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- We used to be a proper country. Bring back the mob. $13 for a Snickers bar!
This is why Las Vegas needs to be boycotted
American is in Vegas at the MGM Grand. He’s in the store inside the casino and shows how much this small candy bar costs
The price on this isn’t just a scam. It should be considered criminal
Vegas has legalized robbery in every sense pic.twitter.com/l8McR9qBFT
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 19, 2026
This isn’t an outlier. Expect $26 bottles of water, $50 for charging your laptop in the room and $48 for a cheese pizza at a budget hotel on the strip:
@kristine_stone Normal people can’t afford Vegas any more. “Resort fees” and deposits that are more than the cost of a room, and then crap like this.
This was at @LuxorLV in July. ♂️♂️ pic.twitter.com/tWgVUhvWBQ— Nick LaBrie (@nicklabrie) October 15, 2025
- Here’s a new run at capping credit card interchange – a Democratic think thank has come up with grocers voluntarily freezing the price of 24 food items for two years in exchange for forcing credit card payment networks provide lower interchange. This hair-brained scheme would get populist support for redistribution from Visa and Mastercard to retail business, thanks to Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors chair.
This actually combines two terrible ideas, potentially making them together more popular.
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HistoryPorn - Snoop Dogg’s credit card was declined buying takeout at the Winter Olympics.
After Snoop Dogg’s credit card didn’t go through on a takeout order in Livigno during the Winter Olympics, he paid the next day and gifted the restaurant owners five tickets to the men’s snowboard halfpipe final. pic.twitter.com/nS4H99M2ox
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) February 15, 2026
- This just creates an incentive for my kids to lose stuff at the airport.
When @United Airlines heard 7-year-old Reid lost his prized collection of Pokémon cards at the airport, they put out a call across their airline. In no time, 88 of their employees pulled together more than 15,000 cards for Reid!
United really meant "Good Leads The Way" with… pic.twitter.com/dybxDzOcaf
— GoodNewsMovement (@GoodNewsMVT) February 19, 2026
- I feel like anybody going to these lengths to buy basic economy deserves miles for the trip.
Not today American Airlines, not today pic.twitter.com/RwVgr5tyCx
— Seanald_Connery (@Seanald_Connery) February 19, 2026
- Poor design thinking. Each seat needs their own nozzle. (Each seat also needs their own power port – when customers share, bad things eventually happen.)
Who is at fault here? On the B787 each seat has its own dedicated air vent, but the A350 lacks these vents, so this problem does not occur on that model. What would you do?pic.twitter.com/4g8Wf0BtKH
— Fahad Naim (@Fahadnaimb) February 20, 2026
This is why you are better off going to your nearby Native American-operated casino or just staying home.
@Gene – I get comped for hotel, drinks, food and shows. Think I’ll keep going multiple times a year (plus 8-10 trips to other casino locations)
People will budget for doing what they want to do, even if they know they really can’t afford it. So they will keep charging these excessive prices.
Yes, the prices are crazy, but guests have a choice. You know that it’s a complete and obnoxious ripoff. Also, the claim that the $50 is for charging a laptop is misleading. It’s for unplugging the cord for the electric snack tray monitor which is not an uncommon device now in hotels and it should be fairly obvious to any reasonably alert person. It’s clear that the cord runs right to the tray.
Las Vegas is off limits to many now. The absurd pricing is a deal breaker. Your money goes further in many other tourist destinations, no need to go to Las Vegas anymore.
Las Vegas is a pit stop to get gas. A few people will pay the high prices for convenience so that is why there are $13 candy bars. Pay or go elsewhere.
@Retired Gambler – Glad that Las Vegas is working out for you, but you seem incapable to seeing this from the perspective of a first-time (or occasional) visitor. Chances are they aren’t gambling at a level or frequency that would make them eligible for the comps you’re getting, and they’re still getting screwed.
I’ve been going to Las Vegas at least once a year for the past 40 years. Back then Las Vegas was the only game in the country. Now most people are within a two-hour drive of a casino – I’m about 30 minutes (depending on traffic) from Encore Boston Harbor, about 90 minutes from MGM Springfield, Mohegan Sun, and Foxwoods, and an hour from multiple small casinos in New Hampshire.
Even with all of those options, there is a certain thrill about visiting Las Vegas. The only difference is that after about 10 years, the thrill of The Strip faded away. Since then I’ve only stayed at “locals” casinos, and my budget stretches much further. Even factoring in the cost of a car rental I still spend less than a comparable stay on The Strip.
The people bemoaning the fees and charges on The Strip ARE idiots for not considering off-Strip options. They’ll still be ahead even if they use Lyft or Uber for getting around.
@michael fitzgerald
the paris does not have a desk in the rooms
the paris rooms have a shelf where the ripoff tray is located
the only place in the room with an outlet which is accessible to the guest is the shelf
the only way to charge a personal device is to use this outlet
the only way to use this outlet is to unplug the ripoff tray
the end result is the personal use of electricity incurs a $50 fee
it should be fairly obvious to any reasonably alert person
Because of the claim of no wall sockets for recharging electronics, I reviewed photos of rooms in the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. That seemed to be true in many cases. However there were a lot of lamps in the rooms. I wonder if the light bulbs could be taken out and a light socket adapter put in instead, making a way to get standard voltage but at relatively low current.