Top Gun Songs Live in TJ's Corral, A Resort Fee Saga, Mother's Day Champagne Brunch, More

Top Gun and TJ's Corral

1986  . . . Kelly McGillis was 29, Tom Cruise was 35 and their movie Top Gun was quite the rage! The Top Gun tie to TJ’s Corral and the Carson Valley is threefold:  The movie features two songs by 2017 TJ’s alum Kenny Loggins (Danger Zone and Playing With the Boys) and one of the biggest hits of the Righteous Brothers (You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin') who are opening the TJ’s Corral 2018 concert season on Friday night, May 25. The third tie? The movie is about US Navy aviators and the Navy’s elite demonstration team The Blue Angels will be part of the 2018 Aviation Roundup Performer’s and Sponsor’s Party in TJ’s Corral on October 12!

Back to the Righteous Brothers:  Their non-stop romantic hits of the sixties and seventies are icons of that era and still elicit memories for those growing up in that decade plus. You can relive all those memories in the confines of TJ’s Corral in about six weeks so jump online now and get your tickets by Clicking Here. Your best and fastest bet for purchasing tickets for any TJ’s Corral concert is through our website which allows you to see the seating layout map and pick your seat(s) for one or more concerts in one transaction. You can also purchase tickets in person at our Hotel Desk.

The Resort Fee Saga

How does a $129 room rate become $209?

It’s technically not illegal or false advertising but we here at CVI sometimes think it should be! Let’s dive in ‘cause you may have had this happen:

You book a room somewhere with a really competitive rate – let's use $129 per night plus tax. In your head you figure this will be about $145 a night with tax and move along to the next thing. 

You go to finalize your booking OR heaven forbid, upon checkout you have sticker shock when the three nights cost you not the expected $435, but over $625! You know you didn’t make any room charges, didn’t watch any pay-per-view movies, didn’t direct-dial a foreign country from your room phone . . .  so how did it happen?! 

You look at the bill and see the expected $129 room rate and the expected $16 - $18 per night tax.  Then it hits you . .. There's an unadvertised “resort fee” of $25 - $35 per night for wireless, fitness center, and a couple of other things that you didn’t care about and certainly didn't use. There is also a parking fee of somewhere between $25 and $35 per night and a 3% city improvement tax and another 2% stadium or convention center add-on. You add it all up and discover that your advertised $129 plus occupancy tax per night actually cost almost $200 more than expected for the three nights. 

Don’t be fooled by those “competitive” or cheaper online rates. Here at CVI we charge the rate you were quoted plus the obligatory 13% tax that is the total of all the little parts of our various state and county taxes. There's no resort fee because our wireless internet access, fitness center, business center, etc are all free. And you won’t see a parking fee because parking is also free at the CVI. So, that extra $200 will pay for a nice dinner in CV Steak one night, breakfast two days in Katie’s and a few treats in Job’s Perk. Case closed . . . see you here at the CVI on your next trip!

Tidbits

• Today is Banana Day. We have so many options to properly acknowledge the event today at the Carson Valley Inn: Banana Pancakes is the pancake of the day from 7 to 11 AM in Katie’s, have a Banana Split anytime today in Katie’s, or take the party home with one of our Banana Cream Pies (full size or mini) from the Katie’s bakery counter. If none of those sound good (that can’t be true!), stop by Job’s Perk and order one of our Banana Smoothies or a Banana Nut Muffin!  You say you’re trying to eat healthy today? Then slide into Katie’s, order a bowl of oatmeal, and ask for a sliced banana on the side!
• Friday is Volunteer Day. The Carson Valley Inn offers our sincere thanks to our many, many local customers and other local residents who serve as volunteers to help keep our community safe and provide extra services to those in need!!!
• Saturday is Husband Appreciation Day. Since so many of the “Days” we mention here are about the females, we thought we’d throw this one in with the suggestion that the wives out there take your husbands to CV Steak for dinner! 
• Nevada (UNR for most of us) Alums and Fans “mark your calendars:” The Wolf Pack Caravan with Coach Norvell will be stopping at the CVI for the annual visit on Tuesday evening, May 15. More info coming soon.
• Mother’s Day Weekend Hotel Package: join us for two nights over Mother’s Day Weekend and receive $80 in Dining Credit for use in CV Steak, Katie’s or the Valley Ballroom Champagne Brunch. Get all the details on our website and be sure to book the Mother’s Day Package.

We Do Miss Things . . .

But We’re On Top of This One!

We’ll be at first to admit that we occasionally miss something – like last week when our blog said Canvas Tote Bags would be given out on Ladies’ Night and it was actually Trinket Boxes. And there have been times we’ve left a poster up well past an event . . . or misspelled something in this blog or our newspaper or something similar. However, since some of you have mentioned it, here’s the deal: We are well aware that our billboard on Highway 395 across from Sunridge Golf Course is still showing the promotion we ran in February and March. This one’s a good story – and we’ll tell you all about it in a future blog when we get it resolved. For now, suffice to say that it’s nothing we did and nothing the billboard company did . . . it’s just “one of those things” that is beyond our control!

