My question concerns the toiletries you find in the bathroom of your hotel in Las Vegas when you check in and first enter your room. Is there a health regulation that requires furnishing fresh unopened products for a new customer? If so, when a customer departs his room and the hotel, what happens to partially used bars of soap and opened containers of lotion and/or shampoo as well as possibly half a box of tissues. Does the hotel expect the customer to take left-over soap and possibly tissues as "freebies?" Perhaps the hotel builds into the room rate an unseen amount to cover disappearing disposables? Do hotels lose a lot of money annually by having to maintain fresh unopened toiletries?

Perhaps you have answered the following question before, but if so I missed the answer. Years ago in the back of the Imperial Palace, there was a classic car collection, with many of the cars having sticker prices in the event you wanted to purchase one. What happened to that collection or can it still be viewed somewhere?

What is Palace Station doing? They are all torn up. Did I miss this in an earlier question?

Has anyone died in the tunnels under the Las Vegas Strip when it rains? Where do the people go during the underground floods?

My casino host has been very good to me over the years. Is it appropriate to get my host a gift? Are they allowed to accept gifts?

I recently took the tour of Wayne Newton's Casa de Shenandoah, which I enjoyed very much. While in the visitor center across the street, waiting for the shuttle, I sat in a booth that I believe was from The House of Lords at the Sahara. It also looked like they had one of those great jeweled hanging lamps from the Sahara buffet. Are those from the Sahara and are there any other Sahara or Riviera artifacts given new life elsewhere in Las Vegas?

It seems to me that as the gulf widens between the Strip ripoff casinos and the locals' joints in terms of price and value, the latter might be missing out in terms of not marketing to out-of-towners. A weekend at South Point, Orleans, Red Rock, etc. will provide a visitor with all the standard Vegas amenities and gambling opportunities, but costs several hundred dollars less than a stay on the Strip. So why aren't the locals' casinos trying to pull in the tourists?

Do you know anything about the two new three-story buildings being planned at the Las Vegas Country Club? I believe the buyers are in some sort of 60-day due diligence period, but that's about all I've read and know about it. I'm surprised there's not more news about it since it will impact traffic in the area as a whole, not to mention muddle up a peaceful community (yes, I live there).

Just received an email from Wynn that Lady Gaga is performing December 30 in the Encore theater and tickets are $1,000 and $1,500! Is $1,000 for the cheapest seats a record?

My wife and I will be in Las Vegas the end of January into the first week of February. Can you tell us the closest places to ski/snowboard to Las Vegas. How about available rentals and cost.