What's New in Vegas

[fauxklore]

Aside from the bad hotel experience, I did enjoy the trip to Vegas. I did the North Strip volksmarch event again, and, while there is still a lot of construction leading to bleak emptiness, there is some new stuff of interest.

The most obvious is the High Roller, allegedly the world's tallest observation wheel. I would like to ride it someday, but heard it is best at sunset, which comes too early this time of year. It is associated with The Linq, which seems to have replaced the Imperial Palace and incorporated O'Shea's.

The two new casino hotels I noted are The Cromwell, which is claimed to be a boutique hotel, and the SLS. The latter looked very nice, too, with interesting restaurants. I would try staying there, though the location is kind of out of the way (the north end of the monorail.)

Ah, Vegas. Always changing.

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

I believe the SLS kept much of the casino building's bones and the two newer room tower bones, and likely kept the pool area, but (as with the cromwell) brought everything down to the structural members and rebuilt (which included removing all gingerbread "sahara-ness" from the towers). There is supposedly a chandelier made from the Sahara's door "S"s, and tributes to the Sahara in the carpeting.