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Where Can You Order Flowers While Staying at Aria?

Introducing...VegasChatter Questions! Got a question about Vegas? Send it to us and if we deem it clean enough, we'll post it here on VegasChatter. Now, we'll spit out our own suggestions but we want you to help your fellow Vegas visitors too. So drop your answers in comments below!

Question:
Hi, Vegas Chatter!

I'm coming to Aria late September and I got a sweet upgrade compliments of Paul Berry. I'm going to bring him a book about Chicago architecture (it's where I live!) but I want to get his assistant some flowers.

Is there a flower shop somewhere near the Aria that I can cab it to and pick out a nice bouquet once I arrive?

Many thanks,
RJ

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Tags: Celebs in Vegas / Liquid / Aria / Haze / Michael Jordan / Marcus Jordan / Jeffrey Jordan / NBA / Twitter / → All Tags

How to Party Like Michael Jordan's Sons in Vegas

NBA legend Michael Jordan recently hosted his fantasy basketball camp at The Mirage for rich men over the age of 34 who can afford to shell out $13,500-$15,000 for a weekend with Jordan and a few other elite players and coaches.

But it turns out it wasn't the old men making news today--it was Jordan's two sons, Marcus and Jeffrey, both so-so players for the University of Central Florida's basketball team. Thanks to Twitter, we know just how they partied it up in Vegas.

Marcus twittered:

"Last night was stupid... 35k at Haze... Totals 50k something the whole day.. Damn!! Going to the pool again today.. Gotta relax!

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If Only We Didn't Have to Leave Our Room at Aria

So last week we spent two nights at Aria exactly six months after it had opened. Back in December, we only toured the hotel rooms, casino and restaurants. But this time we got the FULL effect. And how was it? Mixed. Very mixed. Aria, if you are reading this review--pay attention.

Check-In
Check-in took about 20 minutes because of some snafu with our reservation and the promo code we used. But all worked out well and our rate was honored. We were then sent on our way to room 19036. Upon stepping out of the elevator on the 19th floor, we had to study the room numbers sign really hard to find where our room might be located. Then when we started walking to our room, the numbers seemed to be in the wrong order. It started off with something like 19236 and then after a few doors, it reset to 19000.

We didn't really understand this but we pressed on and found our room near the very end of the hallway. It two minutes to get from our room to the elevator each time (without luggage), which is, despite what you'd think, is a long time. It also instilled a sense of dread in us about leaving our room. How long is the walk going to take this time, we thought?

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For the Price of a Room at Hooters, You Can Buy a Technology Kit at Aria

Sorry, the Hooters jokes never get old here but to put our $20 room in perspective, we found this inside our room at Aria where we headed yesterday after fleeing checking out of Hooters. It's a technology kit and it's available for $20 from the mini-bar.

The box includes all sorts of adapter contraptions for several types of phones, a hook up for your iPhone/iPods, a USB cable and an ethernet cable. Call us crazy but we actually think this might be worth it if you ever forgot your charger.

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Aria is Actually Reading Your Nasty Reviews on TripAdvisor

The lobby at Aria.

Once upon a time in a enchanting desert not too far away from Los Angeles but still a four-hour plane flight from New York, there was a magical city that seemingly popped up out of nowhere. This city boasted glittering hotels, bustling casinos, busty showgirls, exotic acrobats, suave lounge singers, an ambiguously gay duo magician/animal trainer act and a fear of the internet.

Yes, before Vegas was all a-Twitter and a-Facebook, the hotel-casinos populating the Strip and beyond really had no idea how to handle this bewildering new monster at its kingdom's door.

Slowly but surely, Vegas began to see how the internet could be bring in even more tourism business by fleshing out their hotel websites, cobbling together special web offers and saturating the internet with ads.

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Thinking About Excalibur? MGM Mirage Wants You to Try Aria Instead

Only the other day, we were perusing the website of our new BFF casino, Circus Circus, when we noticed a little something hanging off the corner of the screen like a hanging chad.

What was it? Why, an advert for Aria!

The hanging chad rolled out into a video ad and a link saying “your offer awaits”, which took us through to the main CityCenter website. When we asked to book a room at Aria, it took us through to the general reservations page, and its Grand Opening Special deal.

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MGM Grand to Charge $10 Resort Fee, Will Aria Be Next?

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It was inevitable. MGM Mirage could only go so long without charging a resort fee at its namesake property, the MGM Grand. But that time has come to an end. Dutiful Twitterer, @Rex_Imperator tells us the hotel will now charge a $10 resort fee, effective July 5.

