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Overseas Travel Returns, First Plane Touches Down in Las Vegas, Construction Resumes on Luxury Resort on the Strip | Ep. 94 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's Vegas Revealed episode 94 as international travel resumes here on the strip.
• 0:06
  Sean McAllister: Here from the first overseas passengers to touch down.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's huge because my mom has I've been seeing it for two years, um, and she's coming in for my wedding.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_02: I'm getting married in a week and a bit.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_02: So we just she just made it just in time.
• 0:20
  Dayna Roselli: And our chat with a Vegas fan in the UK who can't wait to be back in his favorite city.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_06: We've got a tripbook for next September.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_06: Four days in Vegas, Park MGM.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_06: However, we're I know Christmas because we're like, we cannot go that long without getting back to Vegas.
• 0:35
  Sean McAllister: Then what we're just finding out about vaccine status is the National Finals rodeo is set to arrive.
• 0:41
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, could an eye store on the strip finally turn into a functional resort?
• 0:46
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot to talk about today.
• 0:48
  Sean McAllister: Spin that wheel, George.
• 1:00
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 94.
• 1:04
  Sean McAllister: And as we uh sit down and record today, Dana, we are seeing some faces that we haven't seen in Las Vegas in over two years.
• 1:13
  Sean McAllister: We're talking about international travelers being welcomed back to Las Vegas.
• 1:19
  Sean McAllister: I'm Sean McAllister along with Dana Roselli.
• 1:21
  Sean McAllister: Thanks for joining us.
• 1:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's been about 20 months.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: So finally we'll get to see some of those people visit us.
• 1:27
  Dayna Roselli: And it's funny because it's been so busy lately that I'm like, wow, we're gonna have even more visitors than normal.
• 1:32
  Dayna Roselli: So I expect it to be a very crowded month here in Las Vegas.
• 1:35
  Sean McAllister: Well, and that's the thing.
• 1:36
  Sean McAllister: As we head into December, usually the two weeks before Christmas and the week after Christmas are usually pretty slow.
• 1:46
  Sean McAllister: They're r really, really slow times.
• 1:49
  Sean McAllister: New Year's Eve is mixed in there, that's busy.
• 1:51
  Sean McAllister: But other than that, there aren't a lot of conventions happening.
• 1:54
  Sean McAllister: And visitation is generally just low because people tend to take that time to spend with their families.
• 2:01
  Sean McAllister: I have a feeling though that could change this year.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and especially if people take advantage of some deals.
• 2:06
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna talk to Chris Phelps, who is itching to get back here to Las Vegas, and he was giving us kind of some insight on some of the prices out there for airlines, because we haven't looked really, but he is uh looking to get back in September and then maybe even around the holidays.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: So he said it's pretty affordable.
• 2:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, he lives over in the UK, a a frequent Vegas visitor before the pandemic, so you'll hear from him uh coming up.
• 2:31
  Sean McAllister: But the big news is these uh the Virgin Atlantic plane that touched down in Las Vegas was the first one since March of 2020.
• 2:42
  Sean McAllister: And that was pretty exciting for the people on board.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's really, really exciting to have them back.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Virgin gives us the leisure passenger.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we know the pent-up feel for international was going to come back as quickly as domestic.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: So after the government's worked everything out with the protocol, and the airline takes care of that with each of the passenger, we knew that this flight was going to be filled, and it is.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was a very happy director of aviation over at our airport.
• 3:15
  Dayna Roselli: Now, here's an interesting kind of number.
• 3:18
  Dayna Roselli: Las Vegas welcomed 5.7 million international travelers in 2019, which resulted in$4.8 billion in direct economic impact.
• 3:29
  Dayna Roselli: So you can only imagine why she's so happy.
• 3:31
  Dayna Roselli: And all of Las Vegas is happy.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: It's all part of our economic recovery.
• 3:36
  Sean McAllister: No kidding.
• 3:36
  Sean McAllister: And so as of right now, uh Virgin Atlantic Airways is flying from London to Las Vegas.
