Las Vegas Renaissance

... , so I ran back to get it. The next summer, 1994, we celebrated our 25th anniversary by traveling to Arizona and Las Vegas, with me reading Vasari's Lives of the Artists, a very dry, albeit groundbreaking chronicle of the famous Florentine Artists from ...

... are so many casinos, and each one is massive beyond belief - they say that 'bigger is better' is a religion in America, and Las Vegas is certainly the Vatican. Each casino screams at you for attention, begging you to suckle at the teat of pleasure it can ...

... them to restrain someone. I'd like to know who I could restrain with cable ties that size...Barbie? We got to the Renaissance Las Vegas mid-afternoon, where we were very impressed with the very friendly and efficient check in lady. The rooms are lovely ...

... be better than their breakfast offerings.  Wrong!   Back to the hotel to find the boys - off to the Las Vegas Premium Outlets.  First order of business was lunch, as no one else had eaten yet.  The ...

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... ; Grandma, the kids, and I would fly out separately at our scheduled time of 4pm and arrive around 11pm.  Brett arrived in Las Vegas without any problems and promptly arrived to the storage place via taxi, but the office was closed and the gate was ...

A nice breakfast at the Renaissance made up for last night's crappy dinner. We were in a taxi and at the new one-stop airport rent a car centre by 9am. It's got about 10 different car hire companies under one roof so you're not short of options. When we ...

We flew to Chicago on Thursday as I had a meeting their on Friday and Saturday. I was seleced to participate in a Future Leaders Program designed to work on some strategic issues facing APICS, The Association for Operations Management. There were 8 of us ...

... with the guy and laughing our butts off when he wanted to show a special trick and he would raise his "foot" up to his head and balance on one leg - amazing! We headed to bed after that and couldn't wait for the next day - we are heading to Vegas ...

... cannot get a Visa to visit North America.  Last year, the Chinese Tourist bureau wanted to go to Whistler, New York & Las Vegas to talk to their tourist Offices and were denied the Visa.  He also stated that the Canadian Government will not ...

... I'll tell you what sort of car it was if you're interested. Tomorrow it's off to Vegas to catch up with the King. Probably hit some of the outlet centres on the way there and hopefully arrive in Las Vegas just after dark so the kids will see it all lit ...

... dinner with Tom & Teri at the hotel restaurant where Tom works. He is general manager at The Renaissance Hotel which is adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center.  We had decided to go in early and walk around for awhile before we met ...

... Film Festival this past year. Sunday, October 10th I decided I had better see the rest of California before I have to rush over to Las Vegas so I headed out of town southward on Hwy #1 to Santa Cruz. The downtown area of Santa Cruz is very nice but ...

... mostly just the Older couple making jokes in German and Singing German songs of how they wanted to go home, until the big finale Las Vegas Style with plenty of feathers. The show was real good overall and it is something to see when this Christmas show ...

... and I know whereof Mr. Cowan speaks. I grew up in the Flint area, a place so wrecked now that it makes Detroit look like Las Vegas, and I lived in and around-mostly within-the city of Detroit for 25 years. I moved to New Orleans in 1991 and left there ...

... ever get the chance, the train through lake Como and the lake district of Italy was very nice, where Belligio is, not the Las Vegas casino, the Italian lake side resort they patterned the casino after.  In Tirano we boarded the Bernina Express on ...

... number of countries – naturally surviving best in America – all the way through to the casino theme parks of Las Vegas and more. The architectural madness of Stotass has been interpreted into some of the Pompidou building itself; the way ...

... had to head north, and Fernie had to rush off to see a mate in Northern Mexico (though how that equates to a flight to Las Vegas for 2 weeks of poker, dude, I will never understand!?) The hostel I was staying in was sweet and the staff there, Monica ...

... known as the Cotai Strip (Coloane-Taipa, get it?). Developed by the Sands Corporation, it harbours ambitions to become the next Las Vegas Strip with an array of planned casino-resorts. Judging by the twinkling of lights in the distance, it's certainly ...