That fee will include the following: complimentary internet (yay!), a $15 beverage credit (ok!), daily USA Today newspaper, local and toll-free numbered calls and limited business center services such as outgoing faxes, copies, notary, and boarding pass printing. Hmm...the only one we'd really use out of the biz center is the boarding pass printing but the internet is definitely a perk and even the beverage credit is nice. (Although we can always get free drinks on the casino floor.)

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Tags: Casino Whales / Gambling / High-Limit Rooms / MGM Grand / Luxor / Aria / Palazzo / Red Rock / → All Tags

Where to Go Whale-Watching in Vegas

Have a drink while whale-watching at The Palazzo Las Vegas

Like their marine mammalian counterparts, casino whales are larger than life. Betting for them is like breathing: $5,000 here, $10,000 there—to them, it’s all pocket change. Most of these players have casino credit that stretches six digits and beyond. Naturally, then, when they come to a place like Vegas, they want to wager like there’s no tomorrow, no matter how the cards or dice may fall.

For casino executives, these players are lifeblood. Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn and Gary Loveman could care less how much Jack and Jane Tourist win or lose at the low-roller pits; it’s these guys, the whales, they need to attract to pay for their new spas, new hotel towers and new nightclubs.

For us, however, stalwart casino players, whales are true spectacles—honest-to-goodness sights to behold. We’re drawn to them instinctively, sometimes inexplicably, because inside, we all want for ourselves the very thing these gamblers have in droves: money, and the fearlessness to throw it down. With this in mind, here are the five best high-limit rooms in town, the five best spots to observe these mythical creatures in their natural habitats. Captain Ahab would be proud.

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Aria Strips Down Further for the Summer

When VegasChatter last wrote about this killer deal at Aria, we had to update it because a new offer came online that was even better--$109 for the weeknights, $139 on the weekends with a $75 resort fee thrown in.

This deal was so good that one person here at VC, we're not going to name names, promptly booked the deal for a Thursday-Saturday stay in June. But today, a tipster tells us that Aria has dropped the prices further by $10. Check this deal here. So that makes weekdays $99 and weekends $129. The $75 resort credit remains. Amazeballs!

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Where To Find The 'Sex' Addicts In Vegas This Week

It has come to our attention that there’s a certain high profile film being released on Thursday. And if you’re not content to merely squawk and squeal over Carrie et al in the cinema, there are places you can continue without annoying the rest of Vegas too much. Not as many as we’d think (maybe they’d heard the rumblings about the film not being so good), but a few, nonetheless. Here’s where to sniff out your fellow Sex addicts.

* Wynn is holding a SATC2 Shopping Soiree of “cosmos, champagne and shopping” tomorrow from 5.30-7.30pm on the Wynn Esplanade, including ticket giveaways for a Town Square screening on Thursday. Expect things to be pretty – we’re told there's a Manolo display by the cashier cage with a shower of shoes (OMG wheeeeeeeee etc etc). RSVP to personalshopper@wynnlasvegas.com.

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Aria To Have 'Sex' Before The Rest of Us

Hotels have been going crazy offering up Sex and The City themed packages to rabid fans of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda but it looks like Aria Resort and Casino has topped them all.

Thanks to a partnership with Skky Vodka, "Sex and The City 2" will be shown at Aria in the VIVA Elvis theater the day before it opens to the rest of the country. Apparently, the movie will cap off a month of "Cocktail Couture" that has been going on at MGM Mirage properties where specialty Skky Vodka drinks inspired by the movie have been served up to lovely ladies and fabulous men on their way to play the SATC slots (Or so we assume. We must have been too occupied with the BoB to notice these drinks.)

Currently, the movie night and its after-party at the GOLD Lounge are invite-only but you can enter to win a VIP Getaway Package to Aria which will include not only the movie screening but a $2,500 shopping spree as well. You can enter the contest at www.arialasvegas.com/city or www.spyonvegas.com/city by May 14 which is this Friday! Hurry as fast as your Louboutin heels will let you!

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Where to Chow Down Before You Show Down: Five Pre-Show Dinner Spots

You’ll have to excuse us if we still have food on the brain after spending a weekend gorging at Vegas Uncork’d. We did try to move past our culinary crushes on Rick Moonen, Bobbles Flay, and Cat Cora by focusing on another love: Vegas show deals.

But that just got us thinking about where to make dinner reservations before hitting LOVE. So our self-prescribed therapy is to check out the pre-theater dining options around town. We've rounded up what we think are the Five Best Pre-Show Dinners on the Strip for what we consider the top shows on the Strip. (KLAS polls notwithstanding.)

Most of these meals can be had before the early showings (typically at 7:30pm) but a few can also be had before the later showings too. And now, to start the show...

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