{"id":2988,"date":"2013-10-24T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2013-10-24T12:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:13:25","slug":"gansevoort-sends-out-awkward-dear-john-letter-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/gansevoort-sends-out-awkward-dear-john-letter-to-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Gansevoort Sends Out Awkward &#8220;Dear John&#8221; Letter to Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The news came like a swift kick to The Strip&rsquo;s privates. Caesars Entertainment has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wtf-just-happened-gansevoort-las-vegas-is-no-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">severed ties<\/a> with Gansevoort Hotel Group, and Bill&rsquo;s Gamblin&rsquo; Hall &amp; Saloon will no longer re-open as Gansevoort Las Vegas after $185 million in renovations.<\/p>\n<p>Gansevoort and Caesars Entertainment have been fairly quiet about this turn of events, but today, Gansevoort Hotel Group sent out an awkward e-mail confirming it has officially broken up with Las Vegas. The e-mail&rsquo;s subject line: &ldquo;The End: Gansevoort Las Vegas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2989\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gansevoort_dear_john.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-2989 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"In comedy, timing is everything.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gansevoort_dear_john.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In comedy, timing is everything.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Interesting time for joke-telling, given the fact this deal fell through because of a Gansevoort partner being tied to Russian organized crime. But, hey, what&rsquo;s a little underworld connection between friends.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Gansevoort, but we&rsquo;re not signing up for your newsletter. We weren&rsquo;t all that into you.<\/p>\n<p>The renovation of Bill&rsquo;s Gamblin&rsquo; Hall &amp; Saloon will continue, and we suspect a new name for the hotel will be announced soon, probably Drai&rsquo;s, unless there&rsquo;s a shooting at the current Drai&rsquo;s nightclub at Bally&rsquo;s or something. Oh, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news came like a swift kick to The Strip&rsquo;s privates. Caesars Entertainment has severed ties with Gansevoort Hotel Group, and Bill&rsquo;s Gamblin&rsquo; Hall &amp; Saloon will no longer re-open as Gansevoort Las Vegas after $185 million in renovations. Gansevoort and Caesars Entertainment have been fairly quiet about this turn of events, but today, Gansevoort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,30,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegashotels","category-las-vegas-wtf","category-lasvegasnightclubs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gansevoort Sends Out Awkward &quot;Dear John&quot; Letter to Fans | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The news came like a swift kick to The Strip&#039;s privates. 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