I just don’t see why you’re making an effort to publicize this information.
I mean, people who are planning to stay at the Hard Rock Hotel will certainly notice it when they go to book a reservation. It’s not like it will somehow slip their attention that they can’t book just two nights. And, when they notice it, if they’re not planning to spend three nights, they’ll have to decide if the price for three nights is worth paying for the two they want.
No one is coerced. No information is hidden. If it isn’t worth it to pay the three day price for a two day stay, why would you pay to stay there? If it is, why would you care what they do with the room after you leave?
What if the Hard Rock Hotel had higher prices for Friday and Saturday night, but offered a special promotion where you could stay for free on Sunday if you booked Friday and Saturday? Would this be dishonest?
I’ve thrown out milk. I’ve needed to walk out of massages when my cell phone started ringing off the hook. We regularly throw out half a bag of potatos.
You CAN stay Sunday night and enjoy the whole weekend. The fact that you DON’T because you have to work and don’t want to take a vacation day is not the Hard Rock’s problem, any more than the fact that I decided to drink a Coke with dinner and the milk went bad before I drank the whole quart isn’t the grocery store’s problem.
I don’t see where this is unethical at all - unless they don’t tell you what the deal is when you book. Don’t like it, stay somewhere else. If this catches on, than this is what the market bears for LV Strip hotels (I’m sure you can still stay just Friday and Saturday night downtown). Unethical does not mean “I don’t like what they charge.”
I have no trouble with “what the market bears” for as long as it does not become “the only thing the market offers”. Though I suspect that a few years down the road, some marketer will show up at the board room with a “new, exciting, bold, different idea” of letting people buy their weekend nights a-la-carte. And the wheel keep’s spinning…
DMark has a Las Vegas info website that people on this board do use. I totally understand him pointing out something new in the interest of full disclosure.
That said, I guess I don’t really care for it, but I don’t see it as a scam either. You know the deal up front when you book the rooms and you can always stay the extra day. There are certainly plenty of scams in Vegas though (like what the track did with our NASCAR tickets this year), so it always pays for one to beware.
I can sort of understand that, but it seems like DMark’s website is better suited for things that might otherwise be overlooked. If they changed their policies on cleaning the sheets, or the room service chef got much worse, then a web site that informs people of those things would be useful. I just think publication is unnecessary in this case.
You can’t accidentally book three nights. It’s immediately obvious to anyone trying to book a weekend at the hotel. Every single person who might care about this policy will be informed of it by the Hard Rock Casino itself. “In the interests of full disclosure” implies that the casino was somehow not disclosing something. That doesn’t appear to be the case.
That’s the part I don’t understand.
That said, I have no dog in this fight, and obviously there are people here who are glad to hear about it, so I’m sure that there will be people reading his website who will also be interested.
OK - final word and I am letting this thread die a natural death, I hope.
On another (travel) website where I frequent, many people go to Las Vegas many times every year. There are quite a few younger members of the site who prefer staying at the Hard Rock (and yes, I think boobies have something to do with it) and they are all royally pissed at this new policy. Many are trying to find away around it - although most of the other members of the site have simply told these members to go stay elsewhere.
At any rate, the younger Hard Rock Casino fans feel this new policy is a rip-off and they are none to happy with the idea of paying for a night they will never use. Yes, they have all complained when calling to book rooms - but the hotel more or less says the same thing, “that is our new policy.” End of discussion.
So, all I was trying to do here was to let people know that Hard Rock has implemented a new policy that many Hard Rock regulars consider to be a rip-off.
Little did I know that so many people here would simply shrug and say, “so what?” Maybe that is what Hard Rock is hoping will happen.
At any rate - I passed the info on - ignore it, consider it irrelevant, shrug, avoid Hard Rock, go to Hard Rock, whatever - now ya know.
