Comments on: Themed hotels alive and well–in SoCal http://www.dgschwartz.com/2009/11/03/themed-hotels-alive-and-well-in-socal/ Writing, Speaking, and Consulting | Las Vegas, Gambling, and More | Formerly DieisCast.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:11:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Shanahan http://www.dgschwartz.com/2009/11/03/themed-hotels-alive-and-well-in-socal/comment-page-1/#comment-63133 Paul Shanahan Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:28:57 +0000 http://www.dieiscast.com/?p=2635#comment-63133 When I lived in Las Vegas I sold printing for American Printing and one of my accounts was the Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino. You would assume this hotel would have some sort of New Orleans flavor because of the name. Unfortunately it did not and the place was usually empty when I stopped by every month or so. The Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino was pretty much a dump. Harrah's Entertainment bought it and imploded back in 2006. When I lived in Las Vegas I sold printing for American Printing and one of my accounts was the Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino. You would assume this hotel would have some sort of New Orleans flavor because of the name. Unfortunately it did not and the place was usually empty when I stopped by every month or so. The Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino was pretty much a dump. Harrah’s Entertainment bought it and imploded back in 2006.

]]> By: Schopenhauer http://www.dgschwartz.com/2009/11/03/themed-hotels-alive-and-well-in-socal/comment-page-1/#comment-63131 Schopenhauer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:49:31 +0000 http://www.dieiscast.com/?p=2635#comment-63131 If I remember correctly, LegoLand SoCal actually has (or at one time featured) a model Las Vegas Strip built out of Legos. So right there you have 15 of the world's 20 largest hotels, all made out of that multi-purpose primary-colored plastic building material! Wait, I found it (and it only features 10 hotels): "Miniland Las Vegas is designed to simulate the feeling of walking down Las Vegas Blvd. A blacktop street runs down the middle of the miniature city, starting below ground level. Guests walk down the path with models of the famous buildings rising above them on either side to create the feeling of walking next to the actual massive entertainment complexes." That is so postmodern it hurts! A simulation of a simulation! I wonder if Bruce Begout has written about LegoLand yet. Of course, all he would have to do is to glance at the website (http://www.legoland.com/business/press/minilandlasvegas.htm) before delivering his scathing review of this impostor of impostors, the epitome of American self-indulgent dissimulation, more offensive than Vegas, but not in the middle of a godforsaken desert. If I remember correctly, LegoLand SoCal actually has (or at one time featured) a model Las Vegas Strip built out of Legos. So right there you have 15 of the world’s 20 largest hotels, all made out of that multi-purpose primary-colored plastic building material!

Wait, I found it (and it only features 10 hotels):
“Miniland Las Vegas is designed to simulate the feeling of walking down Las Vegas Blvd. A blacktop street runs down the middle of the miniature city, starting below ground level. Guests walk down the path with models of the famous buildings rising above them on either side to create the feeling of walking next to the actual massive entertainment complexes.”

That is so postmodern it hurts! A simulation of a simulation! I wonder if Bruce Begout has written about LegoLand yet. Of course, all he would have to do is to glance at the website (http://www.legoland.com/business/press/minilandlasvegas.htm) before delivering his scathing review of this impostor of impostors, the epitome of American self-indulgent dissimulation, more offensive than Vegas, but not in the middle of a godforsaken desert.

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