their mask requirement. This is a major outpatient facility, and a month ago masks were required. Our church, which has a committee that keeps their ear to the Covid ground, has now made masks voluntary.
Our pizza place still requires customers (and employees) to wear a mask, but not all fast food places are as strict as they were a month ago. Our state's daily numbers (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) are down to single and double digits from the previous day (vesus in the hundreds and thousands six months ago), though the health department head honchos encourage us to generally not let our guard down.
By next October all ages will have been vaccinated (if they choose). That should help.
Whether any of this will translate to Las Vegas, casinos, flights etc. by then is anyone's guess, but I see the things I mentioned as hopeful signs. Good luck.
Candy
Well, first you have to define "normal"--but...in the next few months:
Hotel rooms will be absolutely, incredibly, budget-busting, sky-high ridiculous at least through January (how bad it is then will partially depend on how many conventions actually happen).
Table minimums are and will be double what they were pre-pandemic. Not only are $5 tables a thing of the past, it can be hard to find a $10 table (with decent rules, anyway).
Mask mandates aren't going to be relaxed anytime soon, as Covid cases are once again on the rise, due to the feeding frenzy influx of visitors in the last couple of months.
So if you're talking next October, things might be better by then. But I don't think we should count on that. The Vegas gouge-fest could easily turn out to be the new normal, not a short-term aberration.
