Such numbers also pervade each element of Encore: a 210,000-square-foot casino, 15 dining outlets, 671 guest rooms and suites -including a 5,800-square-foot Presidential Villa- plus 50,000 square feet of event space, a 450-seat buffet restaurant, and a staff that includes graduates from The Greater Boston Gaming Career Center at Cambridge College, that Encore helped develop in order to cultivate an east coast casino workforce.Įven the carousel, designed by Preston Bailey who did floral sculptures at Wynn Las Vegas, has astounding stats: 15,000 pounds, 83,000 flowers, and 11,000 jewels. The first thing we learned about Encore Boston Harbor is its price tag $2.6 billion. Sort of a Disney paradise in a casino hotel. It is huge,-made entirely of silk flowers and crystals-and on the carousel seats are stuffed animals – monkeys, bears and the like.
Then, in the lobby, there is the carousel. Under the guest’s feet are usually gold or red or bright blue mosaic patterns. It is a unique hotel in a unique location, one where flowers appear to bloom, even in November and December when we were there, and no surface seems average. Encore Boston Harbor is a 33-acre casino hotel property, not in Boston Harbor but on the Mystic river, in the industrial part of Boston.
