Caesars Entertainment
Hospitality
Resort Fees May Cost Casinos Goodwill
March 27th, 2013
Pop quiz: You run a hotel in a destination that’s had a rough few years and is reliant on customer goodwill for repeat visitation. Someone tells you a way that you can make more money from your customers, at the cost of annoying and potentially alienating them. Read more »
Big News Week Shows Shifting Media Landscape
February 22nd, 2013
The way the story developed around the Caesars Entertainment resort fees says as much about the nature of modern news as it does about the state of the hospitality industry. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
The Strip in 2013: Recovery and Retrenchment
January 10th, 2013
The New Year has its restorative elements—the celebrations, the resolutions, the fresh hopes. But, against the background of the Great Recession, it’s also another occasion to fret about what lies ahead for Las Vegas casinos. Read more »
Gossip
Bill’s Soon to Be No More; Drai to Helm Nightlife
December 6th, 2012
The long-gestating overhaul of Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall & Saloon (which really should feature the term “old-timey” in there somewhere) is finally coming to pass. Caesars is shutting it down Feb. 4, proceeding with a $185 million overhaul and opening it up under a new name in early 2014. Read more »
Lanni's Innovations Make Him Worthy Sarno Winner
September 19th, 2012
The American Gaming Association today announced that Terry Lanni, who passed away in 2011, will be receiving the Sarno Award for Lifetime Achievement in Casino Design at this year’s Global Gaming Expo. Read more »
Stage
Bye-Bye Bunnies
Producer Cort McCown leaves Playboy Comedy to start a comedy empire with Caesars Entertainment
February 23rd, 2012
When Dov Davidoff told his last joke Dec. 31 at The Lounge, it marked the end of an eight-year run for the Playboy Comedy Club at the Palms. The property, which was recently taken over by private equity firms, couldn’t deliver any longer on the hopes producer Cort McCown had for the showcase. “I love George Maloof,” McCown says of the Palms’ former majority owner. “I respect him a lot. He was a great guy to work for. Unfortunately, I wasn’t working for George anymore.” Read more »
The Deal
Buffet of Entertainment
January 26th, 2012
Caesars has created an All Stage Pass, where you pay $99 ($119 if you’re not a Total Rewards member) plus tax to see as many Caesars Entertainment shows as possible in a 48-hour period. The deal includes 20 of the shows at Bally’s, Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Harrah’s, Imperial Palace, O’Sheas, Paris and the Rio—and there are some excellent choices in the mix. Read more »
Fred Keeton
The Pathfinder
January 26th, 2012
It’s a long way from Morton, Miss. (population 3,482) to Las Vegas, and for Fred Keeton it’s been quite a journey. Born in 1957, when Jim Crow still reigned in the South, he was born at home even though his parents lived a mile from a hospital—which was then whites-only. When he reached his teens, he saw his small town make steps toward integration, though it wasn’t always pretty. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Stirring up the Strip
September 1st, 2011
With all due respect to artists’ renderings, the recent unveiling of plans for Caesars Entertainment’s Linq have people wondering just what the east side of the Strip will look like when the project opens in June 2013. But behind the aesthetic curiosity is another, more immediate question: How will the massive construction project affect guests and employees? Read more »
The Strip
Beer Pong Forever!
August 25th, 2011
When the details of Caesars Entertainment’s $550 million Linq were announced last week, most people were riveted by what the project promises to bring to Vegas in June 2013: 200,000 square feet of outdoor dining and shopping, a new name and appearance for the Imperial Palace, and a 550-foot sky wheel. But when I live-Tweeted news that O’Sheas was going to close in mid-2012 during the construction of Linq, I was greeted by a deluge: Nooooo! What. About. Beer Pong? Read more »
