Hotel Coverage: The Venetian
Where to Find Free Hotel WiFi in Vegas
We hope you brought your wireless card with you.If you're headed to Vegas this weekend for CES or the Adult Entertainment Expo, chances are you're gonna need a WiFi connection for all your uploading, downloading, Twittering, Facebooking, blogging, and other, ahem, recreational activities.The bad news is that in the privacy...
January 06, 2010
The Chicago River Ain't The Only Place That's Green
The Venetian Hotel and Casino has dyed their canals green for St. Patrick's Day! The hotel has actually been on a bender celebrating St. Patrick's Day since March 12 but will continue the festivities through tomorrow. Liam the Leprechaun is leading the parade today through the Green Canal where...
March 17, 2009
Vegas for Valentine's Day for Under $200
Yes, we swore off V-day packages here on HotelChatter but we promise this story does not involve champagne, chocolate-covered strawberries and massage oil. A friend of ours recently wanted to surprise his wife with a getaway to Las Vegas for Valentine's Day. We started to help him look for...
February 13, 2009
What Went Down at The Venetian and Palazzo NYE Parties
We sort of wish we'd been ringing in 2009 with a collection of entirely random celebrities that nobody has really heard from since 2002 just so we'd have a fun story to tell our friends today. Think about how cool it would have been to brag that you partied...
January 02, 2009
Construction on St. Regis Las Vegas Gets Stopped
There's a lot to be blue about in Las Vegas.Last week the Las Vegas Sands (owners of the Venetian and Palazzo and a few other big hotel-casinos) made the semi-shocking announcement that they were nearing bankruptcy and today another blow came to the Las Vegas Strip courtesy of the LV...
November 11, 2008
The Venetian and the Palazzo Might Go Bankrupt But Room Rates Aren't Dropping
While things look gloomy in Atlantic City, things are even worse in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Sands, the casino company that owns Venetian and The Palazzo in Las Vegas as well as the Venetian in Macao, is facing mountains of debt and could declare bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg News. The...
November 07, 2008
Lance Armstrong Hits Up Palazzo And Venetian On Tour De Vegas
We got word from a tipster that Lance Armstrong checked into the Presidential Suite at Palazzo Las Vegas on Wednesday of last week. He arrived and sat down for a late dinner at the Wolfgang Puck restaurant which is not particularly worth noting except for one thing: the place...
September 29, 2008
The Hills Hotel :: Vegas Vacation at The Venetian
What, you forgot to tune in to The Hills last night because you thought it was airing on Monday? Apparently, last night's eppie was meant to be a special lead-in to the VMA's (which we're not even going to address right now), and luckily our DVR caught it --...
September 08, 2008
The St. Regis Will Offer Residences at the Venetian-Palazzo Complex
The Palazzo Condo tower, which is currently being built in between The Venetian and The Palazzo hotel towers has now been officially named. And.. Drumroll please... It's going to be the St Regis Residences at the Venetian Palazzo Las Vegas! The project has been under construction since March, but...
September 08, 2008
Play Craps While You Crap? Maybe Soon!
We hope to never set foot in a high stakes gambling lounge (because let's be real, that's just financial ruin waiting to happen). But now that we've heard a certain Las Vegas hotel/casino's high roller HQ is the place we might be able to get our hot little hands...
July 31, 2008
Gas Package Spotted :: The Palazzo Las Vegas
The Palazzo Las Vegas is offering a pretty generous gas package that may end up putting money in your wallet (before your hot little gambling hands totally drain it, of course). All summer long, the hotel will reimburse your gas purchases up to $100 upon check-in (bring your receipt!)....
June 27, 2008
Suites at The Venetian Are Almost Big Enough For Half of Italy
If you've been keeping up over at Jaunted, you know that we recently went to Vegas for one night flying Virgin America's "Superfly" flight and taking the opportunity to stay at The Venetian. If OTT is your thing,...
June 23, 2008
HotelChatter Reader Deals :: Chillaxing Summer Deals
In which, HotelChatter readers are treated to exclusive hotel deals dug up by us. All deals have a limited amount of rooms attached to them and may sell out quickly. Today's Hotel Deals Free Island Stay $FREE!If you enter the Layover Nation Contest where you suggest a layover stop...
June 19, 2008
Poolside at the Palazzo Las Vegas
Our coverage of the Palazzo Las Vegas returns!The pools at the Palazzo Las Vegas have just opened in time for the warm weather and we've got the scoop on what's involved.The pool area is anchored by a giant Olympic-sized plus swimming pool which has wading lounge chairs at each end....
April 22, 2008
Inside the Rooms at the Palazzo Las Vegas
As we told you yesterday, we were fortunate enough to spend 48 hours inside the Palazzo Las Vegas checking out the offerings from top to bottom, far and wide. To simplify the review, we're only going to tell you today about what was in the actual rooms at the Palazzo....
