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With its Monte Carlo resort, Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. hopes to recreate the Mediterranean playground that attracted the rich and famous in the late 19th century.
The 3,024-room hotel will feature the Victorian-era architecture that made Monte Carlo a famed resort 100 years ago, said Glenn Schaeffer, Circus Circus president and chief financial officer.
"Monte Carlo was a playground for the royalty and nouveau riche (newly rich)," Schaeffer said.
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With its Monte Carlo resort, Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. hopes to recreate the Mediterranean playground that attracted the rich and famous in the late 19th century.
The 3,024-room hotel will feature the Victorian-era architecture that made Monte Carlo a famed resort 100 years ago, said Glenn Schaeffer, Circus Circus president and chief financial officer.
"Monte Carlo was a playground for the royalty and nouveau riche (newly rich)," Schaeffer said.
Monte Carlo's Victorian architecture captured the elegance of palaces and made luxury accessible to those who built fortunes in emerging industries of the late 1800s.
"I don't know that we'll have gargoyles" (the grotesque monsters that adorned some Victorian buildings), Schaeffer said. "We will have some statuary."
The project is scheduled to be completed by next summer.
Las Vegas' Monte Carlo resort, with a price tag of $325 million, will make a "touch of royalty" accessible to middle-class gamblers, with room prices starting at $60 a night, Schaeffer said.
"You can't believe the palace for the price," Schaeffer said.
The resort also will have 250 suites that cater to the wealthy with a separate registration desk and concierge service, he said.
Guests' children can amuse themselves at a water park featuring a beach with ocean waves, a rapids slide, waterfall and river ride, as well as an amusement arcade with dynamic-motion rides.
The resort will feature a theater designed for the shows of illusionist Lance Burton. A "Tree of Dreams" will be filled with robotic fantasy characters that talk.
The property will be at the south end of the former Dunes Hotel site, next door to Mirage Resorts Inc.'s planned Bellagio Hotel and across the street from a third European-themed casino, Bally's Paris hotel.
Developers are planning $4 billion in new resorts in Las Vegas. Schaeffer predicts Strip casinos will continue to thrive, as new properties make the city a more attractive destination for tourists.
Circus Circus is the managing partner of Monte Carlo, a joint venture with Mirage Resorts.
Vince Matthews was named general manager of the new resort.
Copyright Donrey Media Group Jul 26, 1995