From: annie (dlvdisc@geekbabe.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2010 - 07:00:33 CDT
>This is not the crowd that gambles, visits the clubs, or
>dines in the high-end dining restaurants. ...
At the risk of playing Devil's Advocate here, I'm seeing
very little effort from the hotels to bring in those who
used to be their mainstay, the low to mid roller casual
gambler.
If they would simply do such things as bring back
reasonably-priced table games and full-pay video poker,
they would make far more than reducing the rates to try
to attract the cooler types you mention!
I think the hotels got a bit spoiled by catering to the
El-Lay party crowd when times were good. They seemed to
love such things as 6:5 Blackjack. :(
Speaking of the cooler types, if the hotels would quit
trying to gouge at the mini-bar and the gift shop, the
Joe Sixpacks wouldn't be trucking in their coolers and
emptying out their ice machines. I mean, $4.50 for a
can of diet coke! Excuse me?
On a recent trip my Walkman battery ran down and I stopped
into a gift shop to see if they had any AAA batteries. It
was something like $8 and change for two AAA cells! Jeesh!
(I waited until I drove by a Walgreens.)
Yeah I know, b*tch b*tch b*tch! :)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Dec 18 2010 - 10:16:21 CST