Quietly and with virtually no fanfare, Wynn Resorts launched a new website recently for the upcoming $2.6 billion Wynn Las Vegas Resort offering a tantalizing sneak peek. Due to open April 28, the details of the hotel have been shrouded in secrecy until now. Here's a rundown of some of the details of the resort.
The bulk of the hotel's 2,700 rooms are situated in the gracefully curving bronze tower that will apparently be separated into two sections. The standard rooms will be accessible from the main hotel lobby while the VIP Tower section is accessed through a private gated entry with a separate VIP check-in.
If the pictures are a fair representation, the decor is surprisingly modern with bold and dramatic colors and plush looking furnishings that lean more toward the contemporary side of things but still have a traditional element.
There are six types of rooms:
The Resort Suite is the most common. At 640-square feet it is larger than most standard hotel rooms in the city with the exception those at The Venetian and THEhotel. It has a fairly standard layout (bathroom as soon as you walk in, the rest of the room past that) except in the rooms with one bed it is situated on the wall between the living area and the bathroom facing the windows as opposed to along the wall between rooms.
It features a marble entry; a sitting area with a couch, two chairs, a small dining table, and a desk; a comfy looking bed or two with 320 thread count linens; a flat screen LCD television; a cordless phone, fax machine, and high-speed Internet access; and a marble bath with soaking tub and separate shower, dual vanity, water closet, and another LCD TV.
Panoramic View Suites are the same as the Resort Suites only with better views presumably through the floor to ceiling, wall-to-wall windows.
The rooms known as the Tower Suites are also laid out identically to the Resort and Panoramic View Suites but are located in the more exclusive part of the tower and will, presumably, have a few more perks included although the website didn't really indicate what those might be.
From there you move into the bigger suites including the Executive Suites at 933-square-feet, a single over-sized room with a sitting area and his and hers baths; the Parlor Suite, at 1,280 square feet with a big living room and separate bedroom, wet bar, and a 42" plasma television; and the huge 1,950 square feet Salon Suites with a giant living room, separate bedroom, full size bar (no wussy wet bars tucked in a corner), a massage room, and a 50" plasma screen television.
There are also the Fairway Villas, house size units facing the golf course that are so super-exclusive they aren't even detailed on the website. This is where the celebrities and the really high-rollers will be staying.
The standard Resort Suites will start at around $200 and go up from there with $400 a night on busy weekends not uncommon. I don't even want to think about how much the bigger suites will be going for.
The casino will feature all the standard table games including blackjack, craps, roulette, Let It Ride, Three Card Poker, Caribbean Stud poker, Pai Gow poker, and more. More than 1,900 slot and video poker machines will feature the latest ticket-in-ticket-out technology with denominations ranging from one cent to $5,000 a pull. There's also a poker room, keno, and a state of the art sports book.
They Wynn Resorts players' club will be called The Red Card, presumably for the color of the card you will be given to use around the casino. Word on the streets is the players' club will be the stingiest in town, offering rewards and comps only to the people who spend so much money that they really don't need to worry about rewards and comps.
However if you use the card in the casino at a slot machine you will be eligible for the unique Bonus Bingo game. These free bonus games will happen at random intervals and up to $10,000 will be awarded at no cost to you (other than the money you're pumping into the slot machine in front of you).
There will be two shows eventually but only one at the opening. It's called "Le Reve: A Small Collection of Imperfect Dreams." It is described on the website as an "aquatic spectacular" from Franco Dragone (Mystere, O, Celine Dion's A New Day) performed in the domed theater in the round with no seat further than 40 feet from the action. It'll be presented 7:30 and 10:30 Thursday through Monday with tickets going for $121 apiece.
If you're hungry while you're there you'll have nearly two dozen options for your dining enjoyment. Among the notables are French Riviera cuisine at Alex from chef Alessandro Stratta, formerly of the celebrated Renoir at the Mirage; SW Steakhouse from chef Eric Klein, winner of Best New Chef awards from Food & Wine Magazine and Angeleno Magazine; Daniel Boulud Brasserie, a French bistro from the James Beard Award winning namesake chef; Bartolotta, Italian cuisine from Paul Bartolotta, winner of the Best American Chef - Midwest from the James Beard Foundation; Okada, a Japanese restaurant from Takashi Yagahashi, another James Beard Foundation award winner; Red 8, featuring Southeast Asian cuisine from Hisham Johari; Tableua, offering American cuisine from chef Mark LoRusso; and Corsa Cucina from chef Stephen Kalt will be an upscale cafe style restaurant.
Those are just the big ones - there are many others including a giant buffet.
If you have a credit card burning a hole in your pocket it better have a really high spending limit if you want to do some shopping at Wynn Las Vegas. The list of stores reads like a Rodeo Drive map: Manolo Blahnik, Dior, Cartier, Gaultier, Oscar de la Renta, Jo Malone, Graff, Judith Leiber, Brioni, and Chanel and just a few examples and of course what would a luxury resort be without its own Ferrari and Maserati dealership.
The golf course is all new from Tom Fazio and Steve Wynn who previously paired together on Shadow Creek, the $500 a tee course considered by many to be one of the best in the entire world. The new Wynn course replaces the legendary old Desert Inn course and features an 18 hole par 70 course totaling 7,042 yards, a clubhouse lounge and restaurant, a pro shop, a chipping green, a putting green, and a ten acre driving range.
According the site, they went all out on the golf course landscaping, moving more than 800,000 cubic yards of earth to sculpt the course, adding hills, valleys, streams, waterfalls, and marshlands. They even saved more than 1,200 trees from the old Desert Inn course including a few dating back to the original construction more than 50 years ago.
A full spa and salon, a couple of full service wedding chapels, and lots of meeting and convention space round out the offerings.