Casinoboss Answers Your Questions: Part IV

No. Both rooms and resort fees are taxed 12% on the strip, 13% downtown.

So if they folded resort fees into the room rate, taxes would stay the same.

So there's no real reason for having this fee other than lying to the public about how much the room really costs in the initial search.

Ray

Well, that's one way to look at it. You have a point.

I mostly feel bad for the industry on this one. Once a critical mass of sneaky casinos started doing this to boost short-term profits by seducing unwitting customers away from competitors with artificially low advertised rates, they all felt the need to jump in.

Now that they're all doing it, there's no advantage to it anymore. But the damage to the industry from the continuation of resort fees continues to grow.

Best solution would be for them to end this damaging game by supporting laws against resort fees. This is a true tragedy of the commons problem.

When they first started charging these fees a long time ago, I sent about a dozen of my poker players to Vegas to watch the WSOP. I found rooms at Palace Station for $8 dollars a night for all four nights on Priceline. I couldn't go because of my job. My phone started going crazy about three hours after the plane was to land. They were all hopping mad at me because the hotel wanted an extra $12 per night from them in the form of the Resort Fees. Since the trip for them was on my dime, I had to scramble and send them over $500 to cover the fees. They were really pissed and so was I.

Guys: Please stop doing multiple qoutes. It makes it REALLY hard to see the answer to the question if it's buried in a" sea "of quotes,that I have read 3 times B-4.
Casino boss answered the question.
IF a casino GROUP decided to include the resort fee into the total cost of the room,wouldn't they be the hero of the day and give that group a chance to tout their" HONESTY?"
About: WE HAVE NO HIDDEN FEES!"
Think of the mud-slinging that would happen.
The stock holders would NOT be happy about it,anyway.

It may be that the almighty dollar may dictate resort fee disclosures,here.
Let the casino managers and stock holders duke it out on an even play field,for a change.
Would the Gambling Commision interfere? No.

That choice would be that casino group,alone.
Watch the others follow them IF that marketing decision flies!

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The casinos do this because it's a GREEDY ploy to advertise low rates and stick you in the butt,after you make your reservation.
Hidden fees?
Up your butt,please.

Now that said, how about a separate resort fee for people who
WILL USE the "extras" that others may opt out of?

Give 'em a wrist band or tatoo their asses."May I see your resort fee tatoo,Sir?"

I'm sure this post will illicit some responses but DON'T quote me,please.
Wrist bands?
Specially coded room keys?
Let the casino managers duke it out.
Just like (political) mud-slinging. "We don't have any hidden fees,like----- does!"
What happened to truth in advertising?
Isn't that called bait and switch?

OK..as much fun as it is rehashing opinions on the evil resort fees....back to the original intent of the thread...hoping casinoboss is still hanging in there.....

Was playing pitch in a downtown casino. Table was full and I was the only one on the table not part of a group travelling together. Unable to master the tuck, one of the players at the table on mutiple occasions would set his cards down, pick up his bet, and place the bet on top of the cards. Not just nudge the bet with a finger tip - actually grab it and pick it up.

Dealer was kind of new I do believe.

Dealer change. This one was more focused on procedure, and began to tell these guys what they had been doing wrong. Mr Untuck had left that table by then. Guy next to me commented on the difference between the two dealers. I said that this dealer is more the norm, and that I was surprised the previous dealer hadn't scolded his buddy for touching his bet all the time.

So as I'm sitting there, I'm wondering.....

I'm noticing this, so somebody upstairs more detail oriented than I must be seeing this, too.

I have been at tables were the boss will make suggestions to the dealer on procedural matters. In a case like I described, does someone follow up with the dealer after rather than having a discussion with her in front of customers? Maybe using the tape of her shift to point out what she missed and what she should have done??

I would suspect there must be a performance review of some sort, but interested to know if that is what actually happens.

I'm not casinoboss, but I've seen it when a dealer who doesn't normally deal a particular game is assigned to that table/game, and doesn't know, or has forgotten, all the details of that game.

My example was blackjack switch, when the rotating/relief dealer seemed unaware that dealer 22 is a push and not a bust, and was paying everyone when he got 22. The table was full and I didn't say anything. Maybe some knew, some didn't seem to know because they clapped and said something like "yea, bust" when it happened. I quietly told the "real" dealer when she returned and she said OK thanks, but nothing changed that night, and I kept my mouth shut from then on.

Question (being asked by someone on another board):

What has happened when a singular slot machine (not Megabucks) with a gargantuan progressive jackpot (five or six figures) disappears from the floor? Did someone hit the progressive? Was the machine removed forever? Thanks.

i can answer this one for you. If they remove a machine that has a progressive attached to it, the casino can not just keep the money. They have to move it to another machine(s) and let the public win the money. That's why the "Lion's Share" machine sat there for what, 20+ years. If that machine had broken down and it was not repairable, they would have had to move the money to another slot.

Ray

In Nevada, you cannot take a progressive off of the floor without either giving away or re-distributing the funds to another machine. So either it hit and they took it off the floor (ala the Lion Share game at MGM) or they just moved the funds somewhere else.

I know there is another thread going on about Riviera's $500K promotion in April and they are funding that through progressive funds since they obviously can't make the games hit before closing and can't move those funds to a different game after they close.