Where the ticket payment kiosks used to be.

I mentioned Tacos el Gordo because it is the best bargain I know of on the Strip.

Nino, or any other 70+ y.o. tourist, would likely enjoy the Peppermill. After that, he is on his own.... although every "local" national chain is available South on the Strip.

No Bob Evans, true .... but the other chains are there at national prices ....

Tunica gets a little sadder every time I stop there overnight. But at least you get hotel rooms at the pretty nice Gold Strike Resort for $49 on weekdays, good food for non-Strip prices and can play poker at the Horseshoe next door.

Just needed to hit the sportsbook real quick and for the 1st time I didn't park on the 1st level I came to at Wynn. Sign said 20 spots open, so went to level 2 with 100 open, 20 minutes later when I left there was 50 open on level 2 and level 1 was full.

Word spreads fast. lol

I honestly don't mind casinos charging for parking as long as they fully validate for playing/staying/eating there. Freeloaders piss me off as much as they piss off the casinos, so I don't mind if they charge people for parking there that do not use their services and use it just because it is near somewhere else or to park it there instead of the airport.

Nobody parked at the Wynn because it was close to the airport.

But they did the MGM (you know, the title of this whole freaken thread if you are paying attention) in droves and was one of the reasons charging for parking at MGM properties started in the first place.

If that were true they would only charge at the MGM. They wanted more money, plain and simple.

It was true and as I said it was only one of the reasons, not the only reason. Making money was the other among others.

In droves ?

I would think that overnight towing could have solved the "trespass parking" issue, it's not like either the airport or MGM or Trop were just built. "Airport parking" issues were hardly new. I do not think that motivation was even mentioned when the change was implemented.

There was a lot of hand-wringing about how much parking facilities cost every year .... I'll go with Pig, it was a money-grab, supposedly justified in part by adding those neat overhead lights that highlight empty spaces.

Free parking was also further leveraged by MGM as a benefit covered by resort fees for visitors and as a loyalty item and benefit for MGM bank card holders. (If you are paying parking as a local, you are not trying very much not to do so.)

OTOH, I will argue on your side that the advent of Uber for going to/from the airport perhaps eliminated the practice you decry of parking at MGM and hoofing or cabbing to the airport in days of yore.

Not feesable, how do you differentiate between those using it as airport parking and those staying at the hotel or going on an all night bender?

It's funny how my statement about not minding resorts charging for parking as long as they fully validate for staying/playing/eating there turned into this strawman about the level of airport parking usage that has you and the other person's panties in bundle. You guys are truly something else.

Every stupid fee/horrible idea that has pretty much ruined Vegas and became the new Vegas "norm" was started/created by MGM trying to squeeze every penny out of everyone possible. At this point im actually kinda waiting to see what ridiculous thing they'll come up with next to charge for, maybe air? Maybe charge at the door to simply get in the casino? Cant wait!

Well said
They're doing their best to ruin borgata also

I’ve lived in areas my whole life where validated free parking is pretty common and wondered why they wouldn’t do that in Vegas. Sounds like a nobrainer to me. But based on conversations with other people, it seems like that concept is foreign to most of them?

That is actually the entire point of them existing.

yes, do the math. If one were to buy the land and construct the mega-parking garage and factor in utility/maintenance costs at MGM there is no way that is free. Naturally their customers indirectly pay for it but it does represent a cost to the corporation, especially if people use the parking facility but are not actual customers of MGM.

Another angle may be the value placed on information. Either pay for the privilege to park or sign up for a players card so they can market to the demographics that equate to maximum profit.

The people ?

Wait 24 to 48 hours ? Security can note cars left overnight, those are the most likely group harboring the culprits, Dr. Watson.

It is not tough, was done for years before charging ...

However, feel free to totally ignore what MGM itself said as to why they were going to charge for parking. By all means cling to your fanciful notion of dreaded droves of airport parkers freeloading at will on one of many MGM properties.

(You also might keep your apparent "panties bundle" fetish private ? Your attempted retort is kind of odd in the context of this, or any other thread.)

Lol @ how mad this guy is.

Yes. Err, well, I guess some of them exist for other purposes when they aren't at work.

Lol if you think I'm mad , you just spouted nonsense, doubled down and topped it off with ad hominem attacks. That's tiresome drivel, not something to get angry about.

lol, if you say so. I said I wouldn't mind charging for parking if they fully validate for playing/eating/staying there. The I said one of the reasons, just one of many they started parking, was people using MGM locations as a proxy for airport parking.

Then you went on a conniption fit because you think you know better then everybody else and needed to prove that on a message board in order to feel any superiority in life, because your real life sucks. Nailed it didn't I?

And you think that would work just as good at a Vegas strip casino with 10,000 car parking garages? lol, like I said it is not feasible.

Ironically, the thing that made it feasible is the new technology they installed for paid parking.

I don’t know which system they use specifically, but things look pretty similar to what you can find in modern airport parking garages. There, they know exactly what time a car entered the garage and in what parking spot it is located right now. Takes a couple clicks to filter which cars entered the garage more than 24 hours ago and which parking spots they occupy.

Exactly, and they had to install this system to do it. The other dope thought casino's could do it for 10,000 parked cars by chalking the tires or some ****. Not feasible piratically and economically, especially when you don't know if somebody is parked there as an airport proxy or someone is on a 48 hour coked up degen bender.