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Conan and Tracy Morgan Want You To Get Your Vegas Laugh On
It’s been exactly a week since Conan O’Brien announced his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television tour, so we’re pleased to see that although some venues have sold out, the Vegas leg still has seats available – including the cheap ones. We say “cheap” – we mean “relatively cheap” – they start at $75, and go up to $150. Book them here.
Last Friday, they added another show at the Palms, so you can now choose between Saturday May 1 or Sunday May 2. Both start at 9pm, so there’s plenty of time to fit in your May Day drinking around them.
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Tragedy Hits Hard Rock as President is Found Dead from Apparent Suicide
Extremely bad news out of Vegas today as the president and COO for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino was found dead in what Las Vegas police believe to be an apparent suicide.
TMZ is reporting that Andrew (Randy) Kwasniewski was found by his wife in their home this morning and law enforcement said he appeared to have a self-inflicted gun wound to his head.
Over the past year, the Hard Rock has gone through extensive renovations, including opening two new towers and doing all that it can to keep the place fresh and exciting as well as attempt to draw in big spenders and classier clientele. Which has to got to make it even harder for the Hard Rock family to handle this type of tragedy.
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Hard Rock To Host Trash Talk Poker Tournament, Those Stupid Jerks
(What? They can dish it out but they can't take it?)
Don't bring your kids around The Hard Rock Hotel on Super Bowl Weekend as that's when the world's first ever Trash Talk Championship of the World will go down inside the Poker Lounge.
Hard Rock's Poker Lounge has already been sponsoring twice-weekly trash talk events where floor managers encourage bad sportsmanship at one of the room’s two-dozen tables. But obviously, the stakes--and the name calling--have been raised. From the event's press release:
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Rooms From $48 in the Hard Rock's New Sale
Not content with opening its new HRH Tower Suites with rates starting at a rather reasonable $129, the Hard Rock has launched a pretty fine Winter Special sale which gives you 30 percent off its other rooms midweek.
This means you can snap up a room in the Casino and Paradise Tower for as little as $48 (plus tax) if you choose your dates carefully. Just book by January 12, and stay before 30 June. The offer’s valid Sunday to Thursday.
Granted, we’re not the biggest fans of the rooms here, but $48 is pretty tempting. Let’s see if anyone else launches their own sale in retaliation. We'd be well up for that.
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Looks Like Vanity Is A Very Good Thing
Maybe it’s the ”cyclone chandeliers” and “rubbed brass” decor. Maybe it’s John Mayer, Bob Sinclair or P Diddy. Either way, Vanity at the Hard Rock seems to have got off to a stonking start.
John Mayer livened up New Year’s Eve when he popped in, and, according to the Twittersphere, Diddy’s party which officially opened the place, on Saturday, was “insane” and “the ish” (which we think means good).
Diddy brought along Chester French and Nelly for moral support and spent the night popping bottles and standing on the DJ booth by the looks of things. And yesterday it was Bob Sinclair’s turn – he, apparently, killed it.
Well done gents! We can’t wait to check it out. The homemaker in us is also looking forward to finding out what exactly rubbed brass is.
[Photo: @thejointlv]
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Remember, There's a $100 Late Check-Out Fee at The Hard Rock
Whether you're off to see John Mayer perform on New Year's Eve at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel or if you're frantically practicing your glo-stick moves for the opening of the new nightclub Vanity, there's a very good chance you've booked yourself a hotel room at the Hard Rock too.
If you haven't, no worries, the hotel still has rooms open...for a hefty price. Rooms in the old casino tower start at a hefty $499 a night while rooms in the newish Paradise tower are holding steady at $519 a night.
But don't forget, the Hard Rock's new HRH Tower has opened today. Rooms are currently sold-out tonight but open up again tomorrow for $129 a night for a supreme city view king bed. A pool view room is $20 more and a supreme deluxe corner king is $169. Unfortunately, rooms skyrocket to $649 a night on New Year's Eve.
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John Mayer Expected to Indulge in Vanity After His New Year's Eve Concert
The cyclone chandelier
New Year’s not just all about celeb hosts, you know. The Hard Rock reckons its new club, Vanity, is going to be so spectacular that it doesn’t need any A listers stealing its thunder when it opens on the 31st; the pearls, hand-cut crystals, “cyclone chandelier” and, um, “rubbed brass” sprucing up the inside will be enough to reel the punters in. Although, um, they’re getting John Mayer to pop in, just in case.
