http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T15:00:56Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/las%20vegas%20sands http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/3/29/17476/5911 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sandscasinohotel.jpg" class="top"><p> The Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is finally getting a hotel for its weary gamblers. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Sands+Hotel+at+Sands+Casino+Resort/local/4844"><b>The Sands Hotel at the Sands Casino Resort</b></a> will have 300 guestrooms, 16 executive suites and not one, not two but <b>six presidential suites.</b> <p>Like its glitzy Vegas cousins (<a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/tag/venetian">The Venetian</a> and <a href="http://www.vegaschatter.com/tag/palazzo">The Palazzo</a>), The Sands Hotel will have an Emeril Lagasse restaurant (supposedly a new Italian concept from the chef) and guests will have access to the multiple bars and lounges in the casino. <p>But unlike its greedy Vegas cousins, the Sands Hotel will have <b>free WiFi</b>. Free. We know, it's hard to believe our good fortune this week. First, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/3/29/144149/497/hotels/The_Tallest_Hotel_in_the_World_Also_Has_Free_Internet">Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong</a>, now The Sands juliana 2011-03-30T09:01:49-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/2/22/1405/83875 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/4912/spanish_venetian.jpg" class="top"></p> <p>Could Las Vegas Sands Corp., of <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Venetian/local/38">Venetian</a></b> fame, really be bringing a giant clutch of casino-resorts to Spain, a country where <a href="http://www.bls.gov/ilc/intl_unemployment_rates_monthly.htm#Rtable2">unemployment now tops 20 percent</a>? Yes, at least according to chairman <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Sheldon%20Adelson">Sheldon Adelson</a></b>, who told reporters late last week, "<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/17/us-lasvegassands-singapore-idUSTRE71G2YI20110217">I want to do a mini Las Vegas</a>." He suggested the overall price tag for the development would be &#128;10-&#128;15 billion, but there's not yet a timetable for the project.</p> <p>The company is already in talks with governments in Barcelona and Madrid, and Valencia and locations along the Costa del Sol are also on the Sands' radar for the 20,000-room super-project that Adelson claims could create as many as 180,000 jobs.</p> <p>He appears pbb 2011-02-22T17:01:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/4/27/10536/3171 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/marinabaysands.jpg" class="top"><p> Hotels often host "test guests" in the pre-opening stages so they can try out everything in the rooms and public spaces before the real paying guests show up. While last December we were jealous of the folks who got to test <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Aria+Resort+and+Casino/local/1594">Aria Resort and Casino</a> in Las Vegas before it opened, we're now even more jealous of the 2,000 folks currently shacking up at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Marina+Bay+Sands/local/1803"><b>Marina Bay Sands</b></a> in Singapore, which officially opened phase one of its massive complex today (at the feng shui approved time of 3:18pm.) <p>Today's opening included 963 hotel rooms, parts of the shopping mall and convention center, a few restaurants and bars, the Event Plaza and the most important part juliana 2010-04-27T11:46:20-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/17/122018/19 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/8580/csb_06_1_b_copy.jpg" class="top"><p><i> Rendering of the St Regis Tower (left) and the two Sheraton towers.</i> <p> In all the news about <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Las%20Vegas%20Sands"><b>Las Vegas Sands</b></a> from the past week, we somehow missed that the construction of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Sheraton%20Hotels">Sheraton</a> & <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/St.%20Regis%20Hotels">St. Regis</a> Macau is also being put on hold. <p> Both of these hotels were due to make a big splash on the Cotai Strip in Macau in the next two years as the Sheraton was to be the largest hotel on the strip with over 4,000 rooms (!!) and the St. Regis would have about 800 units, evenly split between luxury residences and hotel rooms. <p>Both hotels are well into construction, so the unfinished projects will be AndrewC 2008-11-17T12:47:56-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/11/143851/21 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/bluemangroup.jpg" class="top"><p><i>There's a lot to be blue about in Las Vegas.</i><p>Last week the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/las%20vegas%20sands"><b>Las Vegas Sands</b></a> (owners of the Venetian and Palazzo and a few other big hotel-casinos) made the semi-shocking announcement that they were <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/11/7/124843/956/hotels/The_Venetian_and_the_Palazzo_Might_Go_Bankrupt_But_Room_Rates_Aren_t_Dropping">nearing bankruptcy</a> and today another blow came to the Las Vegas Strip courtesy of the LV Sands--construction on the St. Regis condo tower which borders the Venetian and Palazzo and is owned by the LV Sands has been halted. <a href="http://www.globest.com/news/1285_1285/lasvegas/175114-1.html?st=rss">Globe Street</a> reports:<blockquote><p>In the US, Las Vegas Sands has stopped work on a $600-million, 400-unit, high-rise condominium tower it was developing on the Las Vegas Strip, in front of its new Palazzo resort, but will complete the retail podium....It will consider recommencing juliana 2008-11-11T15:00:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/