Everyone is excited for the Las Vegas reopen and to see things get (somewhat) back to normal. But what most people don’t know is the scary little secret about how returning visitors could have their whole vacation ruined before it even begins. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has added a new requirement to casinos reopen plans that might have you thinking twice about heading to Sin City.
That requirements includes an order that casinos provide a “holding area” for people who aren’t not cleared to check in to a hotel by the health screening process. People who have probably flown thousands of miles and fail the health inspection will first be counseled by a healthcare worker who isn’t their doctor… then, quite possibly shuttled off to a a secret, non-gaming hotel to be quarantined.
Now, the whole redirection of guests to other hotels is a mystery. When health professionals explained the process to the Control Board last week, they did not identify the hotels that will be used to quarantine tourists. The Control Board will not identify them, and University Medical Center isn’t sharing the names of the hotels, either.
So say you want to do Vegas on the cheap and decide to stay at one of these mystery hotels without knowing it was a quarantine spot. You could find yourself smack in the middle of hundreds of people quarantined over Coronavirus fears. How’s that for a vacation?
You can read more about the unanswered questions of the Las Vegas reopen at the Review-Journal.