• 3:43
  Sean McAllister: Starting November 15th, British Airways is going to be flying in, uh, followed by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and COPA Airlines starting uh both of those on December 7th.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: One of the passengers on the first Virgin Atlantic flight into Las Vegas was Stephen Stanley, and he shared his feelings just moments after he stepped off the plane.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean I'm so happy it hurts, to be honest.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um here to see some friends I haven't seen in a long time, been a couple of years, haven't been on a plane for two years, so amazed to be back in Vegas.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 4:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, people excited to arrive here in Las Vegas.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: And also a little note a lot of our entertainers that were here during the pandemic that are from the UK and have family or have family overseas haven't been able to go there because they can't get back because they're not a U.S.
• 4:37
  Dayna Roselli: citizen.
• 4:38
  Dayna Roselli: So I was noticing too a couple different groups on Facebook that perform around town all on a plane out to go see their family.
• 4:45
  Dayna Roselli: And so um excited for them because I know it's been a long time coming for them to see their family.
• 4:50
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it certainly has.
• 4:51
  Dayna Roselli: They'll be able to get back this time.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, no kidding.
• 4:53
  Sean McAllister: No kidding.
• 4:54
  Sean McAllister: As long as you're fully vaccinated, you you have no problem traveling in and out of the United States.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: And and I just wanted to point out too, uh regular nonstop service from Mexico resumed way back in July of 2020.
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: So we've had that going, and that's why we've seen a lot of our friends in Mexico vacationing.
• 5:11
  Dayna Roselli: And then Canada resumed earlier this year.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: So now we're pretty much ready to go.
• 5:17
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we have those transoceanic flights that are up and running now.
• 5:21
  Sean McAllister: So welcome to all of the overseas travelers who are uh who have plans to be here in Las Vegas.
• 5:29
  Sean McAllister: And one of those overseas travelers is Chris Phelps.
• 5:32
  Sean McAllister: He's a UK man who regularly traveled here to Las Vegas before the pandemic shut down.
• 5:39
  Sean McAllister: And we wanted to get his take on uh the feelings overseas for travel resuming here to the United States and to Las Vegas.
• 5:47
  Dayna Roselli: All right, we have dialed in the UK.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: We have Chris Phelps on the line with us right now, and he's coming to us from England and super excited about the new travel restrictions easing up, and he's gonna be able to get to Las Vegas.
• 6:02
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Chris, we just saw that the first international travelers are now here on the soil in Las Vegas.
• 6:09
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but you have a trip planned coming up here too.
• 6:13
  Sean McAllister: First of all, welcome and then tell us about your trip.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, thank you.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_06: An honor to have me on, guys.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_06: I absolutely adore the show.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_06: So thank you for your content.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_06: It's amazing.
• 6:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we love that.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_06: I should have been in Las Vegas last week.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_06: My daughter was 21, and we I've been quite a few times.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_06: I love Las Vegas.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_06: I made the mistake of bringing her when she was 18.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_06: I was 40 in 2018 for Thanksgiving week.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_06: That's when my birthday is.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_06: And she couldn't do anything.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_06: She'd just become an adult in the UK, and she literally couldn't gamble, drink, anything.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_06: So I've been we've been the worst parents ever, me and my wife.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_06: So we vowed we will bring her back.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_06: One of my sisters lives in Vancouver, she comes down from Vancouver to stay, and we all have a great time in Vegas usually.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_06: So three years we've been waiting, and then the pandemic hit.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_06: So we were should have been here.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_06: We've been away to Greece, but now we're edging to we've got a trip up for next September, four days in Vegas, Park MGM, and then we've got New York as well.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_06: I was gonna stay near Times Square.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_06: However, we're eyeing up Christmas because we're like, we cannot go that long without getting back to Vegas.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_06: So it was it was quite emotional seeing everyone uh in Vegas, people I know, and also the simultaneous flights that Virgin British Airways did, where both planes took off exactly the same time and pretty much landed as well.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_06: It's brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
• 7:33
  Sean McAllister: Well, and obviously we're seeing the reaction of travelers as they touch down here in Las Vegas, and uh there's incredible excitement for people to be back here to one of their favorite global destinations.
• 7:45
  Sean McAllister: But but what is it like on the ground there in the UK?
