"BestOfVegas"
01/20/09
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Attitude - 3 Eye Candy - 4 Price - 3
"Encore: A Tactile Experience"
A Look at Encore by R-J columnist Jane Ann Morrison:
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Even without seeing the rooms, our afternoon at the Encore, where the color scheme is red, red and more red, marked by an abundance of butterflies, was a tactile experience. My friend and I wanted to touch nearly everything -- wall coverings, mosaics, flooring, chandeliers and the art. Discretion prevailed and we refrained, but I even wanted to feel the red chandeliers in the casino. I guess true luxury drives you to want to touch something to see whether it feels as rich as is looks.
But what I liked the most wasn't something I could touch or eat.
It was the natural light.
Wonder of wonders, even the casino had natural light, both from above and from the side facing the pool.
Dark and dank have been banned from Encore. Let there be light was the order of the day, in total contradiction to the history of Las Vegas gambling halls, where the idea is to encourage forgetting about time entirely by eliminating all natural light from the casino.
And that's what makes Encore more than just a newer, more intimate version of Wynn Las Vegas."
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