'Pawn Stars' boss Rick Harrison calls out the Vegas pricing that ticks 'people off'

Tourism successful Las Vegas continues to diminution — with conscionable implicit 3 cardinal visitors successful September, an 8.8% alteration from the aforesaid clip past year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCA).

Rick Harrison of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop successful Las Vegas told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation that a batch of radical "have been beating up connected Vegas."

But "it’s Vegas," helium said. "It is the amusement superior of the world. I deliberation we person much five-star restaurants than immoderate metropolis successful the United States. There’s thing for each terms point."

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Harrison added, "A batch of radical are saying tourism is down successful Las Vegas … due to the fact that the prices are excessively expensive. And that mightiness beryllium portion of it."

September's debased visitant numbers are attributed to "slower midweek volumes," according to the LVCA. 

A celebrated tourer halt acknowledgment to the amusement "Pawn Stars," Harrison’s store attracts astir 1,200 visitors per day, helium said. 

The Gold & Silver Pawn Shop successful Las Vegas — made celebrated by the amusement "Pawn Stars" — attracts astir 1,200 visitors per day. (Ashley J. DiMella/Fox News Digital)

"I’d accidental astir apt 40% to 50% of the radical I get are international. But a large portion of it is, we're not getting the Asian tourists" close now, said Harrison.

He attributes that to "economic reasons successful their country, not needfully ours," helium said.

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This past July, determination were 3,089,300 visitors compared to implicit 3.5 cardinal astatine that aforesaid clip past year, portion occupancy connected the Strip dropped 7% from 86.5% past year.

Harrison says businesses connected the Strip request to beryllium much upfront astir their pricing.

"Be upfront with the prices, OK?" said Rick Harrison of "Pawn Stars" fame.  (iStock; Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)

"That’s what [ticks] radical disconnected — erstwhile you spell to cheque out, and it was $149 a night. … You person the tax, the edifice tax, and you person a edifice fee, and you person the parking interest and … and present it's $300 a nighttime oregon $400 a night."

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"Be upfront with the prices, OK?" said Harrison.

"I've ne'er had a astonishment interest [for customers of] the pawn store due to the fact that if I did, I wouldn't beryllium successful concern long," helium said.

The Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix returns Nov. 20-22, 2025, on the Las Vegas Strip. (Michael Anthony for Fox News Digital)

Meanwhile, the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix is returning to the Vegas Strip aboriginal this month, from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22. 

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Last year, reported attendance for contention play was 306,000 people, according to F1 Destinations. 

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Las Vegas Grand Prix firm affairs elder vice president Lori Nelson-Kraft told the Las Vegas Sun successful Nov. 2024, "The standard and scope and complexity of our antithetic instrumentality zones and activations and the unrecorded amusement that’s fused unneurotic with the thrill of that 1 is truly conscionable creating a batch of excitement for our guests, and that’s what we’re seeing, and that’s what we’re hearing."