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Las Vegas Goes to 100 Percent Capacity in June | Ep. 64 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to Vegas Revealed episode 64.
• 0:05
  Dayna Roselli: Las Vegas gets ready to open at 100% capacity.
• 0:10
  Dayna Roselli: What restrictions will be lifted and what stays put?
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: Plus, another big headliner just announced over at the New Resorts World, and two resorts on the strip are pushing for their employees to get vaccinated, and there's some money on the line here, too.
• 0:26
  Sean McAllister: Plus, our exclusive poll of the week.
• 0:28
  Dayna Roselli: The results are in when it comes to how hard you want to party in Vegas.
• 0:33
  Dayna Roselli: Alright, it's time to spin the wheel.
• 0:47
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to Vegas Revealed.
• 0:49
  Dayna Roselli: I'm Dana Roselli along with Sean McAllister.
• 0:52
  Dayna Roselli: And listen, if you love that song, our theme song, and a lot of people do, Sean, apparently.
• 0:56
  Sean McAllister: And we're getting comments about it.
• 0:58
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 0:59
  Dayna Roselli: We got a direct message from Jacob Snowberger on Twitter.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: He was saying, Hey, let's go to Vegas, baby.
• 1:06
  Dayna Roselli: Who sings it?
• 1:07
  Dayna Roselli: I can't find it, and I love your show.
• 1:09
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, we have had this request before.
• 1:13
  Dayna Roselli: Now, some people say they're annoyed with the song, I'm not gonna lie, but that it sticks with them.
• 1:17
  Sean McAllister: Hey, as long as it sticks with them, I mean, then it's doing its job, right?
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: But we've tried to find it, and you know, we have an editing software system that we use for the podcast, and it's in the catalog of music.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: We found it, loved it, and we've been using it ever since.
• 1:31
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't think you can actually purchase it.
• 1:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I don't think so unless you purchase a music library.
• 1:36
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 1:37
  Sean McAllister: And it happens to be in there.
• 1:38
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:39
  Sean McAllister: Um, but we have looked for the artist who sings uh the Vegas baby song, and um, we're gonna continue our search.
• 1:48
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 1:49
  Sean McAllister: And we'll have to have them on as as guests here on the podcast because we're like uh we're I feel like we're working together at this point.
• 1:57
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 1:57
  Dayna Roselli: Little do they know the theme song of the Vegas Reel podcast.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, Jacob, thanks for listening and thanks for your note.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: Jacob's from uh Cleveland, Ohio.
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: What up, Cleve?
• 2:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yep, Cleveland.
• 2:07
  Sean McAllister: How's it going?
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's get to the big news of the week.
• 2:10
  Dayna Roselli: June 1st is a big day.
• 2:12
  Sean McAllister: It's a big day because that is when the floodgates are going to officially open.
• 2:17
  Sean McAllister: Capacity limits are being lifted, and the entire city is going back to 100% capacity.
• 2:25
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, yeah, it was a big deal.
• 2:27
  Dayna Roselli: Unexpected announcement.
• 2:29
  Dayna Roselli: I know the governor was having a presser and it was like, okay, what's this about?
• 2:32
  Dayna Roselli: And then I saw the 100.
• 2:34
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 2:35
  Dayna Roselli: We always get nervous, right?
• 2:36
  Sean McAllister: Anytime the anytime the governor you know throws an impromptu announcement our way, we're like, ooh, we grit our teeth, but this time it's like, hey, we're opening back up.
• 2:46
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 2:47
  Dayna Roselli: And then he's also lifting the social distancing requirements, which I found interesting.
• 2:51
  Dayna Roselli: So you no longer have to social distance, but the big question that everyone keeps asking is, well, what about the mask?
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: Do we still have to wear a mask?
• 2:58
  Dayna Roselli: And the answer is yes.
• 3:00
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 3:00
  Sean McAllister: So masks are going to stick around for a little bit.
• 3:04
  Sean McAllister: That is a state mandated thing that we have going on here.
• 3:08
  Sean McAllister: So what's going to be going down over the next few weeks, starting on May 1st, here in the state of Nevada, each county uh at that point is going to make their own decisions on COVID-19 mitigation tactics.
• 3:24
  Sean McAllister: That means masks and social distancing, capacity limits.
• 3:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh, before May 1st, up until this point, uh, those directives have been coming from the state.
• 3:34
  Sean McAllister: May 1st, it switches back to counties to make those decisions.
• 3:38
  Sean McAllister: And then uh starting June 1st, one month later, we're just ripping the band-aid off and welcoming everyone back.
• 3:45
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 3:45
  Dayna Roselli: Well, so is there a chance on May 1st that the county could say, yeah, we're ready to go back to 100%, and it could be earlier than June 1st?
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it definitely could be.
• 3:54
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 3:55
  Sean McAllister: There are some counties, Nye County, for example, here in Nevada, they've already announced that they're going back to 100% starting May 1st when they have that decision-making power.
• 4:07
  Dayna Roselli: And I think they wanted to lift the masks too, but then it everyone was talking back and forth, going, no, that's a state thing.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: You can't.
