Those three words are all you need to know about Garth Brooks‘ show at Wynncore. (Also, I’m pledged to cover it for WizardOfVegas.com, so I can’t spill all the beans here.) If you’re lucky — as we were — your $$ also gets you the not-inconsiderable added value that is Trisha Yearwood.
As for the much-ballyhooed inspection process, it was either waived for the occasion last Saturday or is more bark than bite. Ticketholders are told to dig out their I.D.s — yet I did not see anyone’s I.D. being checked against the name on their ticket(s). So I guess the Wynncore folks have decided against enforcing their threats but still want to enjoy the inconvenience of making people brandish their drivers licenses just for the heck of it. I’d say it was a minor blemish on an evening of major enjoyment, but “petty” might be the more appropriate word.
(On the way out, we passed Steve Wynn and Sylvester Stallone, part of a foursome that looked like an ambulatory PSA for the inadvisability of plastic surgery. We also had the delight of encountering an antler-wearing Jean Scott.)
Anyway, I have to crunch a boatload of ADR numbers today, so the blogging forecast is partly cloudy. In the meantime, our LVA staff is trying to verify whether the “Venue of Death,” the Wyrick Entertainment Complex in Planet Hollywood has really closed or not … and whether two hotel towers at the Sahara are going “dark,” which is the rumor du jour.
When it’s harder to get a New Year’s Eve hotel room in Primm than on the Strip, you know the bottom has well and truly fallen out of the Vegas economy. Evening traffic on aforesaid Strip was smooth, light and easy to negotiate this weekend. Why do I get the feeling is Not A Good Thing?
In my stays at the Sahara, only once did I stay in a tower other than the Tangiers Tower. The tower in question had its elevators near the strip end of the check end area. All I can say is that the room was thread bare with a 19 inch TV. Luckily it was only for one night. If the rest of the towers that are “going Dark” are similar to the room I was in, they should just implode them.