BTW (from another article), this is the $21 nachos you get at their sports bar. Nuts.
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BTW (from another article), this is the $21 nachos you get at their sports bar. Nuts.
The YouTube video blogger “Dingo Bob” got thrown out of the place for videoing a meal.
Its pretty close to the best taco place I have ever been to, so its got that going for it....
I thought Las Vegas was destroyed by that big monster from Godzilla.
This and Nikki Haley were both Koch disasters.
My experience with Las Vegas is that you don’t wander off the street by a block and you take the bus to Old Las Vegas.
I suppose this is why they have been advertising it heavily on television.
The wife and I have been to Vegas every year, at least once, since 1986. We’ve seen a LOT of hotel/casinos come and go. I never thought anyone could spend more money building a place than the City Center group. I expected THAT to be the boondoggle that collapsed. It hasn’t, yet.
But, City Center is in a great location, surrounded by terrific casinos. Fountainblue? It’s in the middle of no-where.
We were just there last September. I didn’t even notice that it was back under construction. I just heard about it on the Kelley and Mark TV show this week. They are trying hard to make it look good.
Resort World was the previous record holder. I doubt it will survive. It’s a beautiful place. But, it’s SO HUGE, and dead... no people. No excitement. I would never pay money to stay there.
I can’t imagine how this new place will survive. I watched that ugly-ass building for YEARS now. I guess, I’m glad it’s finally something? We’ll probably go look at it on our next visit... in September... IF it’s still open. We’ll see.
There ONLY chance, IMO, is for someone to take over Circus Circus, tear it down, and build a phenomenal place there.
Free hotel rooms for illegals, er, “newcomers”. Yay!
Wasn’t Vegas once known for $1.99 buffet lunches?
Did they try to pad your bill with beers you never ordered as they did us at Circus Circus 23 years ago?
And I have a long memory about things like that...
Still - forgive and forget - so I tried staying at Fontainebleau for the first time two weeks ago.
Pluses:
- Rooms are great, like the article says. Almost as good as Palazzo.
- Breakfast restaurant had very good food, if a bit limited in variety on the menu.
- Short walk to the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Convention-goers will probably be the main target audience, a point the article misses.
- Classy interior decor, maybe surpassing any other Strip hotel.
- Two valets - short waits for taxis or rideshare, which almost everyone takes to get around the Strip these days. Nobody who stays at Fontainebleau is going to care that it is a long walk to Mandalay Bay.
Minuses:
- No buffet (yet?)
- Some restaurants are not yet open.
- Much of the retail is not yet open.
- Pool is not open - but that is true of most Strip hotels until later in the Spring.
- The place is still kind of empty, less than half full of guests.
- I didn't gamble there, so no opinion on the gaming environment. Table limits are far too high, but that is true at all of Vegas's nicer properties
Bottom line, though Fontainebleau feels incomplete right now it could eventually rise to the same tier as Wynn/Encore and Venetian/Palazzo if the owners stick with it. Given their history, though, I half expect them to panic after a couple of slow quarters and downgrade the place to $39.95 rooms to compete with Circus Circus across the street. We'll see... :）
At the FB’s steakhouse, you’ll find a $1,000 steak and a $95 potato. Who buys this stuff?
That must be a souvenir plate (and ramekins, and silverware and tablecloth).