- Joined
- Mar 24, 2013
The Strip has gone through several changes in the past 40 years. In the late-80s and early-90s there was a strong push to get away from the "Sin City" image and put on a family-friendly mask. That's when the heavily themed locations like Treasure Island, Excalibur, New York New York, etc. started opening up. The big problem is that most adults want to go to Vegas to drink, gamble, and do other grown-up stuff and parents planning a family trip would rather go to Disneyland/Disney World or similar family destinations where they don't have to worry about some drunk vomiting on little Suzie or illegal aliens waving stacks of flyers with photos of nearly nude women on them promoting escorts under little Billy's nose. So by the early 2000s Vegas decided to rebrand again as THE hot destination for hip young adults to vacation. Vegas is still going with that image, but lately they've also been pushing the "luxury" angle hard with resorts like the Wynn and most other new locations since trying very hard to assert themselves as "classy and luxurious". The Rio was built towards the beginning of the "hip young crowd" era and its pretty dated and trashy these days. No wonder Russhole loves it.