[Rick Lee]

Vegas has gotten stupid expensive. When I was there for a company conference in January, we regularly racked up $5-10k bar tabs each night. A very mediocre team dinner in one of the restaurants in Mandalay Bay was around $90 per person. They get away with this because so few people pay with their own money. It's company money and so no one cares. I think, when we had the roof bar at The Hotel by Mandalay Bay rented for a night, it was $13 per drink minimum. My boss got charged that for a can of Red Bull. It's insane. I don't spend my own money that way. At my local liquor store a 1.75 litre bottle of Maker's Mark is $29 with tax when it's not on sale. I'm better off taking a flask when I travel.