Q:
Late last month, within a day of each other, Circa opened downtown and the Cromwell reopened on the Strip -- as adults-only properties. The under-21 crowd can go to Giadia on the second floor of the Cromwell and Barry’s Downtown Prime restaurant in the basement of Circa. That's it. They're not allowed anywhere else on the properties.
So we're wondering how y'all feel about this development, which is a first of its kind in the casino world (Bellagio banned strollers for a while 20 years ago, but had to rescind the policy in the face of the blowback).
We went with the multiple choices instead of just yes/no based on the comments in last week's poll preview -- for all of which, thank you very much.
You can vote for as many choices as you like.
A:
2065 Total Votes
| Given their nature with gambling, drinking, and all the suggestions of sex, casinos are for adults, not kids. |
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| Regardless of the justifications, I go to casinos to get away from a bunch of rugrats running around my feet. Let them go to Disney World. |
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| Parenting is a full-time job. Casinos and parenting don't mix. |
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| What's the matter with kids? I was one once. As long as they're supervised, they should be allowed wherever their parents go. |
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| Circa and the Cromwell should be entirely under-21 free, not allowing them go anywhere on the properties. |
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| A casino that prohibits children feels cooler and slicker. |
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| Small adults-only casinos are fine, but there's no way a 4,000-room megaresort can stay in business without a family market. |
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| At adults-only casinos, I don't have to worry about getting carded all the time at the bars and restaurants. |
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| Banning kids from casinos will just make them long to go there more, setting up a possible unhealthy relationship later in their lives. |
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| I like people watching in casino environments and children are naturally entertaining in their responses and playfulness. |
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| Parents with kids can take them to child-friendly locals hotel-casinos, with play places, movies theaters, bowling alleys, video arcades, and the like. |
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Analysis
Obviously, LVAers believe, and strongly, that casinos and kids are mutually exclusive. We can't remember a poll that had such definitive agreement, especially one with this many responses.
Fully 90% of respondents voted for various ways of saying that kids should be kept out of casinos. Another 6% checked a box in favor of kids and casinos, but that was for an economic/logistic, rather than social, reason.
We thought that perhaps the psychological selection -- kids tend to want what they can't have -- would have garnered more of a response, but no. It's last on the list with only 10 votes, one of which was ours!
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