Appreciate hearing your observations on this.

Yes i think i stay at Strat but SLS is also nice, stayed there at the Sahara times ??

Yes, when I have to start paying for parking in December I will be spending even more time at SLS and hopefully Lucky Dragon. Although one generally has to pay to park Downtown, I know a spot where it is ‘only’ $5 so, maybe will even spend more time there at D or Golden Nugget or Golden Gate. Also, many of these places such as Binion’s will even validate if you use their garage.
Will the MGM properties validate?
(This comment sounds like keyword spamming but I assure you it is snot.) LOL!

Try SLS instead. Nicer place overall. Nice food options too. But if Strat is comping then by all means stay there.

I thought I saw pay machines in place near the west entrence when I was there the other night but no toll gate in place.

I avoided the MGM properties during my July visit, as I refuse to pay for parking in Las Vegas.

I had a Labor Day weekend trip planned, so I applied online for the M life MasterCard two weeks before the trip. No annual fee and an automatic upgrade to Pearl for free self-parking? Sold. I was instantly approved, and the credit card arrived seven business days later, just in time for the trip. Side Note: Interesting that you have to have an M life players account in order to apply for the M life MasterCard.

I self-parked at Mandalay Bay on Labor Day. The parking garage was emptier than I’d ever seen it on any of my two or three visits per year, every year without fail, since the hotel opened in the 1990s. If they wanted to scare away potential customers and their dollars, I’d say MGM found just the ticket. As I was pulling up to the parking structure, the car in front of me made a U-turn and drove away. My guess is the driver saw the large sign that mentioned paid parking only.

After spending two or three hours in Mandalay Bay and Excalibur, my parking tab was $7. The parking payment machines say to insert your M life card after inserting your parking ticket, but it would not validate my ticket. I pressed the intercom button on the machine and was immediately connected to a CSR who told me to drive to the exit and insert my parking ticket into the machine there, followed by my M life players card. Thankfully, the validation worked.

I did not go to any CET casinos this trip, so I can’t say how full their self-parking garages were. My hope is that the non-MGM properties are benefiting from MGM’s paid-parking blunder. Time will tell.

You must do a follow up on this parking thing, are they loosing or winning ??

Nice if they could put a retractable roof over it like they have at some stadiums. Open it up at night and when the weather is pleasant. Too hot for me in the summer months