• 4:13
  Dayna Roselli: So, um, but it's interesting that they were like ready to do that as well.
• 4:17
  Dayna Roselli: So we have a lot of people vaccinated here in Las Vegas.
• 4:21
  Dayna Roselli: We have opened up to 16 and above a while ago now.
• 4:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's been a couple weeks, so more and more people are getting the vaccine.
• 4:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I mean, there's a lot of available appointments now.
• 4:31
  Sean McAllister: We have uh a lot of supply with the vaccine coming into southern Nevada here, and uh lots of appointments available for anyone who wants them.
• 4:41
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 4:42
  Dayna Roselli: There was an article um written in CNN Travel this week, and the headline is just uh something that we all love to see that live here and people that love to visit here, and it says Las Vegas is set to come out of COVID-19 better than ever.
• 4:55
  Dayna Roselli: So that is a relief, and they go through in the article a lot of things that we've been talking on the podcast about, you know, along the way, you know, the new resorts that have opened, the new attractions that have opened, the vaccinations that have moved along uh really well, and then also uh some things that are coming, like Resorts World and our new convention center is now finished.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: And you and I were just chatting, going, I think we have the big uh construction convention coming, and I think that's June, which is gonna be great.
• 5:21
  Dayna Roselli: That's an indoor outdoor convention, so they can do a lot of stuff, put the big equipment in the parking lot.
• 5:26
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:26
  Sean McAllister: So I think June is uh the first big convention that's coming back.
• 5:32
  Sean McAllister: There are some smaller conventions and gatherings that have been taking place here over the last oh month or so, I would say.
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, the big one is coming up in June, and then I think there are several others planned or in the works.
• 5:46
  Dayna Roselli: I know there's people keep announcing things, so the more that that keeps happening, great.
• 5:52
  Dayna Roselli: We're here, we've got a brand new convention center, we've got the uh boring company's new loop.
• 6:00
  Sean McAllister: The loop that goes between the wings of the convention center to shuttle people around uh a little bit quicker and easier.
• 6:07
  Sean McAllister: So we have all systems go to bring conventions back to Las Vegas, which really is I mean, a big bulk of our our tourism and our business that happens here.
• 6:20
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 6:20
  Dayna Roselli: And don't worry, everyone, when you come to visit, karaoke's back too.
• 6:25
  Sean McAllister: Oh karaoke's amazing.
• 6:27
  Sean McAllister: So if you listen back to episode 35 of Vegas Revealed, that's when we went over to Ellis Island.
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: And we were at the the front yard over at Ellis Island.
• 6:38
  Sean McAllister: That's their big patio space, great for watching games.
• 6:42
  Sean McAllister: They have a great brunch.
• 6:43
  Sean McAllister: Right now, they have it all decked out for spring, and it looks really great.
• 6:47
  Sean McAllister: And we asked uh Christina Ellis when we were speaking with her about the karaoke because Ellis Island has been it's become known for its karaoke lounge.
• 6:59
  Dayna Roselli: It really has.
• 7:00
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's a classic spot, and karaoke's a big deal here in Las Vegas.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: People like to watch shows, but sometimes they want to be the show.
• 7:07
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 7:07
  Dayna Roselli: They like to get up on stage and belt it out.
• 7:10
  Dayna Roselli: We have very popular uh places around town for karaoke.
• 7:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and Ellis Island has announced that they're back at doing the karaoke nights, and so that's a great thing.
• 7:19
  Dayna Roselli: And that will only complement what they have there going on at the front yard and then the casino.
• 7:23
  Dayna Roselli: So good for them.
• 7:24
  Sean McAllister: See, karaoke lets you be the Vegas headliner.
• 7:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 7:28
  Dayna Roselli: And then Dino's, which is one of our uh popular spots for karaoke too.
• 7:33
  Dayna Roselli: It's a hot spot, it's a fun place if you've never been.
• 7:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's just kind of like north of is it north of the stratosphere?
• 7:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, a little bit north of the stratosphere.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: And they are open too.
• 7:44
  Dayna Roselli: We checked out their Facebook, and on April uh eighth, they put up an announcement that karaoke was was back and they were in full force.
• 7:52
  Dayna Roselli: So um Belt it out, everyone.
• 7:54
  Dayna Roselli: And we know you've been so saving up your voice all COVID, and you're ready.
• 7:58
  Dayna Roselli: You're ready, warm it up.
• 8:00
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 8:00
  Sean McAllister: Hey, you know, uh going back to the vaccines really quick, there are a well, there's one uh casino in particular that's really uh trying to incentivize its employees to go out and get vaccinated.
• 8:15
  Sean McAllister: The cosmopolitan has this big pool of money that it says it's willing to pay out as bonuses to employees if they get a certain percentage vaccinated by May 1st.
• 8:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 8:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's eight is they're looking for 80% to be vaccinated, and I think they were in the 60s percentile at this time.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: And so, what are we, mid-April, so they got a couple weeks, and it's more of you and I were going, well, is that fair?
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: Because you can't really force people to get the vaccine.
• 8:44
  Dayna Roselli: But it what it is is it's kind of like a team building thing.
