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Vampires And Vegas Welcome The Twilight-True Blood Halloween Bash

October 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM | by cmb | 0 Comments

No plans for Halloween? Lucky for you we know how to get on the guest list for this year's hottest Halloween party in Las Vegas:

Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz, a.k.a Alice and Emmett Cullen in the Twilight movies, are hosting the Veuve Clicquot Yelloween at the Venetian's TAO and LAVO nightclubs on October 31st. You can add yourself to the guest list for the event via TAO's website. The party begins at 10:00 P.M. and one ticket gets you into both TAO and LAVO. Ashley and Kellen will also be joined by True Blood's Rutina Wesley, who plays Tara Thornton, and Sam Trammell, who plays shapeshifter Sam Merlotte.

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Jaunted's Top Three Tips For A Desert Road Trip To Las Vegas

October 6, 2009 at 10:33 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 1 Comment

To save some bucks and see some great desert scenery, road trip it to Las Vegas from California. It's a great last-minute-getaway option instead of paying pricey plane tickets and bag fees, and another perk is that hotels like the Luxor and the MGM Grand offer free self-parking for guests. We recently made the six-hour trek from San Diego and came out better for it, thanks to some tips.

Jaunted's Top Three Tips For Road Tripping To Vegas:

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JetBlue's Sample Sale Will Fly You To Vegas for $24

September 28, 2009 at 4:36 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

While JetBlue finally began service out of LAX at the start of the summer, it still pays to fly out of Long Beach. Travelzoo alerted us to a one-day only JetBlue "sample sale" from Long Beach to Vegas for $24 outbound and $29 for the return. The sale is good for Tuesday and Wednesday flights from October 6 to December 16 but you must book by tonight at 11:59pm MDT. Also included in the sale? One way tickets out of Vegas to New York or Boston for $99 a piece.

Speaking of Las Vegas and JetBlue, recently ousted star of "Jersey Boys" at The Palazzo, Erich Bergen, was Twittering from the JFK JetBlue terminal this morning. Now that's he's out of a job, he just may move into the terminal because it has Borders, Jamba Juice, Lacoste and free WiFi. And so much more. But sorry, no stage yet.

Related Stories:
· Sample Sale [JetBlue]
· JetBlue coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: VegasMichael/VegasChatter]

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Las Vegas Doubles Down On Angry Rodent-Based Tourism Campaign

September 17, 2009 at 4:13 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority hasn't had the easiest time in the recession, even accounting for their frustrating ability to hijack international tourism in the name of short-term profits. So the Authority reached out to ad agency R&R Partners for some TV spots, and the agency responded with a strategy built around office drones using a fake holiday to get Mondays off. A fake holiday about rage-filled chinchillas. Chinchilli Day.

The second spot just dropped and has the office worker spinning a Three Musketeers tale of French heroism. It builds on the first spot, where Chinchilli Day had an exactly opposite background and the animals were cast as the villains. Sin City is in the midst of a rebranding campaign highlighting angry rodents, and by all accounts it seems to be working. Terrific.

Check out the following two commercials after the jump.

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Please Don't Ever Change, McCarran Airport (When It Comes To Free WiFi)

September 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

We've sung the praises of the free airport WiFi at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas before but now that we're sitting pretty in the airport's B Terminal surfing the incredibly fast network, we realize just how much this service means to us.

We spent the past two nights at Encore Las Vegas where, despite the use of a Verizon Wireless Card, we found our signal extremely slow in the rooms. We were able to find a great place to work in the hotel's Lobby Bar and Cafe but the whole point of working from a hotel during a trip is to be able to hide away in your pajamas while you work.

So today, we're extremely grateful that McCarran has continued to offer free WiFi. This new B terminal also rocks. It's bright, airy, clean and has plenty of Wheel of Fortune slots. There's also a 360 Burritto shop, a Fox Sports Bar and a Starbucks. Kinda makes the inevitable Leaving Las Vegas hangover a little more bearable.

Related Stories:
· Airport WiFi Map [Jaunted]
· McCarran Airport coverage [Jaunted]

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Eva Longoria Parker Wants To Play Airport Restaurant Mogul

August 17, 2009 at 1:14 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

Oh, celebrities and their silly plans for world domination! Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria Parker is preparing for opening of the second location of her Hollywood restaurant Beso, this one in Vegas, but she's already looking to expand... to airports?!

Beso Vegas isn't supposed to open until New Year's Eve, but Parker told People that she's also looking into branching out to airports with Besitos, a limited-menu version of the flagship. First stop, naturally, is LAX, an airport that recently announced it was revamping its concession offerings.

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Polish Your Pigskin For Las Vegas' Fantasy Super Draft

August 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

Football season is rapidly approaching, and with it the fantasy leagues that have become kind of a thing. In recent years, even fantasy draft days have become elaborate, with leagues going off to random cities for a weekend of sports and debauchery. Sensing a market opportunity, a new event called Las Vegas Fantasy Super Draft has entered the scene to host an entire draft weekend August 27-30.

