{"id":812,"date":"2009-03-30T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/3\/30\/UnBelieveable-discounts"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:21:46","slug":"un-believe-able-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/un-believe-able-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-Believe-able discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seen yesterday at the Luxor<\/strong> ticket booth: A video message promising 35% off<\/span> Believe<\/em> tickets if you stay at the King Tut place between Tuesday and Thursday (inclusive).<\/p>\n

Heck, just last week Luxor trotted out one of the most “george” package deals<\/a> I’ve ever come across: For a two-night\/$420 stay, you’d get: “all you can eat at the buffet” (LVA<\/span> readers don’t like it and neither did I), plus pairs of comped tickets to the Titanic<\/em><\/a> and “Bodies<\/a>” exhibitions (S&G<\/em> recommends the former, won’t go near the latter — creeptastic); free admission to both LAX<\/a> and CatHouse<\/a>; Nurture spa<\/a> day passes; and, yes, a pair of freebie seats for Believe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At a very conservative estimate, that’s $431 in comps for a $420 room (not including hotel taxes are sundry add-ons). Yes, Vegas is giving away the store.<\/p>\n

And yet …<\/span> not so desperate that you can score free tix for Fantasy<\/span><\/a>. No, you are condemned to see Believe<\/em>. If it wasn’t clear right after opening night, it’s painfully evident now that if this vanity production were any more of a dog it’d have mange. Forget a 10-year contract. This turkey will be lucky to eke out 10 months.<\/p>\n

What’s more<\/strong>, you can enter a drawing to win Criss Angel<\/strong>‘s automobile (a Corvette, I seem to recall). If that car is anything like Angel’s show, as soon as you get the keys and registration, it’ll have to go into the shop for weeks of vague “fixations.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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