Question of the Day - 09 January 2025

Low cost snacks at the sports books, especially at Station casinos. 

Easier comnps, when you could chat with the pit and they would give you a comp or say, "Give me another half hour of play".

 No rip off, valueless "resort fees"

Cafes.  The resonably priced breakfast/lunch type.

Live Keno.  Stand alone and/or in cafes and lunch type restaurants.

Flip-It machines.

Bathtubs.  Hotels are remodeling bathrooms with showers only. I need a nightly soak!

Free parking. At least for hotel guests 

The Rat Pack, Brian Thomas (Lucky), Free Valet Parking, Silver Strike Slot Machines, McCarran Airport...

70’s prices

The mob, and cigarettes. Would love to see the roller coaster return in Primm. As well as Insanity at the Strat.

Ditto the comment on free parking

Bring back the buffets. I don't understand why Station Casinos remodeled all their buffets and then closed them. I nearly always played when I went to the buffets. Of course, I am not a High Roller.

sidewalk craps ala Slot s Fun

Beatable multiline video poker (Dream Card, Super Times Pay, etc.).

Free drinks at the sportsbooks. 

I wish for the previous Rewards Program at Boyd Casinos to be reinstated and their original 50/55+ Tuesdays Activities, likewise.

I would like all casinos to offer free slots tournaments weekly and/or daily.

$5 table limits … indoor skydiving … postcards … Stardust … lounges with free live music … theming of new casinos … affordable buffets

Everything but the mob, cruising Fremont St and hookers, LOL

And Vegas World🤮

comped rooms (4 nts w/tax only)
party pits w/$5 mins

Imperial palace 
Smelly carpets,worst buffet, 
Imperial palace auto collection, 
Luv tub room with mirrored ceiling 
and the best looking cocktail servers outfits.

Auto collection, 

WSOP at Binion's downtown

And I really miss The Ho, The Las Vegas Club, F/P Jokers, buffets, The Steakhouse Brunch at Circus Circus, McCarran, The crab leg special at the casino out by the damn(wow, THAT’S going way back!),The Reserve, All the Stations, The Frontier, the deep pools at Stardust, the Frontier and The Riv, All night cheap coffee shops….so many things, not enough time and space….

I had been going frequently to Vegas from 1967-going less and less over the years- the New Vegas has lost any of its charm due to large corporate conglomerates changing the atmosphere, higher prices than normal inflation, less perks, parking charges, resort fees etc. No reason for traveling longer distances to go to Vegas.

I hate how we've convinced ourselves that $20 for a hamburger (no fries or drink) isn't a bad price.

Remember when you ordered a drink at a slot, and you did not have to wait 30 minutes or have to look for a server?  How about the lack of slot attendants?  Used to get paid in less than 10 minutes.  Now, it takes 20 minutes for an attendant to lock the machine, then 30 minutes longer to get paid.  I like TITO.  Did not like handling all those dirty coins.  Of course, I am a hypocrite, I have no problems handling cash.

Buffets. Coffee shops serving breakfast, lunch and dinner--they were always a great alternative to expensive restaurants--why did Aria close the best one in Vegas? Food courts/halls are a terrible idea. I miss live Keno but understand why the casinos don't like it.

I'd love to see a strict dress code for shows

Barbary Coast   (Best Location on the Strip)

Mirage, free parking, buffets, Stardust.

The cigarette girl at the Sahara.

mermaids, deep fried twinkies and oreos, imperial palace, birthday bonuses/perks, original Aladdin, New Frontier, Stupak newspaper deal, Alpine Village 

Mardi Gras show in the sky at the Rio. Seafood buffet at Rio. Stardust and Westward Ho. Shows priced so average guy could go. Rolls of nickels given if you showed your airplane ticket. Fitzgerald’s. The Hacienda and many other good memories of old Vegas. 

I like the one at Planet Hollywood before the water damage reduced the size and items offered, and Paris was the best. The food tasted home cooked.