They're not in the business of actually conducting your draft or hosting the software for it: you still have to schedule that through CBSSports.com, ESPN.com, Yahoo.com, and the like. What they will do is provide you with facilities for the draft, parties to attend, women to look at (former cheerleaders were specifically emphasized in the FAQ), and VIP access to Vegas clubs.

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A Vegas Detox For The Whole Family With Ethel M Chocolates

Where: 1 Sunset Way [map], Henderson, NV, United States, 89014
August 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

Become an informed consumer while still on vacation! Check out Jaunted's newest series of the best factory tours the world over.

Get off the Strip for a few hours on your next Vegas trip to stop and smell the flowers -- and the chocolates! Indie chocolate company Ethel M. offers free self-guided tours in their Henderson, Nevada factory, which shares grounds with a botanical cactus garden. Live flora in Vegas? Stranger things have happened.

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Senator Swoops In To Save Frivolous Travel, Christmas

July 31, 2009 at 10:59 AM | by egw | 1 Comment

Has the junket become an endangered species? Not if Harry Reid has anything to do with it! The U.S. Senate Majority Leader (D-NV) has unveiled the Protecting Resort Cities from Discrimination Act to keep destinations unfairly tagged by the recession from those sweet, sweet tourist dollars.

Reid is a travel busybody; he was criticized earlier this year for making sure the stimulus plan involved an allocation for a high-speed train from Las Vegas to Anaheim, but this time he means business.

The act, co-sponsored by Florida senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez, would prevent federal employees from writing off certain destinations in their convention plans. Which certain destinations, do you think? Probably places like Florida and Vegas. Rahm Emanuel even rolled up his shirtsleeves and got into the fray on this one, declaring in a letter that government agencies should strive for "reasonable" costs, rather than avoiding expenditures by how they might look.

If this bill not only goes through but is acted upon, Las Vegas will once again make out like those pirates on the Amazon this week. Good show, Harry Reid! Your suitcase full of cash is in the Presidential Suite at the MGM Grand.

Related Stories:
· Sen. Reid offering government travel bill [UPI]
· How Does The President's Economic Recovery Plan Affect Travel? [Jaunted]
· Pirates Pop Up In The Amazon To Rob Luxury River Cruise [Jaunted]
· What Recession coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo of the Las Vegas Airport: Bjørn Giesenbauer]

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Nevada Desert Getting Ready for the Big Burn

July 28, 2009 at 2:59 PM | by BS | 0 Comments

All you fans of pyrotechnics, hallucinogenic drugs, peace and love, and running around naked better listen up…well actually if you’re a fan of all those things, you probably already know exactly where you’ll be August 31 to September 7: Nevada.

Some 48,000 like-minded folks will hit Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for the 23rd annual edition of the Burning Man arts festival. Attendees basically view the vast desert landscape as a blank canvas, erecting gigantic art installations, performing guerilla theater, and of course singing and dancing everywhere, all day and night, until everyone passes out (which is never). Of course, half the people there nowadays are mostly just there to watch the giant sculpture burn down at the festival’s close.

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God Bless Vegas, Where Swim-Up Gambling Is A Right

Where: 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, NV, 89169
July 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM | by egw | 2 Comments

Last one in's a rotten egg! We're finding the best places in the world to stick our toes in this summer (or next winter) for our World's Coolest Pools map. Know of any pools we must check out? Let us know.

Some lucky people will endure long drives this weekend for the privilege of seeing their families and setting off fireworks in their faces, and so we're keeping this week's cool pool in the family as well. Our sister site HotelChatter has been gaga over the continuing renovations to the Hard Rock Las Vegas like, forever and now baby VegasChatter is getting into the act. But don't fix it if it isn't broken! And by "it," we mean the Hard Rock Vegas pool, featuring everything to which a body could possibly want to swim up.

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Pick Your Departure Time Carefully When Driving To and From Vegas

July 1, 2009 at 1:25 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Last week we drove out to Las Vegas from Los Angeles and boy, was it a doozy. While we were happy to save on airfare (weekend tickets to Vegas start at around $150 round-trip; gas was about $75), we just happened to choose the worst times to leave Los Angeles on the way out there and to leave Las Vegas coming home.

We left on Thursday at 4:25pm from Santa Monica which is prime traffic time in L.A. but we couldn't skip out of work any earlier. This was also the day that Michael Jackson died and everyone was flooding the Westside to camp out at the UCLA Medical Center. So try to avoid departing on a day that a major pop icon dies in Los Angeles. For instance, when Britney kicks the can in Malibu, put off your trip for another few hours or possibly a day, if her death was "too soon."

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