• 7:49
  Sean McAllister: I mean, for for your your neighbors, for you know, people you run into on the street, like can you give us a sense of what it's like to now just have the ability to have international travel at your fingertips again?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_06: It's such a good question because I mean, like yourselves, everywhere's been so restricted.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_06: We could go within Europe, but there were so many hoops you had to sort of jump through to get there.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_06: Obviously, like yourself, the testing, everything.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_06: And then for a long time we had to do staycations within the UK, and that was quite an eye-opener, but really nice to find some places in the UK that you would never normally go to.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_06: I think having the discussions with a lot of my friends, it's a lot of them are very cautious because they're sort of thinking, well, I want someone else to go to go through all that.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_06: A lot of people are saying they don't want to come over to the US because they think the queues are going to be really bad at passport.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_06: Are they worried that if they do get COVID, it's such a long way away?
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_06: You know, what are the restrictions?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_06: Because in in Europe, a lot of the times when people have gone away and they've contracted COVID, they're literally in a hotel for 10 days at their expense and it costs them thousands of pounds.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_06: So so that's a real worry.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_06: However, myself, I'm I go to Vegas, I gamble.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_06: I'm happy to take that gamble if we can get over to uh the America, love your country.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_06: So it is it is a worrying time, but for people are thinking, well, this is hopefully the final step back to some sort of normality.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_06: You know, a world is never gonna be the same again, but we will be in something that we can all relate to and start enjoying life again, hopefully.
• 9:18
  Dayna Roselli: Well, in September, you're right, is a long ways away.
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: So I have a feeling we're gonna see you in around the holidays.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, what are flights?
• 9:25
  Dayna Roselli: Have you even browse?
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: What are flights like right now?
• 9:27
  Dayna Roselli: Are they cheap?
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: Are they expensive?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_06: They're they're quite cheap, actually.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_06: It I mean, I have the My Vegas app, so I'm always playing the virtual slot, so we get a lot of offers when we come over.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_06: So we try and book the flight, and then we will get the stay when we come over to Vegas, you know, in very various different hotels.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_06: It's around about, I'd say in dollars, it's probably about eight, nine hundred dollars for a return flight at the moment, which isn't too bad.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_06: And we do have like the British Airways and Virgin holiday sales, they usually would come towards the end of the year and early part of next year, but it's not too expensive.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_06: And obviously, you know, if you play it right when you get to Vegas, you you could do the bit of gambling, but you've got your drinks on the slots, things like that.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_06: So there's there's ways around it, but it it's not too expensive.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_06: And a lot of the holiday firms are doing good packages at the moment, which is great.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_06: There's some really good diggers out there, it's just a case of hunting them down, especially now we're open.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_06: However, I am of the opinion, I'm sure you're sure the prices are going to go up now that everything's open.
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: I know we might have to lock it in.
• 10:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and speaking of locking things in, have you made an itinerary yet?
• 10:31
  Sean McAllister: Have you have you scheduled out what your Vegas trip is going to look like?
• 10:36
  Sean McAllister: The activities that are on your wish list, all that?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_06: Uh well, my wife has always got to go to the Grand Canyon, and I know that's a day out, and every time we've gone, we've never never done it, and we've stayed longer than three or four days.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe we used to stay for over a week.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_06: So we've got to do it this time.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_06: I know it's a shorter stay, we have to do that.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_06: I went up the strat last time and did the roller coaster that hangs you over the edge, uh-huh.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_06: And then the one that was like a spider, because I I do like my YouTube vlogs, I'm on there, and the spider one, it was too windy.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_06: I literally sat in the seat and they were like, No, you cannot go.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_06: So I've got a date with that, and we've got a couple of shows we want to see.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_06: My wife is saying she wants to go and see Funder Down Under, I think it is.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_06: So I we went to see the Pete show a few years ago in 2013 with Coco, our Ice T's wife, not knowing what the show was really at Planet Hollywood.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_06: And then um, it was more of obviously for guys, really, I think at the time myself.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_06: So I always go out, like, oh, it's a great show.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_06: So I owe a Thunder from Down Under, so I've got to go there for the next thing.
• 11:35
  Dayna Roselli: Well, what are some other shows that you want to see?
