Sneaking into pools

Not that I would ever condone such an activity...but just purely for discussion's sake, how stringently do Vegas hotels enforce their pool policies? Are there at least some pools that are fairly easy to get into if you're not a hotel guest?

a lot of pools you arent allowed to go to unless youre staying at the hotel. to get around this, you say you want to eat or gamble outside. they then give you a wristband to go to just that area. when no one is looking, you rip it off and go to the pool.

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they then give you a wristband to go to just that area. when no one is looking, you rip it off and go to the pool.

The general pool party area has a different colored wrist band. People without wrist bands get approached by security (at least they do on that TV series Rehab at the Hard Rock or whatever it was. Frankly the 35.00 admission is so low compared to the booze and tipping that if you can't afford the entry fee you won't enjoy the party at all.

I don't know much about it, but some locals have turned getting into the casino pools for free into an art form. It used to be that they had nice collections of room keys, and just flashed the one for the pool they desired to go to. Now a lot of places run the key through a reader. The pool crashers are either limited to the places that don't run the card through a reader (I think the Venetian doesn't), or have some new trick. Maybe entering through an infrequently used entrance. For example the Red Rock pool has a side entrance directly from the hotel elevator. I think you need a key to operate the elevator, but the astute crasher could just wait for a legitimate guest to get in first.

Sorry if I'm teaching a course on trespassing. I don't condone it either.

I wonder why the casinos witht eh nicer pool don't simply sell day tickets to locals and other interested parties. Say $5 or $10 for all day access to the pool.

Not a bad idea. They would probably charge more than that, like $25. We locals are given the cold shoulder by our own casinos all the time, which is probably why we are not welcome at the pools at any price short of the cost of a room.

Quote: Wizard

Not a bad idea. They would probably charge more than that, like $25. We locals are given the cold shoulder by our own casinos all the time, which is probably why we are not welcome at the pools at any price short of the cost of a room.

I'm assuming the proportion of smart gamblers among vegas locals is probably higher than among most other groups, in particualr Vgeas tourists. Naturally the casinos don't want you.

Really I can't see the Bellagio opening up its pool to the commoners, but at slow times and for the more moedst hotels it may be a fair source of extra revenue, especially if they raise prices on the pool snackbars a little.

Quote: Wizard

Not a bad idea. They would probably charge more than that, like $25. We locals are given the cold shoulder by our own casinos all the time, which is probably why we are not welcome at the pools at any price short of the cost of a room.

Really? I would have thought that if the hotels are busy screwing their guests with stupid 'resort fees' that they'd be happy to collect the same from locals who wish to use the resort.

If that's not the case, then it seems to me that it could be a case of false advertising if a resort tacks on a resort fee without offering that same resort usage and fee to people that aren't guests.

To play the devil's advocate, casino pools can be very crowded on a hot day when the hotel is near capacity. At the Mandalay Bay a line will form to get into the pool about an hour before it opens sometimes, to ensure getting a coveted lounge chair. It would make things even more miserable for paying guests to sell tickets to locals. Yes, maybe they could sell tickets only on slow days only, but it is hard to predict exactly when the slow days will be. It would cause ill will to sell tickets on a limited basis, because locals would invariably show up all the time, and get angry if turned away because the pool was already too crowded.

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Yes, maybe they could sell tickets only on slow days only, but it is hard to predict exactly when the slow days will be. It would cause ill will to sell tickets on a limited basis, because locals would invariably show up all the time, and get angry if turned away because the pool was already too crowded.

Well, then. That's the reason casinos don't sell pool access to non-guests.