Re: [vpFREE] Today’s trip to Vegas casino...and thoughts...

 

Since I retired and moved to Las Vegas last fall, I've going over to the Orleans about every day, as it's within walking distance in my neighborhood.
Business seemed fairly normal over the weekend, but was a little light yesterday.  Today, the crowds were really thin.  Every other slot and video poker machine is shut down to give you lots of "distance", but with the lack of patrons, that's not hard to achieve.  About a half dozen tables were open in the poker room...five players per table.  The number of people at the buffet were really down, considering it's "Young at Heart" Tuesday.  The buffet is more like a high school cafeteria line now- you can't use utensils, so you hand your plate to a server and they load on whatever you want.
I haven't been down to the strip, but with the MGM properties, Wynn, Encore, and the Cosmopolitan shut down, I am thinking the crowds are significantly reduced.  If this goes on for a few more weeks, it will make a major dent in the Casino wins (not to mention sales tax collections), which will be bad for the state budget like it was during the recession.  (We public employees went through two years of 5% paycuts back then.)
The schools and libraries are closed, NAB canceled, the NFL draft won't be happening here in town, no hockey games at T-Mobile arena, and the properties that are still open have generally closed all the shows.  Tough times.

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Posted by: ROBERT HANNU <rwhannu@aol.com>
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