• 8:47
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, hey, listen, if you were going to get vaccinated and you planned on it, get it now, get it before May 1st, so that our resort can have 80% at least of our staff vaccinated so that people are more comfortable to come here.
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: So it's kind of like everyone who planned on getting it, maybe encouragement from other staff, like, hey, go get the vaccine, I want my bonus.
• 9:08
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 9:09
  Sean McAllister: And and we're talking about, I think, over a million dollars uh that they've set aside to pay out to employees.
• 9:17
  Sean McAllister: This is a million dollars total that would get divvied up and paid out as bonuses.
• 9:22
  Sean McAllister: But hey, I mean It's a lot.
• 9:24
  Sean McAllister: It's a bonus is a bonus, right?
• 9:26
  Sean McAllister: No kidding.
• 9:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it's um and if you don't get the vaccine, they will have on-site testing there.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: You'll have to be tested, I believe it's weekly for COVID, and it will cost you to get it on site.
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: And I was curious about that too.
• 9:40
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, well, why does it cost?
• 9:41
  Dayna Roselli: Because the wind is doing something similar, but basically it's a convenience fee of having to get it there.
• 9:46
  Dayna Roselli: So the state pays for your test.
• 9:48
  Dayna Roselli: The actual test, which they said is about$100, but the convenience fee of actually having it at your workplace is what you'll have to front.
• 9:55
  Dayna Roselli: But you can go to other places off-site and get it completely free, but that has to be kind of on your own time.
• 10:02
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 10:03
  Sean McAllister: And so that's what the win uh resort is doing.
• 10:05
  Sean McAllister: There's no financial incentive, but they are uh letting employees know that um if you are not vaccinated, you will have to present a weekly negative COVID test.
• 10:19
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:19
  Dayna Roselli: And I think the Wynn was charging$15 for the convenience of having it there on site.
• 10:24
  Dayna Roselli: So kind of similar thing.
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: But they're they're working to try and let people know that hey, uh, we're we're we're ready for you to come back and we want you to feel comfortable.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: And then some people say, well, what does it matter if the staff you know has vaccines, if the people visiting don't have it's like, well, the staff are the people who are, you know, cleaning your rooms and serving your food and they're the ones that keep the properties up and running so that you can be there to visit.
• 10:49
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:49
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, if they're protected, um, obviously, you know, there's lots of research, but you know, you you could still be a carrier of it and this and that, but if your symptoms would be a lot less, uh but it you're less likely to get it, and the less likely you know the staff is to have it, then the less likely likely you are to get it.
• 11:06
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 11:06
  Sean McAllister: And you know, that brings up uh kind of an important point that that we've been talking about, Dana, as we are uh you know coming out of this pandemic era and Las Vegas does ramp up back to full momentum on the Las Vegas strip.
• 11:23
  Sean McAllister: Uh something that people have noticed is that there is service that's a little slower uh across the board, really.
• 11:31
  Sean McAllister: And that's because uh hotels, casinos, restaurants haven't been able to hire a hundred percent of their staff back yet.
• 11:40
  Sean McAllister: They're operating with staff levels under what they've been what we've really come to know for Las Vegas hospitality.
• 11:49
  Sean McAllister: So if you are coming in the immediate future, just keep in mind that Las Vegas is still ramping up hiring.
• 11:56
  Sean McAllister: I know that you know there have been a a handful of hotel casinos that are holding job fairs even over the past week or so.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: I'm so happy about that.
• 12:06
  Dayna Roselli: You know, people to get their jobs back, yeah, need it for sure.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, you just have to kind of like pack your patience a little bit, you know.
• 12:12
  Dayna Roselli: Don't expect to sit down and and get a drink ASAP.
• 12:16
  Dayna Roselli: You mean to wait a minute, look over the menu.
• 12:18
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it just takes a little longer.
• 12:19
  Dayna Roselli: But I must say I did recently do a quick day and a half trip to Los Angeles and the service wasn't any faster there.
• 12:25
  Dayna Roselli: So I think it's obviously I'm assuming, and I don't know how how was it in San Diego?
• 12:29
  Sean McAllister: San Diego, same thing.
• 12:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it's it's slow across the board, across the country, because everyone's getting back and they might not have that full staff yet, and everyone else is ready to just go for it, eat out, drink out, and and and enjoy life, but but they need to get their staff up to par.
• 12:46
  Sean McAllister: And it'll happen.
• 12:47
  Sean McAllister: We'll get there.
• 12:48
  Sean McAllister: But I did as we were waiting for uh our food to come and waiting for a a server to come to our table down in San Diego, I did, I looked at my my husband Shane, and I was like, you know what?
• 13:00
  Sean McAllister: At least we're in San Diego.
• 13:02
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 13:02
  Sean McAllister: So if you do experience any delays in service while you're in Vegas, just sit back, take a breath, and say, you know what?
• 13:11
  Sean McAllister: At least I'm in Vegas.
• 13:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and I'm out, and if I have to sit a little longer, at least I'm not in my living room.
• 13:17
  Dayna Roselli: It is what it is.
• 13:18
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 13:19
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 13:19
  Dayna Roselli: Well, speaking of living rooms, that was our poll question of the week.
