Travel Today With Peter Greenberg

This week's Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes to you from the SLS Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. It’s newly named, and completely renovated, but it’s actually the former Sahara Hotel and Casino, a place filled with history–and more than a few legends. Considered the last of the Rat Pack hotels, this site hosted performers such as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Judy Garland (just to name a few). After closing in 2011, the SLS Hotel took over the building in 2013 and undertook massive renovations. All of this and more on this week’s episode of Travel Today from the SLS Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howard Stutz, Columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, talks about the history of the celebrities who have stayed at and performed at the Sahara, including the Beatles. Then he talks about the transformation of the Sahara into the SLS and the hand that Lenny Kravitz had in some of the room designs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Katsilometes, Journalist for the Las Vegas Sun, talks about renovating the old Sahara hotel into what is now the SLS Hotel and how the locals are happy to have lights down on this corner. It’s not just about filling the space, it’s about how SLS is filling the space well! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Peter Greenberg on this episode of Travel Today is Brandon Tebbe, Master Sommelier for the Broadmoor. Tebbe explains the process of becoming a master sommelier and the most surprising wine that is being ordered at the historic hotel. All of this and more on this interview from the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tara Thomas, the Executive Director of Education at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, discusses the art programs initiated to help military veterans and their families dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and head injuries. All this and more on this interview from The Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, one of the great grande dame icons. The official opening of the Broadmoor was in 1918, a building constructed on the same land where the original Broadmoor Casino stood before burning to the ground. Once a hotel that only allowed “old school money tabs” or cash as forms of payment, the Broadmoor’s concession to the 21st century is that they now accept credit cards. Richard Sauers, Executive Director of the Western Museum of Mining & Industry, joins us to discuss this functional museum and why people travel from around the world to see the working—and fascinating—mining equipment. Then, Harris Kalofonos of the International Olympic Committee details how Colorado Springs became an Olympic Sister City and what that really means.  All this and more from The Broadmoor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Peter Greenberg comes to you from the Netherlands and more specfically the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam. Greenberg interviews Michael Luksetich, owner and operator of Mike’s Bike Tours, who gives us the best reasons to see Amsterdam by bike—it’s safer, it’s more efficient, and it’s fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg we head the the Netherlands, and more specifically, Amsterdam!  Joining Greenberg at the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam is Axel Rüger, the Director of the Van Gogh Museum. Ruger tells us the proper way to address Mr. Van Gogh and gives us a quick Van Gogh history lesson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices