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How To Get Mlife To Pay The Resort Fee
Posted by Blackjacker1979 on 24 Apr 2012
I know in most cases rooms at Bellagio are highly priced so saving a few bucks isn't a big deal, but if you want to get that resort fee for free at least, there's a...
Step Aside, Mandarin Bar... Hyde Is Here
Posted by MikeE on 24 Jan 2012
Somewhere behind an uninviting, overwhelmingly hideous wall where Fontana's video poker once stood is a new space with a reputation that was tarnished before it even opened.
It's run by the guy who closed Sahara. It...
Hyde Unhides
Posted by Chuckmonster on 23 Dec 2011
Hyde Lounge, the soon to be opening nightlife booze concept from VT reader SamNazarian tore down their construction walls last week to unveil... (drum roll please).........
The Holodeck doors are open... a fantasyland where $500 bottles...
Meet The New Hermes at Bellagio
Posted by Chuckmonster on 7 Dec 2011
Last week, Bellagio took the wraps off of their brand new, lobby-adjacent Hermes store and VT megatipster JakeZ strolled by to take some pics.
This store is gigantic. I goes from the lobby all the...
Exclusive: Hyde Bellagio Is
Posted by Chuckmonster on 21 Oct 2011
Dateline: Dagobah. Here's an exclusive. And by exclusive I mean excluding everyone. And by here I mean Hyde Bellagio.
Huh whuh?
You remember that post earlier this week wherein we all looked at...
Get WET This Christmas
Posted by Blackjacker1979 on 19 Oct 2011
Got an extra million lying around after hedging your hedge fund bets or cashing in a few $25,000 chips? Needless Markup Neiman Marcus's annual Christmas extravaganza has a steal for you.
That's right folks, for a...
SBE Shows Off Hyde Lounge To Everyone But Us cc: Sam Nazarian
Posted by Chuckmonster on 18 Oct 2011
Last week, SBE Entertainment and MGM Resorts International sent invitations to preview the Hyde Lounge at Bellagio to a handful of folks, but not us. The invitations consisted of three computer renderings posted below.
For...
Photos: Bellagio Resort Deluxe Queen
Posted by Chuckmonster on 11 Oct 2011
VT reader Paul spent a coupla nights in Bellagio's "butterscotch" rooms, officially called the Resort Deluxe Queen and shared some photos with us. Thanks Paul!
Crowded.
Why not swap the desk and the chairs and decrease...
Dear Vdara: Get Real
Posted by MikeE on 29 Sep 2011
Ahhh, so now you're offering comped limos, huh?
It's something we still get excited over: the dude at the bottom of the escalators with a sign holding your name as you descend to ground level at...
New Feature Posted: Bellagio Resort Deluxe Review
Posted by Chuckmonster on 19 Sep 2011
Just a note to those tuned into the Twitter and RSS feeds that we've posted a new feature to VT, Blackjacker1979's review of the Resort Deluxe rooms at Bellagio.
This is the first of two full...
Peekaboo: Hyde Lounge at Bellagio Floor Plan
Posted by Chuckmonster on 12 Aug 2011
An anonymous tipster pointed us to a hand drawn floorplan of the forthcoming Hyde Lounge at Bellagio. For the sake of neatness and my inability to remember anything unless I write it down, I've...
SBE Plans Umami Burger For Vegas... But Where?
Posted by Chuckmonster on 11 Aug 2011
A few months ago, in the wake of the Sahara closure, SBE Entertainment's head toolsmith Sam Nazarian announced an investment into local Los Angeles burger joint Umami Burger. In the last three years or...
Bellagio Charging More For Less?
Posted by MikeE on 9 Aug 2011
Are you one of the select few who absolutely loves the new rooms at Bellagio? Are you just dying to get into one of them despite the fact that there are very few available at...
Bellagio Debuts Resort Deluxe Queen
Posted by Chuckmonster on 9 Aug 2011
Bellagio has debuted another of its hotel room designs - the Resort Deluxe Queen - on its website.
This, very autumnal design uses the same hard goods we've seen in the other room design iterations but...
Bluelaggio : The New Blue Rooms At Bellagio
Posted by JohnH on 21 Jul 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the VT premiere* of the brand new "blue" rooms at Bellagio. Through some strange act of fate and timing VT's John H and our friend Steve Friess...