• 13:23
  Dayna Roselli: Well, something to do with that anyway.
• 13:25
  Dayna Roselli: Should we get to it?
• 13:26
  Sean McAllister: Let's do it.
• 13:30
  Sean McAllister: We asked, and you have responded to our exclusive Vegas Revealed Weekly poll.
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: I just love our intro to our poll.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: It's just my favorite.
• 13:45
  Sean McAllister: You know, it humors us, doesn't it?
• 13:47
  Dayna Roselli: It really does.
• 13:48
  Dayna Roselli: All right, you're ready for the poll question.
• 13:50
  Dayna Roselli: This week it is on a scale of couch surfing to crowd surfing, what's your current party mode?
• 13:57
  Dayna Roselli: Vote and comment is what we said, and we're gonna use some of them in our podcast.
• 14:01
  Dayna Roselli: And so we asked people to go and answer, and we got a wide variety of results.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: So, first let's talk about the choices that we had there, Sean.
• 14:10
  Dayna Roselli: And I know you were you were key in coming up with some of these phrases.
• 14:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so on a scale of couch surfing to crowd surfing, are you more inclined to sip on some wine at home?
• 14:21
  Sean McAllister: Be a one and done kind of the person if you do go out to a bar, open up a tab, maybe stay a while, enjoy the atmosphere, or are you the kind of person who is ready to get out there, pull an all-nighter, watch the sunrise, come on home as people are still out walking their dogs and getting ready for a new day, but you haven't quite gone to sleep yet.
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 14:46
  Dayna Roselli: Well, yeah, it's a good, a good, you know, variety of answers here.
• 14:50
  Dayna Roselli: So um believe it or not, 45% of you said you are still wine at home.
• 14:54
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 14:56
  Dayna Roselli: So I was surprised at that too, but I think people are still, I think there are a lot of people that say as much as they're ready to go out now and then, they are still a little tached to home because they can look how they want, they can be comfortable and cozy, and they can still get drunk.
• 15:12
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I I think it would which, yeah, I mean, what better place to do it?
• 15:16
  Sean McAllister: But I've also talked to people who kind of still have a little bit of a like PTSD from the past year.
• 15:23
  Sean McAllister: And it's like for having it drilled into our heads to stay away from people.
• 15:28
  Sean McAllister: No hugging, no handshakes, no uh like if somebody coughs or sneezes, like you kind of whip your head around and you're like, ooh, do they have it?
• 15:37
  Sean McAllister: Right, you know, and it's it's like a mental block that we're all gonna have to get over.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's so true.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, the next one, one and done at the bar, is we we vote too, and I voted for that because that is totally me.
• 15:50
  Dayna Roselli: Like, I'm ready to like go out and I love being out, and I'm like, have one, but then I'm kind of ready to go home, but not when I'm with my close-knit group of people, if that makes sense.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: I'm comfortable around like everyone that I've hung out with and are my close friends and business partners through the year.
• 16:06
  Dayna Roselli: The bubble.
• 16:07
  Dayna Roselli: I'm good when I'm with the bubble and I'm out.
• 16:09
  Dayna Roselli: I can be there for a while and it won't be one and done.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be one, two, and three and done.
• 16:14
  Dayna Roselli: But then, but but it but if it's just like a thing, I start to get that feeling of, yeah, I'm ready to go home.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: So that's where I'm at.
• 16:21
  Dayna Roselli: What did you vote for?
• 16:22
  Sean McAllister: My vote was open up a tab and stay for a bit.
• 16:25
  Sean McAllister: Now, I I didn't I did not vote for pulling an all-nighter simply because if I pull an all-nighter at this point in my life, it's gonna take me a week to recover from it.
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: So, no, we'll open up a tab, stay out for a bit, but still get home at a sensible time.
• 16:44
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 16:44
  Dayna Roselli: And I didn't mention one and done at the bar was 16% of you voting on that, and then open a tab and stay a bit, 28%.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: So a little bit up there, and then pulling all nighter was the lowest voted choice at 12%.
• 16:59
  Dayna Roselli: So everyone's not ready for that.
• 17:00
  Dayna Roselli: But we did get a couple comments of some folks that say they are ready for that.
• 17:04
  Dayna Roselli: So Ryan Daly says the only way to do Vegas, and that is pulling an all-nighter every night.
• 17:11
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 17:12
  Sean McAllister: And that's when if you come to Vegas and pull an all-nighter every single night, then that's probably like you've filled your Vegas quota for the year.
• 17:23
  Sean McAllister: And you're like, okay, I'm ready to go home, like live this off for a while, and we'll come back and do it again in another year.
• 17:30
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly, exactly.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: And and Glenda Gaines wrote in and she says she's still wine at home, but with that being said, when she does go out, she's opening a tab.
• 17:39
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 17:40
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 17:40
  Sean McAllister: Suzette says wine, good food, and great music, and of course, the hubby.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: So is that a wine at home, I'm guessing?
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: I think so.
• 17:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:49
  Dayna Roselli: She must have voted for wine at home.
• 17:51
  Dayna Roselli: Wine?
