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62: A Tour of the Aliante Station Casino and Hotel
November 12, 2008
Twenty-three months ago, the folks at Stations Casino did a Show & Tell about their upcoming Aliante Station Casino. Last night, two years of planning, construction, traffic delays and speculation came to an end with the grand opening of the Aliante Station Casino and Hotel. This episode of the Living in Las Vegas Podcast gives you a “soundseering” tour of the $600+ million “locals” casino. Show notes:
- PHOTOS!
- Weather/Pool
- LiLV Stuff
- Listener Line: 206.312.0105
- Sign up for Email Alerts!!
- The Aliante Station Casino and Hotel
- Fireworks
- Early entry and free beer
- The Tour
November 12, 2008
. . .and was surprised by what we saw. Stay tuned. . .we’re planning to record the podcast reviewing the Aliante Station Casino grand opening tomorrow night.
November 11, 2008
There has been a nice buzz around these parts about tonight’s Aliante Station Casino opening. We’ve seen a handful of news channel features about the new property over the last month or so along with several articles in the local newspapers. I’ve always been VERY impressed with much of what Station Casinos does so I was surprised when I heard on Channel 3’s 11PM news that for the third quarter of 2008 (which ends on September 30) the company lost $23 million. To compare, for Q3 2007, the company made $3.7 million.
In the words of Keanu Reeves — “Whooaah”.
Both Melissa and I were surprise by that. I always had the impression that all ten Station Casinos properties were doing very well. Every time we visited Red Rock or Santa Fe, they looked pretty busy.
Here’s hoping their eleventh casino at Aliante will be the beginning of a big turn around. The company is obviously spending a lot of money on getting the word out. . .billboards, TV commercials, newspaper ads. Just yesterday, they paid for the insertion of a 16 page “Promotional Feature” section in the Review-Journal. That had to be expensive!
We will be checking the place out at their 11/11/08 at 11:11PM opening and putting out a new LiLV Podcast episode soon thereafter.
Our fingers are crossed!!
30: A Peek at Aliante Station Casino
October 12, 2006
The folks at Station Casinos held an open house to share the new Aliante Station design with their soon-to-be neighbors. Today’s Living In Las Vegas Podcast gives you the inside scoop of what we saw. Show notes:
- Show Sponsor: Polycom On Demand
- Podcast and Portable Media Expo stuff
- Listener Audio — Angela
- Listener Letters — Angela (again!), Brian, John, Mark and Luz and Cheryl
- New LiLV Feature? Friends of the LiLV Show!
- Aliante Station — A Sneak Peek