Ultra-Luxe

The Ultra-Luxe is a hotel and casino on the New Vegas Strip. It is run by the White Glove Society, a secretive group of gourmets and connoisseurs.

Background
The Ultra-Luxe is an establishment of incredible refinement that delicately conceals its operators’ more questionable tendencies. Run by the Sawneys, the Ultra-Luxe pampers its clients and provides The Strip’s most elite casino experience. A dress code is strictly enforced. All of the staff and family members are well-dressed, wellspoken, and well-behaved. The casino’s prime attractions are its meat-oriented restaurant, The Gourmand; its cocktail lounge, Top Shelf; and its art gallery. Roulette and blackjack are the only games offered.

Layout
The building is divided into seven parts:

Lobby and Casino
The Lobby and Casino area contains the lobby and casino, obviously. The highly fashionable bar, "The Top Shelf," is also located in the entrance room that doubles as the casino. The drinks are overpriced, but that's the point. Mortimer can be found at the reception desk. The door to the cashier has an average lock. There are three metal boxes within the cashier area at the bottom of a shelf that hold your weapons and those of your two potential companions, and a variety of random caps and small loot in the other safes and containers.

Kitchens
The basement kitchens of the Ultra-Luxe are accessible from the Members Only Area, where the door is unlocked, and The Gourmand, behind a door with an easy lock. The basement itself consists of a number of rooms, including Philippe's actual kitchen, the pantry, the locked freezer containing Ted Gunderson, an elevator back upstairs, and a wine room, containing a bottle of wine the player can spike with sedatives as part of Beyond the Beef. The basement hallways are regularly patrolled by a small group of three White Glove Society members, two of whom will initially be seen at the bottom of the first set of stairs "roasting" brahmin with flamers. They will confront the player if the player is caught in the basement without honorary White Glove Society membership or a White Glove Society disguise, and will turn hostile if the player cannot pass a Speech check.

The Gourmand
The Gourmand is a famous restaurant run by temperamental chef and White Glove Society member Philippe. The restaurant is renowned for its famous brahmin Wellington, and boasts a long waitlist, even though it usually seems sparsely populated. Gamblers, travelers and other Strip tourists found here will theorize the White Glove Society is more interested in maintaining the Gourmand's air of exclusivity than filling the restaurant, and are subsequently padding the waitlist and arbitrarily denying access to customers. This suspicion is commented upon by Mr. New Vegas on Radio New Vegas.

Members Only area
The Ultra-Luxe Members Only Area consists of a large dining room, adjoining prep room, reception area, closet, and 10-12 members of the White Glove Society, some of which are armed with dress canes and described as "bouncers." The bouncers will be hostile towards the player unless the player has been inducted as an honorary member of the White Glove Society by Marjorie, and subsequently been given a key to the rooms. An unlocked door in the prep area leads to the Ultra-Luxe's kitchens.

Bathhouse
An indoor swimming pool converted into a bath house. It contains the steam room where the player can meet the investigator's contact during the Beyond the Beef quest.

Interestingly, drinking the water from the bath house pool (HP 2, Rads 0) is considered theft, but harbors no Karma loss nor does it make anyone hostile.

It is also stated that the salt in the bath is imported from California.

Penthouse suite
Heck Gunderson is staying in this room, and has left several of his bodyguards here to watch the place. They will be hostile to the player, so killing them or sneaking past them is required to loot the suite.

The Courier needs a key, held only by the receptionist, Mortimer, to access the elevator to the suite. Mortimer can be killed or pickpocketed for the key. Alternatively, he can give the key to the player during Beyond the Beef in some paths through that quest.

In the situation one does not possess a key, a lockpick skill of 75 allows access. Once inside the player can see a small foyer leading to what appears to be a small guest dedicated portion of the suite. Further inside the suite is quite grand and the ceiling is possibly the highest of all Penthouse/Presidential Suites in New Vegas. In the middle of the large suite is a shallow pool and to the right is the dining room and kitchen. Upstairs is the master bedroom with a bar and the bathroom. Sleeping in the Penthouse Suite is impossible because the player does not own the beds.

Bon Vivant suite
The Bon Vivant suite is given to the player for winning 11,250 chips in the casino. It is located in the Hotel Room area and is not to be mistaken for the Penthouse suite in which Gunderson is staying. The room is average for the Ultra-Luxe and includes two beds that the player may sleep in. Curiously, most of the room's contents (containers, items, etc.) are set as owned and register as stealing if opened or taken.