• 17:51
  Dayna Roselli: So she must, yeah, she must make some good food.
• 17:53
  Dayna Roselli: So invite us over, Suzette.
• 17:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, why not?
• 17:56
  Dayna Roselli: And then Nika, she had uh web surfing at home, but then she changed it.
• 18:00
  Dayna Roselli: She said, Okay, I'm gonna modify.
• 18:02
  Dayna Roselli: And she was saying that um she's still wine at home, but she got vaccinated, so she's still quarantining until she hits that 14 day.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: But then I'm in uh Arizona and on a spa weekend with some girlfriends.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: So she's just waiting, but then she's ready to go kind of relax, but get out and enjoy some travel.
• 18:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Cecilia says, uh, I've not been out in ages, so I I almost don't even remember how it feels, but I've always enjoyed a nice glass of wine at home, so it's a a win-win at the moment, which is very true.
• 18:34
  Sean McAllister: But then there's Mike.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: Mike goes for it, right?
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: He says, honestly, even before 2020, going out was too much of a chore for me, sadly.
• 18:43
  Dayna Roselli: And he has the laughing face.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: He says, if it's not a special occasion, of course, he says birthday, etc., I'm perfectly happy getting hammered at home.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: Cheap, just as fun, and no worries of drinking and driving.
• 18:56
  Dayna Roselli: So, Mike Vegas78, we like your perspective.
• 19:00
  Sean McAllister: All right, Mike.
• 19:01
  Dayna Roselli: So, again, uh our poll results are in.
• 19:04
  Dayna Roselli: You can check them out on our Twitter page, and then you know, every week we have a poll.
• 19:08
  Dayna Roselli: So please chime in.
• 19:08
  Dayna Roselli: We love to read your answers.
• 19:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 19:10
  Sean McAllister: And you know, speaking of partying and getting back out there, uh, we have been really excited about some of the entertainment announcements that are coming out of Resorts World, which is, as we've mentioned before in previous episodes, the big new resort that's opening up across Las Vegas Boulevard from the win.
• 19:30
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: They keep announcing a bunch of different things, you know, their shops, their restaurants, and their headliners.
• 19:36
  Dayna Roselli: And one of them was Zed.
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: We talked about that last week, which is really cool.
• 19:39
  Dayna Roselli: And he's gonna be doing the day club and the nightclub, and now they announced another resident DJ, and they have booked for I think it's a multi-year contract here, is Tiesto, which is huge because Tiesto is huge.
• 19:51
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what I love about it, Sean, is Tiesto was kind of like he was big before like all the DJs started getting big.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: Do you know what I mean?
• 20:00
  Dayna Roselli: Like, I don't know what the right word or category that is, but I love that he's still going strong.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he's in OG, the original, right?
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: So I love that they are bringing TST to Resorts World.
• 20:10
  Sean McAllister: And I, you know what?
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: I feel like this is a good, a good fit.
• 20:14
  Sean McAllister: Like he's in a new era in his life, he's a dad now.
• 20:18
  Sean McAllister: Like, this is a good new gig, a nice nice brand new club, a new nightlife uh entertainment company that he's working for here.
• 20:27
  Sean McAllister: So well done.
• 20:29
  Sean McAllister: I mean, Resorts World is just firing on all cylinders, announcing uh a ton of uh restaurants and bars, along with some innovative retail and now some incredible entertainment too.
• 20:43
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, we are gonna be diving uh deeper into everything that Resorts World is gonna have to offer uh coming up in in the next few weeks in the next few episodes.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: We've got our list of things we wanna we wanna get into before the opening, which is scheduled for end of June, early July.
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: So it's coming up quick.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: So Tiesto and Zed, two resident headliners.
• 21:04
  Dayna Roselli: We spoke last week about a bunch of rumored headliners for the showroom.
• 21:08
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Katie Perry, Carrie Underwood, probably Celine Dion, Luke Bryan.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: Luke right.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: So we no no one hundred percent confirmation on those yet.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: But it's exciting that we're even having those conversations and that entertainment is back into the mix here.
• 21:24
  Sean McAllister: Which by the way, I was talking uh with a friend who's in the entertainment industry here, and um I was just asking, like, how are entertainers doing?
• 21:37
  Sean McAllister: Like, if if I wanted to book somebody for an event, like, are there a lot of people available?
• 21:43
  Sean McAllister: And he was like, No, everybody, just about everybody is so booked up right now.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: Like the gig workers, the entertainment gigs, they're coming back.
• 21:52
  Sean McAllister: Like the lounge performers, all that kind of stuff.
• 21:55
  Sean McAllister: The people who perform at um like VIP events.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: For casino players, that stuff is coming back.
• 22:03
  Sean McAllister: Uh shows are coming back.
• 22:05
  Sean McAllister: Circus Olay is talking about, you know, bringing shows back by fall.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: So you know, we are getting there.
• 22:13
  Sean McAllister: And it's good to hear that the entertainers here in Las Vegas who have really just, you know, kind of taken a gut punch.
• 22:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:22
  Sean McAllister: By a lot of people have taken a gut punch over the past year, but you know, when you're an entertainer and your entire industry is ripped right out from underneath you, that's hard.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: And you and it's something that I don't think anyone ever saw coming.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, why would entertainment ever stop?
