Originally Posted by The Boz
Appears they can’t give rooms away this weekend. Probably the cheapest Saturday night of the year with rooms as low as $25 (before fees). Note these are publicly available rates, not with an players discount.
Is it the expansion of sports betting everywhere or something deeper?
A few things may be in play here:
1) Obvious KC fatigue. No novelty; no new stories, although this really shouldn't affect travel/destination much.
2) Gambling fatigue with ubiquitous sports books everywhere damping down the desire to actually travel to an alleged gambling mecca.
3) The SB site being New Orleans, which probably draws a lot of party folks who might consider LV a destination were the game not in New Orleans. The New Orleans/Las Vegas overlap probably draws the upper tier visitors away especially. While you might consider LV a SB vacation/destination if the game itself were in Dallas or LA, the NO actual site has its own mega-party atmosphere that a Dallas or LA would lack. So the game locale is competing with the LV locale this year.
I'm actually glad the room rates have crashed. That's a good long-term sign for LV affordability. Honestly, I don't think I've been to LV immediately prior to the SB since I won the season-long "Race to the Super Bowl" contest at Heritage and had to plan out my 25K in SB wagers. That was a lot of squinting to try to exploit that the best I could. A brutal task to try to middle props when there are literally thousands of them and they change every couple hours.
Oh, wait, one more reason:
4) March Madness has increasingly become a major destination/event in LV, so if people are choosing between February and March for a trip and to gamble some decent money on sports, I have to think March has more publicity and gambling momentum right now. I'd choose March every time if it were me.
Which leaves me to wonder if the March Madness room rates will match previous years or also be depressed.
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