Recent Venetian/Palazzo Convention Keys

Thought I'd post this scan of a handful of recent Venetian/Palazzo convention keys. The bottom two do not show the casino name on the key. (This was sure tough to post for some reason -- Blogger just didn't want to show the images in any decent size...and I just didn't have time to fool around with it any longer -- hope it's ok for all readers).

PH - Innovation Takes Root

At first this looks like the basic PH black key with a convention imprint. It turns out that the Innovation Takes Root conference held in September was to discuss bioplastics. Bioplastics do not use fossil fuel sources such as petroleum. This card is made with Ingeo natural plastic. This key was certainly an interesting find.

Flamingo Total Rewards Donny & Marie Room Key

After noticing one of these Total Rewards Gold Donny & Marie room keys (yep, room keys, read on) - slot club cards on eBay earlier this evening, I thought I'd post the story of how I added one of these to my collection during my trip to Las Vegas in November.

During a typical trip to the hotel registration counter at the Flamingo, I asked for some room keys and was given one of these in addition to the "usual" Flamingo Donny & Marie key (and an older key as well). The guy at the desk said they were using these slot cards as room keys. Naturally, I headed directly to the Total Rewards desk for more info. and hopefully more cards.

A very helpful employee at the Total Rewards desk said that not only was he unable to give me any of the TR Gold Donny & Marie cards, they didn't have any at the TR counter and he wasn't sure they were ever going to get them. He went on to explain that when guests checked in at the hotel, they were given the gold TR card and it was swiped into the system as a room key. They were then told to take it over to the TR desk to have it set up for use as a slot card as well.

Naturally any of this is subject to change without notice as is typcial with just about anything at any of the casinos :)

PH - Keith Barry Variations

Be on the lookout (I've always wanted to say that - guess I've watched too many police dramas on TV) for two different variations of the Keith Barry Hypnomagician key from Planet Hollywood. While there are some slight variations on the front, you can easily see the difference on the back.

It's always fun to find this kind of difference. At first glance you're sure you already have the key...and then you're saying to yourself "wait a second...I don't."

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.