• 22:38
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: You know, like we never thought about that.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: I was just cleaning off stuff on my computer the other day and I was looking at a podcast that you and I did.
• 22:45
  Dayna Roselli: It was like March 18th of 2020, and you and I were talking about how, you know, we're shut down for 30 days.
• 22:51
  Dayna Roselli: It's a big deal.
• 22:52
  Dayna Roselli: And we were like, we thought it was gonna be 30 days, you know?
• 22:56
  Dayna Roselli: Little did we know.
• 22:56
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we were completely shut down for, you know, around that time period, but you know, most of the restrictions and capacity limits and all that have lasted all the way until now.
• 23:07
  Dayna Roselli: So who knew?
• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: So crazy.
• 23:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we love hearing from all our listeners around the world too.
• 23:12
  Dayna Roselli: And I know that um we have a listener in Germany who's saying, like, I'm so ready to get back to Vegas, but they can't yet.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: So hopefully once these things start changing, you know, more flights will get added.
• 23:22
  Dayna Roselli: Travel's super expensive right now if you try and book an airline um because they don't have the number of flights up yet for the dem to meet the demand.
• 23:32
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 23:33
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, if you didn't get in when it was cheap, you might have trouble finding a really good deal.
• 23:39
  Dayna Roselli: But the best advice that I can offer, because I did finally book a trip back to see my family in upstate New York, is I just kept looking and kept refreshing and kept searching, and then finally I got something that fit and it wasn't overly expensive.
• 23:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, well that's good.
• 23:56
  Sean McAllister: And I mean this should have been one of the one of our tips over the past year.
• 24:02
  Sean McAllister: But what we ended up doing is buy because there were such great cancellation policies, like you could book air travel and then cancel and have the credits good for like through 2022.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: So that's what we did.
• 24:19
  Sean McAllister: We found some really decent airfares and just booked them and cancelled them.
• 24:24
  Sean McAllister: And so now we've got all these credits to use now that um now that air travel is is back again.
• 24:31
  Dayna Roselli: I I know, and when I did book mine, it was I think they were it was like one more week they were changing the policy for I think I booked American Airlines.
• 24:39
  Dayna Roselli: So you could change it without a fee.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: Oh you can't cancel it completely.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: So I did that because I wasn't sure how long I wanted to go for, depending on what kind of work we have going on here.
• 24:51
  Dayna Roselli: So I thought, okay, well, let me just book this, because in order to change it, they're not going to charge me a fee.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: So that was definitely uh convenient.
• 24:59
  Dayna Roselli: And also I was able to pick my seat, which is also a bonus.
• 25:02
  Dayna Roselli: So it's like the little things now, especially because, you know, just the time that we're in, you want to more than ever pick your seat and know where you're gonna be sitting.
• 25:10
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to sit in the aisle or, you know, toward the back.
• 25:13
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, um, yeah, there's tons of tons of things that you can do to kind of get around it or and get the best deal that you possibly can.
• 25:20
  Dayna Roselli: But things are going up, but it's a sign that things are getting back, so that's good too.
• 25:24
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 25:24
  Sean McAllister: And uh just want to give another uh shout out here to one of our Vegas Revealed listeners, Rob Lewis, who is a consistent listener and has reached out to us several times, is now on our wall of fame.
• 25:40
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 25:40
  Sean McAllister: Here at the Vegas Revealed Studios.
• 25:42
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what?
• 25:43
  Dayna Roselli: We're we are gonna need a sound effect for this too.
• 25:45
  Dayna Roselli: So so let me let me go through the library.
• 26:01
  Sean McAllister: I like what you dug up there, Roselli.
• 26:03
  Dayna Roselli: Thank you, Rob from Atlanta.
• 26:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he says he is itching to get out here.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: He's planning to come in probably May or June, and he's making a list of everything that he wants to do.
• 26:12
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, listen, direct message us, let us know what you're up for, we'll make you a list.
• 26:17
  Sean McAllister: And Rob is on our wall of fame because, you know, as we mention in uh at the end of our podcast each week, we do have a link down in the show notes where you can make a donation and contribute to you know Vegas Revealed continuing in the future and can continuing to be able to bring you some really good content.
• 26:39
  Sean McAllister: And Rob is one of our uh wall of fame donors.
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: He is.
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate it so much.
• 26:46
  Dayna Roselli: You know, every little bit helps because we do do this on our free time.
• 26:49
  Dayna Roselli: And you listen, we're at episode 64.
• 26:52
  Dayna Roselli: We only missed like one or two weeks in the entire time.
• 26:55
  Dayna Roselli: We love doing it and we want to do it.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's just sometimes we have to take work because we own our own media company as well.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: And during these times, obviously, we've got to try and you know make all that money back that we lost through the year.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: So we're very, very busy, and so any little bit helps, and it gives us time to go, okay, you know, like this is this is great.
• 27:14
  Dayna Roselli: This helps a little bit.
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: So any little bit is appreciated.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: And Rob, you are our first donor and we love it.