• 11:36
  Dayna Roselli: That's hilarious.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_06: Uh well, I saw Michael Boobway's gonna have a residency coming.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_06: I'm not sure whether he's gonna be here in in September.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_06: I know Sting's obviously listening to your podcast as well.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_06: The Sting stuff is really good.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_06: He's uh from Newcastle.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_06: I always feel like we've missed out like even Elton John and that he's very difficult to get tickets for in the UK, and he doesn't do a lot of gigs when he was in Vegas, even the Donnie Marie stuff, and that they're not doing it together anymore.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_06: There were various things.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_06: We've done a lot of the Soleil, we've done the Beatles, I did the Elvis one as well.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_06: That was a great one.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_06: Car, we've seen.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_06: So we we usually sort of pick and choose.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_06: The last time was at the Strat, and we went to see the Michael Jackson one.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_06: That was really good, and uh I enjoyed that a lot.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_06: That was a good night.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_06: That he was a very good dancer as well.
• 12:17
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Donnie has his own show now, and we loved it.
• 12:20
  Dayna Roselli: So we recommend Donnie if that if if you're looking, because you were talking about Donnie and Marie, it's a good show.
• 12:25
  Dayna Roselli: There's so many good shows out there right now.
• 12:27
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Sean and I were always saying, like, we don't know if it's like the long break that everyone had like time to like plan out their show a little more and think of all these creative things and perfect them, but the the entertainment right now is excellent.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it is, and and and and I know one of my friends who comes over, he goes to Vegas more than me.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_06: He he had the chance to see Queen with Adam Lambert, and I'd love to see them.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_06: And I know they they haven't got at all announced at the moment, especially not in Vegas, but even Rod Stewart, people like that, they're all in Vegas, it's something different.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_06: Robbie Williams was there a couple of well, I think last year as co-he had a residency as well.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_06: So, and Matt Goss, another UK guy, he's been there for years.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_06: Matt Goss, he's really good.
• 13:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he is really good.
• 13:08
  Dayna Roselli: He's a good friend of mine.
• 13:10
  Sean McAllister: I was gonna say, although now he's closer to you than he is to us.
• 13:14
  Sean McAllister: He's spending some time over in the homeland.
• 13:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he is.
• 13:17
  Dayna Roselli: He's kind of stuck over there for a little bit.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: But um, we produced one of his podcasts, so yeah, we're very familiar of what it's kind of been like, but it's interesting because you know, we do have so much to do, but every person that we talk to that visits Las Vegas, we feel like they have like a certain thing that they love the most about it.
• 13:34
  Dayna Roselli: So, what do you love about Las Vegas?
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_06: I love spending it with my wife, and my daughter's gonna be an extent when she comes.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_06: When we've we've came before, it was my wife's uh 40 in 2012.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_06: That was our first visit.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_06: I'd had a childhood ambition to get to America, especially Vegas, and we literally did it was Chandler, uh Chandler, it was Ross and Rachel when they did sort of Vegas, and we you know, obviously we didn't get remarried, but we we would do a casino cross.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_06: So I think we started in Gillies in the Gillies bar, and there was the the the the ball the automatic bull thing gone, and people were getting rather drunk, and then we lit we've stayed at the MGM both times, so we would just casino hop all the way back and end up in New York, New York, the piano bar.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_06: I love all that, I love music.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_06: I was in I was in a band for a long time, so I love like just seeing live music and just the aura of being in Las Vegas.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_06: There's nothing like it.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_06: I cannot explain why I love the city so much.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, I've just I'm have I've got a sleeve done now this last year because I couldn't go a Las Vegas sleeve and uh tattoo and everything.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_06: I'm absolutely, I mean, I sound like I'm I'm too obsessed, but it's just anybody who knows me knows that it's just Vegas.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_06: And when I'm with my wife's uh Sam together, it's just great.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_06: We just play the slots, we don't do the tables, we just do the slots, and we yeah, just get very drunk usually.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_06: Have a good night.
• 14:47
  Sean McAllister: Well, I love that you have the whole body art that was inspired by the I guess absence makes the heart grow fonder, doesn't it?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yes, yeah.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_06: I'll I'll send you a picture of it.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's it's not finished yet, but yeah, I had I've even got the zip code 89109 on my arm.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_06: I've had that put on and everything, so yeah.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_06: That's my zip code.
• 15:07
  Dayna Roselli: That's so funny.
• 15:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I look at the strip, yeah.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, amazing, amazing.
• 15:11
  Dayna Roselli: So well, listen, we're excited for you.
• 15:13
  Dayna Roselli: Browse around, get here before September.
