Vegas in 2009?

[Ok321LetsJam]

Has anyone who has been to Vegas this year noticed anything different due to the slumping gambling revenues experienced over the last year or so? I know MGM has been having fits with the "City Center" project funding, and I am sure other casino's cannot be happy with the decline in gambling because of our economic "depression." Have there been any services cuts or attraction closings because of the money (or lack there of)? How about gaming: have things gotten a little tighter in the slots/video poker realm?

[fingerstim]

We were there Mar 18 thru 30 and the only place we noticed a problem was at Ballys. We played video poker near the main bar for about 30 minutes with no cocktail service. I went over and asked the bartender what was going on and he told me in a matter of fact way that management has cut staff to the extent that the servers were spread real thin. He asked me where I was and the server took care of us from then on. We stayed primarily at the Northside Cannery and the Grandview next to the South Point. We noticed no service decline at either casino. The video poker paytables were pretty much the same as last year. We also visited Planet Hollywood, Palazzo, and Red Rock with no noticable problems except the Starbucks at the Red Rock was closed on a monday morning. It would be suicide for a local's casino to cut back its paytables but who knows what is really happening on the Strip.

[atlanticcityrose]

My niece went there in January to celebrate her college graduation. She said the Strip was D-E-A-D. There was hardly anyone walking around.