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Old 08-03-2025, 12:38 PM   #1437
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist View Post
We typically did three or four trips a year but I haven't been in almost two years because the costs have increased so much. The casinos still send us good offers with free rooms and casino cash but it still isn't worth it. I bought tickets to the Flames game in December but ended up selling them and not going down.

That being said only the strip has really gotten expensive. Fremont is still reasonable compared to the strip but it is also getting expensive as they try to improve the experience. Local Vegas still has lots of good deals and cheap restaurants but that requires being off the strip in places like Summerlin or whatever south Vegas is called.
Yeah, but those places have a tendency to come with some consequences of their own...

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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc View Post
I was there a few months ago and was shocked by how expensive everything was…tried to do some shopping off strip in grocery stores and the groceries there usually more expensive in USD than they are here in CAD. A bag of Doritos in a grocery store was $6.49 US.

I’ve been there five times now and will never go back.
I've been numerous times, like I said, I always liked it, but it seems to have lost some of it's luster. I'll 'never say never' but it'd take something significant to get me back.
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