• 15:15
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and tell us a little bit about your travel blog too, before you go, because I know you have a YouTube channel.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: I was looking at some of the videos, you do a nice job.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and and it was inspired by Vegas.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_06: I started doing that.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_06: There should be more Vegas.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_06: I've only got one Vegas vlog on from my Thanksgiving 2018, but it's Phelps travel vlogs, and I just when we go away with my family, we just sort of video everything.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_06: And I annoy my wife and daughter a lot because I've always got a camera out or a gimbal, you know, filming everything.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_06: But yeah, they're just on YouTube.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_06: We do that, and I do podcasts like you guys as well.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_06: So I've been trying to get one of my friends, he's been to Vegas a lot more times than me, and we're trying to get a a UK Vegas one we were at one point, but it's never took off.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_06: But yeah, absolutely.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_06: Just anything like that, the medium, and stretch what you guys do.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_06: I love it.
• 15:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, maybe you need like a UK revealed.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: It could be like a whole yeah, yeah.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: Something like that.
• 16:04
  Sean McAllister: Well, Chris, thank you so much for for your time and your perspective, and we can't wait to see you back on the ground here in Las Vegas.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you so much, guys, and I love the podcast.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_06: Keep doing what you do, and it's amazing.
• 16:16
  Dayna Roselli: Great to talk to Chris.
• 16:17
  Dayna Roselli: He usually DMs us on Twitter, always listening to the podcast.
• 16:21
  Dayna Roselli: We love that we've been able to provide some, you know, kind of information and some excitement for him as he gets ready to come back to Las Vegas.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: Wanted to point out he also hosts a bunch of different podcasts, so we're gonna put that in our listener notes.
• 16:34
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to go find Chris, he's got a reality cast podcast where they talk about reality shows.
• 16:39
  Dayna Roselli: He's got the VHS Strikes Back and the Comics in Motion Network.
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: So lots of stuff there if you're interested in any of that.
• 16:46
  Sean McAllister: And stick around here on Vegas Revealed because coming up in tips, Chris has a good one for anyone with international travel plans.
• 16:55
  Sean McAllister: It'll definitely save you some time on your next trip.
• 16:58
  Sean McAllister: So that's still to come here on Vegas Revealed.
• 17:01
  Dayna Roselli: And I wanted to talk about this, which in in some ways could be a tip.
• 17:04
  Dayna Roselli: I we got this release a while ago, and I just found it in my inbox.
• 17:07
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, wait, we haven't talked about this yet.
• 17:09
  Dayna Roselli: And it's New Year's Eve plans on Fremont Street at the Fremont Street Experience.
• 17:13
  Dayna Roselli: So it's an 80s and 90s themed dance party that they're having for New Year's Eve.
• 17:19
  Dayna Roselli: And guess who's gonna be there?
• 17:21
  Dayna Roselli: Vanilla Ice, the village people, Bobby Brown, Tone Lowe, and more.
• 17:27
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my goodness, that is a lineup.
• 17:30
  Sean McAllister: That is a good time.
• 17:31
  Sean McAllister: And if you've ever seen what it looks like down on Fremont Street for New Year's Eve, it is a party.
• 17:39
  Sean McAllister: I mean, they shut down the strip to traffic, to vehicle traffic, so that you know, pedestrians can pack Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 17:48
  Sean McAllister: But downtown on Fremont Street, it it's kind of uh all cordoned off.
• 17:53
  Sean McAllister: So you have to buy a ticket to get in.
• 17:55
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, tickets are already on sale uh for this New Year's Eve bash down on Fremont Street.
• 18:01
  Sean McAllister: Uh they go for about 35 bucks, but you need a ticket to get in.
• 18:05
  Sean McAllister: And once you're in, it is just a huge party.
• 18:09
  Sean McAllister: And of course, there's the canopy over top Fremont Street experience.
• 18:14
  Sean McAllister: A lot of times they put different uh broadcasts up on the uh canopy to welcome in the new year and show the fireworks that are going on around Las Vegas and around the world.
• 18:25
  Sean McAllister: So it really is a great time.
• 18:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so if that is your thing, definitely get tickets and get out there.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we hope for good weather this year.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes we have a really mild New Year's Eve, sometimes we don't.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: But under that canopy and all the people there, it kind of stays a little warmer.
