24 April 2007
Vegas World to open near Disney
... and
Orlando World to open in Vegas
ORLANDO, Ill. -- In an odd alliance, Steve Wynn Resorts has entered into
a cross-marketing scheme with the Walt Disney World Resorts to build
hotels and casinos in each other's back yards.
According to sources close to the deal, Disney will build a family-style
resort-casino on the Las Vegas Strip near the Wynn Las Vegas. Called
Orlando World, the 1800 room hotel and 556,000 square foot casino will
have a central Florida theme to include roaming cartoon characters, over
700 T-shirt shops and live palmetto bugs. To further simulate the
Orlando environment, a special HVAC system will maintain temperature in the buildings
at a constant 90 degrees and
93 percent relative humidity, day and night.
Meanwhile Wynn will build Vegas World, a resort-casino on Indian property in Osceola
county, just south of Walt Disney World. Keeping with
the Las Vegas theme, this property will feature scaled down versions of
the already scaled down versions of towers, canals, monuments, and the
like meant to represent such diverse destinations as New York, Paris,
Rome, Venice and Cairo. And in keeping with a Las Vegas lodging
tradition, most guest rooms will have unobstructed views of a parking
garage.
Like many nearby family resorts in central Florida, Vegas
World will feature on-site entertainment and attractions. But unlike those other
resorts, the entertainment will continue 24 hours a day and the attractions
will include professional mud-wrestling, topless go-kart racing
and the world's only vodka-spiked water slide.
Both properties are scheduled to be completed early next year.
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