Gambling

 * Games
 * The Ultra-Luxe offers Blackjack and Roulette.
 * The Ultra-Luxe pays 3:2 on blackjack, and the dealer must stand on all 16s.

Should the player acquire enough chips, the floor manager will offer increasingly valuable gifts, culminating in access to the Bon Vivant Suite.
 * Rewards and ban
 * 3,750+ chips =Atomic cocktail
 * 7,500+ chips =Brahmin Wellington
 * 11,250+ chips =Bon Vivant suite key

After the player earns 15,000+ chips, they are banned from playing games at the Ultra-Luxe. They can still use its other functions, such as the restaurant and cashing out their chips, but they cannot win any more money at the Ultra-Luxe. Like all other bans, this ban is permanent.

Notable loot

 * Brahmin Wellington recipe on the counter in Philippe's kitchen.
 * Unique item sleepwear, which is a variant of sexy sleepwear. In the bathroom of the Penthouse suite in an open-topped bin.
 * Unique item Tuxedo hat, lootable from Mortimer's corpse or reverse-pickpocketed.

Related quests

 * Beyond the Beef
 * Pheeble Will
 * Render Unto Caesar
 * Big Winner, Ultra-Luxe

Music
The piped-in music in the lobby and casino consists of the following tracks:
 * Concerto For 2 Violins in D Minor - 2: Allegro Ma Non Troppo - J.S. Bach
 * Concerto Grosso no. 10 in B Minor - 1: Allegro - Antonio Vivaldi
 * Concerto Grosso no. 10 in B Minor - 3: Allegro - Antonio Vivaldi
 * "Flower Duet" From Lakmé - Léo Delibes
 * Four Seasons No. 4, Winter - 2: Largo - Antonio Vivaldi
 * Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major - 2: Andante - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * "Spring Song" (Op 62, No 6) - Felix Mendelssohn

Appearances
The Ultra-Luxe appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * The Ultra-Luxe is based upon Caesars Palace due to the resemblence of its exterior arcitectual design and the front entrance Grand Fountain; while the interior architecture is based on the Bellagio, both of which are on the Las Vegas strip, and are highly profitable casinos.

Bugs

 * Very rarely, when playing blackjack or roulette, a common Gambler will forcibly take the place of a White Glove that is a dealer.
 * The script which returns items to you and your companion(s) as you leave the Ultra-Luxe does not check to ensure it is returning items to the correct companion, or even any companion at all. In the worst case this can result in all items previously held by your companion being removed from the game entirely.
 * When Cashing in chips for NCR or Legion money, the cashier will take the chips but will not give any NCR or Legion money in return. This bug occurs every time (it is not random) and results in a permanent loss of money.
 * If you enter the Ultra-Luxe lobby with Rex as a companion, he may begin growling and run off and attack a non-player. This can cause the White Gloves to attack you. If this happens, reload the auto save triggered by entering the Ultra-Luxe and quickly tell Rex to wait.
 * The female croupier who is running the roulette game on the east side of the casino floor may become unconscious when entering the casino area from The Strip. After a few seconds she will stand up and return to her original position behind the table.
 * After completing Beyond the Beef, if you enter the penthouse, Mr.Gunderson's guards may not attack you. The marker on the compass will consistently flash to blue to red and if you move they may start running around.
 * Rarely, the Tops promoter gets stuck inside the casino near the front entrance. He does not move from there and doesn't return to the Tops casino.
 * In the kitchen, next to the White Gloves with Flamers, there are brahmin skulls which can be stolen. However, for one of them there is a prompt but it has no name and cannot be stolen. It can be still moved around.
 * Although not technically a bug, entering the Members Only area without a disguise or "honorary membership" instantly flags the player as an enemy of the White Glove Society, effectively making the entire faction combat-hostile on sight. If the player does not have a recent save available to avoid the issue, the console command "ClearFactionPlayerEnemyFlag 00116f10" can be used to reset this variable.
 * Somtimes when swimming in the pool located in the Ultra-Luxe Bathroom, your hair would become invisible.
 * Sometimes, on trying to enter the main entrance to the casino, the game completely freezes (on the loading screen). You hear the sound FX for the door opening, but nothing happens and the game needs to be rebooted directly from the console or even power switch. There is no known fix.