• 18:40
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 18:41
  Sean McAllister: And you're pretty sh pretty much shoulder to shoulder.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: And Bobby Brown will be heating it up if that's your prerogative.
• 18:49
  Sean McAllister: I see what you did there.
• 18:51
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: What else is going on on New Year's Eve?
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: On the strip, we've talked a little bit, but the full rundown, we've got what?
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: Maroon 5 coming in, Lizzo, Katy Perry, Bruno Maher.
• 19:01
  Dayna Roselli: So Las Vegas is the place to be for New Year's Eve, and now everyone overseas can come too.
• 19:06
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 19:06
  Sean McAllister: And that's not even everything that's going on.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: So uh we'll compile a full list of New Year's Eve goings on and have that on the Vegas Dash Reveal.com um in the in the next week or so.
• 19:19
  Sean McAllister: Um something else that is kind of big news here in Las Vegas.
• 19:23
  Sean McAllister: There is an eyesore on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 19:27
  Sean McAllister: This building that was that began construction.
• 19:31
  Sean McAllister: I mean, um I think probably like 2007.
• 19:34
  Sean McAllister: It's been years and years, like 15 years really, that it's just sat there.
• 19:40
  Sean McAllister: When the first recession hit, construction stopped on this building and it's just been sitting there rotting.
• 19:48
  Sean McAllister: It's changed hands a couple times.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: That's the word.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: They held a big press conference this week, and they say it's gonna open in the fourth quarter of 2023.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: And it's again, we're going back to the Fountain Blue Las Vegas.
• 20:01
  Dayna Roselli: Because then it was supposed to be something else, then it was supposed to be the Drew, and now it's back to the Fountain Blue, which is exciting because that was originally what it was supposed to be.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: So they're calling it in their little bio modern luxury and timeless elegance.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: So it sounds like it's gonna be a nice resort.
• 20:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um it's supposed to resume, and everyone's responding with, I'll believe it when I see it.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: Because it has been a long time, but like I hope this is the one, right?
• 20:28
  Sean McAllister: You know, they it's they say that there's going to be 3,200 construction jobs that are going to be created to, you know, really shift into high gear and get this building done.
• 20:41
  Sean McAllister: Um, 6,000 employees that are going to work there once the hotel finally opens.
• 20:47
  Sean McAllister: So once this is completed, it'll kind of be the the finishing touch on the north end of Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 20:54
  Sean McAllister: You'll have the win and encore, you'll have Fountain Blue, you'll have the Sahara, and then you get up to the Stratosphere and Resorts World and all that.
• 21:02
  Sean McAllister: So it really is going to tie the strip together where there has been kind of a void.
• 21:08
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, I have a view.
• 21:10
  Dayna Roselli: And my view is this unfinished building for seven years.
• 21:15
  Dayna Roselli: So I am excited for it to be done.
• 21:18
  Dayna Roselli: And let me tell you, last night I was sitting on the balcony and I noticed lights on inside.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, I haven't seen lights on inside.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: And I was looking on Twitter, and some of the management and stuff were doing some tours through the building.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, so the lights are on.
• 21:32
  Dayna Roselli: I am ready for it to be finished.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: I know so many people are, and you're right, it's gonna really complete that kind of area that you know it's some parts are run down up there in the northern part of the strip.
• 21:41
  Dayna Roselli: And so they need to kind of bring some stuff in to get it vibrant and get all those areas functioning because there's too many spaces and pockets of you know, land that are not occupied, and it just kind of creates just sort of a bare kind of dirty look.
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm excited for this to be done.
• 21:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it it really will be.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: Be nice to have uh a nice polished section of Las Vegas Boulevard there once the Fountain Blue opens uh toward the end of 2023.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and this weekend, which when the podcast runs, it'll be going on.
• 22:13
  Dayna Roselli: But we have this big festival right around there, too, at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
• 22:17
  Dayna Roselli: That's right at Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard, just to the south of the stratosphere, right next to the Sahara.
• 22:22
  Dayna Roselli: And uh that's gonna be November 12th to the 14th.
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: So by the time you listen to this, it may have already passed.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: But huge lineup.
• 22:29
  Dayna Roselli: Um but just talking about things getting back in use again.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be nice to see that area.
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's a really nice festival ground area get used again.