Hyde Lounge In Hiding
Posted by Chuckmonster on 21 Jul 2011
Hyde Lounge, the new nightclub concept from Sahara assassin Sam Nazarian's company sbe entertainment has now fully boarded over the Fontana Lounge at Bellagio. After 13 years of doing double duty as lounge and...
First Look: The Newly Renovated Rooms at Bellagio!
Posted by MikeE on 18 Jun 2011
Recently, one of the jewelry industry's top conventions, JCK Las Vegas, made its way to Mandalay Bay. You may be wondering, "Why is this of any interest to me?" Simple. Because convention sales and group...
VegasEats: Picasso at Bellagio
Posted by JohnH on 14 Jun 2011
Entering Picasso, much like entering Bellagio itself, is to be transported to another world entirely. You don't feel as if you've been transported to a tacky recreation of any of Picasso's studios in Europe,...
Fontana Lounge At Bellagio Closes Forever July 5
Posted by Chuckmonster on 4 Jun 2011
Bellagio has updated their online fact sheet with the closing date of Fontana Lounge, which has been pushed back to July 5th, 2011. The original closing date was rumored to be late April, which...
New Feature Posted: Obama's Suite At Bellagio Photo Tour
Posted by Chuckmonster on 28 Apr 2011
A quick note to those tuned into the RSS and Twitter feeds that we've posted a brand new feature to the site, Mike E's photo tour of Bellagio's Presidential Suite, the very same exact suite...
The Big Game At Bellagio
Posted by Chuckmonster on 21 Apr 2011
Here's something interesting, according to poker pro Daniel Negreanu, poker's historic 'big game' - the highest of the high limit games in Vegas - has split from Bobby's Room at Bellagio and gone to The...
Hyde Lounge At Bellagio Peekaboo
Posted by Chuckmonster on 22 Mar 2011
One of the designers involved with transforming Bellagio's Fontana Lounge into SBE's Sahara killing nightclub Hyde Lounge has posted a rendering under the nom de plume "X Lounge" to their website. Yeah, you're sneaky.
Here's...
Here We Go With A Super Rip Off Of The MAD Fold-In
Posted by Chuckmonster on 14 Mar 2011
Here we go with a super special edition rip off of the Mad Magazine Fold-In. If you have any luck folding your monitor/laptop/iPad please send us photos. Otherwise, print it out and fold it...
Hyde Lounge To Replace Fontana Lounge At Bellagio
Posted by Chuckmonster on 1 Mar 2011
As has been widely rumored and reported in these pages, the Fontana Lounge at Bellagio is officially on the way out. In plans announced today by MGM Resorts International (owners of Bellagio) and...
Thanks Moammar!
Posted by Chuckmonster on 25 Feb 2011
Looks like the rising gas prices resulting from the slew of revolutions in the middle east is causing some economic uneasiness here at home. How do we know? Bellagio has started discounting rooms...
The Plan To Combat Cosmopolitan Part III
Posted by Chuckmonster on 23 Feb 2011
Bellagio has enacted a very clever plan to hoover up all that foot traffic that is leaking from the piazza outside their world famous fountain show before it spills into Cosmopolitan's entrance 30 yards to...
Power Failure at Bellagio
Posted by MikeE on 19 Feb 2011
Just got word from friends on the scene that floors 17 and above are completely out of power at Bellagio. The front desk is a complete mess at the moment as they try to resolve...
Welcome Misnomer!
Posted by Chuckmonster on 4 Feb 2011
I am incredibly happy to announce that the infinitely hysterical master of The Board, Misnomer, has agreed to become an official member of the VegasTripping staff. Misnomer, @misnoper on Twitter, will be contributing a...
Sayonara Fontana Lounge At Bellagio
Posted by Blackjacker1979 on 31 Jan 2011
Fresh on the heels of a Twitter mention by the Admiral, some digging has revealed that the much-loved yet oft-closed Fontana Bar at Bellagio will say its final goodbye sometime around the end of April.
A...
Return of the What The Hell Is An iTouch?
Posted by Chuckmonster on 4 Nov 2010
Longtime VT readers may remember the time that we asked Monte Carlo's Hotel32 What the Hell is An iTouch?" They answered two days later by changing the promo copy on the website.
Now, we...
MGM Drops Resort Fee Bomb : Everyone Is Getting Them Including Bellagio!
Posted by Chuckmonster on 3 Nov 2010
Well, leave it up to MGM Resorts International boss Jim Murren to break the news that all MGM properties that haven't yet instituted resort fees will be doing so by the time 2011 clocks in,...
