Roland de Wolfe talks to Players TV about Arsenal FC, his favourite places in Las Vegas and what his dream poker table would be.
Tag-Archive for » Wynn «
ThePlayersTV
Category: Luxor, Luxor Hotel, MGM, MGM Grand, MGM Grand Garden, MGM Grand Garden Arena, MGM Mirage, MGM Mirage City Center, MGM properties, the MGM Grand, Vegas, Venetian, Venetian Hotel-Casino, Venetian hotels, Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
Tags: Luxor, MGM, Poker Professional, Roland de Wolfe, Venetian, Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Wynn Leave a Comment
from www.pe.com
Opening dates for CityCenter, the gigantic megaresort on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, have been confirmed.
Four of the six primary components of the complex will open in December: Vdara on Dec. 1, Crystals on Dec. 3, Mandarin Oriental on Dec. 4 and ARIA on Dec. 16.
Veer (the residential component) and Harmon (in the midst of a redesign) will not open until 2010.
The Vdara tower, a part of the CityCenter in Las Vegas, is to open Dec. 1; other parts of the complex are to follow.
Mirage has begun hiring the more than 12,000 employees who will run the megaresort; this from a field of approximately 160,000 applicants.
New Club for Encore
Steve Wynn says he’ll build yet another nightclub, which will be the fourth for Encore/Wynn. Plans call for closing the Strip entrance to Encore, removing the driveway, and building a Strip-facing combination nightclub and beach club set to debut next summer.
Neon
The first neon signs have been installed on Las Vegas Boulevard north of downtown as part of the Las Vegas Boulevard Scenic Byways plan.
The vintage sign from the Bow and Arrow Motel has been erected at the corner of the Boulevard and Bonanza Road. Soon to be installed nearby are the slipper from the Silver Slipper casino and the horseshoe from the top of Binion’s. In all, 17 restored neon signs will grace Las Vegas Boulevard from Washington to Sahara avenues.
For more information about current Las Vegas shows, buffets, coupons, and good deals, go to www.LasVegasAdvisor.com
Category: ARIA, Binion's, Bow and Arrow Motel, buffets, CityCenter, coupons, Crystals, Encore, good deals, Harmon, Las vegas, Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas Boulevard Scenic Byways, Las Vegas shows, Mandarin Oriental, Mirage, Silver Slipper, Vdara, Veer, Wynn
Tags: ARIA, Binion's, Bow and Arrow Motel, buffets, CityCenter, coupons, Crystals, Encore, good deals, Harmon, Las vegas, Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas Boulevard Scenic Byways, Las Vegas shows, Mandarin Oriental, Mirage, Silver Slipper, Vdara, Veer, Wynn Leave a Comment
from travel.latimes.com
by Jen Leo
Photo: Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas. Credit: Jacob Kepler / Bloomberg News
Tuesday we blogged about how four- and five-star hotels in Vegas have come way down in price — to the tune of $40 to $100 per night. But how do you find these deals? With so many travel websites out there, you have a number of options. And if your e-mail inbox is as busy as mine, sometimes you need a combination of tools to determine when a particular deal really deserves attention.
E-mail newsletters: Unless you are a regular visitor and rated player at a casino, signing up for a casino hotel’s e-mail newsletters is the fastest way to find out when their rooms go on sale. Hotels often give the best rates to their e-mail list as well. The only trick to this method is that you have to read the e-mails. Since they arrive regularly and often look the same, they can become easy to ignore over time.
Sample: Bellagio sent out an e-mail this week called “Escape to Relaxation.” On the outside of the e-mail there were 15%-, 20%- and 25%-off deals based on advance booking. But if you clicked through and checked their availability calendar, you’d find rooms as low as $90 on several midweek dates in November and December. The cheapest weekend I saw was on Dec. 18-19 for $118 per night.
Bing Travel: I like using Bing Travel to do a hotel search because I can quickly isolate the search results to just four- and five-star hotels (and compare prices with the biggies like Hotels.com, Priceline, Hotwire, Expedia and Travelocity). Many sites have both of these features, but Bing Travel lets me know with a red sign if it’s not a deal, and a green one if it is. And since it’s Las Vegas, I often compare prices and availability with Vegas.com.
Sample: One of our readers was looking for a five-star room Aug. 30-Sept. 1. I used Bing Travel’s Hotel section and found Trump International ($99), Palms Place ($139) and Wynn ($199). The Palms Place price had the green deal button on it. When I checked the Palms Place website, the same nights were going for $159 per night. Next I clicked on the Priceline comparison page and sorted by five-star properties. The lowest priced property listed was Ritz Carlton Lake Las Vegas for $129 a night.
Dealbase: The Dealbase free deal alerts have become indispensable to me. I can specify an alert just for five-star hotels in Vegas below $200 (or any other combo of star and price range) and get an e-mail with deals daily, twice a week or weekly.
Sample: Just today I got an e-mail from Dealbase for my Vegas alerts and found that the Signature (a 4.5 star non casino hotel connected to MGM) was on sale for $59/night via their fourth-night- free deal. When I clicked through to Hotwire, I saw deals for $79/night weeknights Monday-Thursday through Oct. 31 or $129/night on weekends. If you stayed four consecutive nights, the fourth night was free.
– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger
Photo: Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas. Credit: Jacob Kepler / Bloomberg News
Category: 5-star hotels, Bing Trave, cheap rooms, Dealbase, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, MGM, Palms Place, Priceline, Ritz Carlton Lake Las Vegas, Signature, Travelocity, Trump International, Wynn
Tags: 5-star hotels, Bing Trave, cheap rooms, Dealbase, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, MGM, Palms Place, Priceline, Ritz Carlton Lake Las Vegas, Signature, Travelocity, Trump International, Wynn Leave a Comment
from digitaljournal.com
by Jay David Murphy
Palms Fantasy Tower and The Palms in a rare photo of the south face of the two buildings.
Luxury rooms are now at bargain rates in Las Vegas. You can pay 2 star prices and stay at 5 star properties by doing some shopping on line at discount travel sites.
Las Vegas has become a bargain again and the days of full hotels at high nightly rates are put on the back burner for now. Digital Journal in Las Vegas has taken a hard look at room rates and has found that room rates have plummeted and a new form of marketing has suddenly appeared. First, a new marketing trend that has swept the cities Strip hotels is the terminology, ‘average room rate’. This new play on words is an attempt to gloss over falling room rates. The five star hotels like the Wynn, Bellagio, and Palazzo have recently scene triple digit room rates drop to double digits. Rooms that were going for $200 a night are now falling around $75 when you use services like Price Line.
The Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip is one of the many of the many five star hotels offering online deep discounts.
The multiple property room switch is stronger than ever. In order to cut costs, operators of these properties, will switch tourists to another property to fill a designated hotel. This means that staffing at other properties they operate is cut. This also translates to fewer products needed to operate those facilities, like food, cleaning supplies, and laundry services. Some strip properties are now under $20 a night, like the Sahara which is can be stayed at for $18.75. If you go to the Palms which is one of the hottest properties in Vegas, on their website you will find the off dates with prices as low as $59 a night. Again, at bargain websites like Price Line and Expedia, they have rates even lower than what the properties advertise. The one thing that has not dropped is restaurant food pricing and goods costs, like bottled water in the hotels. There has been a huge influx of water bottle pirates who stand on the causeway bridges between hotels over Las Vegas Boulevard. They sell water for a dollar, without a license, in comparison to the $3 and $4 dollar prices that the hotels still overcharge. The water pirates make 80 cents per bottle and it is not unusual for them to make $400 a day. With over 13% unemployment now in Las Vegas, it has become a booming illegal enterprise. Just last week Vegas metro arrested over a dozen water pirates after Strip properties complained. On one website every hotel in Las Vegas had big sale signs on its tabs trying to fill rooms that just 2 years ago went for $200 a night and more. One example, last week 4 nights at the Bellagio went for $180 for the whole stay, that’s $45 a night for a room facing the Dancing Fountains Strip side. That’s a 5 star room at a 2 star rate. So it’s back to Vegas being a bargain vacation spot as hotels are now giving out great deals on their glut of luxury rooms. The trick is to shop the websites that are pushing rooms for the properties at double the volume of just a year ago according to Expedia. Do not to go direct to the hotels where you want to stay and pay more. The theory behind the deep discounts is that they will make up the difference by guest gambling, dining, and enjoying the other amenities. Some hotel executives are concerned about the long term ramifications hoping this lastest trend won’t last long so they can get their room rates back up.
Picture of City Center at the cross road of Harmon and Las Vegas Boulevard.
But things are about to get even better for the tourist, because City Center is getting ready to open up and will have several towers of rooms ready to go. Which means room rates may have to drop even lower. One other tip to save money while visiting Las Vegas is to use a service called Tickets Tonight when you get to town. They have several Strip locations and sell the unsold tickets to shows starting at noon each day for half price. They are also offering other things to do while in Vegas at tremendous discounts. Las Vegas is known as a ‘walk up’ city when it comes to concert and event ticket sales. Advance tickets sales in the Las Vegas market are significantly below other cities. Vegas is a very now town, and locals know to wait until the last second to snatch up bargains, even on some of the top events. Purchasing tickets early in Las Vegas translate to paying higher prices. Of course, for big gamblers the free stuff is still available in Vegas. But you have to be laying down big bets that are in the 10’s of 1,000’s. If you are gambling with less than $20,000 you will get a players card and standard comps. Since Vegas became corporate, the purse strings tightened up, and properties have come under the meticulous eyes of corporation accountants, who even during the good times, sought to save money and trimmed down comp dollars. Make sure, if you are gambling, to get a players card at the properties you choose to stay and play at. You may get some immediate benefits, and when you come back and stay, even more. There are also a lot of discounts on air line tickets and car rentals right now. Vegas still depend on the consumers out of southern California, but even that traffic has dwindled and the packed freeway going in and out of the city on the weekends has seen a significant drop. So do your shopping for hotel rooms for Las Vegas on the Internet and you are sure to find some huge savings right now so you can live it up large in five star rooms at three star rates. The sale sign has been hung and the Internet is the place for Vegas bargains.
Category: bargain, Bellagio, City Center, Dancing Fountains, Digital Journal, Expedia, Las vegas, Luxury rooms, Palazzo, Palms, Price Line, Sahara, Tickets Tonight, Vegas bargains, Wynn
Tags: bargain, Bellagio, City Center, Dancing Fountains, Digital Journal, Expedia, Las vegas, Luxury rooms, Palazzo, Palms, Price Line, Sahara, Tickets Tonight, Vegas bargains, Wynn Leave a Comment