• 22:38
  Dayna Roselli: The lineup is huge.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: There's tons and tons of acts uh performing all weekend long.
• 22:44
  Dayna Roselli: Post Malone, uh Doja Cat, I mean you name it.
• 22:47
  Dayna Roselli: All sorts of groups, and they have three stages going at once.
• 22:51
  Sean McAllister: Well, it sounds like there's gonna be plenty of entertainment for people who decide to head out there, and you're right, those festival grounds are a good place to host an event like this.
• 23:00
  Dayna Roselli: And now that I have an iPhone 13, Sean, I'm gonna be able to get some great close-up pictures.
• 23:04
  Sean McAllister: Oh, head out on the the balcony and the telephoto.
• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: All right, and pretty soon the National Finals rodeo will be here in Las Vegas.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: The first couple weeks of, well, it's the first 10 days, I should say, usually, of December.
• 23:23
  Dayna Roselli: So we're excited to have them back in town.
• 23:26
  Dayna Roselli: Brings in tons of people.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: And when Sean was saying that it gets a little quiet uh toward the Christmas holiday, it does in the second half of December, but we always have that NFR, and uh that's at the beginning of December, and we've got Cowboy Christmas and all sorts of events up and down the strip.
• 23:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you know, the big question was as people gather for the rodeo, uh, was are vaccines going to be a requirement in order to get inside and watch the rodeo?
• 23:54
  Sean McAllister: And also go to some of the events surrounding the rodeo, like Cowboy Christmas.
• 23:59
  Sean McAllister: That's a big uh retail uh event that happens, it has everything cowboy you can imagine.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: Um and then there's parties, concerts, all that stuff going on as well.
• 24:10
  Sean McAllister: Um, but it was uh just announced that no, vaccines are not going to be required.
• 24:15
  Sean McAllister: However, you will have to wear a mask in order to get into any of the events uh surrounding the rodeo and the rodeo itself.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: Well, yeah, I mean, right now masks are still required indoors, so we don't know when our governor's gonna lift that or make some changes.
• 24:32
  Dayna Roselli: Remember, there's two criteria we needed to meet.
• 24:34
  Dayna Roselli: So some people we're talking about possibly December 1st, so we'll have to see.
• 24:37
  Dayna Roselli: We're still at the beginning of November.
• 24:39
  Sean McAllister: And this won't be the only, you know, large-scale event uh to not require vaccines, but go with the mask requirement.
• 24:48
  Sean McAllister: Um Golden Knights games are the same way.
• 24:51
  Sean McAllister: You have to wear a mask, but they're not requiring you to show proof of a vaccine.
• 24:55
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, interesting.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, a big event that happened at Allegiant Stadium, um, just to talk about Mick Jagger and the Stones, people seem to enjoy that show, and I love that he took like in all these hot spots in Vegas right before the show.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: He posted some pictures, we have them on our Twitter, uh, of visiting downtown Las Vegas, Fremont Street.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: I think he was at Red Rock, and then the Neon Boneyard, and then a couple other spots too that I actually didn't even I didn't recognize him, but it was just kind of like a plaza area, might have been a friend's shop or something like that.
• 25:25
  Dayna Roselli: I think it was a car shop.
• 25:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, Mick Jagger was taking in all the Las Vegas sites.
• 25:29
  Sean McAllister: It was fun to see him out and about.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: Like he was kind of in his own little element.
• 25:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he was.
• 25:34
  Dayna Roselli: And people were going, how do people not not recognize him?
• 25:36
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, well, out at Red Rock.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and then if he's at Fremont, he had the mask on probably until he stopped to take the picture.
• 25:42
  Dayna Roselli: So the mask might be kind of good for these celebrities that might want to get out and about and not be seen, right?
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: Because no one can really tell it's them.
• 25:49
  Sean McAllister: Be a little incognito.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:51
  Sean McAllister: I like that.
• 25:52
  Sean McAllister: Uh hey, what do you say we dive into tips?
• 25:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we're gonna send it over to Chris this time.
• 25:56
  Dayna Roselli: Let's get right to it.
• 25:59
  Sean McAllister: And Chris, before we let you go, um I know that you've listened to Vegas Revealed.
• 26:05
  Sean McAllister: You know, at the end of each episode, we give our tips in each podcast.
