{"id":754,"date":"2008-07-21T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/7\/21\/Gold-Coast-buffet-update-etc"},"modified":"2008-07-21T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:24:00","slug":"gold-coast-buffet-update-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/gold-coast-buffet-update-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast buffet update, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just heard from Boyd Gaming<\/strong> and they say that the corned beef\/chicken choice at the Gold Coast<\/strong> buffet's carving station was the luck of the draw and not indicative of a cutback. Roast beef, turkey and brisket are still in the rotation, I'm told — just not on the night we were there. It's not the greatest buffet in Vegas but it's skies above the comparably priced one at the Tropicana<\/strong>, where they actually had the gall to jack up the tab recently, even though the food choices are few and service borders on nonexistent.<\/p>\n

Win-win situation?<\/strong> A spy in the ladies' room after a Saturday-night showing of the Mamma Mia!<\/em> film<\/a> says that the buzz was very positive, with several ladyfolk saying it made them want to see its Mandalay Bay incarnation<\/a>* (or see it again). So the notion that the movie might actually put new legs under the stage version, instead of kneecapping it, maybe isn't such a pie-in-the-sky idea, after all.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are interested in such things, the movie pulled in $27.6 million its opening weekend, putting it in line with The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>'s opening and $2.5 million-$4.5 million ahead of projected grosses.**<\/p>\n

*–Warning!<\/strong>: The video clip also features the horrific noise that is Jerry Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

**–Anyone care to theorize why IMAX showings of a little number called The Dark Knight<\/em> ($158.3 million in three days) are selling out at Red Rock Resort<\/strong> but not at The Palms<\/strong>? Have customers been burnt once too often by Johnny Brenden<\/strong>'s habit of charging $14 for IMAX prints that look like 90 miles of bad road but which his cinemas are evidently too damn chintzy to replace?<\/p>\n

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Columbia Sussex follies<\/strong>. Even though Tropicana Entertainment is going to be shooed out of the Horizon<\/strong>, in Lake Tahoe, in 2012, owner Columbia Sussex<\/strong> is parting with a few pennies to try and make the place viable in the meantime. Well, at least to the extent of rolling out an Elvis Presley Suite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That, and there are myriad deferred-maintenance issues to be addressed now that ColSux\/Trop has capitulated to landlord Park Cattle Co<\/strong>. This might include the plumbling that got blogger Chuck Monster<\/strong> drenched one memorable night when "a water pipe burst in the ceiling of the casino… raining buckets of water on slot plunkers in the middle of the casino floor and a torrential river of water out the side door of the casino.<\/em>"<\/p>\n

Ah yes, the Bill Yung<\/strong> philosophy of "Excellence in Hospitality" in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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