Nevada governor green-lights June 4 reopening of casinos; Las Vegas gets ready

Las Vegas hotel-casinos set to open June 4:

• Caesars Palace and Flamingo, two of Caesars Entertainment’s 11 resorts on or near the Strip. Once the number of visitors can sustain growth, Harrah’s and the casino at the Linq resort will reopen, although no timetable has been set. Parts of the Linq Promenade, including the High Roller observation wheel, also will welcome guests starting June 4.

• Wynn Las Vegas, which includes Encore. Wynn's Allegro, Jardin, Lakeside, Mizumi and SW Steakhouse restaurants will reopen Friday. Reservations are required.

Las Vegas hotel-casinos likely to open June 4:

• The Venetian, which includes Palazzo.

“We’ve been working hard for opening whenever the governor and our regulatory body say it’s OK to reopen,” said Ron Reese, senior vice president of global communications for Las Vegas Sands, the Venetian’s parent company. “We’ve been working at that for weeks,” Reese said ahead of the governor’s announcement.

“The other … thing that makes us ready for opening is we haven’t laid off one employee,” he said. “It’s … easy to call people back to work when they weren’t laid off or furloughed.”

• The websites of the Cosmopolitan, Sahara, the Strat and Treasure Island, run by smaller gaming organizations, are accepting reservations beginning the night of June 4.

Sample room rates:

Room rates as of Tuesday varied for opening night. The Strat had rooms starting at $21 for June 4 but $94 the next night (excluding taxes and fees), when hotels are hoping for an influx of returning visitors, including many from Southern California.

Other prices, also excluding taxes and fees, for June 4 and June 5:

Flamingo Las Vegas: $35/$75

Caesars Palace: $99/$149

Bellagio: $249/$299

Most hotel-casinos will be waiving charges for self-parking. Because of health concerns, valet parking won’t immediately be available.

Does smoking spread the coronavirus?

RIP.

Loyalty club members report receiving generous free credits to gamble the 1st opening week. However Wynn is the only casino reporting that most of their restaurants are now open. Live lounge music, day clubs and nightclubs have yet to reopen. Not sure about hotel pools and spa facilities.

Still a LOT of restrictions and spacing restrictions.

Las Vegas residents must be ecstatic.

They have been living in a ghost town for the past two months.

What about The Cheetah?

What could go wrong?

Such a mistake. We've really fucked up. Everybody is so hoping to wish this virus away they are just going out and pretending life is back to normal. We had one good chance to tackle this and we may have blown it.

You're a whore, darlin' R6.

Good! The longer this drags on, the longer I can work from home!

There was a thread recently R2 about two studies that showed smokers are, on average, more resistant to catching the Coronovirus.

Are they taking bets on how many people are going to die from Covid? Gamblers take their chances even with their health, apparently.

They’re doing this because there aren’t enough different types of work here and it’s either gambling or become a ghost town.

They’re just lying to the public and pretending it will be safe when of course it won’t. The visitors will go home and spread disease and in a few months, or less, there will be huge spread and it won’t be safe to go out, but there also won’t be government help either because we’ll be broke. This is why I’m looking for someplace else to relocate.

In 2009, people didn’t have money to gamble and the entire economy here collapsed. Everything. Retail, restaurants, small businesses. Any kind of small business that brought any kind of niche interest or specialty items was gone. Nothing was left but huge chains and we still haven’t recovered entirely from that. It’s years later and there’s some specialty items you can’t get here, because those businesses are never coming back.

The local government hasn’t done enough to bring in business that’s unrelated to gambling. It’s a house of cards depending on people from somewhere else having money. We have no control of what happens in other states or countries. And the economy is much more unstable than it was years ago.

I don’t want to be trapped in a place the economy falls off a cliff for years every time there’s some kind of disaster. It took years longer here to get over the Great Recession. I have this feeling that one of these days, if something really bad happens, it’s going to turn into a ghost town like Virginia City or Calico, and I don’t want to be here when the music stops.

That's damned scary, R12.

Although now might be a bad time to re-locate.

People are out of work everywhere.

r12 :

R13, I agree, which is why I’m researching right now, but it’s not practical to move until things have stabilized better.

R6, Strip clubs and legal brothels are part of Phase 3 reopening. Who knows when that will occur.

There are gambling pools on when nightclubs, day clubs, and live music venues will return to Vegas. Some say they're a full year away.

Some friends of mine (married gay couple) are abandoning California and moving to Vegas. Seems like terrible timing to me.

WHY would anyone move from California, which has the largest economy of any state in the country, to move to Vegas, where there's basically one industry and one only?

Have they called the Bellagio Maid back to work yet?

r18 Because one of them lost his job, the other one makes minimum wage, they have an expensive mortgage, and they are probably going to clear at least $500K from selling their house. So they can afford someplace even nicer in Nevada and have no mortgage.