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Las Vegas: The Five Best Hotels for Las Vegas Virgins

Jenna — 2008-12-04T16:15:21-05:00

Pop your Vegas cherry and be merry! Take our word for it: this holiday season would be the ideal time to hit up Las Vegas if you have, somehow, never set foot in Sin City before. Room rates are plummeting, crowds are thinning, and if the lure of booze, glitz and gambling doesn't entice you, we'll remind you that you probably only have a small amount of time to experience the alleged glorious trainwreck that is Criss Angel's "Believe" before it gets the inevitable axe.

To make your first Vegas experience as pleasant and manageable as possible, we've picked out the Top 5 Hotels for Vegas Virgins.

Las Vegas: Hotel Video Tours: The Palms Place in Las Vegas

markj — 2008-09-08T15:41:31-05:00

<![CDATA[ <embed src="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1321361467" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=1780578407&playerId=1321361467&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="400" height="339" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed> Ever since <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/THEHotel+at+Mandalay+Bay/local/455">THEHotel</a> opened in late 2003 the golden sister tower of Mandalay Bay has been THE only game in town if you wanted a boutique hotel experience in Vegas. The thing about THEHotel is despite having a monopoly on boutique Vegas, guests always seemed to come away from THE feeling a little...exhausted. Not because of the all night Vegas benders, but instead exhausted from the über pretentious overuse of THE nomenclature. For years Vegas visitors such as the original <a href="http://gridskipper.com/52208/thehotel-robes-worth-stealing">Gridskipper</a> (Way back in the <a href="http://www.youngmanhattanite.com/">Krucoff</a>/Denton days -- <strike>Gridskipper link no longer active</strike>) were asking, "<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/2/1/17439/58649/hotels/When_will_THEHotel_hit_the_wall_">when will THEHotel hit the wall?"</a>

Las Vegas: Mandalay Bay Gets the Teen Touch with New Metropark Shop

JetSetCD — 2008-06-05T09:00:01-05:00

While money Mommy and Daddy enjoy some alone time in the cabanas at the Mandalay Bay, the teenyboppers can have their own private fun with the family charge card at the Shops at Mandalay Place.

Next Friday the 13th (ooh ominous!), the LA-based "specialty store chain for trendsetting young adults" Metropark will join Mandalay's other teen-preen shops like Urban Outfitters and Fornarina.

Las Vegas: That's the Night the Lights Went Out in Vegas

juliana — 2008-03-19T13:37:56-05:00

Is there a real-life Ocean's 13 team working in Vegas? Casino bosses certainly hope not.

But no one can explain how a transformer at an intersection on the south end of the strip caught fire last night at 8pm, leaving four hotels without power for 90 minutes. The Luxor, The Excalibur, The Mandalay Bay and The Four Seasons were all affected. There are some reports of guests getting stuck in the elevators, which is personally our biggest fear ever.

The power is thankfully back on today.

Las Vegas: Viva Las Vegas Hotel Map: Mandalay Bay and THEhotel

juliana — 2006-11-13T19:56:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/mandalay_vegas_map.png"> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/viva-las-vegas-hotel-map">Click Here to Go Straight to the Viva Las Vegas Hotel Map</a><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Mandalay+Bay+and+THEhotel/local/103">The Mandalay Bay</a> probably would have fallen down the ranks of Las Vegas hotels had it not been for the THEhotel, the modern boutique suite only hotel tower attached to the original building. THEhotel is practically everything the Mandalay Bay isn't--cool, sleek, hip and tech-savvy. While most Vegas hotels have clunky black TVs in their rooms (except high roller suites), THEhotel has multiple flat screen TVs in each room.However, in the regular Mandalay Bay, the room decor is lacking to say the least. We're talking floral bedspreads. Why didn't they just make THEhotel a separate entity wholly unrelated to Mandalay Bay? Also, the elevators take