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Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 | 6 p.m.
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When it comes to cheating on your spouse, there's no place like Las Vegas.
Many of those surveyed by the controversial AshleyMadison.com dating website for married people seeking extramarital affairs say Las Vegas is the place to stay for love in the fast lane.
In a survey of 7,680 AshleyMadison users in the United States, 53 percent admitted to cheating in a Las Vegas hotel. Those surveyed even named their resorts of choice with 24 percent favoring Wynn Las Vegas, 18 percent liking the Palms, 13 percent, MGM Grand, 12 percent, Caesars Palace and 9 percent, Bellagio.
"The Las Vegas tourism industry depends on adultery to fill all those hotel rooms," said Noel Biderman, AshleyMadison.com's founder and CEO.
"Many Las Vegas businesses make more than half of their profits off affair clientele – not just rooms, but lavish room service orders tend to accompany most steamy affairs – so they're more than happy to turn the other cheek when guests check in under an alias with someone who isn't their spouse," he said.
What happens here, stays here indeed.
The survey also said 46 percent of the respondents admitted staying in Las Vegas for multiple days with their affair partner with 35 percent saying they stayed one night. Just 14 percent said they spent less than half a day here when philandering.
The survey also said Las Vegans apparently prefer the value proposition to impressing their partners in a high-end setting.
Of the AshleyMadison members who call Southern Nevada home, most preferred hooking up in cheat suites at the Stratosphere, Circus Circus and Treasure Island.
With world-class dining, shopping, spas, golf and entertainment, there's no shortage of things to do at Wynn. The resort’s aquatic acrobatic show, “Le Reve—The Dream,” a creation by Cirque Du Soleil veteran Franco Dragone and Steve Wynn, will leave guests wanting more with its breathtaking performances that conjure an imaginary world. The Wynn Esplanade offers a unique shopping experience with stores including Chanel, Manolo Blahnik, Christian Dior, Oscar de la Renta and many more. Tryst is its signature nightclub, offering a secluded lagoon inside the club and spacious dance floor. Blush, the Wynn’s ultra lounge, draws swanky party-goers. Tryst, Wynn’s signature nightclub, is situated along a private lagoon under a 90-foot waterfall and plays host to some of the world’s most renown DJs.
As soon as the author heard this "Many Las Vegas businesses make more than half of their profits off affair clientele" the interview should have been over.
Any crackpot that makes that kind of statement should not be printed about.
That's why Obama is coming here so often.
I totally believe it. I've seen guys have two separate rooms. One for the wife and one for the mistress many times.
I second what Brianlv said. When I worked front desk for a few years it would happen all the time. Either hubby checking in the mistress who was high maintenance and wanted a Vegas trip just like the wife or sometimes they'd get another room (in another tower) with a working lady come back and check out an hour later.
1. What VagasLee said. 1/2 their profits? Pure silliness.
2. AshleyMadison.com is full of fake female profiles and shills so don't believe anything they say. Being in the biz I am in awe of their publicity machine (like the source for this article) but their membership tactics are deviously evil. Within the site they charge for every little thing (even receiving mail...from shills!) and once they hook you they just keep reeling. They rightly figure you won't complain since you are, most likely, cheating on your spouse.
The site is very much like the tease joints that crop up in Las Vegas periodically: Sex?! (1st you gotta pay to stay) Sex?! (not so fast, gotta pay more to stay) um, no sex, sorry--now get out!
Definitely the reason why booking sites that offers dayuse and discreet reservations for luxury and boutique hotels is really a trend nowadays, because they get more revenues from the clients that are having an affair. There's many like dayuse.com, hours.com and dayguest.com.