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Morgans Hotel Group Buys Majority Stake In Light Group
Posted by Chuckmonster on 17 Nov 2011
Today, Morgans Hotel Group announced in a statement that it had reached an agreement to purchase 90% stake in nightlife pioneer The Light Group for $46.5m. The deal calls for a $28.5M cash on...
MGM Resorts International Starts Marketing Towards Kids
Posted by Chuckmonster on 17 Oct 2011
MGM Resorts International has registered the above cute little lion cub icon as a "logo mark" targeting children.
Printed matter, namely, catalogs featuring clothing, leather goods, travel bags, games and toys, prerecorded videotapes, audio tapes and...
MGM PR Rewrites Jim Murren's Wikipedia Entry - AGAIN!
Posted by Chuckmonster on 18 Jun 2011
They're back... the MGM PR machine has once again dove into the wily waters of Wikipedia to freshen up CEO Jim Murren's entry, piecemeal restuffing the horseshit we called them on in January.
Wikipedia user...
FMLife: MGM Cuts Comps For Low Rollers
Posted by Chuckmonster on 5 May 2011
During yesterday's earnings call MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren told investors that the implementation of M life has resulted in notable cost savings for the company.
We've been able to see a meaningful reduction in...
MGM Postpones MLife Vegas Rollout
Posted by Chuckmonster on 10 Nov 2010
Those of you eager to get a taste of MGM Resorts International's brand new M Life players club, you're gonna have to wait at least three more months. Lets hope that they're spending...
Vegas Gang #52 : M and Penn, MGM Numbers and More
Posted by Chuckmonster on 15 Oct 2010
On the most recent episode of the Vegas Gang Podcast, the gang takes on a whole bunch of thorny subjects including Penn National's recently announced debt takeover of M Resort, the August 2010 gaming figures,...
9 World Class Resorts, 108 Ways to Hack
Posted by MikeE on 8 Oct 2010
MGM Resorts Player's Club offers are always bewildering. Why do I get offers from New York New York when I can't even recall the last time I gambled a single dollar through their slots? And...
Lion Incorporated Upgrades Reservations Process
Posted by MikeE on 26 Sep 2010
Kudos to MGM Resorts for simplifying the reservations process. They totally overlooked the fact that it *still* takes not one, but two inquiries to look up room rates on specific dates, but at least now...
WTF: Mlife Website Error Sends Your Trip Details To Strangers
Posted by Chuckmonster on 23 Sep 2010
Y'know that new Mlife players club website that we've been talking about? Well, VT super reader Donnymac66 took it for a spin last night and decided to check his future Mirage trip itinerary dated...
Coming Soon: MLife iPhone App
Posted by Chuckmonster on 22 Sep 2010
Inside of a recent presentation to prospective investors, MGM Resorts International has dedicated a full powerpoint slide to the mobile apps they've built for many of their hotel offerings (Aria, Bellagio, Mirage, MGM Grand, Mandalay...
CityCenter Love Connection
Posted by Chuckmonster on 7 Sep 2010
Just a quick note to those tuned into the Twitter and RSS feeds that Admiral Hillegas posted a new feature article over on Two Way Hard Three, the first of a three part series looking...
For Sale: Half Stake In City Within A City, Bellagio ADJ
Posted by Chuckmonster on 26 Aug 2010
Someone strike up the band and pack up the donkeys, as it is looking like the biggest suckers to ever play the casino game - Dubai World - are on the verge of cutting bait...
Ten Years of MGM By The Numbers
Posted by Chuckmonster on 12 Jul 2010
It has been been 10 years since the ink dried on MGM Grand Inc.'s $6.6B takeover of Mirage Resorts Inc., as good a reason as any to assess how MGM's business strategies have been voted...
MGM's M life Comp Club Gets Complicated
Posted by Chuckmonster on 23 Jun 2010
Ladies and gentlemen... welcome to Mlife, the 'so new it hasn't been implemented yet' tiered comp club from MGM Resorts International.
Mlife contains a whopping five tiers of player rankings, proving once again that nobody builds...
Battle of the Casino Skyline Collages
Posted by Chuckmonster on 23 Jun 2010
If there is one thing that makes me puke faster than reading 5000 word blow by blow trip reports that cover every last boring ass detail of a strangers boring ass trip, it is the...
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...
VegasGang #48 - Wynn Resort Fee, MGM and More
Posted by Chuckmonster on 18 Jun 2010
The Admiral has just posted Episode #48 of the Vegas Gang wherein we discuss news from Wynncore including the resort fee and staffing reductions, MGM Mirage's name change, tracking CityCenter's performance, the LVRJ / Righthaven...
It's Official, MGM Mirage is now MGM Resorts International
Posted by Chuckmonster on 15 Jun 2010
MGM Mirage has officially changed its name to MGM Resorts International, changed its corporate website to MGMResorts.com and unveiled a brand new logo.
Tah-daaaaaaa!...
MGM Mirage Round Up: New Name, New Players Club, New Rooms at MGM
Posted by Chuckmonster on 20 Apr 2010
This morning, MGM Mirage filed paperwork with its shareholders requesting to change the company's name to MGM Resorts International, or via acronym MRI.
The name change is intended to change perceptions from MGM Mirage being primarily...
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