{"id":18478,"date":"2016-07-07T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18478"},"modified":"2021-06-26T04:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T12:35:46","slug":"rumor-du-jour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/rumor-du-jour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor du jour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does imminent doom hover over <strong>Excalibur<\/strong>? An <em>S&amp;G<\/em> source says <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> is talking about imploding it and replacing it with a &#8220;higher-end resort.&#8221; <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/excalibur-pic2.jpg\" alt=\"excalibur-pic2\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/excalibur-pic2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/excalibur-pic2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>The alleged motivation is to keep up with <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> and his <strong>Wynn Paradise Park<\/strong> adult playground, slated to open four years hence. We&#8217;d miss <a href=\"http:\/\/deals.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shows\/tournament-of-kings.html?CFID=169798748&amp;CFTOKEN=98080634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tournament of Kings<\/em><\/a> and the buffet\u00a0but wouldn&#8217;t regret losing its horrid casino-floor layout, a vestige of the mentality that if you run customers around and disorient them, they will become disheartened and sit down to play the slots. Anyway, we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if MGM decided to capitalize on adjacent <strong>T-Mobile Arena<\/strong> with an upscale resort product (although that is ostensibly <strong>Park MGM<\/strong>&#8216;s purpose).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does imminent doom hover over Excalibur? An S&amp;G source says MGM Resorts International is talking about imploding it and replacing it with a &#8220;higher-end resort.&#8221; The alleged motivation is to keep up with Steve Wynn and his Wynn Paradise Park &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/rumor-du-jour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,18,4,11,32,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29761,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18478\/revisions\/29761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}