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MGM Parking Charges Have Started

Discussion in 'The Strip Hotels & Casinos' started by thefish2010, Apr 1, 2016.

  1. VEGASBJ

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    IIRC, I think the Marriott in Scottsdale next to TPC charges $30 / day. Hawaii that rate is standard. SF, Philly, LA, all have high downtown parking rates at the hotels
     
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    I was in Chicago for a couple of days last week. Parking at the Waldorf Astoria was $70 per night.
     
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    that must have gone up.

    I stayed there a few years back and it was pricey, but I think maybe $40/night.
     
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    I figure that the fireplace in the room and the huge jetted tub offsets some of the parking fee.
     
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    We don't have to like this shit but it is nice to be around folks who realize that things change and travel entails costs. Again, we don't have to like it, maybe the market reaction will change things, but no one died, it's not fucking "illegal" or immoral. Change happens. Add up the costs, decide if you can or want to afford it, wherever that is, whatever the expenditure.
     
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    Ken, as usual you bring a common sense perspective; but have you corrected your over-the-top golf swing?
     
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    Funny you should ask that, I'm just writing up a thread about some testing yesterday at Callaway.
     
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    But I think it all goes back to something that was in some sense 'wrong' - the fact that the Gaming Board allowed an oligopoly to form in Vegas. If MGM didn't own so many casinos, I don't think this would be happening. And CET... well, we've seen the results of that grand experiment.
     
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    Not to mention, at least paying for parking in Vegas is an avoidable problem. Cabs are plentiful and relatively inexpensive, most things are in a confined area, and the airport is right off the Strip. There are lots of cities where you're basically out of luck if you want to skip renting a car; even getting to/from the airport in the LA area requires either renting the car or an expensive and inconvenient shuttle or cab process. I hate this idea in theory, but I've been to Vegas at least a couple dozen times and I think I rented a car exactly once, for one day, because I had this odd desire to drive the Strip (that was probably a decade ago, and quite possibly the last time I even drove a car). It bugs the hell out of me in principle, but I really do think that a lot of people either aren't going to be affected, or simply won't notice.
     
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    When I travel to LA I always stay at the Intercontinental Beverly Hills; parking is $40/day for hotel guests. Coming from Vegas that just feels SO WRONG. Although they do make up for it, with free limo service to & from Rodeo Drive or anywhere else within a few miles of the hotel.
     

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