Las Vegas hospitality workers say they're squeezed by a tourism slowdown they blame on Trump's tariffs, high gas prices due to the war in Iran and the cost of living.
They have been hit with a slump because Vegas is too expensive for the average person now.
Everything is a fee, costs have soared.
They used to entice huge crowds with free buffets, free drinks, cheap entertainment, so you’d come and gamble and spend. Now they decided to focus on high rollers.
You don’t want to pay for a $70 room that has $220 in extra fees, as well as one of those fridge sensors that charge you $8 for a bottle of water if you sneeze on it?
You don’t want to pay $40 to have a Lyft take you two miles away to then spend $50 gambling at a dead casino while a waitress is demanding you order something or leave? So you order a $10 coke and she gets pissed you only gave her a $2 tip?
Furious that your $50 gamble disappeared in a few minutes, you don’t like paying $30 for a mediocre burger that’s half cooked at the casino restaurant? And when you call out the issue, a manager gives you a $10 coupon to gamble?
You don’t like spending $120 to watch a show that you literally cannot buy tickets at the door, but instead have to go online through their ticketmaster-like service that charges you four different “convenience” fees which then allow you to show your phone at the guy at the door to let you in? Then you see that you can also buy a Coors Light for $18 dollars?
You don’t like any of that?
Oh and if this is too specific, let’s say this is grounded in reality.
They have been hit with a slump because Vegas is too expensive for the average person now.
Everything is a fee, costs have soared.
They used to entice huge crowds with free buffets, free drinks, cheap entertainment, so you’d come and gamble and spend. Now they decided to focus on high rollers.
You don’t want to pay for a $70 room that has $220 in extra fees, as well as one of those fridge sensors that charge you $8 for a bottle of water if you sneeze on it?
You don’t want to pay $40 to have a Lyft take you two miles away to then spend $50 gambling at a dead casino while a waitress is demanding you order something or leave? So you order a $10 coke and she gets pissed you only gave her a $2 tip?
Furious that your $50 gamble disappeared in a few minutes, you don’t like paying $30 for a mediocre burger that’s half cooked at the casino restaurant? And when you call out the issue, a manager gives you a $10 coupon to gamble?
You don’t like spending $120 to watch a show that you literally cannot buy tickets at the door, but instead have to go online through their ticketmaster-like service that charges you four different “convenience” fees which then allow you to show your phone at the guy at the door to let you in? Then you see that you can also buy a Coors Light for $18 dollars?
You don’t like any of that?
Oh and if this is too specific, let’s say this is grounded in reality.
This hasn’t been true in 25 years.
So they’ve been enshittifying for a long time then