April 16, 2008
Finally, Vegas Might Be Affordable Again
Chicken Little is right, the sky is falling. Well, room rates are falling in Las Vegas, if that's a sign of things to come. For years Vegas has seemed recession-proof, with conventioneers and tourists descending daily upon its neon Strip en masse. But according to the Las Vegas Sun, city...
April 15, 2008
Palazzo Las Vegas is Kind of a Bust
Over the weekend, we managed to walk around the newly opened Palazzo Las Vegas and to be honest, we weren't blown away but what we saw. Granted, it's still the first few days of opening but the place was dead. We can't ever recall being in such a dead...
January 14, 2008
The Geek's Hotel Guide to CES in Las Vegas
CES actually began yesterday with Bill Gates (final?) CES keynote speech but the real show kicks off today. Tech and gadget blogs across the internet, like Engadget and Gizmodo will be covering the actual tech products and news that come out of CES, and you know the Digg front door...
January 07, 2008
Viva Vegas: Cigars Are Out, Laundry Still In
Strange things have been going on in Vegas, just for a change. For example, The Venetian has been hosting the 12th annual "Big Smoke" event where cigar lovers come together to celebrate all things cigar. The funny part about it this time round is that because the smoking ban...
November 14, 2007
Viva Vegas: Who Has the Best Odds for a $20 Room Upgrade?
Frequent travelers who live by the maxim, "If you don't ask, you don't get" swear by the $20 room upgrade move. It works like this: when checking in to your ho-hum standard room, you casually slip an extra 20 bucks to the front desk clerk and ask if there's any...
November 05, 2007
Venetian's Palazzo Building Still Under Heavy Construction
Vegas Rex has posted some recent pics of the new Palazzo Hotel and Casino, a companion tower with 3,000+ rooms to the Venetian in Vegas.While Venetian folk (that would be the Las Vegas Sands Corp.) are predicting a year-end opening, Vegas Rex is skeptical.Even though the shell is mostly finished,...
October 25, 2007
Mario Batali Puts His Crocs on Display at B & B Ristorante
How could we hit up Vegas without checking out some of the city's fine dining. Inside the Venetian (we promise this is the last story from this hotel) is the B & B Ristorante from celeb chef Mario Batali and winemaker Joe Bastianich (Hence the B&B). As you arrive at...
September 26, 2007
Viva Vegas: A Disturbing New Trend, Hotel Advertecture
Upon landing in Las Vegas on Saturday we couldn't help but wonder if the Luxor Hotel was hurting for money. Why? Because the whole building has been covered in black and features a huge advertisement on one side for Absolut Vodka.Things get a little more down-market over the Rio which...
September 25, 2007
Inside the Venezia Tower at the Venetian
We're actually leaving Las Vegas in a few short hours and we cannot wait. Vegas is no fun after three nights and after you've lost all your money gambling (damn you Wheel of Fortune slot machines), spent more than you should have on food, and people-watched for hours on end....
September 25, 2007
Inside the Venetian's Newly Renovated Suites
[Ed. Note: We are kicking it in Las Vegas for a few days so this is probably the first of several posts about the hotel scene in Sin City.]We spent Saturday night at our old stand-by The Venetian. This time we were placed in the Venetzia Tower where we have...
September 24, 2007
VIVA VEGAS: Tropicana on Hotel Casino Death Watch
While following up on our favorite Hotel Death Watch subject, the Hooters Casino Hotel, we learned that the Tropicana is also on death watch and this looks much more imminent than Hooter's. In an article about Hooters, the Ledger in Florida mentions that the Tropicana will be demolished by a...
July 03, 2007
Venetian's Remodeled Suites Going for $199 a Night as Tao Beach Opens
Yesterday, we mentioned that the Venetian Resort & Casino in Las Vegas was undergoing room renovations for all 4,000 of the hotel's suites. While some of us were skeptical about the renovations being completed by the expected yet nebulous date of Fall 2007, it turns out some of the renovated...
May 10, 2007
The Venetian Las Vegas Gets Room Renovations
The Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas announced yesterday that all of its hotel rooms, including those in the Venezia tower, are undergoing a $100 million renovation plan, expected to be completed by Fall 2007.The 4,000 suites already feature a sunken living room and marble baths but will...
May 09, 2007
Room with an Anti-View: The Venetian...Again
Are there no good room views at the Venetian? This is the latest in a series of bad room views we've seen at the Venetian. While the hotel does have all-suite rooms, they charge you an extra $50 for a guaranteed view of the strip. Which of course you'd rather...
November 16, 2006
Viva Las Vegas Hotel Map: The Venetian
Click Here to Go Straight to the Viva Las Vegas Hotel MapThe Venetian aims to transport people to the Piazza San Marco of Venice, Italy, replicating the famous tower and the city's charming canals, minus the hordes of people and birds.What we love about the Venetian? The Grand Canyon...
