Las Vegas Nevada Resorts

Gold Coast Hotel and Casino resort is situated just one mile west of the Las Vegas Strip and half mile from Chinatown, bordered by acres of free parking and parking garages. The resort provides free shuttle bus for guests to its sister locations, Barbary Coast on the Strip and The Orleans. Gold Coast has almost all what you would want, from slot machines to movies, fine dining or bowling.

The Gold Coast accommodates its guest in 711 rooms spread on ten floors. Hotel rooms are equipped with remote controlled cable TV, pay per view movies, air conditioning, telephone, radio, voicemail, iron and ironing board, hair dryer and alarm clock. In addition, all hotel rooms are also equipped with high speed internet access.

The resort offer various amenities to their guests, including concierge, maid service, currency exchange, dry cleaning service, safety deposit boxes, room service, laundry service, luggage service and wake up calls. You might visit the health club with cardiovascular equipment and weights, or the pool area with one pool and one Jacuzzi, the salon & barber shop. There is also a parking garage for those who arrived by car to the hotel. Gold Coast Hotel and Casino is a great place for conventions too, with more than 30,000 square feet of floor for various conventions and meetings.

The gaming area of the resort consists of 120,000 square feet of floor place featuring blackjack, let it ride, Pai Gaw poker, baccarat, craps, slots, roulette, Caribbean Stud poker, keno, megabucks, super megabucks and poker. You will also find more than 2,000 slot and video poker machines and a poker room.

A fine dining is guaranteed at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino restaurants, such as the Cortez Room with steak, chicken and crab (Steak & Seafood), the Ports O’Call Buffet with shrimp, steak and prime rib (Buffet type) or the Ping Pang Pong with pork, crab and duck (Chinese food).

Gold Coast Hotel and Casino offers you various entertainment options during your stay at the resort. You can go with your friends or the entire family at the Seventy Lane Bowling Center for a relaxing day or evening. The 800 Seat Bingo Hall is another place to have fun yelling BINGO.

Latin Breeze – Latin Dance Band, is the place for different shows at the Gold Coast with a Gigantic Showroom to be delighted by Latin music with the Latin Orchestra of Las Vegas, the “Latin Breeze”. For a memorable evening try out the Karaoke where you can amaze your audience with your incredible singing talent.

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If you are planning to get married, but you consider that it involves a lot of trouble and a lot of money, a Las Vegas wedding might be the perfect thing for you. It is the main reason why so many people decide to get married here, as it is fairly cheap and fast in the same time. You don’t have to give up elegance as you can have the wedding of your dreams. You can find numerous chapels in Las Vegas that are providing this kind of service.

Setting up an affordable wedding in Las Vegas is rather easy; you just need to follow some steps. Go to Vegas off season when the prices are not high, just make sure that wedding date match the off season dates. You can find out when the off season dates are at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, performing an online search or by speaking to a tourist information desk.

The cheapest way is to get a package deal that is airfare and hotel booking. You can find airlines that have special marriage packages available with several discounts. Another way to save some money is by looking for the lowest hotel rates. This kind of information will be presented to you usually by the travel agencies.

It is recommended to do a private wedding, as the smaller the wedding, the cheapest it is.

The Cosmopolitan resort and casino is conveniently situated in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip and brings a stylish design with is towers and state-of-the-art amenities. The Cosmopolitan boosts a 100,000 square feet casino, three different pool experiences and also an amazing 44,000 square feet spa.

The hotel accommodates its guests in 2,995 guestrooms, residential condos and meeting space. The two – the east and west – towers of the hotel offers large hotel rooms, ranging from 610 square feet to 5,400 square feet. Standard room amenities at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas resort and casino include flat-screen plasma TV, kitchenette, refrigerator, private terrace, high speed internet access, technology control panel, entertaining system, cable television, mini-bar, coffee maker, radio, sitting area, hairdryer, iron and ironing board. Guest will most certainly enjoy the oversized and luxurious bathrooms with soaking tubs, marble floors and rain showers.

Hotel amenities include such services as 24-hour security, room service and front desk, business center, concierge, door man, cell phone rental, luggage services, conference facilities, three distinct pool areas, maid service and laundry, tour desk, florist, various restaurants, spa with salon, fitness center and beauty shop.

The guests have at their disposal a 100,000 square feet casino with casino cabanas for the ultimate gaming experience. It also has a race & sports book where to place your bets and to watch live the various sports events.

The Cosmopolitan resort and casino also offers its guest over 60,0000 square feet of shops and boutiques for top-notch shopping. The two towers offer a relaxation area of a large spa, salon, health club and also nightclubs.

When it comes to dining, you will find one of the finest chefs and restaurants at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. No matter if you are looking for a casual dining or for something special, you will surely find something to suit your tastes. The list of available restaurants include Burger Bar Holstein’s, Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill, China Poblano, D.O.C.G., Comme Ça, Estiatorio Milos, Va Bene Caffe, The Wicked Spoon Buffet, The Henry, STK, Scarpetta and the Jaleo.

The city of Las Vegas is very famous for hosting around 120,000 weddings a year. Thus, it makes the city undoubtedly the most popular wedding destination till date.

