December 14, 2005
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Internet Island Entry: Fantasy Vacations
Tired of going to Vegas since the family friendly crowd hit town?
Tired of seeing shorts and sandals in a town where a tux and spats used to be de rigeur?
Tired of a place overrun by kids when kids used to be seen and not heard. Or even seen?
Fuhgetaboutit. Spend your "Fantasy Vacation" at the splendiferous new VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino. Come back to the fifties. Come back to life.
You Owe It to Yourself to Click on the Postcard Above to see the Composite in All It's Glory.The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino is the antidote to the sanitized "family" version of Las Vegas which has covered most of the city in the past 15 years. Located a half a mile on the other side of McCarron Airport, the new VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino hearkens back to a time when the mob controled sin city and you had to drive by sand and desert landscape in between visits to the famous early casinos.
They're all here. The original Flamingo, The Mint, The Frontier, The Desert Inn, The Sands, The Dunes, The Thunderbird, The El Rancho , the Moulin Rouge. From the parking lot, which is outside, covering four square miles, dozens of vintage 40s through 60s autos can be seen parked in front of the casino. Marvel at the frontage which includes the signage you remember well. The hotel complex is comprised of all the vintage hotels from Vegas' past, including the Dunes Tower, and the original Aladdin.
The owner of this "new" resort, destined to become Vegas' premiere attraction, is Michael F. Nyiri, a reclusive billionaire who made his money by writing poetry and making movies on the internet. He occupies the 15th and 16th floors of the "Dunes Tower" in the "Howard Hughes Suite" year round, in what the pundits are calling the "world's best fantasy vacation ever."
Michael loves Vegas, but ached for the "old Vegas", populated by the Rat Pack and the mob, with pickins for every shady character in town. There are no child care centers in the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino complex. Kids are supposed to be locked in the rooms, and there is plenty of candy and videogames to keep them occupied while the "grownups" enjoy themselves.The main room, the "Sands Showroom" is the place where you can experience "The Rat Pack", a far less than family friendly dinner show featuring actual clones of Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey. Performing three times a day, (Mondays are dark) the Rat Pack brings back permanent memories of when going to Vegas shows meant something. You won't find any magicians or carrot topped clowns in the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino rooms. Pure entertainment is king out here in the desert.
The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino offers four five star restaurants, with menus featuring 1950s prices. (Tips are automatically figured for 150 percent, however.) The breakfast buffet lasts 24 hours, and costs 99cents, like it should. The food is the blandest fare in Clark County. You can't even cut the sirloin steak with a knife.
Gambling is easy at the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino, and you'll find yourself real comfortable in our seats, which are found exclusively in front of our slot machines.
These slot machines dispense real quarters, and there is never a "wheel of fortune" hawker to be found. Nobody will ever know what a "scrip" is, and the sound of coins is real, not piped in.
Entertainment doesn't stop with the Rat Pack Show in the main ballroom. The Martini Lounge offers the Elvis and Liberace show, which had been knocking them dead for decades in heaven. Wayne Newton signs autographs at the front desk.
Michael flies around Vegas in his vintage Whirlybird. But guests are afforded a free shuttle back to the strip or McCarron Airport in shiny red 1959 Cadillac convertibles. Again, compensation is included in the bill.
Winners at the actual felt topped craps, blackjack and roulette tables are given lavish comps, and room upgrades. If you're lucky, you can live like a king, or like Michael, who lords it over his guests like Bugsy Siegel. Speaking of Bugsy, he's the chief bellhop, and is dedicated to making sure your stay is fit for a godfather.
Vegas has been going downhill since they started imploding the great casinos to make way for the Disneyfication of the city. The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino brings it all back. Fremont Street has had a revival with the Fremont Street Experience, but the real "strip" has been gone since 1991, when the Excalibur (read: Sleeping Beauty Castle) opened. Now, with the excellently timed "VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino", the past has never left, and the desert is as new and shiny as it was back in 1959.
Bring the kids, lock them in the room, and come on down to the pleasure that you haven't seen since you watched Casino on TV last.Visit The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino.
Michael has made it his fantasy vacation for life.
Ashtrays and towels can be taken from the premises and nobody will notice. (Of course, compensation is included in the bill, as always at the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino.)
You'll enjoy yourselves like gangbusters.
I'll bet on it!This blog entry is Topic Post Entry #3.00 for the Internet Island Blogring. "Describe Your Fantasy Vacation." (This idea is purely that of entrepeneur Michael F. Nyiri, and any attempt to build such a casino in real life will have to include a cut for Mr. Nyiri, who needs this vacation like you wouldn't believe. Make sure you reserve both the 15th and 16th floors.)
VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino
(The time is now)
If this isn't Featured Content material then I just don't know what is..Tell your friends. It took 7-1/2 hours to construct this blog entry, but it was worth it. I pulled about 25 different images off the net, and utilized a great many of them in the included composites. The "postcard' took about three hours itself. And that's the real Elvis singing. Well, his clone, at least. He appears nitely (except for Mondays, which are dark) in the Martini Lounge. Steve Wynn, call me! MFN
Comments (56)
ahhhhhhhh gotta whole lotta money...ready to burn, viva las vegas.
I would like to go to the real Vegas someday. I haven't been old enough to enjoy it for very long! I think I'd like this so-called Disney-fication, though...I'm not much of one for dark stuff. At least, not too dark. I think I'd find something else to do on Monday's at your resort.
~Jenny
Hey, I like the locking the kids in the room while the grown-ups go play part. :goodjob: What I really find amusing is the idea that Vegas in it's current incarnation is too "family friendly." Which part? The "LIVE NUDE GIRLS!" signs on all the taxi cabs? I practically have to blind fold the kids every time we drive through Vegas, especially now that the oldest one can read.
