Luxor Joins List of Las Vegas Hotels Phasing Out Room Service

A "sour grapes" comment would be to say that something one can't have isn't really worth having anyway. I can certainly visit Bellagio and overpay for anything and everything if I wish. So can anyone else.

Here's where you're going off the rails, Candy. You pay the stratospheric room rates at the Bellagio, you've already paid for the special experience of looking out at the fountains while sipping your coffee. That room you're sitting in cost you about 25 cents a minute. You've already paid that. Should you then have to cough up $50 for breakfast on top of that?

I can see insanely high table minimums, tight slots, etc. because any member of the great unwashed proletariat can wander into the Bellagio and breathe their perfumed air for free (not to say there aren't plans in the works to charge admission somehow). But why treat hotel guests like endlessly mooing cash cows? Aren't the crazy room rates and resort fees enough?

(*shakes head back and forth*) I'm sorry; of course, you're right. We should all disregard the value of money while we're in Vegas. It's more fun that way. What happens in Vegas never shows up on your credit card statement.

I dont have enough money to justify staying at Bellagio.  My buddy has $25 million in assets and he wouldn't flinch at the prices, and why should he.  Value is effected greatly by one's net worth. 

I have another friend who's dropping $600 today (plus $100 caddy tip) to golf at Whisling Straits in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.  He has way more money than me.  He dropped a grand a few years back for a round at Pebble Beach, plus one night stay split 2 ways.

None of this angers me.

Actually, that's 100% wrong. The value of a product or service is constant, regardless of who might be paying for it. Now, for some people, price--and therefore value--don't matter at all. If it wasn't for those people, Vegas wouldn't be able to gouge us the way it does.

It's not unlike being at an auction where buyers keep their paddles in the air no matter how high the price goes. You might as well give up, because you're not going to get a decent price. I, like so many others, wish Vegas had decent games and reasonable room rates. But when the lemmings rush into town and jam-pack the $50 minimum 6:5 BJ tables, and happily pay the ridiculous room rates and resort fees, that means that I don't have a prayer.

So, in a very real way, it's not the gougemasters' fault. They must constantly say, "No one will pay for/put up with THIS" and be repeatedly delighted when the gouge du jour doesn't put the slightest dent in their business. So I don't blame the Vegas megatoilets--I blame the lemmings who don't have the common sense to stay away.

In one comment you say that you can pay for anything you wish. In the next comment you say that you haven't a prayer of paying the ridiculous room rates or playing blackjack on the strip. Which is it Kevin? A wish or a prayer.

Why do you call people that can and do pay and play on the strip names?

Who are you to say that these people have no common sense? If people want to stay and play on the strip, and can afford it, they're using good sense in doing so. Nowhere else, in Las Vegas, can you get an experience like the strip. They would, indeed, lack common sense if they did things they really didn't want to.

This isn't a personal attack on you. It's just an attempt at clarification of two different posts and to, hopefully, get you to rethink your name calling and belittling of people staying on the strip.

Well, iffen' you gonna criticize somepin' somebody dat said, maybe iffen' y'all ought ta read what they'all actually done said. I said I didn't have a prayer of finding decent room rates or good games on the Strip. And neither does anyone else.

In virtually any market for any commodity or service, if there's a substantial customer base that has no price discrimination--meaning they will pay any price asked--that will create a near-infinite upward spiral of prices. That's the case on the Strip now.

I have this oddball and antiquated notion that things have intrinsic values. A hotel room is a box with a bed, a TV, and a toilet. Is it worth $499 plus tax plus resort fee to occupy that box for twenty hours? Even if it IS on the fabulous Las Vegas strip? Whether someone is willing to pay for it or not is irrelevant, just as a $1 bill would still be worth a dollar even if someone paid $5 for it.

But you're correct about one thing--I do have a certain contempt for those who cheerfully pay way too much, and then smile and bend over, asking for more. Would we have $50 minimum 6:5 blackjack if everybody had had the brains/discretion/common sense to stay away from those tables? Would we have absurd fees on top of sky-high room rates if people said, "Hell, no, this isn't worth it"? Would they be able to wheel a $50 breakfast into your room if enough people said, "This costs three times what it should"?

The thing is, you can get the Strip experience just by walking around. Take a ten minute bus ride from your off-Strip hotel, disembark, and observe the madness. You'll save several hundred dollars a night. Now, when they figure out some way to charge admission just to walk on the sidewalk...

Not worried about cost, prices, charges, tip or quality of food. Have arranged with Conceirge to have Breakfast delivered each day of our stay with a bottle of Perrier-Jouet. We have a robust Resort Credit, make above average wages and brought enough money to give pause. We like having room service in every resort we stay in, Tis a rite of passage. 

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