December 29, 1999
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This Issue: Live Las Vegas Millenium Webcams
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LAS VEGAS NEWS - of interest to tourists:
POLL - Help us test our new poll. If you live in Southern California, will you ride that
new Talgo train service between L.A. and Las Vegas? Vote at http://www.accessvegas.com
ALL ABOARD TO LAS VEGAS - Amtrak is launching service from L.A. to Las Vegas this fall.
The upscale Talgo trains will feature nice dining, amenities, and even gaming lessons on
the 5 1/2 hour trip. One trip daily will arrive early afternoon and depart late afternoon.
Story and photos at http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-15-Wed-1999/news/12556314.html
and another story at http://www.scopemag.com/departments/12_23_99/news_riding_the_rails.html
Don't forget to vote in our poll at http://www.accessvegas.com
if you live in Southern California.
TOP 10 - The Sunday Review Journal published a Las Vegas Top 10 in different categories
categories:
Top 10 Nevada News Stories - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-26-Sun-1999/news/12567498.html
Top 10 Shows - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-26-Sun-1999/lifestyles/12528564.html
Top 10 Concerts - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-26-Sun-1999/lifestyles/12559386.html
Bottom 10 (general) - http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-26-Sun-1999/news/12628312.html
TOP LAS VEGAS RESTAURANTS - You can still get a $5.49 dinner buffet (Holiday Inn
Boardwalk, and it looks like the buffet from the film Vegas Vacation), but if upscale
dining is more your pleasure, the annual Zagat report lists and rates the best. Story at http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-13-Mon-1999/business/12520124.html
LAS VEGAS HISTORY - David Noll turned us on to the Las Vegas Strip History site at http://www.lvstriphistory.com --
it's an unbelievably comprehensive text and photographic history of the city.
CASINO CHEATS - The latest advance is a facial-recognition program that helps casinos
identify a player even if they don't know his name or background. If you have even thought
of coming here not to play fair, check out the story at http://www.nando.net/24hour/adn/technology/story/0,1976,500144299-500172550-500629788-0,00.html
WINNERS! - Robert C. Stoffers of Tonganoxie, KS won the NFR Guide.
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Quick Concert and Show Notes:
See which shows are playing during your stay and book reservations EVEN if the tickets
aren't on sale yet. Let ShowVegas takes care of all your needs directly online! Search by
dates at http://www.showvegas.com/svpricing.cfm?cscheme=5&amid=143
FEATURE STORY: Live Las Vegas Millenium Web cams
It's about 24 hours away from the New Years Eve here in Las Vegas. People have flooded into town and that anticipation is unbelievable! As usual, we'll be with 300,000 of our "closest friends" on the Las Vegas Strip enjoying the festivities. Since Las Vegas sits in Pacific Time (U.S.) most of you from around the world (we have readers in 25 countries) will have already finished your celebration by the time our clock strikes midnight. If you want to peek in our our party live via the internet, here's the list of resources:
Our own Las Vegas webcam page at http://www.accessvegas.com/las-vegas-webcams.htm has links to all of the webcams on the Strip. Check the celebration out!
KLAS TV (channel 8 in Las Vegas) is going to feed the internet with live streaming video of their New Year's Eve coverage at http://content.klastv.com/newyears/y2kindex.html
CNN, FOX and NBC will be providing coverage from Las Vegas, including Connie Chung (ABC) from a floating platform on Bellagio's lake. Story at http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Dec-27-Mon-1999/lifestyles/12621573.html
The Little Chapel of the Flowers is now broadcasting weddings live on the internet for friends, family, and anyone else interested to view at http://www.littlechapel.com
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
J. Williams from Tennessee wrote:
>Thanks so much for your informative newsletters ... always look forward
>to receiving them. I visited Las Vegas the first week in December.
>Although I've visited the Mirage several times, this was the first
>trip during which I ate at their buffet. Absolutely a fabulous
>experience! The food was hot and very well presented. All you can
>eat crab legs and peeled shrimp..what a deal!! The bread pudding the
>Mirage is worth the price of an airline ticket!
>
>We stayed the Venetian and ate several meals at the Grand Lux Cafe
>just off the casino. I highly advise any of their salads and the
>Margharitta pizza is just divine! It's also great to be seated in the
>little courtyard. It's just far enough away from the casino floor to
>be relaxing, but just close enough to still hear the "ca-ching" of
>cash flowing!!
>
>Cheers and happy 2000
Randy Pendleton wrote:
>Merry Christmas to you too Ted. I just returned from seven days in
>Vegas last night, and the weather was perfect every day except one.
>Returned to Indiana and it's 17 degrees and snowing.
>Also, thanks to your advice, I tried the steak special at Ellis Island,
>and it was a super deal for the money. I tried the buffets at
>Bellagio, Resort at Summerlin, Main Street Station, and the sea food
>buffet at the Rio. Rio wins hands down however I had lunch buffets at
>all of the others and they were all half the price of the Rio. Can't
>beat the ribs and pizza at Main Street, or the shrimp and deserts at
>The Resort at Summerlin, or the prime rib at Bellagio. The cheese cake
>was a toss up between Main Street, and Bellagio. I cant wait to go back!
Walter Soto Encinas, jr. of Brazil wrote:
>I would suggest you include the e-mail of the hotels in the hotel's
>pages. I need desperately the e-mail of Monte Carlo Hotel and I
>couldn't find it even in Monte Carlo home page...
>
>
>May you get the hotel e-mail to me? It is very important! If you
>could do it, it would be great!
We don't have a list of them. Hotels are usually poor at answering email in the first place, and if their is no email address on their site, they you can guess they REALLY don't want to bother with it.
Believe it or not, most casinos have had sites online for less than 2 years. This town is way behind the curve on the internet. We are possibly one of the most unwired cities in America, and the hotels were very slow to embrace anything online until word got out that Caesars was doing a solid number of reservations off of their website.
On the other hand, we offer secure online reservations with hotel discounters, and you do get top notch customer service. Most of them were taking hotel reservations online long before the hotels themselves knew what "internet" was and understand the need for prompt answers to inquiries.
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December 29, 1999