However, the question that remains unanswered is whether a Las Vegas is perfect for you or not. The answer stands no, if you are a couple with a traditional thought or if you have plans of getting married and hosting the party since puberty. However, on the other side, if you are planning to get married quickly or if you have something different in mind, then Las Vegas is the perfect wedding destination for you. I have typed below some of the illuminated and darker sides of a typical Las Vegas wedding. For a green signal from your side, you will be joining the elite club of sharing your wedding party place with Wayne Newton, Elvis Presley, Demi More, Bruce Willis, Britney Spears, Michael Jordan and Frank Sinatra.

The Positives of a Las Vegas Wedding

Affordability: As far as my knowledge goes, affordability is by far the biggest advantage a typical Las Vegas wedding can be proud of. You can have a furnished wedding within the size of your wallet as against other weddings.

Timing: Booking a chapel is not a matter of joke especially when you are running short of time. However, it is quite possible, if your wedding is held in Las Vegas. Reservations and walk-ins both are there, but a hint of caution is that never ever try to walk into any of the Las Vegas chapels either during holidays or on February 14.

Convenience: Most of the Las Vegas hotels, which flaunt a wedding chapel, also have a coordinator who helps you to arrange everything from music to photography to music to the officiate. Not only this, everything can be done over the phone only.

Fun: There are couples who have got married before, older couples and of course, the couples, who love to appreciate the ease of atypical wedding in Las Vegas and no one would ever stop you even, if you want to get married by an Elvis impersonator.

Start an Early Honeymoon: There is absolutely no necessity of going out of the city or boarding a plane as Las Vegas is not only the wedding hub of the world, but also a very good honeymoon destination.

Negatives of a Las Vegas Wedding

Your own way of wedding: Nothing can be compared between a typical shortly planned Las Vegas wedding and another one, which has been planned for months or for years. I can very clearly state that if you are the person, who is very choosy about custom favors, colors, local florists, baker, bands and all other elements customize and personalize your wedding, there is always an element of doubt that you would be satisfied with a Las Vegas wedding.

Conveyor Belt Mentality: there are sometimes failures in hosting two or more parties in the wedding chapel. There are some hotels flaunting more than one chapels and it may arise that we may end up in encountering people from other parties also. The good chapels in the city have exactly 1 hour of chapel time, which has been bifurcated as 15 minute for ceremony, another of the same for photography and 30 minutes sharp for arrival of guests and making them sit. Chances are there that walking down the strip later may end up seeing other couples on that special day.

Guests List: As it is distanced from other cities, so on the wedding date, it becomes difficult for friends and relatives to travel to the city and see you as a couple. However, this factor helps in staying from friends and relatives, who are marginally valuable to you.

Reception Sites: the particular places where weddings are conducted in Las Vegas have drawback that hosting an afterward reception would call for a separate arrangement. In comparison to this, large hotels showcase meeting rooms and banquet, which are frequently used for hosting corporate functions. In my opinion, booking a private room in the restaurant is the best possible option.

Tacky image: In spite of all the efforts put together by the hotels of Las Vegas, the weddings are considered by many people.

The Best Wishes

Finally, I would like to conclude that it is not that important to give priority to a wedding destination. Rather, it is important to live a life with stability after you get married.

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The hotel rooms have more in-room facilities than any other hotel downtown, such as free of charge wall-safe in every room, electronic locks, pay movies and 25 cable channels, iron and ironing boards, computer ports as well as 24-hour security. It also offers non-smoking and handicap accessible rooms. For the hotel guests the parking is free, having an eleven story parking garage and a valet parking. You can access the valet parking from Fourth Street and Carson Avenue and the self parking garage is off Third Street and Carson Avenue.

Fitzgeralds Hotel Las Vegas features 638 rooms spread on thirty-four floors equipped with telephone and voicemail, coffee maker, iron and ironing board, air conditioning, mini bar, refrigerator, remote controlled cable TV, alarm clock, radio, electric door locks, pay per view movies as well as dial up for internet access in all rooms.

Hotel amenities include luggage and laundry service, dry cleaning service, safety deposit boxes, maid service, daily newspaper and currency exchange. It can also host various conventions with its 8,000 square feet meetings and conventions space. For some relaxing time there is a pool and Jacuzzi available.

Fitzgeralds hotel features 42,000 square feet of gaming floor with thirty-two table games. For your gaming experience you can choose from three card poker, Caribbean draw poker, let it ride, deuces wild hold’em & fold’em, extreme 21, blackjack switch, pai gow mania, craps and single, Spanish 21, six-deck and 8 deck blackjack. There is also a keno lounge and a poker room.

For shopping fans there is The Luck Streak Boutique gift shop.

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When it comes to dining you can serve your meal at Courtyard Grill & Buffet featuring shrimp, chicken eggs – buffet, at Don B’s Steakhouse offering chicken, steak, shrimp and various steak/seafood foods or at McDonald’s located at the casino front entrance.

At Fitzgeralds Las Vegas there is also place for some quality entertainment. Marriage Can Be Murder an award winning show, 3-course dinner, and Beverage that is nightly at 6:30 PM.  Another attraction is Kevin Burke: Fitz of Laughter a stand-up comedian that appeared on Oprah.
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