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Malaysia Hotels
Malaysia's First World Hotel is First in Sheer Size
October 31, 2008 at 1:35 PM | 2 Comments
Who doesn't love superlatives? We're crazy for knowing what's the most expensive, tallest and most haunted of hotels, but the simple title of largest hotel goes to the First World in the highlands of Malaysia. As the star attraction of the region known as Malaysia'a answer to Las Vegas, the First World boasts a staggering 6,118 rooms, having surpassed the MGM Grand's measly 5,690 in 2006 for an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Viva Vegas
Halloween at Las Vegas Hotels Will Be All Sexy, All the Time
October 22, 2008 at 2:37 PM | 0 Comments
Ever wonder who buys all those super revealing "naughty maid" and "sexy DEA agent" packaged costumes from halloween stores? Las Vegas, whose party scene seems to consume them en masse, has the answer with each hotel holding their own scintillating shebang to celebrate the witching hour.
When it comes to trick-or-treating this halloween, Studio 54 at the MGM Grand ups the "trick" quotient with their "Nightmare on 54th Street" party, every night from October 28-31. Think you can handle it?
The nightly sexy soiree includes seductive torture maidens, strikingly hot death warriors and wickedly naughty nurses. The Studio 54 Sexy Spider Girls will entertain as they spin, swoop and swing on aerial webs and ghost bungees, while Snake Babe, a bewitching temptress, will walk amongst the crowd with her slithering serpent.
Before you go, we recommend making sure your insurance covers any possible injuries resulting from "sexy web entanglement" as the MGM Grand is only the beginning.
Hotel News
Fontainebleau Miami Wants to Be More Like Fontainebleau Vegas
October 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM | 0 Comments
The Fontainebleau Las Vegas -- coming in Fall 2009 -- will have a casino.
The Fontainebleau Miami -- reopening in November -- does not.
Apparently, the owners of the ritzy (and soon to be ritzier) Miami hotel want to change that. According to the Miami Herald, the owners of the Fontainebleau have put money into a new political committee dedicated to bringing casino gambling to Miami.
The committee -- headed up by a pair of developers working on 25-acre Miami Worldcenter -- has hired lawyers to draft a proposed constitutional amendment allowing a casino initiative for possible placement on the 2010 ballot.
AC Hotels
AC's Historic Dennis Hotel Comes Out From Its Hiding Spot
August 29, 2008 at 12:38 PM | 0 Comments
The Dennis Hotel: Under renovations this summer.
Once upon a time (1920) in a land far, far away (Atlantic City, NJ) the Dennis Hotel was a beautiful historic hotel located right on the boardwalk. In fact, it was one of the original Atlantic City resorts!
Then one day (in 1979), this big, big company came along (Bally's) and built a casino around the hotel, surrounding its beauty and history with slots and poker tables while guests stayed in the hotel without realizing where they were.
Then (present-day), after its owners finally realized what an asset they were hiding, it was decided to renovate the former Dennis Hotel and bring it back to its glory.
AC Hotels
Atlantic City to Get A New Hotel on The Beach
August 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM | 0 Comments
Footprint of Pinnacle's Atlantic City Resort
The news from Atlantic City just doesn't stop! First Harrahs, then The WaterClub, then The Chelsea and Prasada - and now Pinnacle Entertainment has confirmed they are building a $2 billion hotel and casino resort which will have...wait for it...a beach theme.
If you've ever rolled up into AC and wondered what all those purple and blue billboards saying, "All those other casinos - they are just practice," are for - this is it.
Pinnacle bought the former Sands Casino in 2006 and imploded it last year in Atlantic City's first-ever casino implosion. By now, the hotel was supposed to be well on its way to construction but thanks to the recent credit crisis, who knows what's going on here.
Despite that we don't know what it will look like, or how big it will be, the hotel will be huge. It will also be on the beach, and have heavy competition from the other casinos that are huge, and on the beach. However, the Pinnacle will be brand-new and let's face it, in AC, that is a big deal.
Keep your browser pointed here, as HotelChatter's own Atlantic City Bureau will keep you up-to-date on the Pinnacle in the future.
Las Vegas Hotels
Play Craps While You Crap? Maybe Soon!
July 31, 2008 at 12:07 PM | 0 Comments
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 on a possibly-addictive new gadget, we're reconsidering...
Behold the Cantor Gaming eDeck, a WiFi-equipped handheld device that lets players walk around gambling with real money. They "interface directly" with servers in Las Vegas casinos and are currently being tested in The Venetian's high stakes gambling lounge.
HotelChatter Hotel Reviews
Everything Else Inside The Wynn Las Vegas
June 17, 2008 at 5:37 PM | 6 Comments
The goodies at Wynn go beyond the mini-bar.
Since HotelChatter has stayed at the Wynn Las Vegas several times, we aren't going to bore you again with what's inside the rooms. However, we will say that we have stayed at a lot of hotels in Las Vegas and this is the one we want to keep coming back to.
