Bally's SPSS Directions Convention Key

While checking in at Bally's and begging for keys, I noticed an odd colored key in the usual stack of Jubilee! keys. "Oh, that, it's a convention key, you want that?" You can guess my response.

Aliante Station - a new destination

A new casino and naturally a new room key! I hope to check out the latest Station Casino on my next trip to Las Vegas.

Illustrated Casino Room Key Guide

As many of you are aware, I had planned on creating an illustrated CD catalog as a companion to the current printed checklist catalog. I've encountered several stumbling blocks along the way. As a result, I've decided to simply create an online illustrated catalog, a sample of which is available here...

Paris, Las Vegas Sample Page

Once the website containing all of the scans is complete (well, as complete as any such catalog can be), I will burn the entire website to CD allowing people to read the catalog when they don't have access to the online catalog.

I'm hoping to have many pages of this guide available by year-end. Please let me know your thoughts.

Cherry Las Vegas - Red Rock Casino

The Red Rock Casino finally busted out of it's usual plain, somewhat boring, with a big splash of color and an actual photo on one of their room keys. Hopefully this trend will continue with their future keys.

Saw V - Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas

Another movie premiere related room key from Planet Hollywood. This one is obviously not a Disney movie.

Seminole Hard Rock Casino 1st Anniversary

As an interesting follow-up to the previous key I mentioned here, I finally found a key I've been trying to locate. The Seminole Hard Rock Casino "Celebrate Our 1st Anniversary in Style!" key pictured below lists first anniversary dates of March 11, 2005 for the Tampa location and May 11, 2005 for the Hollywood location. It's always great to see chips pictured on a room key.

Floyd's Delicious Nightlife - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa, FL

If you're looking for a bright key to add to your collection, this might be the one. The scan doesn't do it justice. This key really stands out in a group...then again, when it comes to keys from the various Hard Rock casinos, I don't expect them to be subtle.

Binder page "lifters"

I'm not sure why I didn't check this out when I was buying pages from Costco (still a great deal) but they also offer in their online business section Avery "Triangle Sheet Lifters" -- these things are fantastic as they are large and work very well with card pages. The smaller ones (not triangular and much more narrow) can sometimes "catch" the pages. At $1.11 each including s&h, I'm ordering more for all of the binders I have that need larger page lifters.

Borgata - The Water Club

I wonder how many different colors of this key from Borgata exist? I have these two in my collection. Anyone have any others?

Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas

Caesars and MasterCard must have realized that you can never go wrong by designing a key with the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign as a key element.

Considering that the design of the sign was never copyrighted, I'm surprised we haven't seen it on a LOT more keys.

The Signature at MGM Grand VIP

It's interesting that The Signature at MGM Grand chose to use a different typestyle for the VIP lettering than that used by the MGM Grand.

The rest of the key is very similar to the usual MGM Grand VIP keys.

Rio Pure Romance - Simply the Best

Maybe I'm a sucker for simple, clean room key designs or maybe the "Simply the Best" wording is having a subliminal effect on me, but I'm thinking this key would make a good nominee for CC & GTCC room key of the year.

Imperial Palace (Biloxi) Infusion

I sure do prefer the Infusion Coffee Bar key that has the IP logo added to the background over the (I believe) older Imperial Palace key without the logo and arrows.

Venetian Paiza Variations

It seems a few people haven't noticed this Venetian key variation yet. In addition to the wording differences at the bottom on the front, the print on the back also has some differences (otherwise the fronts are the same, even though the scan doesn't make it look that way due to difficulties scanning reflective foil surfaces).

Pioneer - Laughlin, NV

Getting this room key from the kind folks at the Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall in Laughlin, Nevada made up for the shock of watching $20 in nickels fall out of a machine I was playing (guess I have to watch more closely to make sure a casino has TITO machines before cashing out)