As for Nov. 1, PH Towers — the Westgate condo component of Planet Hollywood — will be open for business. Time constraints preclude creating an entire photo gallery, so I’ll just direct you here. (Be warned that there’s some damned annoying “house” music that you’ll probably want to mute.)
If the photos are a reliable guide, some of the units look a mite cramped. Then again, when you’re paying for a lot of high-end fixtures and furnishings, it feels like a waste of money not to be spending as much time in your room as possible. We’ve come a long way from the days when then-Imperial Palace owner Ralph Engelstad forbade bathtubs in his hotel rooms for fear guests would spend more time soaking than getting soaked.
Hunter S. Thompson: The Game. Human imagination doth run riot in a new parlor game. Your grandmother’s Parchesi set never looked like this. I’m not sure why you’d buy this $3,500 placebo in lieu of taking a Vegas vacation with the same dinero but give the creators high scores for creativity.
Sweat, the final frontier: Embattled Neonopolis supremo Rohit Joshi may have principle on his side but when your adversary is perspiration, principle has to take a back seat. In hindsight, it’s a good thing the reopening of Star Trek: The Experience got pushed back a year. Who wants to look at Trek artifacts in a Borg-like steambath?