Bellagio Debuts New Website
Posted by Chuckmonster on 26 Oct 2010
Bellagio has launched a brand new for 2010 website, almost three years to the day since they launched the last one (that sucked.)
This one... well... its pretty goddamn cool, at least the home page. ...
Pencil: Myth Busting The Booking Window
Posted by Chuckmonster on 12 Oct 2010
In case you didn't know, real time hotel room pricing really fascinates me. I've often wondered if it was possible to detect pricing trends using published hotel rates for statistical basis. Specifically,...
The New Drink Tax At Bellagio
Posted by Chuckmonster on 6 Oct 2010
In a move to cut costs and/or boost the bottom line, a number of Bellagio's bars have upped the price of drinks... no, not by actually changing the prices, but by tacking on sales tax...
Cosmopolitan's Extravagant Advertising Campaign
Posted by MikeE on 4 Oct 2010
Stevezie twice shot commercials for his casinos perched atop his buildings. Factor in helicopters, safety equipment, several piece orchestra soundtrack, and Brett Ratner, and you're looking at a truly ridiculous budget for a coupla commercials....
The Pencil: Fall Las Vegas Room Rate Study
Posted by Chuckmonster on 1 Oct 2010
So, with the arrival of summer fall now is as good a time as any to take a 500 foot view hotel rates trends over the coming two months. For the purpose of this...
The Best Concierge in Las Vegas
Posted by MikeE on 27 Sep 2010
Matt knows hotel operations. He's old school. Half Italian in blood, full Italian in heart, every guest that approaches is like a friend to him. You'd never expect this 20-something to have the capability of...
Bellagio: Gateway to the Cosmopolitan
Posted by JohnH on 9 Sep 2010
As the countdown to the opening of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas inches ever closer to zero (we're now at 97 days), many of us are going to have to start looking at the logistics...
Bellagio Applies The Personal Touch
Posted by MikeE on 7 Sep 2010
The number of inquiries I read about casino hosts is staggering. Everybody wants the attention and that personal level of service that a host brings. That's their calling card. Otherwise, you can obtain 99% of...
Bellagio Joins Twitter
Posted by Chuckmonster on 30 Aug 2010
The world famous Bellagio has finally joined Twitter. You can access their account @BellagioLV. Sure is a damn shame they couldn't afford a graphic designer to make a gorgeous, non-tiling background design.
Folks...
Bellagio Moving To Wine Country
Posted by Chuckmonster on 25 Aug 2010
Bellagio - Las Vegas' finest resort, aka The Other Gateway To The CityCenter - has decided to take a little vacation to Napa, California, home of the WinoTripping.
"Bellagio superstar chef" Julian Serrano (f-you Aria!) will...
MGM's Internal Pecking Order Revealed
Posted by Chuckmonster on 21 Jun 2010
While perusing the recently refreshed Las Vegas Shows page on MGM Resorts International's corporate website, eagle eye VT reader donnymac66 noticed that the listing of the shows reveals what might be their internal resort pecking...
CityCenter Stinks
Posted by JohnH on 17 Jun 2010
In anticipation of Aria's December opening, we were all brimming with a multitude of questions about what pedestrian access throughout the resort would be like. How would we get from Aria to the Mandarin...
Phil 'Unabomber' Laak's World Record Poker Game - 114 Hours and Counting!
Posted by Chuckmonster on 7 Jun 2010
Poker player Phil "Unabomer" Laak's run at playing the longest consecutive game of poker is STILL going on - 114 hours and counting!
Here he is at hour 100, 20 hours past breaking the previous mark.
As...
UPDATED: Kudos: Bellagio Joins Truth In Marketing Campaign
Posted by Chuckmonster on 13 May 2010
VT reader Misnomer shared on The Board a stellar example of accidentally honest marketing courtesy of the fine folks at Beeelagio.
See...
How long before they change it? I say by end of day that word...
Mirage and Bellagio Villas To Be Renovated?
Posted by Chuckmonster on 11 May 2010
Hot on the heels of Mike E's post about Mirage renovating their suite offerings comes a posting on architecture / interior design firm Cagley & Tanner's website which lists out current and future projects they...
A Precedent For Wynncore
Posted by Chuckmonster on 15 Apr 2010
By now, most of you are aware of that little argey bargey we had with Wynn Resorts' lawyer goons over the Wynncore.com domain name last year, if not, here's a general overview. What some...
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