I believe that the re-done Palace Station will be aggressively working to poach players from The Strip.

Let’s hope Zappos sticks around.

My argument is that the Las Vegas strip isn’t like “other cities.” The premise that paying for parking is the norm in other cities isn’t quite apples to apples.

If you have a casino in a major downtown, patrons will have to pay for parking if they drive to your casino. (New Orleans and St. Louis come to mind.) The strip isn’t in a constrained downtown. It was built in vast desert no-man’s land. It’s as busy as a downtown, and the cost of doing business is high, but it’s not a downtown and not landlocked like the site of the former Vegas Club casino on Fremont Street.

Major grocery stores, movie theaters, shopping malls and other businesses that aren’t in major downtown districts do not charge for parking. I have yet to visit a casino outside of a major downtown that charges for parking.

Looking at what major cities charge for parking is not a fair justification for strip casinos charging for parking. To point to major cities and compare the Vegas strip is justifying a cash grab. I prefer to call it what it is.

I’m surprised paid parking hasn’t been used as an excuse to help keep room rates down. Isn’t that the default excuse of added fees?

I do have some blue jeans that are so old they were made in this country….

At least one of the Los Angeles card rooms–Hollywood Park–already charges for replacement cards.

MGM has no problem with firestorms.

But, please read my previous note. They are early in on the “screw our customers” cycle.

It will be 12-18 months before the effects of everything happening will come home to roost.

Must be good to be Derek Stevens. Downtown gambling is WAY up. Which I applaud.

Atlantic City is on the rebound. If you have to pay to park and cocktails are $18, you might as well have the ocean.

Oh, and Orlando and AC are a whole lot closer to the vast majority of the US population.

We have yet to see if the whirlwind of changes the past two years starts to bite us in the butt by 2020. Yes, we had record visitor numbers last year, but those were by people who had the taste of the previous Las Vegas still in their mouth, and from conventions which were book 2-5 years ago.