2010-Las Vegas-Price is Right

Cameras not allowed at show, but here is a promotional video found on you tube.

Description & Accessibility

It is the Las Vegas version of the popular TV show ‘Price is Right’. The actual TV show is taped at CBS Television city in the Hollywood California area. There are a lot of similarities of the Las Vegas show and the TV show but there are also a few differences. The TV show has a natural progression of being called on down, winning your way on stage, being the high winner spinning the money wheel and then onward to the showcase showdown. In the Las Vegas version of the show, there is no natural progression, there is a new set of contestants for each part of the show, and the two people in the showcase showdown are brand new contestants from the audience. In the TV show the producers come as briefly talk to each person waiting to get into the show and decide before the show even starts taping who will be called on down. In the Las Vegas version they claim that contestants are chosen at random and not pre-selected.

In addition to those called down there where names drawn that won ‘total reward points’, total reward points if you had enough of them could be used at some locations to reduce or eliminate extra charges in your hotel, or reduced show costs, buffets, but usually the way that worked is that you had to charge things to you room account, and on the last day you would go to the ‘total rewards’ window at the casino and if you happen to have enough points they would subtract items owing on your room/hotel bill, not sure what you can do with the points if you stay at a hotel that uses different card system.

Accessible – Yes

You must ask for accessible seating when you buy the tickets, now I had pre-purchased the tickets prior to arriving in Las Vegas. I also had coupon books for a free ‘price is right’ tee shirt however I was told that you had to buy the tickets at the box office at Bally’s in order to get the free tee shirt, if you bought them on the web or by phone you could not get a free tee shirt even with the coupon. Now anyone who could not do the stairs where escorted in via another route and there was a section on one side next to the stage for wheelchairs and scooters. That section proved to be very crowded by the time the show started. All the people that where called down where able bodied persons, there where quite a few mobility disabled person in the area in which I was at. A lot of people would have to move out of the way if you where called on down, and to get on stage there where stairs which means a different route to get on stage. So I do not know if they note during registration if you are disabled and if any disabled do ever get called on down.

My wife did get on the showcase showdown at the ‘price is right’ Las Vegas show and won a cruise on it (if she was $ 100 or less to the retail price we would have had a car, an Hawaii trip, video camera and the cruise, the other person over bided), they offered after the show a cash value but the cash value was less than a 1/3 of the value of the cruise so we took the cruise, had to pay 30 % in taxes first though, it was a 4 day Mexican cruise. What we got in the mail though was the value of the cruise in gift certificates for Carnival cruise lines which meant we could use it on any carnival cruise we wish to take.

By: Donald Kerr