These are 25 reasons you'll hate Las Vegas.
Number one, is if you're easily offended.
I was in an Uber today and there was literally
a guy standing on the sidewalk with his pants down
and everything hanging out.
Now, thankfully that's not an everyday occurrence,
but something you will see every day is
women wearing skimpy outfits with T&A hanging out all
over the place.
- Loud environments.
Here in Las Vegas, we are known
as The Party Nightlife Capital of the World.
So when you come here, whether it's daytime at the dayclub,
nighttime at the nightclub, or if there's just
a huge convention or event in town,
there's big crowds everywhere,
it's going to be a loud, party atmosphere,
so if that's not your thing, you might wanna stay away.
- Something else you're going to hate
about Las Vegas is there's a lot of scams to look out for.
One of the scams I hate the most are the fake showgirls
on The Strip who are all nice to you,
wanting you to take a picture with them
and then after you take the picture they demand
like $100 dollars out of you.
I asked in my Facebook group,
"What pisses you off the most about Las Vegas?"
And one person said,
"The fake showgirls that hustle out front of the casinos.
They act like they want to take your pic for fun
and then they start hustling you for money," absolutely.
"They say they work for MGM,
but they actually work for a strip club,"
I don't know if that's true.
"They lie and beg tourists out of 50
or $100 dollars saying they expected to be paid
that much for a photo," yep.
"They took $100 dollars from an 18-year old kid
that was out with our family.
He said he would pay them 10 and then he asked them
to break a hundred and they took it
and told him they needed more.
We called the police and they told us
what a scam those girls are
and that they get constant calls,
but if you hand them any money
and they keep it rather than give you change,
it's a civil dispute."
So it's crap like that that makes
some people just hate Vegas.
- Although Las Vegas is an awesome place to come visit,
it can feel very overwhelming, especially
if you're a first time visitor.
These massive casinos we have here with beautiful displays
that cost billions of dollars to build, they're huge,
they're farther apart than you realize on The Strip
and even once you get inside of them,
they can be confusing to navigate.
So if you're a first timer especially,
it can feel like you're a bit lost just trying to get
around one street here in Las Vegas.
- And I'll tell you what, even if you're someone
who's been here a ton of times,
I stayed at Luxor for the first time on this trip
and it took me like three days to learn the layout
of that entire hotel.
So... yeah, that's all I wanted to say.
(both laughs)
A really common response in that Facebook group
to what pisses people off is that it's not the value
that it used to be.
For example, one person said,
"It's not the same as it once was.
You used to get deals on everything
and that's what made it fun.
Now, you pay so much for everything.
Because there were so many deals,
people used to spend more money,
but now, I have a drink for $40 and I feel guilty
so I just can't let loose as much.
Oh, and up and down the escalators that are always broken."
- Unfortunately, there's a lot truth to that.
Many of the deals in Las Vegas that some of you grew up with
like 99 cent shrimp cocktails, those are long gone.
You can still get some affordable food deals
and drink deals along the strip,
but it is becoming increasingly difficult.
One thing you're gonna have to get used to if you come
to Las Vegas is being around drinkers and smokers.
For a lot of you where you live, smoking is
really, really regulated, but here in Vegas
you're gonna find smoking way more common inside casinos,
certainly out in the public, and oftentimes you're gonna go
to places, particularly Fremont Street,
that are more compact, a bit more congested,
where after you're done walking Fremont Street,
particularly at night when the crowd is the largest,
you're very likely going to have the smell
of cigarette smoke on your shirt.
- But I'll add to that,
as someone who doesn't like cigarette smoke,
yes, there's a lot of people smoking in Vegas,
but these newer casinos have such good filtration systems
that if there isn't someone smoking literally
right next to me, I can't even tell.
Something that has changed a lot in Vegas
over the last couple of years is the presence of weed.
If you're walking down the strip at night
you will smell pot all over the place.
Seriously, the only place you're safe
from the pot smoke is inside of a hotel or casino.
One person in the Facebook group said,
"The only thing I hate is the smell of pot everywhere
and people blowing that shit in my face.
Like I could care less if people want to do it, great,
good for them, but have some respect for the people
who can't tolerate the smell,"
and believe it or not, that was probably
the biggest complaint I had on that entire post,
so many people saying they hate the smell of pot in Vegas.
- One thing that can be upsetting to people
when they come here to Las Vegas is sometimes they feel like
from the moment they get off that plane,
everything is set up for them
to just spend money and just lose it.
Right when you come off that plane,
we have slot machines in the airport
so you can gamble before you even get to your hotel room.
When you come to your hotel,
you're gonna feel like there's lots of fees oftentimes,
when it comes to booking your room
to the meal at your restaurant
to maybe drink fees, all sorts of things just
to actually stay at the hotel.
When you're walking The Strip
or you're walking Fremont Street,
you're gonna have people with their hand out saying,
"Hey, let's take a photo.
Hey, tip for this, tip for that."
It can feel like almost everywhere you turn around
you are getting charged a fee for something
or like there's some kind of catch
to anything you're being offered.
