Vegas restrictions?

Hi,

I am flying in a week from today. Are there any current COVID mandates? Are masks required everywhere or are you good to go mask free if you're vaccinated? Are the casinos still requiring them? I know where I'm from you don't need them anymore if you're vaccinated. 

thanks,

Yep. You still have to wear a mask when on casino property.

Enforcement of that is, shall we say, variable, but why not go ahead and wear one regardless? It's a good idea. What would motivate me at this point is protecting casino employees. They have close contact with a huge number of people on a daily basis.

Of course, a week from now, everything could have changed :)

Just got home from Vegas.   Nobody in casinos cares if you are vaccinated or not.  That is, never had anyone ask for verification of vaccination or test result.

Masks ARE required everywhere (casinos, theaters, shopes) by everybody, no exceptions.   Someone will quickly advise you if your mask slips below your nose or you try wearing it on your chin.  Smoking a cig?  You'll be told to take a puff and put the mask back up.  Drinking a cocktail? Pull the mask down or up just long enough to get a sip.  It is like they have radar.  Security at elevators not only monitor that you have a room key going up but that you are wearing a mask going into the casino.  They'll stop you and give you a mask if you don't have one on.  From what I observed enforcement was strict at all times.  I'm told the fines are huge if the authorities (gaming commission?) spot just one person not wearing a mask.  Mystery shopper types, I suppose.

I confess I'm getting a little weary of masking, though I comply 100%.  Where I really notice it is walking distances like through the airport, long walks to gates, dragging suitcases etc.  Huff n puff time.

C'mon everybody...take the vaccine, dammit, so we can get past this.

Candy

      I am so tired of those who refuse to wear a mask correctly. Everyone who dons a mask knows that the mask has to cover their mouth and nose. Those who wear a mask incorrectly know that - but they deliberately refrain from covering their nose and mouth. I think that anyone who refuses to wear a mask properly should be escorted from the premises and if aboard an airplane they should be removed from the airplane and told not to come back. Enough is enough.

Candy, I don't doubt you at all, but what you observed re mask enforcement is quite different from what I've seen during my two Vegas trips this year and my one late last year. At those times, I didn't see any enforcement, and compliance was, charitably, fifty percent. Even those people were constantly looking for an excuse to turn their masks into "chin bras." I have a cigarette smoldering in an ashtray nearby? Don't gotta wear it. I have a drink within 500 yards of me? No mask needed! I'm eating french fries, one every three minutes? How can I possibly pull it down over and over? Not me!

I'm wondering if this at-long-last strict enforcement of the rules is because Nevada (maybe just Vegas?) is slowly creeping up on the not-too-many-people-dying metric that will allow the suspension of mask mandates and the casinos want to open up completely so everyone can party hearty. Which will, of course, be followed by yet another massive outbreak but hey, what's ten or twenty thousand sick people, as long as the casinos are making maximum profits? That's all that matters, or at least, all that counts, in Nevada.

This might matter less to me than to other people because I've looked at the ghastly price of everything, the crappifying of the gambling, the smooshing flat of players' club benefits, and the drastic reduction in the quality of customer service and concluded: why the bleepity blank would I want to go to Vegas now? International visitors returning, concerts, Raider games, conventions, and the great unwashed masses still jonesing for their gambling fix and willing to get kicked in the nuts to get it--why compete with all that?