Strollers not welcome at Wynn Las Vegas hotel

Vegas isn't my vacation destination of choice, but I would guess that, in addition to it not being a particularly great vacation option for people with kids, I would guess that many of the hotels and restaurants there are often crowded. I have to agree that strollers do not belong in crowded places. It is annoying to be in a crowd and have your feet run over by somebody with a stroller who's not paying any attention, and those things do take up a lot of space. I think strollers tend to be overused - there are other options for parents. Being anti-stroller isn't necessarily being anti-child.

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I just can't get that worked up about it. My husband and I like Vegas, but we went there for our "last hurrah" pre-baby. Neither of us can imagine bringing our children there. Howeve, there are plenty of resorts there that are targeting the "family" market and I think there is nothing wrong with a resort chosing not to do so. I also agree that sometimes strollers are overused; besides the crowd problem there is a "parking" problem.

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If we ever get to take a vacation (ROFL) I hope it's somewhere that has never, ever allowed children near it.

I have no issues with this. People do need a space without kids sometimes.

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I'm sorry. Vegas is NOT a 'family' vacation spot. Vegas is for adults. I realize that Vegas is cool, fun, Disney World for grownups, etc, but NO. Vegas is not for children. Please take your kids elsewhere, and let adults have this one place where there will be no howls and whines and spills and walking around strollers and enduring ruined dinners. I did not take my children to Vegas until they were over 21, and I do not think anyone else should, either. Take your kids to Disney; let the adults have Vegas. Besides, why would you want your kids to see adults in various stages of nudity, drunkenness, and slot-machine desperation? NOT A CHILD-FRIENDLY PLACE; therefore, don't take your children there. Thankyouverymuch.

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Having spent a lot of time in Vegas myself, I am always flabberghasted by the number of parents who take their children there on vacation. I don't really take issue at all with an upscale resort that chooses, in a playground for adults, to limit the use of strollers. Yay for Wynn Resorts to put their foot down... I just wonder when the first lawsuit for "stroller discrimination" is going to be filed...

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With the size of strollers these days, it doesn't really surprise me too much. I tend to take Paul in the hip sling these days when I go on the metro or to one of the local malls. I don't think it would be as big of a deal if everyone used umbrella strollers, but they don't. I know a couple of moms who only have one child, but have a double stroller for their shopping marathons. A lot of moms also don't fold their SUV sized strollers on the metro, which makes it really hard to get to the door sometimes.

Being considerate is a two way street. If we want them to be more considerate of our needs with strollers, we need to be more considerate of others when we're pushing a stroller.

On the other hand, it -is- Vegas. I think people need to learn to accept that just because a place isn't a strip club or 21+ bar doesn't mean it should automatically be child friendly.

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Vegas has to accomodate children somewhat - families live here too! You know all those cocktail waitresses and busboys, the valet parkers and black jack dealers? A lot of them are married with kids. Then there is the rest of the city, which is like any other, with a variety of people and families.

I grew up here and started my family here. The best restaurants and shopping are at the hotels. So are the best movie theaters. I try to stay away from them when possible, since I don't want to expose my kids and myself to that atmosphere and the secondhand smoke), but sometimes it's unavoidable. For example, when out-of-town family comes to visit, guess where they want to meet and have lunch? That's right, at their hotel. I have a sling, but you have to walk, and walk, and WALK to get to the guest rooms or restaurants. It's part of Casino Design 101: make the people walk past as many slot machines as possible and eventually they might stop and play. Babies and toddlers can get HEAVY, and using a stroller can make it much easier to get through the labyrinth.

Please don't just think of Vegas as an "adult playground." No, I wouldn't bring kids here on vacation and expect it to be like Disneyland. But please try to think of those of us who have to live here for whatever our reasons and how we manage with our kids.

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I'm a little surprised the other folks seem so much in agreement with the hotel's right to ban non-guest strollers. I think it sucks.

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The Wynn is not the only hotel with this policy. While I don't think that Las Vegas is the ideal place for children, I don't think it's off limits either. Most of the hotels have pools with water features that kids love, not to mention roller costers and arcades.

I took my child to Vegas when he was 11 months old. He could have cared less if we would have went to Disneyland instead. My brother takes his family during the summer, and they have fun. The kids enjoy the pool during the day, the adults enjoy the nightlife after bedtime. I was a little irked with the stroller policy. I wanted to let him run around and show them what a child out of a stroller looked like. My child is all over the place. It seems to me it would be much less of a disruption if children were kept strapped in. They don't ask non-walking adults to check their wheelchairs and be carried.

As far as my child being exposed to nudity and drunkeness...I've never seen a naked person running around vegas. and well drunkeness, he already sees in San Francisco.

Would I take him again? yes. I know this post was really about the stroller policy, but I wanted to repond to some of the comments.

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