In the Casino

First 150 Ladies Get
One of These Tonight!

• Ladies’ Night Tonight: Join us from 5:30 to 8:30 PM with a Naked Nails Electronic Manicure Tool for the first 150 ladies and Chocolate Shoppe Baskets as hot seat prizes.  Also tonight: games, a weekly drink special, free bingo and earn entries for the April 25 drawing for a Designer Watch.
• Hot Seats Wednesday: Use your Inn Club card while playing in the casino and qualify for our hot seat drawings from 11 AM to 4 PM . . . win up to $500!
• Free Bingo Thursday: Free bingo game on the hour from 11 AM to 7 PM with cash and free play prizes. Be sure to use your Inn Club card while playing in the casino to qualify.
• Cash & Freeplay Drawings Friday: Join us at 5, 7 and 9 PM for the drawings for cash and freeplay as we celebrate our 8th Anniversary during the month! You’re earning one free entry into the Friday drawings for every five base points you earn during the month.
• 5X Points Saturday: Inn Club members earn 5X Points all day every Saturday in April!
• Free T-Shirt Sunday: this Sunday receive a Free CVI logo T-Shirt when earning 50 base points on the same day - plus you keep the points!
• Free Gift Mondays: Every Monday in April we’re offering a Free Gift with a To-Go Theme to INN Club members earning just 100 base points the same day . . . You get the gift plus keep the points!
• At the Sports and Race Book: This week you can bet Major League Baseball, The NHL and NBA Playoffs, Horse Racing and the NASCAR Toyota Owners 400.  Futures on the board include the FIFA World Cup Russia™ (June 14 – July 15), NBA Championship, NHL Stanley Cup, World Series, NASCAR Monster Energy Series, the NFL Conference Championships and the 2019 Super Bowl!

In Our Restaurants

• Mother’s Day 2018: Enjoy our Champagne Brunch in the Valley Ballroom from 10 AM to 2 PM,  Dinner Specials in CV Steak starting at 4:30 PM and both breakfast (7 to 11 AM) and dinner (11 AM until 9 PM. specials in Katie's. Get the details on this page.
• Wednesday is Italian Day in Katie’s – three specials for $6.99 each served from 11 AM to 10 PM! The Friday and Saturday night special in Katie’s is Roasted Prime Rib & Fried Shrimp for $14.99 served from 4 PM.
• Thursday’s special in CV Steak is the CV Steak Mix Grill, a combination of our Filet Mignon, a Dijon and molasses Marinated Pork Tenderloin Medallion and Herb Marinated Lamb Chop for $26. This Friday it's Wild Boar Shanks braised and slow cooked in beer, tomato, mustard and fresh herbs for $28. Saturday night’s special is Garlic Studded Prime Rib for $26 and Sunday's special is King Crab Legs for $28. These specials are served with fresh vegetable, choice of rice or potato – au gratin, baked, or a one-pound, twice-baked – tableside tossed salad and warm demi-loaf of bread.
• Click the restaurant name for more info, specials and links to menus for Katie’s, CV Steak and Jobs Perk at the CVI . . . or our nearby sister property restaurants, the Jackpot Café at Sharkey's Casino, Bodines Restaurant at Bodines Casino and Betsy’s Big Kitchen at Slot World Casino.

Free Entertainment in the Cabaret Lounge

Arizona Jones tonight through Saturday, Cliff and Dave Sunday and Monday and Tim Snider Tuesday and Wednesday. In the modern-day entertainment scene often infused with technological enhancements, Arizona Jones prefers to do it the old fashioned way - live and personal. And when they put their rockin' spin on classic R&B hits from the 60's and 70's, you never know who'll be singing louder, the audience or the band. The group plays the hits from Aerosmith and Amy Winehouse to Wilson Pickett and ZZ Top . . . and many artists in between. So . . . bring your dancin' shoes! Cliff and Dave is powerhouse singer/gospel drummer Cliff Porter and southern-fried singer/guitarist Dave Berry providing an evening of sultry R&B, funk and swinging rock ’n’ roll. Tim Snider not only plays violin but loops guitar, percussion, and vocals into a sound that has been described as a “world-folk hybrid, aimed at the heart, the head and the feet.”

Planning a Stay at the CVI? You will always get the best rate by booking directly with the Carson Valley Inn either online or by calling our Reservation Department directly at 775-783-6629 or 800-321-6983. 

Comments? Have questions or comments about the CVI? Use the comments section below, shoot us an email or pick up the phone and call us @ 775-782-9711. Hit “0” when the automated voice comes on and you'll go right to the hotel operator who can get you to the correct person or department.  We have a lot more coming up at the Carson Valley Inn so check our Blog posting every Wednesday morning!