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Ritz-Carlton Chokes on Luxury Ham Sandwich, Closes

(Cue: 1960s Batman TV show chase fight music) Could it be????? The very same glut of CityCenter room capacity that shuttered hotel rooms at Sahara and Binion's? [[[[ POW!!! ]]]] The fact that Mandarin Oriental has blown the traditional Four Seasons-ian concept of a luxury hotel experience out of the water????? [[[[ SOCK!!! ]]]] The damn recession that has raped luxury hotels unlike any other? [[[[ KA-BLAM!!! ]]]] Whatever it was, it is being reported by America's high school newspaper, USA Today, that Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas will be closing its doors...

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More Thrilling Than Four Splits Against a Dealer Six

Vegas is dotted with a number of places that rent exotic cars. For somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500, you too can pretend to own a Ferrari for a 24-hour period. Worth it? Hardly. I mean, if you do shell out the dough, you'd have to seek out an empty road near Red Rock Canyon to open her up and let her show you what she's got. Of course, you'll still be at the mercy of traffic laws and radar guns just around the hairpin you took...

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Ritz-Carlton Chokes on Luxury Ham Sandwich, Closes

Wynn Future and Past Concepts: Catch Them While You Can!

Encore vs. Aria

Your Thoughts On Resort Fees In Seven Magazine

The debut edition of Seven Magazine, a new glossy from Wendoh Media (944 etc), features a new column by our very favorite writer on all things Vegas and gambling, Dr. Dave Schwartz. The inaugural edition of the "Green Felt Journal" is notable, not only because we loooove they way they made Dr. Dave look like the Vulcan elder he pretends not to be in the inset, but because he quoted some of VT's longtime readers, Donnymac66 and RockchickX51 in the column (page 34 on the...

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I Really Hate Tennis

Planet Hollywood Loses Mind, Touts Trippies On Homepage

Wynn Future and Past Concepts: Catch Them While You Can!

We are always and forever grateful to our readers, especially when they send us a doozy of a find. And they don't get much doozier than the doozy that doozy-finding-master mac78130 sent our way a few hours ago. I present to you interior concept developer, Jeffrey Schneider. These drawings illustrate an extremely vivid and fanciful concept of the ideas that are currently at work in Wynn's properties. More interestingly, however, are the ideas that never made it passed paper. Many moons ago, the Admiral leaked a few...

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Ritz-Carlton Chokes on Luxury Ham Sandwich, Closes

More Thrilling Than Four Splits Against a Dealer Six

Encore vs. Aria

Encore vs. Aria

For the past five years, one of the most hotly debated questions in all of Las Vegas fandom was "Bellagio vs. Wynn, which one is better and why?" The opening of Encore in December, coupled with the economic crash let the market make the decision for us. Bellagio lowered its baseline hotel room rates to the high double digits, Wynn & Encore - except during the very worst of it - hovered in the $119 range. Trippies 2009 results also provide evidence that Wynn and Encore...

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Ritz-Carlton Chokes on Luxury Ham Sandwich, Closes

More Thrilling Than Four Splits Against a Dealer Six

Wynn Future and Past Concepts: Catch Them While You Can!

Editorial: Obama Smokes More Vegas Crack

Unless you've been living under a rock, ignoring Trippie winner Steve Friess' twitter feed, or just don't care enough to click on those Yahoo article links, you've probably heard that President Obama went off teleprompter and inadvertently insulted Vegas this week. Fallout from the event has ranged from Harry Reid and his Congressional colleagues condemning the statement and the president for making it--actions that got Reid an apology on that neat and pretty White House stationary--to everyone's favorite former mob lawyer mayor and functioning alcoholic saying...

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Ritz-Carlton Chokes on Luxury Ham Sandwich, Closes

More Thrilling Than Four Splits Against a Dealer Six

Wynn Future and Past Concepts: Catch Them While You Can!

Uh Oh. Celine's Back?

Earlier today, Steve Friess, reposted this from the @ticketmaster Twitter feed. RT @Ticketmaster Are you a big Celine Dion fan? Watch our Twitter closely to hear something really special http://ow.ly/12Ho9// Hmm... I've got about 150 friends who work at the soon-to-be-former Ticketmaster, from the parking garage guys to the the top executives. As many of you know, I am a Ticketbastard alumni and my non-disclosure agreement ran out three years ago. Anyways, I've done a little reconnaissance re: Steve's inference that Celine Dion might be heading back...

