[JohnG72]

Good lord this is not difficult. Valet. Tip $3 when you retrieve your car. Fremont is best valet downtown. California is also great but less convinient. Honestly, GN valet is horrible.

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[lvoc]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

Good lord this is not difficult. Valet. Tip $3 when you retrieve your car. Fremont is best valet downtown. California is also great but less convinient. Honestly, GN valet is horrible.

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GN works fine. Particularly if that is your destination and your range is limited.

[Ramboman55]

I was given free parking at the Golden Nugget from one of the staff that was helping people check in. In my original post I said that my aunt was in from Chicago. She is 82 and hard for her to get around. Nice of them to give me free parking. Before I lived here and visited Vegas from Chicago, I never went downtown. I found out I made a right decision to stay on the Strip. The casino was jammed packed at 5pm. There was heavy traffic going from the airport to the Golden Nugget. I could really tell the difference in the "class" of people. OH... surrounding the hotel were some really bad areas. Yuck! You can have downtown all ya want. I'll go to the Wynn or Encore when im ready to go toward the strip. I can lose my money anywhere, may as well be a beautiful place. Just my opinion. Also, I brought my aunt to her room and the room was about 1 star out of 4. It smelled, crummy bathroom, overall dirty, carpet was all worn out. I did end up winning some money gambling and saw my family in from Chicago. That was the good part. Big party there again tonight when ALL of my family will be there. We have a big suite reserved! Should be fun... then........ no more downtown for me EVER!! Ty for everyone opinions on parking.. hey.. we are all different.. nothing wrong with not agreeing on everything right?

[acercode]

Gee, what's next..... seating fees for slots and blackjack? I hope there's a huge public backlash against these casinos, otherwise others will follow suit.

This is no different than McD's and Starbucks charging parking fees and saying you already spend money there so what's a couple of bucks more for parking. Which is a flawed argument since free convenient parking is why people go there in the first place.

[ScoopLV]

Las Vegas is the outlier when it comes to large metro areas and parking. Most cities charge whopping big fees to park -- been to New York or Los Angeles lately? Other cities are just nightmares to drive and park because of the way they're laid out -- Boston and San Francisco.

I get around this by not driving in ANY of those cities.

It may take a few tries to monetize parking on the Strip. But I'm sure it will happen. The casinos don't care about the sort of customer who will boycott the Strip over daily parking fees. Those people aren't spending much money in the first place. So the casinos don't need them.

The way the casinos see it, they pay enormous upkeep and taxes on every square foot of their property. For such a large chunk of that property to generate no revenue at all is unacceptable. That parking garage needs to pull its weight -- and not just "customers through the door." You may not see it that way. But you don't own the casino, either.

Face it, casino execs look at their customers like pieces of meat with disposable cash. They sell an addictive product and treat their customers like a dealer treats a junkie. They only want your money. Concepts like the resort fee, the taxi screwage at the airport and now parking prove it.

[clutchcargo777]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Las Vegas is the outlier when it comes to large metro areas and parking. Most cities charge whopping big fees to park -- been to New York or Los Angeles lately? Other cities are just nightmares to drive and park because of the way they're laid out -- Boston and San Francisco.

Something you mentioned in a different thread:

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Just because other places are worse doesn't mean we should ignore our problems. This mindset is RAMPANT in Las Vegas.

[macgeek]

Originally Posted by Raiderman

Exactly. Odd that people would rather A. pay to park, B. gamble enough to validate, or C. pay a couple bucks to a valet. And seriously.. people in threads are posting that they will stop going to a place because it's going to cost them a couple bucks. Maybe I'm in a different reality, but it's a COUPLE BUCKS.. it's a cup of coffee, a McDonalds hamburger.. it's not the end of the world. If you don't have a couple bucks, you might want to rethink your existence.

It's not the money, its the BS nickle and dimeing you...

Jonathan

[Sqibbcakes]

How despicable of these joints, saving parking for people who actually spend money in their business.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by clutchcargo777

Something you mentioned in a different thread:

I don't see casinos charging for parking as a problem. I SEE IT AS A SOLUTION. It's like a tax on cigarettes. It might convince someone on the fence to quit patronizing casinos.

I adamantly believe that prohibition doesn't work. But that doesn't mean I don't want to see Phillip Morris, McDonalds, and MGM declare bankruptcy for lack of customers. Just think of all the millions of people who had to switch to doing something more productive with their time for those three to go down in flames.

[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

I don't see casinos charging for parking as a problem. I SEE IT AS A SOLUTION. It's like a tax on cigarettes. It might convince someone on the fence to quit patronizing casinos.

I adamantly believe that prohibition doesn't work. But that doesn't mean I don't want to see Phillip Morris, McDonalds, and MGM declare bankruptcy for lack of customers. Just think of all the millions of people who had to switch to doing something more productive with their time for those three to go down in flames.

Wow, you want over 2,000,000 more unemployed people? Seems like a harsh sentence for those millions of Americans because you personally don't approve of their companies.