The verdict’s in — the Palms casino stinks (literally)

With all the problems Las Vegas is having drawing customers in off the street, you’d think they would be extra careful not to scare away the ones they actually managed to coax inside. Not at the Palms, where they got the bright idea to pump in the scent of ‘teakwood’, a kind of aromatherapy so repugnant that it apparently left patrons preferring the fumes of stale cigarette smoke. Amazingly, Palms management didn’t even test ‘teakwood’ on focus groups before fogging the joint, but simply picked it off a menu because it sounded good. Guess patrons should count their blessings that ‘day old sushi’ wasn’t an option. Read more.