- And speaking of resort fees, I think this earns
its very own spot on the list because this is probably
the single most hated thing in Las Vegas,
so many people cannot stand resort fees.
There are a few ways to get out of them.
For example, if you get gold status at MGM Resorts
or if you get diamond status at Caesars Resorts
then all your resort fees are comped when
you're booking direct,
but if you don't have status,
expect to pay about 40 or $50 per night
on top of your nightly room rate.
- Because Las Vegas is such a popular place
for millions of people to visit every year,
lines can get long. And this starts at the airport.
Sometimes just waiting for your Uber or Lyft
to pick you up can be a long line.
If you're gonna go out to the nightclubs,
those lines can be incredibly long!
If you're trying to get into someplace
like a restaurant, you wanna have reservations
so you can cut back on the length of the line
you might be waiting in while you're here.
- Speaking of long lines, if you don't like crowds
you're going to hate Vegas because you'll always be
around people here, especially on the weekends.
Another reason you might not like Vegas is
if you don't enjoy being hit on by prostitutes.
I was playing slots at a bar on this trip
when a girl tapped me on the shoulder and she goes,
"Hey, it's nice to have some eye candy around here, cheers."
And then I was thinking she might be a sex worker
and sure enough, I was observing her "working" later
and she's exactly what I thought she was.
And this happens a lot if you're a single guy in Vegas
especially if you're out in the casino alone at night.
- Although Las Vegas is known as Sin City
and people seem to think it's this anything goes place,
the reality is it's not quite as anything goes as you think.
For one, when it comes to marijuana laws here.
You cannot, legally, consume those products in public.
Now, I have never heard of someone getting arrested just
for consuming in public, however, it does open the door
for you to get stopped and it could lead
to other things that you could be arrested for.
Another area is when it comes to strip clubs in Las Vegas.
The law here states that if a club is fully nude,
it cannot serve alcohol.
There's one place that is grandfathered in,
but for every other place here in the city,
if there is full nudity, there's no alcohol
in the strip club.
- [Jordan] And just for informational purposes,
where is that one place?
- That is Palomino in North Las Vegas.
They are grandfathered in, full nudity, with alcohol.
- One thing a lot of people hate about Las Vegas is
that there's bums and crack heads and beggars all
over the place and it's a very, very common sight
when you're walking down The Strip
to see a homeless person reach into a trash can
and take out a can of Coke and start drinking it.
I even see people like licking walls and windows
and doorknobs and all sorts of gross stuff like that.
And something people really hate in the summers here is
the heat, especially people living here,
but even if you're visiting and walking from one hotel
to the hotel next door, it can be really freaking hot.
- Here in Las Vegas even though The Strip is only
about four miles long, you're going to do a lot
and I mean a lot of walking when you come here.
These hotels/casinos are a lot farther apart than they look
and even inside of them, they're so massive
you can easily walk miles from your room to your elevator
all over the casino floor and throughout the property
before you even get outside.
- Another reason you'll hate Las Vegas is
if you're impulsive
or if you have trouble controlling your gambling.
If you're one of those kind of people,
this place is not for you and I strongly recommend
you do not come here.
Although sadly, you're probably
the casino's favorite customer. And on the topic of gambling
if you hate losing, this $4 billion casino is not built
on people winning.
Although we all come to Vegas hoping that we're going
to win, the sad reality is most of us leave here as losers.
- The prices here in Vegas are already expensive,
but if you plan on coming during one of the big events
during the year, it can be absurdly expensive.
Certain times of year, it can be hard to find a room
for under $400 a night.
Five times a year that you know Vegas is gonna be crazy
like clockwork.
Super Bowl weekend, opening weekend of March Madness,
Memorial Day weekend, Labor Day weekend, and New Year's Eve.
Those five times of year plus other big conferences
and events throughout the year, guaranteed
to be even higher prices than you're used to.
- Although this doesn't bother me,
something a lot of people cannot stand is
when people bring their kids to Vegas.
- Although Las Vegas was years ago known for a place
that was being very generous when it came to gambling
and having good odds for people winning
that has changed over time.
Things like 3:2 blackjack have largely been replaced
by 6:5 blackjack. Things like a single zero roulette wheel
you now have more double zero roulette wheel
even triple zero roulette wheel.
So over the years, the chances of the average tourists
coming here and winning money in Las Vegas has gotten
smaller and smaller and smaller.
- One big reason why a lot of people feel like Vegas isn't
the right place for them is they feel
like it's just too commercial and all too superficial.
- Part of the reason people think Vegas is too commercial
or too superficial is even though
we have some really cool structures here on The Strip,
some people don't like the fact that we have
a mini New York City
or the Venetian type Italian theme property
or the Eiffel Tower.
Some people feel like what Vegas does just kind of copy
other major tourist destinations and use it
to try to get people to come here.
- There's no shortage of people trying
to rip you off in Las Vegas.
On Jacob's channel, we did a video of the biggest ripoffs
in Las Vegas so go click on that right now.
- See you guys over there, you're gonna learn a lot.