Crying over (paid parking) here.

As I've been spouting off about the injustice of paid parking, I had to actually watch the flamingo install it all week. The parents stayed at the flamingo albeit a comped suite as others chose flamingo due to overscheduled conventions this week. Five in all according to an article.

As it isn't implemented yet anyway and for now we've also got status, we also had to witness the valet in its final glory. It took five people ten minutes To get us valeted due to training on crappy bar codes machines aNd new hires.

And to continue the crap, world of concrete shuttle buses are not included with badges. Vegas is really saying a fine how do you do to their target customers at all levels. I just have no words for the destruction of vintage vegas. They aren't leaving much glitz and glamour. Bring back the class!

Say what you will, but the mob was all about exclusivity and loyalty and trust. Perceived power and importance was the con. One of the most famous hotels is named the mirage. Smoke and mirrors. We are now home to many illusionists and magicians. Vegas has forgotten it's origins. And when you forget your history. You become history.

Screaming about the paid parking will be heard!!!!!!!!!!!
We will vote with our cars(and money) and our continued boycott of the casinos that want to continue this travesty of injustice. FOR SHAME!
What? $17 or $18 for valet? No thanks.
We will just be a part of this horse shit,until some one wakes up and realizes that it maybe will not be a good idea.
Meanwhile,we will do our parts to separate the formally loyal customers from their parking fees.
Formally customers are we.
It ain't smoke and mirrors,it's cost and I'm not buying it at all.

Most of our high-end members bet more than the parking fees,anyway. PER BET!
The stock holders have the sheep by the short hairs. Don't be a sheep.
This isn't fair:
NO tax action,without representation may not be appropriate.
We will have our own tea party.

The OWNERS are out of state.

This trip was prebooked before the announcement and couldn't be changed due to the convention, but as the "local" daughter. My recommendations carry great weight. Hmm, where shall I send a dozen steel industry millionaires next year??? I guess my ten dollar parking soon to be raised two dollars a year for the next ten years business. And let's not forget my own business, which is far more than that, but I guess those new hobbies are looking so much cheaper now. A night out was a lazy man's entertainment anyway. We needed to be more creative with our time than video poker anyway. Ask the NFL how their rating looked when I boycotted them all season.

And by the way, the slots were so tight that once again the customers weren't having any fun. My parents were over the gambling and wanted to do other stuff. They don't even stay at my house, nor do they meet many of my friends unlike the other parents because they spend 12 hours a day playing. When the fun ends, so does vegas tourism.

I hear you. I resorted to getting the Mlife credit card, with an upgrade to pearl, for free garage parking. We are staying at "free parking" Orleans and Sams Town, however we like to go to the strip hotels for shows and buffets. I guess I will not be using my MRB coupons for places like Harrahs and Planet Hollywood. I refuse to pay $18.00 so I can use my 2 for 1 buffet coupon. I will miss Planet Hollywood buffet the most, as we have made it a practice to go there every trip. But it's bye-bye until they change it, which may be never.

I also like staying at the off strip casinos plus sometimes downtown.I have wanted to stay on the strip again just because I enjoy walking up and down the strip.But,even with a comped room, I will not pay the exorbitant resort fees and paid parking.

To piggyback on what Diane wrote above, I think the biggest impact will be on restaurants, with willingness to pay to park for an hour or two to dine. And I assume that fee would be on top of the parking fee at hotel they are staying at?

So many people are just starting to get it now. I said from minute one this was a bigger issue. People are finally complaining AFTER it did exactly what the casinos intended to be the outcome. I know that my business and those I have contact with...actual gamblers are definitely done with vegas. I live here but my social circle doesn't gamble. It is my alone time. I will surely get to that stack of reading I've been neglecting. Again, people have choices with their time and money. A "free" buffet and a few hours of play was taking up too much of my time anyway. I like when people force me into choices I needed to make anyway.

Its a dangerous game to charge people for someting that used to be free. They got away with it (sorta) with the resort fees. I think paid parking might come back to haunt them. I can only hope.

Every so often, property owners have to weed out the overgrowth to make room for the need growth.
If you want to see where Vegas is headed, swing by a Dayclub where thousands of Millenials have no problem paying a $20 cover and $14 a drink.
If you want to see it's past, sit at a $5 BJ table.
If you were a suit, which customers would you pursue?
In three years, most visitors won't even know casinos once offered free parking.