Las Vegas is launching a new campaign to boost tourism after a significant summer slump. The new campaign, "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas," will focus on value for visitors and offer promotions and other incentives at the destination. The city has seen visitation decline for seven consecutive months, with the most recent report from July…
Construction has started on an $8 billion "ultra luxurious" integrated resort in Singapore that will expand the city-state's Marina Bay Sands integrated resort and Las Vegas Sands' presence in Asia. Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Las Vegas Sands co-founder Miriam Adelson attended a ground-breaking ceremony Tuesday, where it was revealed that the development will…
MGM Resorts, which operates a host of properties in Las Vegas, is reportedly considering the introduction of "tiered seating" fees at restaurants located at the company's hotels. This would mean diners would have to pay extra to sit at the restaurants' best tables—like the ones next to windows perhaps. Word that MGM is contemplating such…
The Las Vegas Strip is big on endless construction and it's hot on imploding older buildings. But when it comes to creating memorable visual landmarks, modern Vegas usually folds. After the 1990s heyday of iconic Strip architecture passed, most of the towers erected on Las Vegas Boulevard have looked like lightly themed columns of rooms…
How to get around the Strip without hiring a driver: We braved the summer heat to tell you about Vegas' shuttles, trams, and other ways to move around town.
Slapping slot machine screens, walking the Strip in flip-flops, subjecting stroller-age children to the debauchery of Fremont Street—there are…
"Hotel check in wait times are out of control in Las Vegas," social media influencer VegasStarfish argues in a recent posting. The video evidence accompanying the claim certainly makes a convincing case, showing nightmarish check-in lines, with hundreds of guests clogging hotel lobbies at properties owned by Caesars Entertainment.
In a voiceover, the video's creator says…
MGM Resorts, which controls many of the biggest casino-hotels in Las Vegas, has raised resort fees again—for the second time this year. On Wednesday, December 4, the Bellagio, Aria, Vdara, and the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas all increased their mandatory daily fees by $5, to $55 per day. Meanwhile, the following resorts now charge a whopping…
Las Vegas' Bellagio fountains have company. There's a new public spectacular near the Strip: the Sphere. Here are places to get the best view.
The Sphere, a giant illuminated dome that was recently built next to The Venetian Resort, is the new shining star of Las Vegas,…
Hotelier Ben Novack (pictured on the left in the undated photo above, with his wife, Bernice, to the right) wanted his Fontainebleau, built on the former Miami Beach property of rubber tire magnate Harvey Firestone, to be a "magnificent beacon, radiating a seductive modern glamour that harmonized with Hollywood, popular music, consumer culture, and the…
Nearly all Sin City hotels now charge a big resort fee—and they can more than double the final price! Here's where the Sin City resort fee shell game stands right now.
Along with gambling and over-imbibing, resort fees have sadly become a way of life in Vegas.…