Topless making a splash in Vegas
If you don’t believe anything goes in Las Vegas, visit an upscale hotel swimming pool. The latest fad in Sin City is topless.
Adult pools and pool parties are making a splash here. It’s known as “daylife.” Reserved cabanas are renting for hundreds or even thousands of dollars a day.
"European style sunbathing or topless pools are getting very popular in Las Vegas. Nude sunbathing is slowly becoming an amenity at many of the luxury hotels,” says About.com.
“You can bet on that. Sin City, the adult fantasyland where almost anything goes, is taking pool parties to a new level — or new depths, depending on your point of view,” says ABC News.
Lavish pools have always been important here, and there have always been a few watery hangouts that wooed the over-21 crowd.
“Now there are more than a dozen, with more to come. About half allow what’s euphemistically promoted as ‘European’ sunbathing. Translation: topless,” says USA Today.
"I’ve never seen anything like this, ever," says Detroit-area financial adviser Jeremy Bachusz hanging out at a pool. "It’s not going to happen anywhere else."
Some popular hotel pools are even charging admission.
The move comes as Vegas, often said to be recession-proof, found out it was not.
Hotel occupancies have been down and conventions are hurting. But that seems to be changing right along with the acceptance of more nudity.
Hotelier Sheldon Adelson is among those who say Las Vegas tourism is coming back.
“Weekends are coming back strong and I think by next year we’ll probably be 80 percent of normal for the convention business,” he told CNBC. Adelson is chief executive of the Las Vegas Stands Corp., which owns the Venetian and the Palazzo on the Strip.
Many ballyhooed projects such as multi-billion dollar Echelon have been cancelled or cut back. But there’s a mild turnaround underway, reports the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. But it could be several years before it fully recovers.
“Overall, the Las Vegas economy continues to show mixed signals, which leads us to conclude that a recovery is not yet under way,” said Mary Riddel, director. She added:
“On the other hand, all signs point toward nearing a bottom in 2010 and beginning recovery in 2011.”
For 2011, UNLV economists project gross gaming revenue will rise 1.2 percent and visitor volume will rise 2 percent.
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