Street Hustlers / Cabbie Kickbacks, Las Vegas

When we were sitting drinking coffee on the boulevard we were approached a few times by people who claimed they were stranded and needed to get home, i just need $17 to get home etc. One claimed he was not a bum he had a home but needed fuses for his very large camper van to get home. He rattled his keys and said $10 should see him right.

Everyone fall prey to the charms of Las Vegas, just don't fall for the street hawker. Most of these are interested in selling you a time share for only 90 minutes of your time (watching a small presentation). For your reward they are offering vouchers for restaurants, money and coupons for gambling or free tickets to a show in Las Vegas. You may want to do this but if you are like most visitors, and only there for a few days, you will want to see and do as much as you can and will not have time to be hassled after the "90 Minute Presentation."

Unique Suggestions: They are not hard sell and can be very polite. Tell them, "Sorry we are leaving town early in the morning."
They also know this is code for, I am not interested, but at least it allows the both of you to 'save face'.

If your with kids keep them away from the people flicking cards, i was walking down the strip holding my little brothers hand still being given these cards, they also littered everywhere so be careful.

Unique Suggestions: Just ignore them and walk right past them. Or shout at them or whatever haha.

first we cab drivers are not all evil people yes there are some bad cabbies but for the most part we arew just trying to make a living. your job as a ride is to know where you are going and know if your getting screwed. fyi the freeway is not always faster even if the driver says it is. from the airport to most hotels on the strip should only cost you about 20 bucks unless the driver long hauls you thru the tunnel. please do not put people like me in to your hate group as i love people and driving my cab. if you have any cabbie questions email me. Also if you wanna go to a strip club you have many choices on how to get there a cab being one way and yes my favorite cause we do get a kickback. Don't let the driver talk you out of your choice of clubs. And if the doorman trys to get you in a limo or something after you wanted a cab they are breaking the law and yes they get kickbacks too. So do limo drivers.

When looking for passes to nightclubs street promoters are the way to go as most clubs are $35 to get in and theres are 10-20 a pass. All you have to do is look for the ones that are dressed more respectable or that have some sort of id badge on as these are the ones who are actually employed by the clubs. The others you can tell as they are wearing clothes that they have had on for multiple days and are pushing stolen cards usually out of boxes. The passes are legit when coming from real promoters and do get you into the clubs alot quicker. One way to tell besides dress and badges is that bogus promoters can not stand on casino property nor can the mexicans handing out escort cards. so if there promoting by the escort people that is public property meaning they have no affiliation with the clubs or casinos

Last year, my husband and I were trapped by these people. They will actually tell you "Would you like to watch Miss so and so Show for free? We said yes and this person told us to go to this building. From there, a person led us to a table where he was selling Time Share. From there, they took us on a bus to get the "Free Ticket" in a place where it is about an hour away downtown. From there, we were trapped. We can't get out because we didn't have any mode of transportation going back to the strip. We waited there for three hours until finally they gave us our Free Ticket to watch Sheena Easton! Please don't get trap on this deal! You are just wasting you whole day from people marketing Time Shares!!!

Unique Suggestions: Just say "NO!" right away to people saying "Would you like to see Sheena Easton's Show for Free?" or "Would you like for you and your children eat for free at the....so and so...? Just stay away from these people!!!! They just waste your time.

At night all along the strip vendors try to sell you these "discount or VIP passes" for the clubs and bars. Some of them are real and some aren't! So be careful! Talk to a few different vendors about the same club or bar you are interested in to see what deals each of them offer. We talked to one dealer that said one particular bar was not free for ladies that night. Another one said they had a pass for free entry. We baught the pass ( for 10 dollars!!) and tried to use it, but it was not valid.

Jump in a cab in Las Vegas and the first thing they say to you is, that they know the best strip club in town or they have VIP passes to a club and will sell them to you for half price !!!! Don't go for either one !!! there both a scam.....they get keepbacks for taking customers to strip clubs and the so called VIP passes to clubs are given to them for free by the club and no matter what you say to the bouncer you'll end up making the line just like everyone else and paying the full cover price like everyone else !!!!! which of course the cab driver tells you that you skip the line and don't have to pay at the door......go ahead try it....and see how the bouncer laughs in your face !!!!!!