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In a time of extreme makeovers as in The Swan or surgery-free makeovers as in Oprah, even casino hotels tend to overuse the term.

A bit of facade renovation here, casino relocation there, and they are screaming bloody makeover. This isn’t the case with Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino. The next time you visit, you will hardly recognize the insides of this historic landmark on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.

New owner Landry’s Restaurants, Inc. spent close to $300 million for the purchase of Golden Nugget Las Vegas as well as Laughlin, and has invested another $100 million in upgrades and additions so far. Where did all the money go? Changes to the properties’ every facility or amenity you can name. Were they worth it?

“The renovation of the property is the largest and most dramatic for the Golden Nugget in more than 20 years,” says Tilman Fertitta, Landry’s chairman, president, and CEO, of the vintage Las Vegas casino hotel that celebrated its 60th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary in August 2006.

At Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, it all begins at the expanded new swimming pool. The year-round outdoor pool boasts a live shark aquarium, where you can ride through a three-story tube slide and plunge into the 200,000-gallon shark tank. Christened as The Tank, the remodeled pool has new cabanas and new…

You don’t just go to Vegas to gamble your money away, definitely not.

This oasis in the middle of the Nevada desert has transformed itself into one huge entity where you can do everything you wish. In fact, amidst the noise and the blinding neon lights, Las Vegas also offers sanctuaries for the tired minds: spa resorts.

You read it right. Health conscious souls needing rejuvenation from their stressful daily hell of a life can run to Vegas and seek refuge.

The Las Vegas health spas are just some of the newer spots in the area since the city decided to turn itslef into a total family entertainment stop. Shopping places, golf, and hotel resorts came booming and people started flocking.

We’ll talk more of those places in our future conversations, now lemme focus on spas.

One may describe Las Vegas’ best casino spa hotels as uncompromising in quality and taste: elegant hotel room amenities, plush restaurant dining, classy casino gaming facilities and poker card rooms, top-of-the-line shopping, and not to forget, a lavish mix of spa, gym, health club, swimming pool, and beauty salon perks.

These spas can be found at the top hotel casinos offering customers the pleasures of first-rate luxury and first-class indulgence.

And isn’t Vegas all about…