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The courtyard at the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas is shown just before the hotel closed its doors in May 2010.
Published Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 | 7:27 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 | 8:05 a.m.
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The former Ritz-Carlton hotel at Lake Las Vegas has a new name, Ravella at Lake Las Vegas, and is reopening on Feb. 11.
Dolce Hotels & Resorts, which took over the lease for the 349-room Henderson property, is offering opening-weekend special rates of as low as $89 per night for locals. Non-local opening special rates are in the range of $135 for a room or $175 for a suite.
Dolce today said it redesigned the property lobby to be a high-energy, social gathering spot at Ravella, which is oriented toward marketing to meetings and events like weddings.
New dining and spa concepts will complement offerings at the Village at Lake Las Vegas, where Ravella guests will have "privileged access."
The collaboration will enable guests to enjoy preferred reservations and have the option to bill Village meals to their guestroom at Ravella, Dolce said.
Ravella’s name is based on the coastal town of Ravello in southern Italy and was inspired by the word "revel" meaning "to take great pleasure or delight," Dolce said.
Websites for the parent company and the hotel are at dolce.com and ravellavegas.com.
Dolce is majority-owned by Broadreach Capital Partners of Palo Alto, Calif. In the western United States, Dolce has hotels in Napa and San Jose, Calif., and in Aspen, Colo.
The resort is owned by Village Hospitality LLC, which is an arm of Deutsche Bank.
Village Hospitality LLC purchased the property in March 2009. The prior owner of The Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas sought reorganization in April 2008 to stop foreclosure on a $103 million mortgage.
The hotel opened on Feb. 11, 2003. Before Village Hospitality purchased the property, Village Hotel Investors LLC had owned it since it opened.
About 350 employees lost their jobs when the Ritz-Carlton closed in May.
Casino MonteLago, which is attached to the resort through a walkway, closed in March. The casino’s owners said the closure was a direct result of the Ritz-Carlton’s announcement to close. The casino was owned by CIRI Lakeside Gaming Investors LLC and leased through Village Hospitality LLC.
Reservations are being accepted at www.RavellaVegas.com or calling 888-810-0440.
GOOD LUCK!!!
A failure by a new name. Whoopee!
Glad to see it. This is a nice property and now 350 people will have jobs!
Good luck to all involved. Nice to see some people still have faith in what Las Vegas can do.
Congratulations to Dolce Hotels and Resorts! Like many other Lake Las Vegas homeowners we welcome this very positive news. Lake Las Vegas is a very beautiful and relaxing development.
Feb 11,2013
Although Ravella did a complete makeover,and revamp,even going as far as lowering rates for the local residents.
Unfortunately this is a project that didnt make money under its previous owners,so the demise was foreseen.
ARRIVE DOLCE!
peace out
Beautiful resort, great casino, excellent natural environment.
The only question is: Does "re-open" mean the casino will make it this time? Last time when I was there it was empty most of the times, and the little casinos was empty, too.I was the only player and I only played quarter machines, ending a 10 dollars loser. Don't think this would make ends meet for the casino, hehe.
From Switzeralnd
I'm not sure the locals alone are going to be able to support this venture. I can't imagine many visitors occupying the place even at reduced rates. It's too far from the strip and other infrastructure is lacking to draw visitors away from the strip. I hope they make it but with the economy in the crapper I wonder how big they're reserves are.
Congratulations and best wishes on this positive development. Here's hoping the Dolce marketing department can do a better job than Ritz-Carlton of attracting the clientele who love this place, both locally and visiting.
Glad to see a positive note for a change..hopefully everyone that "posts" their $.02 worth here will go spend a few bucks there, rather than "bashing" the locale, the house values, etc like "Dipstick and Art" do...
I think the casino is needed simply as an added attraction to the whole operation. Maybe use it as a "loss leader" like retail does. The problem is that regulations force a casino to have so many employees-180 was the number used when it closed.
Maybe simply get a tavern type license with 15 bar machines. Better than nuttin'. Open it up later if things workout. Just thinkin'. Whatta you think, Blondie and Bouvier?
Dolce is a new ball game for Lake Las Vegas. If you read their website and company profile, they specialize in large groups/weddings in resorts outside of the city hubs. LLV fits their formula. What's different from the Ritz, is they will bring their own captive audience to the Village. The specialize in this, it's what they do and they are successful with this formula all over the world. Dolce does not need to rely solely on locals or strip competition. However, LLV has always been a great "stay cation" venue so Dolce, Loews and Montelago village condo hotels always attract the locals for holidays and vacations. Don't forget the wedding market. There is no better place to get married. The Ritz had to cancel over 30 weddings last summer.
What is also different from the Ritz is that Dolce has partnered with the village restaurants so that guests can charge their meals to the room. This is something the Ritz would never do! Dolce is more committed to the community, where the Ritz attempted to set themselves apart.
The former casino operater/tenant wasn't very good. In February before they closed, they were quite busy. However, the dealers were just ho-hum and never really made you feel good about winning or losing. What many don't know is that Ciri Gaming's lease was expiring on 9/8/2010. Like it or not, they had to leave. Their losses year ending 2009, were only $59k, which was WAY better than most casinos in the same time period. When they left, they caused millions of dollars damage to the building/wiring/kitchen. The new casino should be opened by April'ish.
As everyone should know, LLV exited bankruptcy last summer with a solid plan for the future. The water rights issues between the City of Henderson and Carmel who owns the Falls and Reflection Bay golf courses should be resolved any day now. The judge has taken the motions under advisement since 10/18/10.
Many of the tangles and hurdles caused by the former developers are becoming untangled and Dolce is the start of great things to come in LLV.
Welcome Dolce Ravella to Lake Las Vegas! We're glad you are here and wishing you great success!
countdown to the next bankruptcy! good luck--not a bad idea---probably not gonna work but what the hell---gotta try something with all these empty rooms and casinos! this area hasn't really started going into foreclosure yet--this year will bring a whole new group of foreclosures in this fantasy land---can't believe how many clueless people live in this area---WAKE UP---your stucco boxes are no different than the other 16K foreclosures!
I hope they re-open the the golf courses. Three of the most beautiful courses in the valley. Glad to see the reserection of the resort.
I only attend a few conventions a year. "Hell NO! I'm not going to Atlanta or Orlando in July" even though I go to Chicago in November. I'm a Vegas local, so I'm biased, but I would attend a convention at LLV even if I lived someplace nice like San Diego. It's a nice venue. I hope they do well.
Truth be told. Majority of all hires have been out of town hires moving into Las Vegas. Not hiring former Ritz Staff.
Recently lost key personel who understood market due to lack of finances and a lack of knowledge about the market. Name comes out for a hotel opening in a month? Sad way to open this hotel that had potential. But who in their right mind opens up a hotel in this market closed or not with less than 4 months prior to do it in? New name and they open in less than 30 days, no one in town could even provide any directions to this hotel with them opening so soon?
The people out at Lake Las Vegas need this, but they need someone to operate this with some smarts. Having people leave this hotel prior to opening, having so many people hired not from Vegas and it being made really clear that this opening is being done on the cheap. Eva's restuarant gets announced that it is filing Chapter 11 on the same day that a hotel announces its name and oh yeah they open in less than a month - sounds like an omen.