High-end Las Vegas hotels going for the glamour Posted on June 15th
Roger Thomas has what many people would consider a dream job: jetting across the globe in search of the finest furnishings and antiques and then buying whatever strikes his fancy — using someone else’s money.
That someone else is Steve Wynn, who in 1998 set the standard for luxury in Las Vegas with the opening of Bellagio. A decade later, he’s still raising the bar with Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in 2005, and an adjoining new hotel — Encore — which will welcome its first guests in December.
Encore, however, isn’t the only new, upscale resort under development. Before long, two of the world’s most prestigious hotel chains — Mandarin Oriental and Shangri-La — will add their marquees to the constantly changing Las Vegas skyline. Recession or not, Las Vegas is still going for the gold.
“There’s an ever-increasing demand for the very best,” says Thomas, who for the last quarter-century has been putting the panache — in his words, the “mystery, discovery and drama” — into Wynn’s various properties.
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