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I've been a couple of times though never gambled not even a slot. There's lots of free entertainment to draw you in, pirate battles, volcanoes, water shows then you can pay a little for the theme park rides built into a lot of the hotels. Rooms and food are good and inexpensive for what you get.
We only went to one all you can eat buffet, the food quality and range was amazing, but we saw one diner take two large dinner plates to the desert area (which provided modest sized bowls) and fill those plates with a mountainous amount of cake and ice cream, then waddle - as they were morbidly obese - back to their table to tuck in. After that the thought of going back made us heave a little.
Been to Vegas a fair bit and had a great time on every trip. I’ve always taken cash I can afford to lose. I’m not impulsive or have addictive traits, so for me it was just a fun trip. We gambled, but in all honesty we spent more time at the restaurants and bars.
I wouldn’t ever gamble what I couldn’t afford to lose. I’ve occasionally won fairly reasonable amounts. I’ve been incredibly lucky to have never lost too much. Each trip I’ve always come back home with some cash, not always from winnings, but sometimes from just not gambling or spending it all.
I never take any access to my bank accounts. That’s just a personal rule, I take cash and an emergency travel card.
I did watch Lennox Lewis fight Hasam Rahmed in his re-match. To watch a heavyweight world championship fight was an experience and well worth the money.
I honestly don’t recognise the descriptions above. The vast majority of the people I encountered were just similar to myself, people there for a good time.
I wouldn’t ever gamble what I couldn’t afford to lose.
I only gamble intending to lose, I see it as a spend rather than chance - money for time playing, if I get a payout that just buys more play. I think it stems back to being a kid a friend had an old tic tac toe 1p slot machine his dad had fixed up that he used as a money box - he let us play it on the basis that you could keep any winnings becuase on average the machine was always the winner so you were over time adding to his savings. One day the machine totally paid out which was exciting except I'd just cleaned out all his savings, so I resolved to play them all back in again, which took ages because of course you keep winning money back.
What's fun about Roulette is it's very equitable - everyone at the table is playing their own game to match their own pocket and appetite for risk. I spent a night in a casino with some friends having each got a tenners worth of 25p chips to see how long me could make it last, and how much fun we could have losing it, anything we won we played again - we all had to come out on zero. Managed to string a goods 3-4 hours worth of entertainment (and after hours drinking) out of it though. I was putting 25p across four numbers while silent, steely-faced, sweating, Chinese businessmen around me were sliding thousands of pounds worth of chips around the table but we were both having our own fun.
The odds in roulette are the same everywhere though. If you don't pay for flights to Las Vegas and a hotel you'll have more to put on red. No Black. Definitely black........ wait!
Only been to Vegas once on as a stop off between snowboarding in California and Utah
For me it was interesting in in a social science sort of way. People watching especially around the gambling tables and all you can eat buffets. The big casino hotels are huge impersonal machines for extracting money from people. I found them quite opressive
Tried playing roulette - started with $100, double it within 30 minutes lost it all in another 45. Reinforced my view that gambling against the house is a mugs game. Never subsequently felt the desire to gamble in a casino again.
Upside, accommodation, food and booze are cheap. Easy access to some amazing countryside.
we saw one diner take two large dinner plates to the desert area
Was that in this casino?
So the odds of doubling your money are just under 50%, otherwise you are penniless.
If I doubled my net wealth today, It would be nice; no mortgage, nice nest egg for replacement car when needed, helping kids at uni, better holidays etc. But not so life changing that we could quit our jobs.
If I lost everything today, it would lead to constant anxiety, stress on relationships, perpetual guilt, not to mention having to move to a crap area where the kids will end up shoplifting to fund the tattoos needed to cover their track marks.
So, on balance, no.
Wouldn’t go to Vegas if you paid me.
i would, if I’m going to gamble, may as well do it with someone else’s money..