• 27:20
  Sean McAllister: Yes, thank you, Rob.
• 27:22
  Sean McAllister: Uh, what do you say we do our tips?
• 27:24
  Dayna Roselli: All right, I got some good ones this week.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um first, I want to talk about Ubers and taxis.
• 27:31
  Dayna Roselli: We talk about Ubers a lot, right?
• 27:32
  Sean McAllister: We do.
• 27:33
  Dayna Roselli: And we've gotten some tips from some of our friends that listen that are Uber drivers saying, you know, Uber is very busy again and Lyft, but there aren't enough drivers, and so it can still be a little bit of a crutch there.
• 27:48
  Dayna Roselli: If you order an Uber, there might not be a driver available and you're gonna have to wait a lot longer than you thought you, you know, were because the whole point of Uber is to kind of be instant, like you book it and then you leave.
• 27:58
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it's kind of like air travel, the demand is just you know outpacing the supply at this point.
• 28:05
  Sean McAllister: There's more people who want Ubers than there are Uber drivers right now.
• 28:10
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 28:10
  Dayna Roselli: So I booked an Uber to my place, to the airport, no problem, but I set a time.
• 28:16
  Dayna Roselli: I made an appointment.
• 28:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's uh you know, you can book a certain time that you want, and and she was there five minutes late.
• 28:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, schedule.
• 28:22
  Sean McAllister: Schedule your ride.
• 28:23
  Dayna Roselli: Schedule your ride.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: And so I did that, that was fine, but I had trouble in LA getting from the airport to my destination, to my hotel, because they could not find drivers in the area and it was a very busy time.
• 28:37
  Dayna Roselli: It was around it was around traffic commute time, so it was like 5 30 p.m.
• 28:42
  Dayna Roselli: So that took a little while.
• 28:44
  Dayna Roselli: Then, oh my goodness, when I landed back at McCarran, I was gonna get an Uber and it was like literally taking forever.
• 28:51
  Dayna Roselli: I kept trying to locate a driver, trying to locate a driver.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: Then I walked out to the Uber platform there on floor two, and there was a sea of people.
• 29:00
  Sean McAllister: Oh, geez.
• 29:00
  Dayna Roselli: And I just thought, I mean, this isn't gonna happen.
• 29:02
  Dayna Roselli: So I was like, okay, what do I do now?
• 29:04
  Dayna Roselli: Because I didn't plan a ride with a friend or anything, and I was like, what do I do?
• 29:08
  Dayna Roselli: And then I was like, oh, taxis, like, hello, we still have taxis.
• 29:12
  Dayna Roselli: So I looked over the thing, I saw taxis lined up and no one there.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I went, well, I'm gonna take a taxi home.
• 29:18
  Dayna Roselli: Obviously, it might cost me a little more, but taxis have revamped the whole game because now our uh taxi drivers use this app called Curb.
• 29:29
  Dayna Roselli: So I downloaded it right in the taxi.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, it was clean, it was great.
• 29:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and the guy was like, Listen, people don't realize we're here, you can just hop right in.
• 29:37
  Dayna Roselli: Really?
• 29:37
  Dayna Roselli: And um, and so they have this curve app that you can use your Apple Pay, you can do a credit card or your whatever, and you just punch in the code that's on a screen that's right in front of you, and it pairs it so that it knows how much your ride is gonna be, and then as soon as you're about to get out, you just hit pay and you can add the tip right there.
• 29:55
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 29:56
  Dayna Roselli: It was super easy.
• 29:57
  Dayna Roselli: You didn't have to do any of that, you know, paying cash and card and swiping and all that stuff.
• 30:02
  Dayna Roselli: So it was really great, and it's in many ways, you know, like Uber because it was, you know, functioned on an app.
• 30:08
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 30:09
  Dayna Roselli: So the deal is um it was a little bit more expensive.
• 30:12
  Dayna Roselli: So the taxi driver was saying sometimes we cost, you know, kind of around the same as an Uber.
• 30:16
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, well, when it was searching for a driver, it told me that ride would be$17.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then when I took the taxi, it was$27.
• 30:25
  Dayna Roselli: So there was a significant price difference there.
• 30:27
  Dayna Roselli: But you either wait or you go now.
• 30:30
  Dayna Roselli: And so maybe if you're coming to town, download the curve app and just know that if you can't get an Uber, you can get a taxi.
• 30:37
  Sean McAllister: Well, that's good to know.
• 30:38
  Sean McAllister: I I don't know why.
• 30:40
  Sean McAllister: I totally like have forgotten that taxis exist.
• 30:44
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 30:44
  Dayna Roselli: That's the thing, that's what I said to my driver.
• 30:46
  Dayna Roselli: I said, listen, people, you know, pushed you guys aside when Uber and Lyft started, and now look who they need and who they're going to need.
• 30:53
  Dayna Roselli: Taxi drivers again.
• 30:55
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm glad to see that business, you know, is probably gonna be booming for them too.
• 30:59
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I love that they've you know innovated and have the app and everything, like you said.
• 31:03
  Sean McAllister: So that's that's really cool.
• 31:05
  Sean McAllister: Um, another tip, so this is something that we've mentioned in the past.
