Las Vegas

Las Vegas is known for gaming, entertainment, bright lights, and elegant dining. Mostly everything is located on the strip, however, I like to venture off the beaten path, and visit places not everyone goes. I visited a McCormick & Schmick’s before in Arlington, Virginia and was overall pleased with the service, and hospitality received there. So when told there was a McCormick & Schmick’s located in Las Vegas, the need to locate and take the love of my life there was a must, especially to…

Good design is complex and contradictory this is supported by the statement “less is a bore” and that less doesn 't mean more. By having less you lose the interesting aspects of complexity. Venturi points that the richness and complexity of modern experience needs to be expressed in our architecture. This is further supported by the statement that function doesn 't follow form and that ornaments are valuable for architecture. Ornaments in architecture have meaning, is intrinsically symbolic, and…

himself, Steve Wynn. Mr. Wynn has over thirty years of experience in Las Vegas. His main contacts, alliances and expertise in the field that he possess cannot be easily replaced. Wynn’s involvement provide the company with a distinctive advantage. Having an expert in this field definitely plays well to the company’s advantage. Wynn is a hands on CEO who is very involved with the company. You can find him on the resort floor in Las Vegas making sure everything is going…

Introduction The largest casino hotel in the world is The Venetian Macau. “This casino hotel is so huge that you could fit 90 Boeing 747 jumbo jets into it” (Rechtig, 2009) Square feet: 546,000 Gaming machines: 3,000 Table and poker games: 870 Restaurants and bars: 24 Hotel rooms: 3,000 CITATION A casino hotel is composed of casinos with accommodation provided in a local hotel. Customers can enjoy of both buildings at once. Since the casino and hotel located in the same premises, guests at…

One of the hotels was the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas. Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel developed this hotel and was a notoriously known gangster. A hotel was also then made in Florida called the Flamingo Hotel. This hotel was able to change America’s cultural perception. Flamingos, which were just simple, dull…

obsession in Vegas is water- displaying it, unfurling it, playing with it, flaunting it” (53). In Las Vegas water is manipulated by hotels and corporations to make their business more attractive to visitors. Simply by walking down the Las Vegas strip people can view ridiculous amounts of water being employed by the casinos. Las Vegas is one of the driest cities in the United States, but uses enormous amounts of water to attract huge amounts of tourist. This matters because Las Vegas is using…

When most people think of the Stratosphere Hotel, they think of gimmicks, lights, and some roof-top amusements. Few folks know that this hotel actually has a pretty nice poker room. If you can get beyond the cheap look of the hotel, the shady area that it is in, and the overall stigma, then you will find something of a hidden gem of a poker room. The low-rent nature of the nature of the hotel does not seem to carry over into the poker room. The room features tables that have some of the best…

out a mass shooting, one that would result in the greatest mass shootings in United States history. This tragic event has enlightened law enforcement agencies and emergency planners to the surreal risk of an innovative mass shooter. Until the Las Vegas shooting, only a handful of other gunman have take perches in elevated positions to target civilians. A notorious shooting has not happened in a similar manner for decades, so preparing for an elevated shooter was not on the top of law…

In Pursuit, Las Vegas On October 11, 2015 at 1300 hours, I, Officer Paul Gasca, and Officer Gerald Bello were on patrol in the area of Tropicana and Paradise Streets. We over heard on the radio that other police units were in pursuit of a stolen vehicle and the pursuit was coming in our direction. The stolen vehicle was travelling over fifty miles an hour on the crowded streets of Las Vegas. Officer Bello and I continued in the direction of the pursuit in an attempt to get ahead of the…

1.Hotel 32 Hotel 32 can be found at the top floor of the Monte Carlo Casino Resort in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. This hotel is something of a secret in Vegas and does an excellent job of combing high-end luxury services with good value. There are four room options (studios, suites, lofts, and pents) which range in size from 400 square feet up to 2,000 square feet. Depending on your choice of room, you’ll enjoy features such as king sized beds, fine Egyptian-cotton sheets, over-sized…