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Our Residency At Caesars Palace Was Not A Resounding Success
Just like Matt Goss, it’s always been our dream to take up residency at Caesars Palace. Unfortunately for us, unlike Matt Goss, our musical prowess means that our residency will have to be purchased. So when we saw a hotel that we were pretty sure was Caesars going for $72 on Hotwire, we knew our time had come.
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Inside The PH Towers By Westgate...Er, Or is it The PH Tower?
Guess The Hotel revealed!!!
We braved the Super Bowl madness over the weekend and checked into the new PH Towers By Westgate, adjacent to the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
Overall, we were happy with what we got for our money, especially since we read some awful reviews on TravelPost before we got there. And being a timeshare resort we were scared that we would be kidnapped by timeshare salesmen and forced to listen to a timeshare pitch in a windowless room below the casino. (Thankfully, that never happened.)
However, the biggest drawback for this hotel is that it's really attached to the Miracle Mile shops rather than Planet Hollywood. Which means, you have to walk through the mall to get to the PH casino. And then you have to walk back through the mall to get to your room. Do it five times on Super Bowl Sunday and it gets old real quick.
Check-In: We rolled up on Saturday afternoon at 2pm to the PH Towers entrance where valet (it's free!) helped us carry our bags out of the car. NOTE: If you're arriving by taxi, specify that you are going to PH Towers, not Planet Hollywood. Otherwise, you will be dropped off at the Planet Hollywood entrance and will be forced to schelp through the mall to PH Towers.
The check-in line was no less than five minutes and we were on our way to the 37th floor.
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Is There Too Much In-Room Tech at ARIA?
Full disclaimer. We’re not the most tech-savvy gal in the world. We don’t own an iPod. Or an iPhone. And we definitely don’t have our sights on the latest and so-called greatest iPad. We like modern conveniences, but when we checked into ARIA Resort & Casino a few weeks ago as part of a CityCenter hosted media trip, the Control4 in-room technology system proved to be a royal pain-in-the-ass and we lost count how many times we cursed the almighty bedside and televised command central.
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It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year...For Techies and Porn Stars
It's that time of the year again, when CES arrives in town! The Consumer Electronics Show begins on January 7 and lasts through Sunday. While many attendants will be on the lookout for tech trends to watch in 2010, no doubt a few of them will be distracted by the Adult Entertainment Expo which is also taking place this weekend.
Considering that the internet is keeping the porn business alive, it should make for a very celebratory weekend, we thinks.
Hard up to look at hard drives and porn stars but in need of a room? Unfortunately, your options are limited as rooms are nearly sold-out on the Strip. Here's what a cursory search on Expedia and some hotel websites yielded:
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Why We're Not Really Hard Up for The Hard Rock's Tower Suites, Even at $109 a Night
It's not just CityCenter that's opening in December (although it's hard to keep track of anything BUT CityCenter these days.) Still, we have to at least try and remember that The Hard Rock Hotel will open up their Tower Suites in their newest HRH Tower in December as well.
The opening rates are starting at an incredibly affordable $109 a night for a Supreme City King suite that has 704-square-feet of space. Here's the official room description:
Dark wood floors give way to luxurious carpet, as the foyer enters the living space. Hi-tech rules with the Sound Matters Sound Bar—an AMX 12” Touch Panel Juke Box System that includes over 2000 songs and playlists. Two 40” Bravia LCD TV with DVD players included here.
Meanwhile in the sleeping area, a white lacquer wall headboard with button tufted and quilted leather pairs with a custom stiletto light fixture to highlight the custom mahogany and leather sleigh bed. Black out drapes of raw linen silk with metallic sheers ensure a deep rest as does the ultra luxurious designer bedding.
The bath area is enclosed in a draped and tinted glass enclosure. A generous 148 sq. feet, the bath area showcases black porcelain dimpled tile with Chinese marble and a custom bath vanity, in-shower seat, and cast iron “Tea four Two” tubs. Grohe bath fixtures throughout include Rainhead shower and handheld wands.
Not bad for $109 a night. Plus, booking a stay in the Tower Suites also gets you exclusive check-in and valet as well as other special services. But here's why we're not jumping the gun to make reservations on December 28, the tower's first night of availability.
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Inside a Luxury Suite at The Palazzo Las Vegas
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One of the reasons we like the rooms at The Venetian and The Palazzo is simply the space. These suites are huge, a total of 725-sq. ft. with a separate seating area and a large bathroom that features both a shower and a bathtub. Seriously, don't stay here alone. All the extra space will make you sad.
The rooms also feature some sweet amenities like remote-controlled Roman shades and three flat-screen TVs, one of which is in the bathroom.