But I really think this is a winner idea you've got here.
it is well done- but it's still not my favorite place!
Well, I for one would love to go there. In fact, I would be delighted to meet you there for a darn fun and old fashion weekend. Great post man.
woohoo! yay for Las Vegas. I went there a few years ago, wasn't 21 so it wasn't that much fun, but I did get to "walk through" the casinos and they are so awesome! I went to every hotel and man, I was astounded.
. Hope all is well. peace out and take care. autumn
Hi Michael. I know I'm locked in the dark ages with my old fashioned camera. Hubby's getting me a digital camera for Christmas. Woot! Thanks for the birthday wishes for Esme.
:sunny:
I LOVE Vegas!!!!!!!!!!!
I think my fantasy vacation may involve time travel...seems I think need for glamour still exits,,,,ryc I am glad you mentioned a drawing pad ,thats one thing I would like to acquire..though I have gotten used to the mouse. I guess the ladies face would qualify as surreal..its one of the resons I drw ..to mess with reality...to put what is on the inside outside. Please do make some time to draw...I visited the link...and i was impressed..especia;;y with the foliage and her in your face expression....she has personality for sure...I am going to make time to take a vacation soon...but am also musing on the other big topic of interest,,,what is soul..or is soul? Anyway thanks for the visuals here...and the great notion of a fantasy escape.....peace Mia Lucia
Great stuff...would love to go there! I never understood the concept of Las Vegas and kids. Gambling versus roller coasters? I also miss pulling the handle on a slot machine and hearing the bells go off when you win. You received your winning chips right then and not a credit slip. Casinos are very wierd to me now...there is a constant mechanical hum from the machines, but you don't hear the bells and whistles. Take care...
I enjoyed this...great work!
looove the song!
Hehehe! You know, Featured Content entries only contain pictures of have naked teenagers who SpeLL LiKE Thees DOOD!
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment on my site. It made me smile.
I really was referring to the male anatomy when I said I was sore after 8 inches...and it was only a coincidence that we got 8 inches of snow last night too! 
It took me about less than an hour to construct my "Cocky the Snowman" poem. A regular reader of mine had dared me to do it, so I did. Heck, it's just my way of poking fun at this materialistic holiday. Alas, I have not used any big words in this entry. I think my brain is on a gravitational redshift...
DO stop by again! :spinning:
Dear Mike-
I love this idea. I am not a great gambler but I did like LasVegas the last time that I went there. I got to stay at the Sands just before they imploded it. The only question I have is "do I have to wear a poodle skirt". I look really bad in poodle skirts. Now maybe Frank and the rat pack would still be alive. I wouldn't mind going to see that show. Nice thought. Glad to see that I am not the only one in serious need of a vacation. I don't usually drink but tonight is mega drink night. Thank goodness I don't have to drive.
Hope you have a wonderful vacation. See you if you return. I am still going to be hanging out on the Island with my friend. Still got some serious "exercising" to do. LOL
Kat
i bet Vegas was amazing in the fifties
i love las vegas!!!!
This made my night
had some fun there myself
u always come up with the BEST prompts
for the island
I LOVE DOIGN EM
hehehehe
after a long day of studying
and hope ur vacation is amazing
LYLAS ALWAYS
:coolman:
Michael.. I wanted you to know... I have included you in my Santa requests!!!
I am saving for this adventure:love:
Mike, I gotta be honest, if I spend more than fifteen minutes on a post (beyond some of the poetry which I refine the hell out of) I get twitchy and think I'm overcompensating.
:love: i love ur posts
they r amazing- i wish i had the time and creativity
you are an inspiration tho and an awesome leader!
Yeah i was at Belfast and Ireland and also went on a family tour with my best friend Pooja to see my sista caz,
and then went back with my dad. Everytime is more magical, however I want to take my Dave to see my fave country in the world!:heartbeat::):fun:
hehehe
your posts are AMAZING :goodjob:
and make me smile
and really encourage/inspire me to write more
I just kept writign on this post, and on todays entry
wrote a poem about Ireland-Hope you like!:)
Island hope and love and happiness for the holiday season
your blogring ideas ARE AWESOME and help me grow in my writing SO MUCH!
It is one of the greatest gifts I have, to write!:) and u help me share it and inspire it
with amazing people of the Island
Thanks so much!:coolman:
This is such a neat idea, Mike! I bet if there really was such a hotel/casino it would go over big with the "older" crowd!
I have a few pics of when Ken was there in the mid-50's. My first time there was in Jan. of 1963 for just a couple hours---on our way home from Calif. to Wisconsin. Our Jeff was just 9 mos. old, and I was PG with Greg. I wanted to go into a casino, so we stopped downtown at the Mint. I was FINALLY old enough to drink and gamble!! 21 1/2! We went in and I started playing the nickel slots. A guard approached us and very politely told us that no children were allowed in the casino. Jeff was only 9 mos. old, I told him, he certainly cannot play the slots illegally yet! He was very nice and apologetic, but firm about the rules. So Ken had to go outside with Jeff while I finished playing my roll of nickels! That was sooo funny. No way was I going to leave and give up my first chance to gamble---a whole $2!! But I doubled my money!!!!! Yeah!!
I'm there!
hey mike, how are you? this is a great entry, i can tell you spent lots of time on it. i love what you wrote about having to drive by sand and desert landscape to get to the different casinos. cars looked much better in the old days and b/w movies are the best. do i have to stay in my room playing video games when i come visit your hotel? i'll find a way to sneak out :fun: i enjoyed reading this. take care, charlie
Hi Mike,
We have been to Las Vegas, and I have to say that it is not our favorite place, although it would be fun to be able to see the Rat Pack and the other famous people who inhabited that city in the past. The "glory days" of that city really have passed, haven't they?
Nancy
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