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WYNN LAS VEGAS is The Strip's pre-eminent luxury
mega-resort costing a whopping $2.7 billion! The 45-story (the tallest
tower in Las Vegas), is 514-foot tall, arc-shaped and is a
chocolate-colored reflective glass Tower. Will have 2,698 hotel rooms
and suites, a 111,000-square-foot casino, 16 restaurants (including six
fine dining each with an indoor and outdoor experience), three-acre
pool, luxury spa, many brand-name high-end stores, The Strip's only
18-hole golf course and an art gallery. Each hotel room will cost
$750,000 to build (Bellagio cost $533,000 per room). Each room will have
floor-to-ceiling windows, European linen and flat screen TV's. Total of
8,000 permanent employees. It is estimated that 2,500 of those will be
present Bellagio and Mirage employees, who previously worked for Steve
Wynn, attesting to the high esteem Steve Wynn is held and the fact that
he treats his employees so well and in such high regard. Union shop is
expected.
An eight-story, 100-foot mountain in the front of the property will
enclose a three-acre lake. Two winding, curved, atrium escalators in the
main lobby will cost $1.8 million.
Some of the upscale shopping that will be available are Ferrari and
Maserati car dealerships; Manolo Blahnik (ladies shoes); Jean_Paul
Gauthier (haute couture women's clothing); Oscar de la Renta (high-end
fashion designer); Jo Malone (perfumes); Brioni (Italian clothing
designer); Graff Jewelers; Chanel; Dior; Louis Vuitton and Cartier.
There will be 16 restaurants in the project! One of the restaurants
specializing in high-end, contemporary Japanese food will be named OKADA
in honor of a major investor in the project. Another restaurant will be
called ALEX after the star chef, Alex Stratta, who closed his five-star
restaurant, Renoir, in the Mirage to join Wynn in this project. Daniel
Boulud of Le Cirque and Daniel Restaurants in New York City and Paul
Bartolotta of Spiaggia Restaurant in Chicago are some of the other
famous
chefs who will open restaurants in this project.
The water-based, $24 million production show much like "O", will be
housed in the 2,080-seat, $70-million AQUA THEATER and will be called
"Le Reve". Water will surround the audience - above, below and even
around their seats. The farthest seat will be a mere 40 feet from
the stage.In another 1,200-seat, $40 million theater,.
Four nightclubs will be in the project. One of them will be called "La
Bete"
(The Beast) which will be a restaurant that will turn into a nightclub
after 11 p.m.
Telephone: (702)770-7000 or 1-877-770-7077.
Internet site is at:
http://www.wynnresorts.com
The Light at the Luxor Pyramid!!!
The Luxor sky beam is the highest profile symbol in a high-profile town. No matter where you are in the Las Vegas Valley, the light is a fixture, even a source of comfort for some.
"We get other comments like, 'No matter where I go in Las Vegas, if I can see the Luxor beam, I know I'm all right; even if I get lost, I look for the beam and find my way home,' " said John Lichtsteiner, a Luxor engineer.
There are no elevators to the top of the Luxor pyramid, and the few people who ever visit the pinnacle get there by climbing a steep series of long ladders. The first thing you learn at the top is that there is no giant light bulb. Instead, 39 individual lamps, housed in dark, sturdy reflectors sprout from the floor like a forest. They combine to create the light.
You won't find these on sale at Walmart. Each Xenon lamp costs about $1,200 and will last 2,000 hours, working more like a welder's arc than a light bulb. Just how much light do they generate when humming along together?
"We estimate we are at 40 billion candlepower for the whole thing," said Lichtsteiner. Each lamp is 7,000 watts. That's one billion candlepower per lamp.
It might seem excessive in these times of tight energy supplies, but Luxor has gone to great lengths to make the system more efficient. Operating hours are now limited, and more advanced equipment has been installed, but still, the electric bill for this contraption is a bit higher than yours at home. "It's $51 an hour, and $20 an hour of that is electricity," said Lichtsteiner.
It gets pretty hot in the lamp room, even without the light turned on --136 degrees on the day of our visit -- but if it's heat you want, try climbing that final ladder into the very top of the pyramid, where it's another 20 degrees hotter due to the glass walls.
The real show begins just after sundown, when the system automatically kicks in first with warning noises and flashes, then with the music and lights being turned on.
....extracted from the Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Las Vegas airport: (flight info)....(if it's working..):
McCarran International
website
Another new website for checking your airports flight
info:
NEW: 'airport status' now displays general delays at 40
major US airports!
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Airport check-in counter opens Park Place Entertainment Corp. has opened a check-in desk at McCarran International
Airport. (MGM MIRAGE already has one.) The new check-in center is much like a full service hotel lobby, and will allow guests to
check into rooms at Bally's, Paris Las Vegas, Caesars Palace and the Flamingo Las Vegas
upon arrival at the airport. Guests can also purchase show tickets at the center, which is
open from 10 a.m. to midnight daily.
Park Place says that in the future they will allow guests to check their baggage at the
center for delivery to their rooms.
CAPS - Certified
Airline Passenger Services now has flight check-in counters at eight (8) Las Vegas
Hotels and handles four (4) airlines.....they check you in for your flight 2 to 12 hours
before your scheduled departure....cost is $6.00 per person....for more information go to
their website....click CAPS...
( THIS SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE NOW....DUE TO CHANGES
IN AIRPORT SECURITY, ETC. FROM 9/11 )
======>also you may have seen:
Mandalay Bay resort and casino introduced its latest
attraction, adding a $40 million attraction featuring some 13 species of sharks. The Shark
Reef at Mandalay Bay will offer a close-up look at aquatic life. Five golden crocodiles -
among only 12 known to exist - from Bangkok, Thailand. The project includes 75 different
species of sharks, tropical and fresh water fish, reptiles, marine invertebrates and rays.
Expectations are to expand to 100 species, with more than 3,500 animals on display. The
facility covers more than 105,000 square feet and holds almost 2 million gallons of sea
water. Shark Reef replicates an ancient temple that has been slowly claimed by the sea.
Video monitors provide details on each of the species featured in four different
exhibit areas. Visitors are surrounded by water on all sides, giving a view of what
you would see looking out from a sunken ship.
Recent addition is a "Hammerhead
Shark"....
Ticket prices are $12.95 for adults, $9.95 for children 12 and younger.
McCarran International Airport has opened a 24 hour 14,000 sq. ft. fitness gym in the
"airport basement"...facility features, exercise equipment, a steam room, sauna
room, several large screen TV's.....place to check flight status. Personal trainers
are available. Plans are for massages to be offered within the next few
months.
Fun Book....one
of the better ones is distributed free at a Circus-Circus in-casino convenience store called
Market Express....book has coupons for discounts on food, drinks and midway games, plus
"lucky bucks" that are worth $7.
Blue
Man Group
(webmaster saw this show, lots of
energy, a fun time, hard to describe all the antics, etc....but it was fun!!!)
Check out the ride to the "top" of the
Eiffel Tower...cost $8, closed on bad weather/windy days...worth the elevator trip and
view...quite a view from the metal platform, like being in a cage....but there are
rectangular holes to take pictures thru...
Rio has updated "Masquerade Village Show in the
Sky"....one of the better free shows...will be a "beach party"
theme...combining circus-style performers, singers, dancers...etc...lots of energy, people
go crazy for the "beaded necklaces" that they throw out to the crowds...
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