{"id":844853,"date":"2023-10-24T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=844853"},"modified":"2023-10-24T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:09:52","slug":"jottings-for-a-slow-news-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/jottings-for-a-slow-news-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Jottings for a slow news day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s business as usual in <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>. For example, it&#8217;s no wonder that the <strong>Golden Nugget<\/strong> (<em>pictured<\/em>) is at the bottom of the burg&#8217;s casino pile. Our man on the Boardwalk visited the Nugget recently and was charged a steep $90 in resort fees\u2014for a comped room, no less &#8230; <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> needs to be more George with its <strong>Las Vegas Grand Prix<\/strong> guests. It recently sent out an offer for four-day race tickets, free <strong>Wolfgang Puck<\/strong> food, opening-ceremony access\u2014but only $40 in free play. That&#8217;s not going to attract the big spenders. Maybe event barkers are succumbing to their own hype that gambling revenue is going to triple (we&#8217;re not making that up) during <strong>Formula One<\/strong> weekend &#8230; <strong>Bally&#8217;s Cor<\/strong>p. has quickly redubbed short-term <strong>Bally&#8217;s Casino<\/strong> as <strong>Bally&#8217;s Chicago<\/strong>. They&#8217;re promoting it to their customer base via <strong>Bally&#8217;s Vicksburg<\/strong> fliers mailed to <strong>Philadelphia<\/strong> customers. As though Vicksburghers are going to fly up to <strong>Chicago<\/strong>, especially when no special offers are on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s business as usual in Atlantic City. For example, it&#8217;s no wonder that the Golden Nugget (pictured) is at the bottom of the burg&#8217;s casino pile. Our man on the Boardwalk visited the Nugget recently and was charged a steep $90 in resort fees\u2014for a comped room, no less &#8230; MGM Resorts International needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":844857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Golden-Nugget-globes-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}