Fontainebleau - Anyone check it out yet?
How is it? Do they have a poker room?
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Yes. There are people who have checked it out.
Oh good. /thread
Heard it's nacho average hotel.
Its very big and nice, very open with high ceilings, seems opulent for a casino. Sports book is not great, its inside of a restaurant, no poker room. Very cool interactive thing when you go into the front. The lobby for the hotel is very nice. Lots of restaurants. Center bar area is big and cool
One problem is the parking garage is located in a weird spot, and getting around in the garage is not as easy as other casinos. Its a long walk from the parking garage to the actual casino.
That restaurant with sports book is pretty cool it seemed
Many tables have their own private tv, looked like a cool place to hang out with people, each breakfast/brunch and watch a game
It’s nice but sort of on an island north strip
Vegas has enough hotel and casinos, it’s why they need F1 and other sports and revenues to grow.
#NachoGate earlier this week was hilarious.
Yes I have. It's very similar to the Revel in AC and will probably suffer the same fate. Horrible location for such an over the top casino. With the execs that have jumped ship that tells me the numbers are awful and they will never be profitable. You heard it here first they will be condos or time shares by this time next year.
Yes I have. It's very similar to the Revel in AC and will probably suffer the same fate. Horrible location for such an over the top casino. With the execs that have jumped ship that tells me the numbers are awful and they will never be profitable. You heard it here first they will be condos or time shares by this time next year.
Agreed
At the end of the day it will be things like the Super Bowl and F1 that will keep Vegas afloat, not new casinos
The locals that complain about sports events and minor inconveniences need to wisen up
I heard they have nachos.
Six to be exact
Other than the nachos it looks nice but it’s a bad location and why would I go there instead of the Wynn or Bellagio? They do have a theater so maybe they will get some interesting shows in there. We’ll see.
it's a sterile desolate wasteland of neon... they've seemingly lost the ability to make a really great casino experience in these modern times.
Thought that NachoGate would be a good opportunity for FB to step up and offer free nachos in their sports book.
#NachoAverageCasino
Seems like a cursed property run by incompetents.
NBA Arena next door might help.
How many billions went into market research, building design, the building itself, and the staff to run it only to get the equivalent of billions in dollars of unwanted mockery public relations within a few months of opening due to giving the most ridiculous nacho plate in history for $24
For pretty much eternity the first thing people are going to think of when they hear "oh, you're staying at FB? . . . dont get the nachos . . . "
Someone had to approve that plate and price point.
It boggles the mind
Apparently Jacob Orenth (I think thats his name) went there a few days ago and ordered the nachos and shockingly had about 12 nachos on his plate.
I went up there a few weeks ago to check it out. Had a cool vibe, but not very busy.
Yeah, the parking garage is really weird. You walk through these doors to get to the elevators and it seems like you're walking into a storage room or something. The whole layout iss odd. It sort of feels like they converted a shopping mall into a casino. No idea if people will care about that.
But from that point forward, everything is pretty impressive imo. I was expecting it to just be another pretty nice hotel that's not really remarkable or distinctive. Learning nothing from places like RW and Virgin. But it is much more creative and memorable than those.
Everything is pretty. There's a lot of attention to lighting and stuff so, for example, the bars all look really cool.
Service was good. Ate a fine meal at Don's, see the fine dining thread for more on that.
Been four times. Amount of space and scale would be an easy thing to appreciate if it weren’t so empty. I think it has the potential to be the nicest property on the strip with such a large % of the walkable space not being carpeted and the blue carpet being less offensive to look at than other properties
Food is overpriced but all the restaurants I’ve been to have been very good (Kyu 2x, Motherwolf, Washing potato all fill a niche for me and among best of strip in their class)
Casino floor is well meaning and friendly
Their parking lot will be a disaster if they ever manage to get people in the doors
bring back Wet 'n Wild!
Been four times. Amount of space and scale would be an easy thing to appreciate if it weren’t so empty. I think it has the potential to be the nicest property on the strip with such a large % of the walkable space not being carpeted and the blue carpet being less offensive to look at than other properties
Food is overpriced but all the restaurants I’ve been to have been very good (Kyu 2x, Motherwolf, Washing potato all fill a niche for me and among best of strip in their class)
Casino floor is w
Overpriced food?
Please, you can get 6 nachos for $24 in the sports book bar 😉
One of the main problems with Fountainbleau is that it is not on the monorail and isolated unless one has a vehicle.
Do people really use the monorail that much? I’m in California and drive every time I go so I really don’t know the popularity of the monorail or any other public transport mechanism there.
