http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T03:10:52Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Jay-Z http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/13/114845/84 <![CDATA[<p> <p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/4040_VIP.png" class="imgborder"><p> Ok, so here's something we just don't understand. According to the <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/business/27591454.html">Las Vegas Review Journal</a>, 50% of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Jay-Z"><b>Jay Z's</b></a> <b>40/40 Club Las Vegas</b> inside the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Palazzo+Hotel+and+Casino/local/927"><b>Palazzo</b></a> was bought out by the hotel-casino's owner, Las Vegas Sands. In return, LVS closed the 40/40 Club at the Palazzo and replaced it with a sports book. <p> The Las Vegas 40/40 Club was rumored to be closing for months, even though it opened only eight months ago. But apparently this deal will allow the 40/40 Club to expand internationally, with the first location being in one of LVS's Macau Casinos as well as in London. <p>Wait, back up. So even though 40/40 crapped out in Las AndrewC 2008-10-13T12:41:34-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/14/13918/1472 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/palazzo_floor.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> Over the weekend, we managed to walk around the newly opened <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Palazzo+Hotel+and+Casino/local/927"><b>Palazzo Las Vegas</b></a> and to be honest, we weren't blown away but what we saw. <p>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 gambling hall before. On a Friday night. At 11pm. However, as soon as you walked over to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Venetian/local/38/"><b>Venetian's</b></a> main gambling floor, things were popping again. Maybe the folks in there just didn't know about the Palazzo yet.<p>We also popped into Jay-Z's club 40/40 and the same could be said there. The club has a great lay-out and plays killer hip-hop music, although we could do juliana 2008-01-14T13:54:56-05:00 36.123091 -115.17012 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/2/124619/1787 <![CDATA[<p><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/palazzo_open.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>While the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Palazzo+Hotel+and+Casino/local/927"><b>Palazzo Las Vegas</b></a> had initially hoped to open on Dec. 20th, it settled for opening up some of its casino space, the lobby and an atrium linking the new hotel with the next-door <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Venetian/local/38"><b>Venetian.</b></a><p>According to <a href="http://www.globest.com/news/1064_1064/lasvegas/167094-1.html">Globe Street</a>, rooms will open on <b>Jan. 6th</b> but there isn't any availability until Jan. 9th with rooms going for around $200. The full grand-opening is still set for Jan. 17th. Our reservation is for Jan. 10th so let's hope the the rooms are open by then.<p>Meanwhile, if you're looking for a new place to party on the strip, Jay-Z's <b>40/40 Club</b> did open over New Year's Eve weekend, despite reports that the place failed inspection and didn't juliana 2008-01-02T12:51:31-05:00 36.123091 -115.17012 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/12/151539/23 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/27jayz.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We should have added this to our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/12/03554/256/hotels/2008_New_York_City_Hotel_Openings_Preview">2008 New York City Hotel Openings Preview</a> story from this morning. Apparently, rapper/hip-hopper/mogul <b>Jay-Z</b> (aka Shawn Carter) wants to be a hotelier. <p>The Jigga man and some developers have bought a property in NYC at 510 West 22nd St. for his first hotel of many to be called <b>J Hotels.</b><blockquote><p>Currently the site is occupied by a five-story, 88,000-square foot warehouse and parking facility net leased to Time Warner Cable, Inc., which will vacate the premises.</blockquote></p><p>The developers on the project are Charlie Blaichman and Abe Shnay of SK Development and CB Developers. The deal totaled about $66 million (including air rights)and we're guessing they are going to plunk down some more juliana 2007-12-12T15:20:14-05:00 40.747226 -74.005167 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/