• 26:10
  Sean McAllister: From a traveler's point of view, from an international traveler's point of view, do you have any tips that would help other travelers coming into town?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, one of the tips, and this is more for when you're on the plane, I found, is we went on a jumbo, and in certain websites, you can find out what's the best seats on the plane and everything like that.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_06: And we always made the mistake, Sean, of being at the back of the plane.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_06: And when you get off at Vegas, if you're an international traveller, unless you box very clever, you're gonna be a long time getting through customs.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_06: So I always make sure we are sat right near where the exit is for the plane.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_06: We've just done it coming away from Greece.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_06: I'll go online and check it because that can be an hour, an hour and a half, just dependent, especially now with everything, you know, your credentials, you're gonna have to prove that you've been vaccinated and everything.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_06: So that would be my tip.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_06: And also play the slots.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_06: If you're running lower money, play the slots because you know you'd always get a drink.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_06: I know they're introducing where you've got to pay so much on certain casinos now, but uh, yeah, that that they're my main tips.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_06: It's more we don't really come on a massive budget, so we box clever, really.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_06: But yeah, they're my main two, definitely.
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: That's a great one.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 27:16
  Sean McAllister: That's great.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: Really good tips.
• 27:18
  Dayna Roselli: Sit toward the you're right.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: That line, it's the panic of like you're finally there, and then you've got this long line, and nobody wants to deal with that, right?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_06: No, yeah, definitely not, definitely not, because you're so tight, it's a 10-hour flight from the UK.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_06: So by the time you get off, I want to get on the strip, you know.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah, definitely helps.
• 27:36
  Sean McAllister: And that wraps it up for episode 94.
• 27:39
  Sean McAllister: A quick note we are going to be headed out over to Hara's Las Vegas, where they have this new Whitney Houston hologram show.
• 27:48
  Sean McAllister: Whitney back up on stage in all her glory as a hologram.
• 27:54
  Sean McAllister: So we're interested to check this out and and let you know our thoughts.
• 27:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and so many people have said, I don't know how I feel about that.
• 28:00
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, so I'm interested to see how they're gonna do it, if you'll if I'll love it, if it'll be like creepy.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: I'm just gonna be honest.
• 28:09
  Dayna Roselli: Like, I don't know.
• 28:10
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 28:11
  Dayna Roselli: So, but I love Whitney Houston music.
• 28:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I have a fabulous videotape of me lip-syncing How Will I Know when I tried out for putting on the hits.
• 28:21
  Dayna Roselli: Do you remember that show?
• 28:22
  Sean McAllister: Putting on the hits, are you kidding me?
• 28:25
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 28:26
  Dayna Roselli: I have I have a tape, Sean.
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: I will show it to you of me doing How Will I Know by Whitney Houston.
• 28:32
  Dayna Roselli: I did not make it on the show, but putting on the hits was a lip was it just from in our area of in Roger?
• 28:40
  Dayna Roselli: No, I think it was a national show.
• 28:41
  Sean McAllister: I think it was national, but but it could have been just local too.
• 28:45
  Dayna Roselli: I knew if I didn't tell you about that, that you would.
• 28:48
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 28:49
  Dayna Roselli: That was a great show.
• 28:49
  Dayna Roselli: It was all lip-syncing, remember?
• 28:52
  Sean McAllister: Bowling for dollars and putting on the hits.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: I was already.
• 28:55
  Sean McAllister: You had TV ambitions long before your your career began, Rosalie.
• 29:01
  Dayna Roselli: All right, we'll dig that out at some point.
• 29:03
  Dayna Roselli: By the way, um, Chris sent us a picture of his tattoo.
• 29:06
  Dayna Roselli: We interviewed Chris earlier from the UK.
• 29:07
  Dayna Roselli: His Vegas tattoo, so maybe we'll put that up on our Instagram story too, in case you're interested to see how it's coming along.
• 29:13
  Sean McAllister: And a reminder, you can find uh some great merchandise to keep you warm during the winter months here in Las Vegas on our Vegas Revealed merchandise store.
• 29:22
  Sean McAllister: We have a link down in our show notes, along with a link to donate to the podcast if you'd like to help financially uh support and keep the podcast going.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: Thank you for joining us and have a great week, everyone.
• 29:35
  Dayna Roselli: Hope to see you soon.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go ahead and go.