{"id":2818,"date":"2010-04-06T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:35:59","slug":"gold-strike-tunica-exonerated-trek-frittered-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/gold-strike-tunica-exonerated-trek-frittered-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Strike Tunica exonerated; “Trek” frittered away"},"content":{"rendered":"

The honor of MGM Mirage<\/strong>‘s Gold Strike Tunica<\/strong> has been restored by reader Sin City Cyn<\/strong>, who writes:<\/p>\n

“Speaking of resort fees … I promised to report back on the pool fee situation at Tunica’s Gold Strike. I’m happy to report that I saw no sign of a ‘nominal fee’ for use of the pool. Although entrance to the pool, and adjacent spa area, was by room card only, limiting access to hotel guests. Why this information remains on their web site is anyone’s guess. It appears they’re paying as much attention to Web site content as they are to hotel room maintenance.\u00a0 (OK, in all fairness, the rooms were waaaay better than before MGM Mirage bought the place — they obviously put a ton of money into redecoration. But maintenance (broken lamps, burned out light bulbs, peeling wallpaper) could be better.) So — no pool fees — yet<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Some of you have already read this in the “Comments” section, but I wanted to make sure it was somewhere that even non-subscribers could see. Also, it’s not too late to add your two cents (or maybe even a Station Casinos<\/strong>-sized $25\/night) to our resort fees poll<\/a>, which ends at midnight tonight.<\/p>\n

\"E000194\"Speaking of Gold Strike<\/strong> … you may want to vote for Sen. John Ensign<\/strong> (R-NV) but you wouldn’t have wanted to work for him when he was general manager of his daddy’s Jean<\/strong>, Nev., Gold Strike<\/strong> and Nevada Landing<\/strong> casinos, back in 1991-4. According to a much-read profile <\/a>of the casino heir, one eyewitness described the younger Ensign’s managerial style thusly: \u201cHe was an ass to his employees, barking orders, acting like a peacock<\/em>.\u201d Washington’s gain wasn’t gaming’s loss.<\/p>\n

Warp speed to nowhere<\/strong>. So low has the former Star Trek: The Experience<\/em> fallen that bits and pieces were available at a garage sale yesterday<\/a>. This is another dismal, downward step for ST:TE<\/em>, which was booted from the Las Vegas Hilton<\/strong> by cheapskate Colony Capital<\/strong> (which has replaced it with … nothing and still had the logo in place, last time I checked), then found itself at the tender mercies of Neonopolis<\/strong> and its feckless manager, Rohit Joshi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Remember, he’s the guy who drove out almost all his tenants because his squabble with a contractor caused the air-conditioning in Neonopolis to be shut off. (Telemundo<\/strong> stayed, but only because it had a discrete HVAC system of its own.) Yeah, that boob. If ST:TE<\/em> ever — I mean ever<\/em> — gets revived in Las Vegas, it’ll be a bigger miracle than Mr. Spock<\/strong>‘s resurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The honor of MGM Mirage‘s Gold Strike Tunica has been restored by reader Sin City Cyn, who writes: “Speaking of resort fees … I promised to report back on the pool fee situation at Tunica’s Gold Strike. I’m happy to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,28,51,4,11,35,57,19,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"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=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}