MGM hikes parking rates at all Strip properties

Happy Holidays, etc. MGM Resorts increased parking rates at all 9 of its Vegas Strip properties this past Wednesday. They enacted a flat daily self parking rate of $18 for non-locals on Mondays - Thursdays and $25 for Fridays and Saturdays ( up from $15 and $20, respectively). There is no longer a first free hour for non-locals as in the recent past.There was no known hint of these increases made available prior to the change... Happy New Year. Valet parking charges didn't change. I wonder when they'll hike them again? Super Bowl? Indigenous People's Day? Mardi Gras? It's coming.

Nevada residents / locals continue to receive three hours of free self-parking privileges.  Loyalty club tiers at Pearl and above levels, and active military and veterans ( and their spouses) still receive free self-parking. MGM Mastercard holders ( via automatic Pearl tier status) can still park for free.

This adds some more appeal to TI ( and a very limited few other Strip locations) who still provide free parking on the Strip. Those others include Circus Circus, Casino Royale, Fashion Show Mall, and Sahara along with some free parking spots at Tropicana at specified times; FWIW. Some of the Downtown properties still have validation options for free parking but most involve a bit of spend in restaurants / gambling, etc.  This price increase further adds some appeal to numerous off-Strip resorts that still let their patrons self-park for free.

Why go to the Strip at all?

Reasonable inquiry, that.

 Anyone wishing to visit any of the MGM properties I urge to get their credit card - you will automatically be upgraded to "Pearl" card status which allows free parking - just keep your credit card payments up to date.

Indeed.  Why submit yourselves to this ever increasing extortion?  And that's just how I see it.  Bogus resort and parking fees charged to customers for what?  For the ahem.. 'privelidge' of spending and mostly losing your money in their casinos?  Fewer services, more expensive restaurants and atitudes that convey the message you're not realy wanted here unless you're a whale.

As an FYI, Station Casinos not only offers free parking for everyone, 365/24/7, but they offer free valet parking with super friendly and very welcoming attendants.  Might I add that they also have THE best player's club benefits of any other player's club out there.  Lastly, and feel free to check it out for yourselves if you haven't already, no one, and I do mean no one offers more VP with the best payscales out there.  That's a fact.

So MGM?  Kindly stick your parking fees and other extortionary fees where the sun will never shine.   I left you a year ago after you changed your Mlife club to the piece of garbage it is today.  MGM Rewards.  What a joke.  No one believes that but your bean counters and corporate Suits.

I agree Janet.  Best to stay off the strip and go to the locals casinos or even downtown for better gaming and free parking (validation). 

Edso, I just hope more people will start thinking the way you and I do.  What's happening on the Strip with hotel prices and other added expenses won't stop until the people stop staying and playing at those properties.  When their occupancy rates drop to 30% and their profit and loss statements reflect the people's rejection, only then will sanity return and casinos return to their pre-covid business models.

Until then, sayonara!  I'll be at Green Valley & Red Rock and maybe the Durango if they get their VP issues squared away.

I refuse to play there because I refuse to pay for parking my rental car at the place while at the same time locals can park for free. To me this sounds like discrimination. Same applies to the Premium Shopping Outlet that is charging for parking if you're a tourist but not if you're a local. What's that???? Hello?    There are enough casinos that appreciate my business and I am welcomed there. I don't know what made the MGM and Caesars management strategists come up with such a ridiculous strategy?

I take it you are referring to the North Premium Shopping Outlet in regards to the paid parking.  My family stopped going to that one years ago.  The South one has the shops we like to frequent close to the ample free parking. 

Yes, Edso, I only read about the changes and since then never visitited the premium outlet north any longer.  To me it has never been that fascinating because it's been quite a walk from the parking garage to the shops. Now that they even decided to rip off the tourists by charging a parking fee I decided to purchase my stuff elsewhere.  

And yes you're right, the north outlet seems to have free parking still. We went there to eat in one of those restaurants right in front of the outlet and there was no parking fee at all.  I don't see a point why Vegas keeps pulling the screws in a way  it's no longer acceptable while at the same time more and more casinos world wide are opening their business for tourists.....