{"id":3286,"date":"2010-05-25T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:05:41","slug":"monte-carlo-running-on-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/monte-carlo-running-on-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Carlo: running on empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3287\" title=\"montecarlo1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/montecarlo1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/montecarlo1.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/montecarlo1-150x100.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Confronted with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montecarlo.com\/offers\/2010\/04_president_cc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">this rather desperate plea<\/a> from <strong>Monte Carlo<\/strong>, a colleague asks, &#8220;<em>One of the stranger press releases in a while &#8212; the best they can find to up-sell the MC is to pitch it as a way to get to <strong>CityCenter<\/strong> and <strong>Bellagio<\/strong><\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also makes me wonder if, <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> pronouncements to the contrary, if the company has really stopped stovepiping its Strip properties. Old habits die hard and when you&#8217;re trying to prop up occupancy rates at <strong>Aria<\/strong>, it&#8217;s a heckuva time for Monte Carlo to put out the message, &#8220;Stay next door, where it&#8217;s cheaper!&#8221; (Certainly, if you&#8217;re looking to dine well &#8212; but affordably &#8212; &#8220;Monte&#8221; has it all over CityCenter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confronted with this rather desperate plea from Monte Carlo, a colleague asks, &#8220;One of the stranger press releases in a while &#8212; the best they can find to up-sell the MC is to pitch it as a way to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/monte-carlo-running-on-empty\/\">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":[56,28,18,53,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}