GEE-JOONS, BINGO, BASEMENT CAFE,STANDING IN LINE ON THE STEPS WAITING ,$1-$5 CRAPS-ALL AT BINIONS HORSESHOE !!Lounge acts at FOUR QUEENS , GOLDEN GATE --PIANO PLAYER ,.99 shrimp cocktails , lunch counter. LAS VEGAS CLUB -LUNCH COUNTER -A-1 HOT TURKEY SANDWICH ,'GREAT MOMENTS ROOM 'FOR DINNER!GOLDEN NUGGET -ANY BUFFET!! MAIN STREET STATION -PULLMAN GRILLE,$5 CRAPS!! CAL-Spam breakfast , pasta pirate .AND NOT TO MENTION AT LEAST 8 CRAP TABLES  (FULL) AT HORSESHOE !!

All of the buffets at a cheap price and the amusement park at MGM

The original "All you can drink in an hour" POV coupon from EI, but even the "three rounds free" would be fine.

I would like to bring back a lot of things, but one thing that hasn't been detailed by others is the selection of the best VP machines from the old days, in terms of both EV and fun. I never got to play it, but there was a 20/8/7/6 version of Joker Poker that paid back over 102%, as well as a couple games that were over 101%, like the famous top-pay Loose Deuces at Fitzgerald's / The D. On the fun side, the Plaza used to have full-pay (though under 100%) 5-Joker Poker and 4-Joker Poker, and they were more fun to play than any other game. Going under the 101% mark, there used to be the good old 100.92% Downtown Deuces at the Las Vegas Club and the El Cortez. Below that, full-pay Deuces Wild (100.76%) used to be everywhere, but not anymore; and then finally full-pay Joker Poker (100.65%). Casinos didn't used to mind or worry about players playing "Advantage" games like these, but now they do, so these wonderful games are a thing of the past.

Imperial Palace casino
Lounge bands/singers
Barbary Coast
Decent 24-hour sit-down restaurants (there are a few, but not many)
Riviera

3 free rounds at Ellis island and no resort fees

The Barbary Coast

Big Elvis

Pete Vallee's, Big Elvis, website has him playing at Harrahs Mon-Wed-Fri-Sat.
Yelp has a review as recent as Dec 21, '24. So, it looks like the Big Man is still belting them out!

Vacation Village and the Continental both had free airfare wheels that you could take a spin on. You often won matchplay coupons or BOGO at the buffet or coffee shop. A fun way to kick off a Vegas trip.

99 cent breakfast/cheaper room rates with no resort fees/FREE parking everywhere/$5 table minimums/3-2 pay outs for BJ/FUN BOOKS/cheap buffets

More comps at discretion of pit boss. Free parking. 3-2 BJ everywhere, cheap local buffets (only liked breakfast), more frequent cocktail service, more mailers for low to moderate rollers, 

Mermaids Casino

The Gamblers book club with Sid and Edna and Howard

Bring back all (or most) of the poker rooms that have been shut down by the accountants who don't have the vision to recognize the value of the traffic brought into their casinos by hosting the room.  There are a lot of properties I just don't bother visiting, let alone staying at, because they no longer deal poker.  So other places get my room, meal, and machine play budget.  I miss the variety.

The Star Trek Exhibit at the Hilton

bands like Wildlife in the lounges were great  and Sinatra impersonator Booby Barrett at MGM.Used to sit Tony Curtis many times there

Bring back the Golden Ticket free drink coupons for sports bettors at the South Point.

Rollercoasters like Speed at the Sahara 
Rio Madi Gras in the sky. 

I really miss the skill based slot machines, especially the 2 pinball titles, Cleopatria and Texas Tea. Centipede, Sace Invaders, and Race Ace were also fun and all functioned as my personal ATM's.I still have multiple thousands of dollars of comps still from those gold mines.

Girls of Glitter Gulch

Everything mentioned, plus, 25 cent, $1 and $3 craps. As well as Lon Bronson and theAll Stars a midnight on Saturday night.

Frank, Dean and Sammy. The Glass Pool Inn.