The price of having a car is headed up in Sin City. Additional Las Vegas resorts have decided to follow the lead of others and bring back paid parking… and more will surely follow. Is this pure greed? Is this a cash grab? Well, yes and no. First of all, the latest Las Vegas resorts to put this plan into action are the Wynn and Encore. Their decision to charge folks for the privileged of parking in their garages follows the announcement of the Venetian and Palazzo just a few days ago. And that decision was attributed to The Sphere…

The Nevada Gaming Control Board has allowed The Cosmopolitan, Encore, and Wynn Las Vegas to begin operating at full capacity this week. All three properties met the Board’s conditions to open at 100% by having at least 60% of their employees vaccinated. Additionally, the properties can now remove any restrictions, such as plastic barriers between games and at gaming tables, which were in place for social distancing. Cosmopolitan CEO William McBeath stated that the “…only clear path to normalcy and bringing our entire workforce back is through vaccinations”, adding that immunizations are the key to success for the entire gaming…

The Coronavirus numbers are in for the Wynn Las Vegas, with well over 500 confirmed cases among staff and hotel guests reported. And while that number may sound high, it’s actually just over a rate of 3% total. The company has conducted over 15,000 COVID-19 test on employees which resulted in 548 positive cases, which calculates to a rate of 3.6%. However, there were over 50 positive tests before the hotel and casino began to welcome guests back, which lowers the infection rate slightly to just 3.3% after the reopening. Also significant is that contact tracing results showed that 98%…

Don’t look now, but the Wynn Las Vegas and their sister site Encore could actually open as early as this month… if (and it’s a big “if”) Nevada’s phased reopening schedule moves along quickly. Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox said that when the time is right the company will probably reopen both of its Vegas Strip resorts together in a limited capacity. Maddox added that reopening ultimately would depend on public health benchmarks set by state officials and by Wynn’s reopening plan that was released in April. “Clearly, we won’t be opening large mass gathering places — nightclubs or convention…