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Vegas Hotel News: Plaza Progress, Greek Isles Days Numbered
Las Vegas continues to grow and evolve and here’s the news you need to know about the latest hotel developments and renovations.
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Plaza Las Vegas Plans Get Approval
ELAD IDB Las Vegas, LLC has received approval from the Las Vegas County Commission to begin building their new Plaza project on the Strip.
This means other than the issue of the final name for the resort, everything is green-lit for the company to begin building their multi-billion dollar project that would sit on the …
Date: March 28th, 2008 |
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Booking a Las Vegas Hostel
As any traveler to Las Vegas knows, it’s better to save money where you can on a trip to Sin City - you’re bound to need it later! So staying in a hostel in Vegas is a great start, as long as you have an idea of where to start looking. There are tons of hostel booking websites out there, and it seems like more are popping up all the time.
One thing that can be confusing on the different sites is that you’ll see the same Las Vegas hostels listed with different booking services …
Date: January 21st, 2008 |
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Las Vegas Travel Deals
The price of airline tickets just seems to keep going up, and hotel prices in Vegas have been getting crazy over the years as well. One frequent complaint we get around here is that we haven’t gone far enough out of our way to collect the best flight and hotel deals to Las Vegas for our readers.
Some people evidently seem to think we have been keeping these travel deals to ourselves, just passing the information on to friends and people we meet through our Myspace account. Those criticisms really hurt, so we …
Date: December 10th, 2007 |
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Plaza Las Vegas To Bring New York City Elegance to The Strip
The Plaza Hotel in New York City is well-known for its luxury and hospitality amongst travelers to the city. Now, the ELAD Group, which owns The Plaza, is set on bringing their slice of New York to Vegas.
Sitting on the grounds where the Frontier once sat, The Plaza Las Vegas project is estimated at $8 billion and when finished, will be a multi-use property featuring an ultra-luxury hotel, private residences, casino, restaurants, an entertainment venue and a convention complex.
Initial artist renderings have the Vegas property sharing the external design of the New York property. Here is an initial look at …
Date: November 28th, 2007 |
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One Last Look at The Frontier
To wind up this Thanksgiving holiday, let’s take one more look at the last moments of the Frontier.
First a look at the hotel, prior to the implosion. As I arrived, I could tell the building had a good majority of windows removed and several floors were scored (parts of the outer wall were removed) to allow for the building to collapse upon itself, rather than explode outwards.
It gave the building a very eerie look. As though it’d been through a huge battle and didn’t come out the winner.
Thanks to Preferred Public …
Date: November 25th, 2007 |
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Monte Carlo to Reopen February 15
In a statement released today, MGM Mirage has set a date for the reopening of the Monte Carlo for next Friday, February 15th.
The hotel has been completely closed since the fire that occurred on January 25th, which is currently being blamed on welding that was being done on the rooftop. The blaze damaged portions of the exterior facade as well as rooms on the top floors. But with round the clock work being done both …
Date: February 8th, 2008 |
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The Palazzo Opens Amidst Fireworks and Fanfare
Racing against the wire, the Venetian pulled off the Thursday (January 17) opening of its newest tower, The Palazzo, in grand style. Flipping the ceremonial switch to start the celebration, Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson, his wife Dr. Miriam Sands, and Bill Weidner (Las Vegas Sands president and COO) were all smiles as fireworks lit up the skies above the resort.
“As we began the design and development of The Venetian in 1995, we always envisioned a second property that would complement and work in unison with the Sands …
Date: January 19th, 2008 |
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Vegas Hotel News for November 29, 2007
Just a few quick Vegas notes of interest for this week regarding upcoming hotel developments and renovations:
Palazzo, the Venetian’s new tower, has pushed back the soft opening date one week from December 20 to December 28. No reason has been given for the delay, but all those who had reservations from the 20th to 27th are being contacted about switching their reservations to elsewhere on the Venetian property. The grand opening celebration is still on track, though, for the weekend of January 17-19. Between December 28 and the grand opening, …
Date: November 29th, 2007 |
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The Frontier's Final Moments In Video
In this final installment of the end of the Frontier hotel series, I’ve got one last set of photos from the night of the implosion. These show the aftermath of the explosions.
