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Brand New Encore LV Hotel-Casino to Unveil Soon

12.23.08

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Vegas industrialist Steve Wynn undeniably has a reason to be keyed up about this holiday time. With an investment of around $2.3 billion, the spectacular hotel named Encore will be open for business this coming week.

This plush hotel and casino is joined to the tremendously fashionable Wynn Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. As tons of LV hotel owners are doing the best they can to come across a direction to keep their hotels from closing, Wynn is doing pretty well with his $billion hotel-casino investments.

This 2,000 room hotel and casino is a great addition to the Wynn Las Vegas. The main focus of this tower will be the nightclub, dubbed XS. Steve Wynn has seen recently that nightclubs are a huge attraction in Sin City, and not predominantly the hotel-casinos like they have been in the past. Wynn says that LV nightclubs for the most part make more riches and are a massive hotspot for the younger pack.

He has also built an extravagant steakhouse adjacent to the XS nightclub. Inspired by the popular Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular restaurant has a gigantic Botero carving as the focal point. Not quite impressive as the nightclub which it is joined to; the Botero steakhouse is designed to complement quite well with the ostentatious Sin City nightclub.
The design behind XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez air, where the bash goes on 24 hours a day and the main part of the party occurs close to a swimming pool or beach-type setting. Things are not the same in Vegas, where most people favor parties to slots in this day and age.

Robbie Knievel to Soar Over Mirage Hotel and Casino’s Restored Volcano

12.19.08

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Following almost 1 year of resting, the Mirage Hotel’s renowned volcano will be reborn larger and more stunning than ever before. The popular Sin City casino and hotel is doing their best to attract as many vacationers as feasible to explore their transformation.

This upcoming New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will attempt a motorbike leap over the Mirage Casino’s manmade volcano. This act will mark the conclusion of a three-year restoration of the LV hotel-casino. Over the course of this period, the Las Vegas casino has put in over $110 million enhancing their accommodations and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve feat is supposedely Knievel’s final stunt in the U.S.. The stunt will last for 5 minutes and present fireworks and a high-tech music recording. The music for the act has been performed by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Robbie Knievel is the son of the deceased Evil Knievel-the world’s first and most renowned daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was constructed in 1989 by Sin City mogul Steve Wynn and was regarded as Sin City’s first megaresort. This improvement is one of a large cluster on the Vegas Strip recently. This casino desires that this presentation will pull a large amount of sightseers to the Sin City hotel and casino. The scheme behind the improvement is to compete with other popular Sin City hotels like the Bellagio resort.

Oscar De La Hoya against Manny Pacquiao will be a Bout to Remember

12.02.08

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The Las Vegas, Nevada event the majority of boxing aficionados have been waiting for is right around the corner. Oscar De La Hoya will face one of boxing’s current greatest fighters, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. This boxing match is on schedule for Sat. December 6th in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Without a doubt there has been much conversation in Las Vegas regarding this bout. De La Hoya has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to contend as a welterweight, and people say that Oscar might not be as sturdy since the drop in weight. Pacquiao has already competed one time as a lightweight and wishes to fight in the welterweight category. Pacquiao is also the current lightweight champion , and is regarded by many professionals to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is The Golden Boy’s first visit back to LV for a bout since he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of last year. This match is without a doubt a sell-out for the MGM Las Vegas. Tourists to Las Vegas, Nevada have decreased recently, but Vegas events like this boxing match really have a way of attracting people to Las Vegas.

This match will unquestionably be one to remember for years to come as it brings together the two top fighters of these past few years in a twelve round welterweight match. Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao tickets are being sold right now. If you were to see only one Las Vegas event during 2008, this is definitely the Las Vegas Event to attend.