Had a little weekend vacation in Sin City (Las Vegas for those that aren’t familiar with that term) with my beautiful fiance last weekend to visit her mother and other family. Looking around at all the SUPER CHEAP buffets enveloping the city of Las Vegas, it encouraged me to find some pointers for this week’s blog on this subject. A rundown of some things that caught my eye that I thought I’d pass along.
MY COFFEE, MY BREAKFAST AND MY SUNDAY PAPER
Cruised into a Starbucks and since I’m in Vegas, there’s no L.A. Times anywhere to be found. Starbucks, however, had the Las Vegas and NY Times Sunday papers. Knowing the NY Times is the better publication, I scooped it up and told the barista to ring it up with my large cup of joe. When she plugged in the numbers 5.00, I raised my hand for questioning. She said, well, yeah, the Sunday NY Times is $5 now because the cost of printing is so expensive. Thinking she was jerking my chain, I decided to look at the actual price listed on the paper.
5.00
So let’s go over this quickly: newspapers across the nation are losing all kinds of money so they RAISE the prices?! $5 for ink stained newspaper doesn’t add up no matter who’s writing the articles. Unless this paper gives you a blowjob or something, at that price, newspapers are not bordering on crazy, they’ve already become INSANE. No wonder our economy is where it is.
And by the way, to make matters worse, the Las Vegas Sunday paper was still $2.50. And it’s not even written that. Sheesh, what a scam by all the newspapers. BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
LET’S STAY ON THE STRIP!
Or, maybe not. Sin City is having MAJOR issues but it’s not the casinos off the strip, it’s the ones on the strip. Why? Well, they’re more expensive of course, from the rooms all the way down to the food. Yes, the Strip is a fun place if you’ve never been but it’s not fun for more than two days because after that, there ain’t much more to do. Unless you want to $99/ticket on some chump doing B.S. magic and trying too hard to look pretty and hot on top of that, stay away from the Strip. Comedy shows and concerts don’t fare better since the prices may blow your mind even more.
Also, let’s not forget some of the other important intricacies of Las Vegas. For example, and I’m no smoker, but you want to sit down and play the slots but forgot to get your cigarettes back in your hometown, a pack of cigs inside the casinos start at $7 a pack. Listen, this is a hotel, not a god damn movie theater. Don’t charge me $3-4 extra for something just because you feel you can. That’s just crooked, dirty and greedy. Then again, it’s also the reason many of you people running the casinos are having BIG PROBLEMS.
People will only spend so much. If you want to keep your money to a minimum but still enjoy a little bit of sin in Vegas, take your chances at a casino off the Strip such as Boulder Station or Sam’s Town. No, the people and employees there might not be as “perky and hip” as those on the Strip, but they’re normal people and the casino is MUCH MUCH CHEAPER.
LOOK, GUYS, THEY HAVE A BUFFET!
Yeah, every hotel in Vegas has a buffet but some of them seemed to have gotten over their head or gone Hollywood or something of that nature. As mentioned before, off the strip, the hotels provide buffets with decent prices and decent food, sometimes not so decent food but the price is usually right.
On the strip is a different beast altogether. While there are definitely a few hotels sporting relatively inexpensive buffet prices (meaning $15-20), most hotels seem to think their food was cooked up by Zeus himself, thunderbolts and all. Not so fast, hotels on the Strip.
Sure, you may have good quality food but does that mean you overprice your customers ridiculous amounts when you know there’s a recession going on? When you want to charge us $25-$60 for a buffet, you’ve lost your mind and not only that, you’re STUPID.
Something tickles me when an entire industry and city is getting its ass kicked by a recession and STILL wants to keep prices high only to wonder where the hell all the tourists and customers have gone? Well, that’s a very simple answer, folks:
THEY’VE GONE OFF THE STRIP!!!
*the only great part about the Strip is you see a lot of these around unlike off the Strip
*many people off the Strip look like these two broads