The building, formerly the 16-story Atrium hotel tower, was brought down by 1,000 pounds of explosives that were so precise that not only did the tower not knock down any of the surrounding buildings, it also left the nearby carport and palm trees intact.
Tomorrow, I’ll talk about the project that will sit on …
Date: November 27th, 2007 |
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Planet Hollywood Brings Out The Stars For Grand Opening
This last weekend, Planet Hollywood finally hosted their grand opening celebration. Originally scheduled for the end of September, it was moved to the dates of November 16 & 17 earlier that month.
As expected, the hotel, part of the Planet Hollywood corporation, attracted a huge list of celebrities, including company investors like Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis. Others seen walking the red carpet include Danny DeVito and wife Rhea Perlman, Gene Simmons, Charlie Sheen, Eddie Murphy, Kevin Spacey, Joey Fatone, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher, and local celebs like Pam Anderson and Palm’s owner George Maloof.
The entertainment was also full of A-listers, including a private invite-only comedy performance by Jon Stewart, followed by a concert featuring Willis, along with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on Friday. Saturday, the Las Vegas resort upped the star quotient with another invite-only concert featuring the one and only Barbra Streisand. Babs was actually a present from PH co-founder Robert Earl to his father, as the senior Earl celebrated his birthday on Saturday, as well. Following Streisand, the music kept going at a separate party featuring Sugar Ray and Earth, Wind & Fire.
Though this was the grand opening party, there are still a few areas of the resort that bear the old Aladdin theme, most notably the back part of the Miracle Mile Shops, formerly the Desert Passage.
The rest of the resort, however has been majorly changed to reflect the new ownership. The North African facade of the Aladdin has been replaced by white paint, a green-textured entrance area and lots of red accents, especially on the Miracle Mile signage. The front of the resort also features a huge flat plasma screen wall, as well as a round plasma screen corner, which broadcasts information and advertisements for the resort 24-hours a day.
Inside, the Middle Eastern motif has been replaced by dark hardwoods and decorated floor-to-ceiling ambient light columns. There are also several huge sphere-shaped crystal chandeliers throughout the resort and shopping mall, which provide both mood lighting and focal points for the larger open areas.
![Planet Hollywood Brings Out The Stars For Grand Opening - casino view [photo: M. Snow]](http://www.lasvegaslogue.com/files/2007/11/ph-casinofloor.jpg)
Each renovated hotel room reportedly has a movie theme to it, including a piece of Planet Hollywood memorabilia, such as the jacket John Travolta wore in Pulp Fiction and various movie posters. It should be mentioned that not all rooms have been transformed yet, so if you plan to stay here in the near future, make sure you request one of the renovated rooms or you could end up in one that still bears the Aladdin-theme.
As for dining options, the only hold over from the Aladdin is the award-winning Spice Market Buffet, which has been updated in shades of grey and silver to reflect the new resort’s modern elegance theme (not officially their theme, but there is a definite leaning toward a mixture of high-tech minimalism and classic elegance via things like the chandeliers and the warmth of the dark wood used throughout the PH resort and casino).
![Trader Vic’s Las Vegas [photo: M. Snow]](http://www.lasvegaslogue.com/wp-admin/http:/www.lasvegaslogue.com/files/2007/11/tradervics.jpg)
Newer restaurant options range from the high-end Strip House steakhouse and the Japanese menu of Hollywood-transplant Koi to more affordable offerings such as the Pan-Asian fusion Trader Vic’s and delicious sandwiches from Earl of Sandwich. There’s also the 24-hour cafe, Planet Dailies, which while it serves good food, seemed a tad too high-priced for me to eat there again.
Those seeking a lounge-type atmosphere can choose from the Heart Bar, in the center of the casino floor, and the Extra Lounge, which is co-sponsored by the TV celebrity news show “Extra!” and also occasionally serves as the setting for the show’s Vegas reports.
I’m looking forward to checking out Planet Hollywood once it completely finishes its changeover and all of its dining and nightlife options are open. In the meantime, if you stay there, just beware there is still some renovations being done.
Have you visited or stayed at Planet Hollywood recently? Let us know what you think of the resort.
In the meantime, enjoy more photos of Planet Hollywood below the fold.
Date: November 21st, 2007 |
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