Virgin Las Vegas has reopened its sports waiting area under a unexampled moniker, Skybox, and brought it in-house. The lounge is described inward a companion push discharge as “a high-energy sports viewing have with multiple bars, luxurious lounges, couches, and common soldier booths.”

Skybox also includes a terrace country with well-to-do seating, 360-degree viewing  of up to 18 simultaneous live sporting events, and a menu created past Mimmo Ferraro, of Las Vegas’ iconic Ferraro’s Ristorante fame.

“Las Vegas is nursing home to a burgeoning sports community, and we are excited to fetch the unique Skybox go through to Virgin Hotels Las Vegas,” said Richard “Boz” Bosworth, President and CEO of JC Hospitality, owner of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, as quoted in a keep company military press release. “We cannot hold off to fete unforgettable sports moments with our guests as they experience the topper our resort hotel has to offer up with Skybox’s extraordinary offerings.”

Money, Baby Out with Bathwater

The previous sports lounge occupying the blank space unsympathetic short inward June. Money, Baby was running play past the Robert Clive Collective, a two-year-old hospitality fellowship whose website lists only if ace other project: the Scottsdale eating place Cala. What exactly happened with Money, Baby is unclear. However Casino.org’s own “Vital Vegas” blogger, Robert Scott Roeben, published this intriguing theory back up inward June: “We make to take over a bighearted stumbling city block for Robert Clive Collective was the fact Virgin’s sports betting partner, Betfred, has yet to clear inward its Vegas hotel. Money, Baby was initially billed as a ‘sports betting and night life destination,’ but the sports betting element has in time to materialize.”

At the time, Roeben got his hands on an intragroup memorandum from Clive Collective to Money, Baby’s employees, which described “hiccups patch workings through and through our byplay human relationship with the hotel” that made it “challenging to operate right as a business.” Those “hiccups” were ne'er explained, and an eviction observation was slapped on the space inward July, which Roeben also published. (Are you as impressed as we are with this guy’s occult scooping powers? Thank goodness he’s on our team!)

Skybox, set on the secondment base of Virgin’s Ruby Tower, is unfastened Thursday through and through Fri from 4-10 p.m., Sat from 8 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sun from 9 a.m.-10 p.m.