November 13, 2006
Venetian's Crappy Poolside Band Could Be Responsible for Crappy Poolside Service
Maybe it's all the Vegas pool crashers that have got some of the Venetian Pool staff down or maybe they're too busy focusing on their future acting career? Either way they don't seem to be busy rounding cocktails. A recent past guest was "shocked" by the flat-out rude service: Tuesday...
September 14, 2006
Unwanted Hotel Phone 'Calls'
There's a new annoying hotel trend on the horizon. Budget Travel talked about newest type of in-room advertising in their latest email newsletter filed under Pet Peeves. For the most part, in-room advertising is not that new. Hotel have been encouraging you to hit up the hotel restaurant, spa, bars,...
September 07, 2006
Venetian Checks You Into Southwest
Note: This crappy picture of the Venetian was taken from a Southwest flight. We just like to keep our photos relevant to the story sometimes.Taking advantage of the fact that Southwest consistently dumps airline travelers into Las Vegas each day, The Venetian now offers its guests the option of checking...
July 18, 2006
A Wading Pool Just For Your Butt
Maybe we are not as pool savvy as the folks at the Venetian (or anyone else who lives in Vegas during the summer) but we had never seen a wading pool just for your lounge chairs. What a brilliant idea. It certainly makes up for the disastrous poolside band. And...
July 17, 2006
Room with an Anti-View: Venetian's Canyon Ranch Floor
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face,...
July 13, 2006
How to Cope When You're Sick in Las Vegas
Most people get sick AFTER visiting Las Vegas. All those late nights drinking, gambling, drinking some more, and perhaps smoking a cigarette or two with little sleep wears on your immune system so that by the time you get back home, after a germ filled flight no doubt, the head...
July 11, 2006
The Venetian's Poolside Band Will Ruin Every Song You Like
We were excited to hit up the pool at the Venetian this past Saturday as we were suffering from a head cold and hoped the desert heat would help us breathe again.Everything seemed to be working in our favor. We had some nice seats next to the pool so we...
July 10, 2006
Google Casts Shadow on Venetian Pool
While the Venetian all suite rooms are among our favorite on the Strip the Venetian pool has never been a favorite. Why? Every time we are there it seems that we spend most of our "Vegas sunning hours" (think 12 - 5) mostly in the shade created by the...
May 31, 2006
Viva Vegas: The Venetian's Tao Hotspot
Ahh...it's almost like being in Venice right? But with some fake, chlorinated water, American accents, and an indoor shopping mall with a painted-on sky.Welcome to the The Venetian. This all-suites hotel set out to recreate your idyllic trip to Venice minus the Italians and the birds. Originally known for its...
April 12, 2006
Art Exhibit at the Venetian
The Venetian's Guggenheim Hermitage Museum will host an exhibit called "The Pursuit of Pleasure" (like there isn't enough of that in Vegas right?) from now through January 16, 2005. Drawn from the rich holdings of three of the world's great museums, The Pursuit of Pleasure explores images of leisure...
August 05, 2004
Partner Reviews: The Venetian
Never again....
Decided to stay here because other family members were staying here (because it was so cheap). You get what you pay for....it was old, dirt...
Looking for lower bet tables?
Casino Royale does not seem visible when you consider it's stuck in the middle of the strip between Harrah's, the Mirage, and Venetian (all ...
It's ok
We were gambling here on a promotion and some of our own money. This is a small casino compared to the other big stip casinos. I thought it was ok...it is good for cheap gambling. Although we didn't have a lot of moeny to gamble, I think we had more fun at other casinos.
Great for affordable table tames
I havent' stayed at the hotel but we always love to gamble here. table games have low $5 limits, casino is small but easy to navigate. They always offer you great coupons when you show your club card. They have game called Black jack switch which is a ton of fun to play and easy to win.
Good place to gamble, but a dump
Casino Royale is a cheaper casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It has cheaper tables and slot machines than many other casinos. It also allows ...
Review for craps
I haven't stayed here myself, but this is worth a visit if you like to play craps. They have great, cheap craps tables, which can be hard to...
Small Casino
This is one of the smaller low class casinos on the strip. I did visit it often though because I felt like I could win here. They offered a ...
WILL DO IN A PINCH BUT NOT THE BEST
The rooms are ok but nothing special. The food is pretty good. Just seems to be lacking what it takes to be a fun spot. Slots are so so but...
Avoid at all costs
This is the worst casino on the strip! The first (and the last) time I was there a cocktail waitress spilled a tray of half-empty drinks in ...
Fun Environment!
I went up and down the strip and the most fun I had was here with William the Blackjack dealer. He was entertaining even when he was taking my money. Not a lot of tables, but definitely enough for the small crowd. The crowd seemed to be anywhere between the ages of 25 and 50. The people added to a fun gambling environment. The drinks were weak, but delivered often. I didn't stay in the hotel, thumbs up to the casino!
Royale with cheese
Popular with a younger crowd, the Royale features inexpensive gambling. The cocktail waitresses are extremely generous with the free drinks, provided you tip as you should.
