Guitar Hotel opens at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
Star-Studded Grand Opening Celebration of US$1.5 Billion expansion highlighted by celebrity Red Carpet
“The pool is part of the Bora Bora experience, and we are obsessed with the Bora Bora experience” – thus reports proudly Florida’s Sun Sentinel newspaper how the brand new Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood shapes up to this brave new world, “where you rent a cabana for day use. These are cabanas in the sense that the guitar is a “hotel” – which is to say not at all, because both are SO MUCH MORE than we ever could have hoped for.”
And this is really what Hard Rock International has brought home to Hollywood, Florida, a new kind of brave New World, but devoid of Aldous Huxley’s utopian nightmare. And instead creating a paradise regained in the best possible fashion!
“The Bora Bora experience comes with a private bathroom, a private plunge pool and butler service. We aren’t sure if the butlers dress up like mermen but we are totally good with that if they do.
“We have received no word on how Seminole Hard Rock feels about us moving in permanently, but we are confident details will be ironed out soon. In the meantime, here are some other reasons we love the Bora Bora experience so much it hurts:
The soothing sound of mini waterfalls;
The inside is nicer than our living rooms;
Seating for all our friends;
We’ll have a great view of this magnificent (guitar) structure…
And so, to reporting on Thursday 24th’s official opening of part of a $1.5 billion of the iconic Guitar Hotel at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino that catapults the integrated resort and casino to world-class status as an unrivalled gaming and entertainment destination, competing head on with the best that Las Vegas and Macao have to offer.
Complementing the 450-foot high Guitar Hotel are a state-of-the-art Hard Rock Live performance venue for 7,000 persons, an expanded and updated casino with 195,000 square feet of gaming space; a 13.5-acre pool and lagoon experience with the aforementioned overwater cabanas, an ultra-luxury spa and fitness centre that spans 42,000 square feet; the extensive DAER nightclub and day club complex; more than two dozen innovative dining, lounge and entertainment options; a collection of high-end retail stores and more than 150,000 square feet of meeting space.
Dozens of A-list celebrities crowded an elevated red carpet at the base of a massive video wall to kick off the grand opening celebration at the Oculus, a stunning design feature at the entrance from a new grand porte-cochere. The Oculus encompasses elements of lush greenery, light and water, choreographed to music.
The signature Hard Rock Guitar Smash signalled the official opening of the expansion including the world’s first-ever Guitar Hotel. The Guitar Smash followed greetings of welcome from leaders of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Seminole Gaming, which own and operate Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.
“The Guitar Hotel will attract visitors from throughout the nation and around the globe,” said Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Chairman of Hard Rock International. “They will experience a world-class entertainment, gaming and dining destination.”
The premiere of the Guitar Hotel’s show-stopping light show extravaganza followed the Guitar Smash, with a series of orchestrated outdoor music and light shows that capitalize on LED lights built into every side of the Guitar Hotel. The lights are programmed to change colour and intensity, with changes timed to music. Six fixed high-powered beams of light project at least 20,000 feet into the night sky. The six lights mimic guitar strings of an imaginary guitar neck.
Le casino show est arrive sur Hollywood, Florida. Fait vous jeu!
