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Gansevoort Las Vegas To Offer Guests A Naughty Surprise
If you plan to try out Gansevoort Las Vegas with a few friends when it makes its debut, just make sure they're really good friends, or be on your best behavior.
A new rendering of the coming Gansevoort's accommodations reveals that the full-length mirror in the bedroom... is also a window. In the bathroom. Yes, a portion of the shower is bordered by a one-way mirror.
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Bill's To Return As Gansevoort Las Vegas In January 2014
First, Caesars Entertainment gave a tower to Nobu. Now, it's giving an entire building to Gansevoort Hotel Group.
USA Today reports that Gansevoort Las Vegas will replace the now shuttered Bill's which closed on February 5 for renovations. Caesars is spending $185 million to remodel the entire hotel-casino before turning it over to the New York-based company for a reported January 2014 debut.
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Best Reopening of 2012
Should this award go to Fitzgeralds or to the D? Or, both? The best reopening in Las Vegas for 2012 goes to the D. Even though the D never closed it was transformed, top to bottom (touting a new grill, D Grill, just today). Downtown Vegas has changed a lot over the past few years, but the end of Fitzgeralds and reopening of the property as the D was a landmark change.
The transformation of the Fitz into the D was bold, but it still kept the tradition of old Vegas. Out are the giant neon Fitzgeralds signs and in are new LED boards. Older slot machines and video poker machines have been moved out of initial sight to the second level and back side of the casino. Go-go dancers and loud music are abundant when you walk into the casino which now includes one of the longest bars in America with an endless supply of HDTVs (well, 1,000 square feet worth).
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How To Find Out About Jobs With Downtown Grand (And, When To Expect It)
Time for another VegasChatter Question! Do you have a question about Vegas, too? We bet you do. Send it to us and you just might see it here on VegasChatter!
The excitement is building about the return of downtown's Lady Luck opening of Downtown Grand. While we keep you abreast of the construction and show you what the future holds, others are more interested in the 600 full-time jobs it will bring to the city.
VegasChatter fan April queried us about the best way to apply so we reached out to Fifth Street Gaming, its owners, to find out. A top executive let us know that they're already searching for senior leadership positions on sites like LinkedIn and suggested that interested applicants keep an eye on their LinkedIn page, as well as follow them on Facebook at Fifth Street Gaming and Downtown3rd, or watch fifthstreetgaming.com for more employment options as they come online.
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Aria Dishes On Buffet Changes
Aria has been slowly cooking up a brand new buffet experience after turning off the grills back in October. An improved all-you-can-eat fest will reopen sometime this month. (Aria is only saying "late" December right now.)
When it does make its debut, the buffet will look different, but it's what they will be asking us to put on our plates that matters. And, now, the hotel-casino is finally giving us a taste of what's to come:
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The Mob Attraction Will Offer A New Experience March 1
After mob shenanigans messed with our minds yesterday, we learned (and shared) that the Tropicana's partially shut down Mob Experience Attraction will finally fully reopen on March 1.
Once it does, guests will find updated A/V presentations that "will enhance special effect and help with visitor flow":
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Viva Elvis To Close, Work On More Viva, Less Elvis
A Cirque du Soleil production on The Strip is closing up shop, but before you get too excited, it's not that one and it's not for good. Yet.
Vegas gossip king Norm Clarke broke the news that Viva Elvis at ARIA is in for a major reworking with a temporary closure slated for this January.
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This is the Man You Need To Thank For Transforming the Tropicana
We’ve been stalking the Tropicana (and its residents) for months now, of course, so we were thrilled to see the LV Sun interview with CEO Alex Yemenidjian this weekend. And even more thrilled to see that he answered some questions that had been flitting about in our heads for a while.
For a start, who is the new Trop aimed at? We’ve seen the clientele getting slightly younger over the past few months, but a more well-heeled young rather than the budget crews who’ll sleep over at Excalibur or Circus Circus. This is what he says:
Before we got here, our target market was anyone looking for a bargain. Our objective is to change that and transform the property to cater to the middle market, which is everybody who comes to Las Vegas except for the extremes. It’s also very large in terms of age and range of income. The most successful properties in Las Vegas are both aspirational and accessible as opposed to those targeting a narrow market.
And our other favorite Trop topic – the superbly affable staff, like Gerard on reception who checked in our friends the other week. We find them distinctly more friendly than in other hotels, and Vegas regulars like Nodeuces have said the same.
Everybody went through a different kind of training. Before, if your performance was mediocre you blended in, and if you were extraordinary you stuck out like a sore thumb. Now it’s the other way around. Forty percent of employees who were here when we acquired the property are no longer here.
We have an excellent balance between the superstars who were here a long time, but didn’t have an opportunity to shine before, and the new superstars we hired when we took over.
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Facebook 'Dislikes' The Trop's Plans For a New Ceiling
Good morning! And what a lovely one it is. Were sitting here at our computer, sipping on a cup of tea and stalking our crushes on Facebook – just a normal day at VegasChatter Towers.
As we were doing this the other day, we couldn’t help noticing that one of our crushes was teasing us with some sexy new photos. That’s right – the Tropicana, that feisty little madam, was posting a surgeon’s mockup of how she’s going to look after her surgery.
How will she look? Not too much different to how she’s looking right now, to be honest – apart from we can’t help noticing that that pit floor ceiling looks rather different from the beauteous beast that’s up there now:
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The Steve Wyrick Theater Will Become the David Saxe Theater
Catch your last glimpse of the fake tan while you can
Well, we’re one step closer to finding out what’s going to be replacing Steve Wyrick’s show at Miracle Mile. It’s been confirmed that David Saxe, who runs the V Theater, is going to take it on. And it’s going to be renamed The Saxe Theater (humble, this lot).
Although there’s no word on what’s going to go in there, according to the LVRJ Saxe is planning to bring in new shows, rather than bus some of the V Theater lot over. And we’re hopeful there will be some freaky stuff, since he has a few shows of that nature over at V Theater.
Things are going to move quickly, as they say it should be ready to go by June 1. Can we suggest Dirk Arthur, who has a show ready to go? Or move Luke Jermay over from O’Sheas? Can’t wait to see what they do.