The room decor, however, is a little odd. It's like something of a cross between Italianate and reluctantly modern, with a pinch of retro throw in. It's just strange. And mostly dark, which is a contrast to the light, airy and happy main lobby. Then again, dark colors hide stains rather well.
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CityCenter's Vdara Hotel Not Opening Until December 1
It looks as if we'll have to sit tight until December, when MGM Mirage's CityCenter begins to open several of its long-awaited buildings--including the Vdara Hotel.
The Vdara initially announced their intention to open on October 1 while Aria and the Mandarin Oriental would follow suit in December. But we started hearing that they wouldn't be opening until December.
Sure enough, we went to the website and saw that reservations were now being taken starting December 1.
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Inside Hotel32's New Must-Book Rooms at The Monte Carlo
Yesterday, we gave you a quick rundown on what to expect inside Hotel32 atop the Monte Carlo and today we're giving you some room porn to admire as well as a video of the Studio rooms (see above.)
Whatever your thoughts are about the Monte Carlo (so-so casino, lack of cool restaurants or nightclub), staying at Hotel32 is an entirely different experience than staying in rooms on the 31st floor and under. A dedicated suite assistant, bypassing the long lines at check-in, pre-stocked minibars and access to the Hotel32 lounge with its drinks, food and views of CityCenter are just some of the perks you receive while staying here. And speaking of housekeeping cart kleptomaniacs, Hotel32 features Kiehl's bath products. Aaaaaahhh.
However, all rooms are not created equal here. Heck, all rooms don't even look alike.
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Hotel32: The New Must-Book Rooms in Vegas
Alright so scratch everything we wrote yesterday. Hotel32 is indeed open and fully functioning. It even hosted its first guests last night and this morning, the folks at MGM Mirage invited us in today for a tour of the rooms. After checking out a few different rooms, we feel comfortable saying that they are, without a doubt, the new must-book rooms in Vegas.
As we've told you before, Hotel32 is located on the very top floor of the Monte Carlo. Before the fire of 2008, the 32nd floor was only open to high rollers, big gamblers and VIPs. But after the fire, the hotel decided to gut the entire floor and create from scratch, all new luxury rooms.
Thankfully, the Monte Carlo just didn't pick some anonymously modern decor and run with it. These rooms look quite pretty and are filled with tons of design details throughout. There are three types--penthouse suites (which come in either 1 bedroom or 2 bedroom configurations with pool tables), loft suites (slightly smaller than the 1 bedroom suites) and the studio suites which, despite their name, looks like regular hotel rooms.
That's a studio room pictured above and which starts at $250 a night.
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Hotel32 at The Monte Carlo Opens Today...We Think
Today is the day that the Monte Carlo is to unveil their new boutique hotel within a hotel, Hotel32, which is found at the very top of the hotel on the--you guessed it--32nd floor.
We skulked around the MC yesterday trying to find any signs of life on this "exclusive" new experience which is to feature tricked-out rooms, a private entrance and an express elevator, among other things.
Here's what we found: In the lobby, a space to the very left of the check-in counters was closed off with dark black drapes and a sign in front said, "Exit Closed." We did a quick peek behind the curtain and saw that nothing was in there--no furniture or anything--but there was a Hotel32-esque framed print on the wall. (It looked like the rug pattern shown in the video on the hotel's website.)
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Inside The Stratosphere Hotel: Cheap, But Noisy
We had a nice enough time (barring the odd crime) living up the four star hotels last week, but when we needed to extend our Vegas stay over the weekend, rates had shot up (maybe it was the Rod Stewart groupies filling up the posh hotels - he played Saturday). We looked at the Stratosphere, thinking it’d be cheapo, but it was throwing up nearly $80 for the Friday night and $115 for the Saturday.
But Hotwire was showing a three star hotel in the North Strip for $54 on the Friday and $75 on the Saturday. Checking on Betterbidding.com we were pretty sure it was the Strat, and booked it. And sure enough, it was.
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The Golden Nugget's New Rush Tower is Open for Reservations
Yes, even Downtown Las Vegas continues to grow, in the midst of one whopper of a recession. Golden Nugget, one of downtown's most "respectable" casino-hotels, is now taking reservations for its new Rush Tower which will open on November 20, about a month before the new hotels open inside CityCenter.
The Nugget’s new $150 million Rush Towe expansion will add nearly 500 guestrooms ranging from 439 square feet to one-bedroom “Parlor Suites” that clock in at just north of 1,300 square feet. Rooms are all non-smoking and come decked out in the requisite contemporary décor, complete with 42-inch plasma TVs and pillow-top mattresses.
