The credit squeeze, on top of the travel-and-gambling slump, is forcing the Sin City billionaires to beef up their balance sheets
Today Business Week released an article about how the effects of the recent credit crunch is playing out on the mavens of Vegas. Some insightful comments from Steve Wynn indicate how he feels about the supposed rescue plan.
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LAS VEGAS (BusinessWire EON/PRWeb ) April 4, 2007 -- The famous Flamingo Las Vegas recently began the second phase of its extensive room renovation. The redesign will include the transformation of more than 500 hotel rooms and suites into luxurious, stylish and technologically advanced Flamingo “GO Rooms.” The “GO Room” name was inspired by a derivative of the property name – FlaminGO. Phase II will introduce three new stylized suite types: GO Metropolitan, GO Neapolitan and GO Cosmopolitan, in addition to completing more standard GO rooms and suites.
Bellagio, Caesars Palace and Wynn Las Vegas Take Top Honors in VegasTripping.com 2007 Readers Poll Awards
VegasTripping.com has announced the winners of their "2nd Annual Best and Worst of Las Vegas Readers Poll Awards - The Trippies." Over a four-month period, VegasTripping's readers nominated and voted on their favorite and least favorite Hotels, Shows, Casinos, Restaurants and more in 26 diverse categories. Readers also nominated and voted on their favorite blog, podcast and website sources for Las Vegas travel information, Las Vegas Pet Peeves and Vegas Person of the Year.
The first nationally televised women's only poker event is scheduled for February 9 and 10th at Binions in Las Vegas.
Woman Poker Player Magazine is Proud to Sponsor the First Ultimate Women's Poker Challenge is scheduled for February 9 -- 10, 2007 at Binion's in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Ultimate Poker Challenge is America's number one syndicated poker show, and as with all UPC events, the women's event will be syndicated nationally on local television beginning in March.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Palace has dolled up a whole new gaming area inspired by the queens of burlesque song and dance, The Pussycat Dolls. The Pussycat Dolls Casino will feature a mixture of sexy slot machines; blackjack, craps and roulette tables, a big six wheel and merchandise area, all indicative of the brand's sexy burlesque look. The pit is scheduled to open the first week of February and will be located directly across from the Pussycat Dolls Lounge inside PURE Nightclub, where the Las Vegas Pussycat Dolls can be seen performing five nights a week. Hours of operation are scheduled for Tuesday - Sunday from 10PM to 4AM.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- This is a boomtown, but it is also scattered with signs of bust -- namely, homeless people. And the city is taking a hard line against them.
With mixed success in the courts and on the streets, Las Vegas has tried sweeping away their encampments, closing a park where they hang out, making it a crime to feed them, even passing a ban on sleeping within 500 feet of feces.
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Macau has become the world's top gambling destination, analysts said yesterday, after the latest earnings figures from the southern Chinese territory showed it had probably topped the famous Las Vegas strip.
Gambling, prostitution, and now pot? Organizers of a Nevada ballot measure hope voters in a state where almost everything goes will go one better and legalize marijuana. If it passes Nov. 7, Nevada will be the first state to allow adults to possess up to an ounce of pot that they could buy at government-regulated marijuana shops.