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Stryper Guitarist To Marry Ex-Prostitute This Friday In Vegas

LATE SCRATCH : [TBA] Sold : MGM Shares Halted

Suddenly... Clowns Become Cool Again

Thanks China!

You know those high-speed trains between Anaheim/Victorville and Vegas that everyone keeps talking about? You know, the ones we all thought would never happen? Well the fantasy is turning into a reality. Fox 5 News is reporting that thanks to a hefty $7 billion loan from Export-Import Bank of China, the 300 mile per hour Maglev train might actually come to fruition. That's Anaheim to Vegas in far less time than it takes most of southern California's coastal community residents to just reach the I-15 on a...

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Your Thoughts On Resort Fees In Seven Magazine

I Really Hate Tennis

Planet Hollywood Loses Mind, Touts Trippies On Homepage

Golden Nugget Adds an Element of Everyone into Their New Suites

While Golden Nugget's Rush Tower has been getting all the attention, downtown's top spot has quietly given much-needed love to their parlor suites - an eclectic hodgepodge of been there, done that suite design that's nevertheless a refreshing change. We begin with their Gold Tower Suite. It's Bellagio pre MGM Mirage meets New York [New York] art deco. Furnishings with molded armrests and legs as well as a rounded headboard on the bed already look dated and yet strangely combine well with drapes and wall coverings. Replace...

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Ritz-Carlton Chokes on Luxury Ham Sandwich, Closes

More Thrilling Than Four Splits Against a Dealer Six

Wynn Future and Past Concepts: Catch Them While You Can!

Walk Away A Winner?

Harrah's has a new online promotion on their website called Walk Away A Winner. The tagline states: Everyone walks away with something. Every day. After fumbling through an email harvester and a mini-treasure hunt through their listing of Twitter accounts (fyi, today's answer is Harrahs_STL) and ANOTHER Total Rewards land address harvester, I ended up at the game: Pick a card, any three cards... actually, you don't even have to pick any cards, you can just skip to the next part of the "game" if you...

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Cocktails? Drinks? Vicodin?

Gaming Biz : Harrah's Emperor Speaks

Oh Yeah, Harrahs Website Fail

MGM Mansion Maybach : Buy It Now!

The Mansions at MGM Maybach is for sale on the eBay. Buy It Now for a cool $225,995... barely 6g's over the starting bid. A two year old car with 43,028 miles on it... nearly every one of those trips a 1.6 mile trek from MGM to McCarran. That's a lot of asses. I'd buy it just to suck the farts out of the seat cushions in the hopes of proving once and for all whether or not high rollers farts do or do not stink....

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The Venetian Macao Stole My Photo

Luxor: I Heart Patrick Dempsey (Update)

The Day The Mob Saved Vegas

Wynn Las Vegas Loses Mind, Doesn't Post Trippies Wins On Website!

Holy crap! Wynn Las Vegas hasn't* dedicated a huge panel of their website's homepage to tout the insane number of readers choice awards they won in this years Trippies!** And Encore's butterflies migrate 300 miles every night so they can snuggle together in the warm confines of my butt. * They might have posted it, but we can't tell because we're still waiting for their website to finish loading. Stuck AGAIN at 51%. On Safari, Firefox AND Chrome! ** Totally photoshopped. Here's hi-res...

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Dear Steve Wynn, Happy 888,888th

VegasEats: Stratta at Wynn Las Vegas

Our First Cease And Desist Order... Thanks Wynn!

The Math According to Stratosphere

When we weren't looking - which is often - The Stratosphere put together a mini website which makes a case for it being the best place to enjoy Vegas for under $100/day. The website is located at LasVegasUnder100.com. Hungry? Enjoy all your meals at The Buffet for $24.99! Thirsty? Get a bucket of beer at the Back Alley Bar for $20! Still thirsty? Bottomless cocktails at the C Bar for $19.99! Bored? Go see American Superstars for $19.99! That huge chunk of the pie there... with...

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