Part of that does have to deal with spacious rooms (strip views help too) and plush amenities but we also liked what the hotel had to offer outside the rooms.
Detroit Hotels
Hotel Opening Rates: MotorCity Casino Hotel
November 28, 2007 at 4:18 PM | 0 Comments
Speaking of long-neglected cities getting new hotels, Detroit has opened another casino hotel today, The MotorCity Casino Hotel.
Billed as a luxury hotel near downtown attractions, the MotorCity has several hip amenities like a pillow library, individual climate control (which is saved for future visits), flat-screen TVs, free wireless internet, and iPod docking stations.
Naturally, this is a casino so that's a big chunk of the entertainment scene. There's also two lounges, The Overdrive Lounge (auto vocabulary is heavy here) and the Radio Bar where live broadcasts take place. The hotel also has a four-diamond restaurant, Iridescence on site as well as the Pit Stop BBQ joint and the High Octane cafe shop that serves ice cream and coffee.
We checked the rates for the earliest available dates and found Super Saver rooms for Dec. 10th and 11th at $249 a night which really doesn't excite us. We did however like the "Enhance Your Stay" selections you could add like Room Service Breakfast for $20 and a Relaxation Kit at $80 that includes champagne, strawberries, bubble bath and tea lights. (This probably also doubles as a sex kit.)
One irk. Annoying music on the hotel website. Seriously, can we make this stop? What is the added value of this music when you are trying to book a room? Is it supposed to put you in the mood? We haven't heard one customer who likes this. Hotel website designers take note.
Related Stories:
· The First Review of the MGM Grand Detroit Isn't So Grand [HotelChatter]
Las Vegas Hotels
As Vegas Goes Upmarket, Gamblers Look for Cheaper Rooms Elsewhere
November 20, 2007 at 11:37 AM | 0 Comments
A recent Wall Street Journal article titled Leaving Las Vegas brought to light what we have been noticing for quite a while: Sin City is getting pricey. With 40 million visitors creating gridlock, taxi hell, and a hotel occupancy rate over 90 percent, the grumbling has gotten louder.
Many savvy travelers are adopting a strategy of avoiding Las Vegas on the weekends and plenty of others are apparently heading elsewhere other days of the week as well.
Granted, the alternatives don't offer the same glitz, nightlife, or dining choices. But when the nightly tab is a fraction of the price, leaving you lots more for the tables, maybe it doesn't matter. In Las Vegas, weekend rates are topping $300 at even the marginal hotels and a suite can easily cost non-whales a few grand.
Meanwhile, a few alternative "high roller suites" are listed after the jump for other gambling locations.
Anti-View
Anti-View :: Chumash Casino Resort's Sobering View
June 7, 2007 at 10:18 AM | 0 Comments
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, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
Las Vegas Hotels
Las Vegas Casino Hotels Do Business in the Billions
January 9, 2007 at 11:43 AM | 0 Comments
Big news in Vegas today: casino resorts are making oodles and oodles of money out of us. All this time we thought that we could be the big winners when we hit the poker table or slaved away at the slot machines, but in fact, it's the hotels who are coming out on top.
This week, the Nevada State Gaming Control Board released the revenue and profit infor for the 2006 fiscal year. And the numbers are big. Total revenue this year rose to over $24 billion--that's really a hell of a lot of hours around a gaming table. The Las Vegas Strip alone was responsible $14.9 billion in revenue with a profit of $1.25 billion. Plus, they reckon that 2007 is going to be even bigger. What's the message here? Gamble to lose but party hard in Vegas while you're doing it.
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Related Stories:
· Nevada Reaps $2.1 Billion Profit [Hotel Interactive]
Reno Hotels
Report From Reno: The Silver Legacy
October 9, 2006 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments
[Ed Note: While everyone else was gambling in Las Vegas, Hotel Maven Dzot decided to check out the scene in Reno. So this week we are bringing you his reports from Nevada's other big little city. Enjoy.]
Reno bills itself as the Biggest Little City in the World. It's often thought of as Las Vegas North. Well, speaking as a confirmed Vegas junky, I was ready to have a good laugh at that claim. But, you know, Reno does OK. Style and attitude-wise, the Vegas Strip it ain't. It's somewhat like downtown Vegas in that it is well downscale (and even seedy in parts) when compared to the glitter at the corner of Flamingo and Las Vegas Blvd., but it's not without its charms.
First off, what might be termed the Reno strip is small-ish. The only really big complex is a co-joined casino threesome of Silver Legacy, the El Dorado, and Circus Circus. Stay at one and you have easy access to all three.
The Silver Legacy, where I was staying, was the central of the three properties. The first thing you notice is that just off the lobby, there is huge, multi-story Victorian era contraption serving as its centerpiece. The device had no obvious function at first glance; it was just an enormous concoction of giant gears and lever arms and pulleys. It looked like a prop from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or a time machine as imagined by a contemporary of Jules Verne or H.G. Wells.
More on the Silver Legacy post-click.