• 31:09
  Sean McAllister: There's a lot of the the My Vegas uh slot machine apps that where you can like play for free and you actually accumulate points that can be traded in for actual rewards here in Las Vegas.
• 31:25
  Sean McAllister: Like uh we just went out and had uh dinner at Lupo, which is a Wolfgang Puck restaurant over at Mandalay Bay, and it was uh buy one entree, get one free.
• 31:36
  Sean McAllister: Wow, great.
• 31:37
  Sean McAllister: So that I mean Lupo's a nice place.
• 31:38
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it is.
• 31:39
  Sean McAllister: Uh, and there's hotel stays, lots of stuff.
• 31:42
  Sean McAllister: Um there's a new My Vegas game that has just been revealed, and it is MyVegas Bingo.
• 31:52
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I love bingo.
• 31:53
  Sean McAllister: Bingo is so fun.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I was so excited about this.
• 31:56
  Dayna Roselli: And I know you guys do the the apps all the time and play.
• 31:59
  Sean McAllister: We we do the apps, we collect the points, we redeem them for for cool stuff all around Vegas.
• 32:05
  Sean McAllister: Um, but MyVegas Bingo to celebrate the launch of this app, what they've done is they've partnered with five Las Vegas artists who have decorated these massive 200-pound, I think they're concrete bingo balls.
• 32:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's really cool, and they're spreading them out in front of all MGM Resorts International properties.
• 32:30
  Dayna Roselli: So there's one in front of the Mirage, and there's one in front of Bellagio, and it's so cool, and they're gonna be there, I think, for a few months.
• 32:37
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so you can go around and go go around to MGM properties and kind of do your own scavenger hunt.
• 32:43
  Sean McAllister: Look for the the giant bingo balls and download the MyVegas app, the My Vegas bingo app, and you can play back in your hotel room.
• 32:53
  Sean McAllister: You can play back when you go home to wherever it is that you live and take that little bit of Vegas with you.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: Or if you're itching to get here, like I've said many of our listeners are and they just haven't been able to, like start playing, you know, these with these apps.
• 33:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yep, because then you can accumulate points, and when you get here, you can get like Sean did, you know, buy one, get one free entree, or maybe a night free somewhere.
• 33:16
  Dayna Roselli: And so if you're itching for uh Vegas, download the app.
• 33:20
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 33:20
  Sean McAllister: There's my studios, right?
• 33:21
  Sean McAllister: My Vegas slots, pop slots, and my Vegas bingo.
• 33:25
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's Play Studios that's behind all these MyVegas apps, which is great.
• 33:30
  Sean McAllister: I love them.
• 33:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's a great, great tip.
• 33:33
  Dayna Roselli: And bingo is so much fun.
• 33:34
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what I like about bingo is it's simple.
• 33:37
  Sean McAllister: Good old-fashioned bingo is But do you use the dauber or do you use the electronic screen?
• 33:42
  Dayna Roselli: Dauber all the way.
• 33:43
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, listen.
• 33:44
  Sean McAllister: See, I do the tablet.
• 33:45
  Sean McAllister: I do the electronic tablet.
• 33:47
  Sean McAllister: Then there's zero brain power needed.
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: I like a little action.
• 33:50
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's funny.
• 33:51
  Dayna Roselli: I grew up, you know, uh well, we grew up in the same part of New York State, and bingo was a big deal there.
• 33:57
  Dayna Roselli: And we would go to like the church gym.
• 33:59
  Sean McAllister: Or the Elks Lodge.
• 34:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, the Elks Lodge.
• 34:02
  Sean McAllister: There was different nights of the week.
• 34:04
  Dayna Roselli: I had my bingo bag, my bingo daubers, I had all of it, and we would go and we had a blast.
• 34:09
  Dayna Roselli: It was so much fun.
• 34:10
  Dayna Roselli: And when you won, it was like the best feeling in the world.
• 34:13
  Sean McAllister: So you had the the bingo dauber bag in one hand and the bowling ball in the other hand.
• 34:18
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 34:19
  Dayna Roselli: Bowling and bingo.
• 34:20
  Dayna Roselli: The two Bs, or that's how I grew up.
• 34:22
  Dayna Roselli: That's what I did.
• 34:23
  Dayna Roselli: But that was before iPads, iPhones, and all that stuff that the kids use today.
• 34:28
  Sean McAllister: When you actually went out and did stuff.
• 34:30
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 34:31
  Dayna Roselli: All right, listen, um, we are excited to dive into nightlife in a couple of future episodes.
• 34:36
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna dive into resorts world more, like we mentioned, as it's getting closer to opening, and we're gonna keep you posted on what's going on here in Las Vegas because things are constantly getting announced.
• 34:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but again, uh June 1st is when the floodgates open back to 100% capacity here in Las Vegas.
• 34:55
  Sean McAllister: That's the headline of episode 64 of Vegas Revealed.
• 34:59
  Dayna Roselli: All right, have a great week, everyone.
• 35:02
  Dayna Roselli: Bye.
• 35:03
  Dayna Roselli: We got bills to pay, backing up a suitcase, let's take a holiday.