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Main Street Station's Garden Court buffet features popular Island-style dishes for its Hawai'i visitors.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour town with action, energy and surprises available at all hours: club adventures, gambling with a capital G, fine dining, even manic roller coasting. And Islanders know this destination so well they find their home away from home in no time.

•	Las Vegas: Betting on change Although they may spruce up the guest rooms and keep the swimming pool nice, some hotels/casinos in Las Vegas don't change their style. But the big, big players, the really huge players, insist on churning out new things — restaurants, bars, towering additions, even changing identities — while talking merger and acquisition. [more]
•	Vegas keeps putting itself on 'refresh' Las Vegas is a steamroller, always pushing forward - every day, every hour, every second. Old standbys such as Wayne Newton, Siegfried & Roy, up-and-coming comedians and the ubiquitous showgirl acts are still churning, but new attractions continually arise to entice the never-ending flow of repeat visitors. [more]
•	Room rates can jump, drop in matter of hours As most people know, airline passengers often pay wildly different amounts for the same ride, because the fares seem to change minute by minute. On any given day in a Las Vegas hotel, occupants could discover similar disparities. [more]
•	There's excitement to be had on the Strip at any hour Las Vegas is a 24-hour town with action, energy and surprises available at all hours: club adventures, gambling with a capital G, fine dining, even manic roller coasting. Wanna ride the Vegas tiger? All you need to do is set your watch and go. [more]
•	It's 'New Day' for Celine in Las Vegas showroom (Through 2006) Celine Dion took the stage at Caesars Palace in the debut of "A New Day," a multimillion-dollar extravaganza that figures to test the French-Canadian superstar's staying power - and her vocal chords. [more]
•	Vegas lounge scene offers something for all tastes You can find every possible stage setting for your lounge act here: from neon-lighted techno bars to down-home pubs, watering holes for the beautiful only to places with peanut shells on the floor, pools where you swim up to the bar and bars where you play pool, saloons in the skies and those way below ground. [more]
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