Back to Vanity. The place does look pretty nice from the pictures, although the description – “an eclectic jewel box” focusing on “the most important person in the room – you” – is a wee bit vomitous. But we’re ready to overlook that for the sake of that cyclone/LED chandelier and its 20,000 lights sparkling on the dancefloor, and the beauty salon in the ladies, with six booths where staff will buff your nails and touch up your lippy in case you’re too drunk busy to do it yourself.
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Up Next on the New Hotel Circuit: Hard Rock’s HRH Tower
Now that ARIA and (most of) the rest of CityCenter is open to the public, we can set our sights on the next big new hotel property in town to open: the HRH Tower at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which opens Dec. 28.
OK, we admit this is just one tower (as opposed to a small nation over at CityCenter), but still, we’ve seen the new digs, and they truly are sweet.
Did somebody say suite? All of the 374 rooms in the new tower are suites. Some, like the two-story spa villas and cavernous penthouse suites, are bigger than the average American home.
Though the penthouses weren’t finished when yours truly visited (that’s why we don’t have video yet), some of the ones we saw had multiple Jacuzzi tubs and weird camera thingies that projected the silhouettes of naked women onto the walls. Another one had a bed big enough for 12. The word “orgy” came to mind.
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Room Service? Send Up a Thong
The lingerie store at The Hard Rock.
When most of us order late-night room service from Vegas hotels, we’re fiending for stuff to soak up an evening of booze: greasy bacon cheeseburgers, gooey buffalo wings, salty French fries.
At the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, however, guests have another option on the room service menu: lingerie.
The special service, affiliated with Love Jones Rock-N-Roll Lingerie Boutique on the hotel’s casino floor, is available to all guests 24 hours a day. Guests receive a printed menu in their rooms upon check-in. The catch? The menu doesn’t list any prices, beside the note about a mandatory $10 gratuity on all orders.
Oh, for the record, the women who deliver your orders are NOT wearing lingerie themselves.
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Trash Talk on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Hard Rock Poker Room
Unless your name is Phil Hellmuth, trash talking generally is frowned upon at most poker tables. At the (relatively) new Poker Lounge inside the Hard Rock, however, it’s actually encouraged—at least between 8 p.m. and midnight on Tuesday and Thursdays.
The rudefest is part of a promotion called “Trash Talk Tuesdays and Thursdays.” During these twice-weekly sessions of $2/$5 No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, floor managers encourage bad sportsmanship at one of the room’s two-dozen tables.
Dealers are expected to be rude, as well. (As an aside, we should note that bad sportsmanship is not rewarded with anything particularly special, except for the high of feeling like a bad ass).
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P. Diddy is The Old Man In the Club Opening a Club for The Hard Rock
What is going on here? It's bad enough that P. Diddy still insists on making club appearances but it looks as if he will be helping the Hard Rock open up their new nightclub around New Year's Eve, called Vanity, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
The club will not be a P. Diddy venture but he is at least going to be responsible for popping bottles during the club's first nights open. Although the club will open on New Year's Eve, P. Diddy's appearance won't happen until a few days after.
Vanity is the newest club from the Nightlife Group and it's designed to be a 14,000-square-foot pleasure haven with 50 "intimate" VIP booths, a sunken dance floor and even five outdoor cabanas on the adjacent terrace. Here's the official club description:
An eclectic jewel box, Vanity is adorned with pearls and hand cut crystals fused with bronze and gold metallic surrounded by antique mirrors, rubbed brass and black chrome. The organized chaos of velvets, deep satins and rich tapestries add to the gleaming textures throughout the club creating the perfect backdrop of reflective brilliance. The heartbeat of the club is a cyclone chandelier of over 20 thousand lit crystals bringing the dance floor to life.
Cyclone chandelier? It's the newest disco ball!
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A Very British Scandal At The Bellagio, And How To Avoid Your Own
Slight scandal doing the rounds across the pond at the moment. It was revealed by the Guardian today that the Head of the BBC, Director General Mark Thompson, dropped £647.50 ($1072) of expenses on two nights at the Bellagio earlier this year.
$1072? How odd. Because we’re looking at the website now, and we can see rooms available for $129. Also, a friend of ours is, right now, shacked up in said Bellagio, having paid the princely sum of £500 ($828) for five nights and flights from London, all in.
So what we’re thinking is, someone either got a bad, bad deal, or someone booked a nice, nice room. Possibly a penthouse suite (from $359) or even a two-bed penthouse suite (from $699). Wonder which it is, Mr Thompson?
