Las Vegas is also known to be the city with the most casino in the world. It is known to have world's largest casinos along with high end fancy hotels. Most of the casinos are along the Las Vegas strip. Along the strip, every hotel has its own unique charm such as its architectural design, shows, night clubs, bars and restaurants. The night life at Las Vegas just never ends.
During the President's Day long weekend, we went to Las Vegas to have a fun weekend. We took the Alaska flight from Portland to Las Vegas on Friday night and we were amazed by the plane that was giving us the ride to Las Vegas. It was a brand new plane with large seat and large leg room. Each seat on the plane had its own universal remote for playing games. We could also send text through the screen in front of us to another person. We were very satisfied with the flight.
When we got to Las Vegas, the night was quite chill. We took the taxi ride to Bellagio and the ride costed us around $30 due to the traffic. When we went for hotel check in, there were so many people lined up for check in. It took about 30 minutes to get us checked in to the hotel room.
Since it was very late already, we walked around the casino and went to Noodles for a late dinner. It was a Chinese restaurant serving all kinds of Chinese food but it was extremely expensive.
The room that we stayed at has a view at the Bellagio fountain. The fountain starts every 30 minutes before 3PM and every 15 minutes after 3PM. The music and the fountain dance were different each time.
On the next day morning, the first thing we did was going to Planet Hollywood to try Gordon Ramsay Burgers. Since it was a restaurant owned by Hell's Kitchen chef Gordon Ramsay, this was a must try for us.
Afterwards, we walked towards South on the strip to check out other stores and hotels. The Coca Cola store was quite interesting. It had a large variety different Coca Cola bottles wrapped in different colors. There were also many other Coca Cola swags such as under wears, pajamas, and backpacks. We really liked the polar bear stuff animal and thus we bought one. Beside the Coca Cola store, there was the M&M World. There was also a variety of M&M flavors for people to pick and choose, and the cost was simply based on the weight.
We then walked to the next major intersection along MGM and looped around to Exlibur and New York New York on the other side. We did not go to Luxor and Mandalay Bay because it was further down. At New York New York, there was also the Hershey's store. The Hershey's store was not as interesting but it did have a Statue of Liberty that was made out of chocolate and Twizzlers.
We continued to walk back and checked out Aria and Cosmopolitan hotels along the way. At night, we were originally going to go clubbing at Banks at Bellagio, but decided to just stay at hotel room since we weren't feeling well.
On the second day, we went to Bellagio's buffet for brunch. The buffet was extremely expensive and almost $50 per person. It was totally not worth it since we could spend $50 on something that is much better. We were quite disappointed. We then went to Caeser Palace and this was one of the most fancy hotel we have been to so far. In front of the hotel, there was an imitation of Trevi Fountain of Italy. There were also many stone sculptures within the hotel. The shop at the Forum were also very fancy with stone sculptures every where.We played some Blackjack games at Mirage because it only has minimum bet of $10. In addition, it was an automatic win if we get 21 pints on first 2 cards. We made small profit there but later lost all to slot machines.
We walked towards North and looped back to Encore and Venetian. Venetian hotel had similar style. has Caeser Palace, but not as fancy in our opinions. It had a indoor canal with boat that allow tourists to ride on, but it was kind of awkward when everyone was watching you. We also saw few wedding photos being taken there.
In the evening, we went to watch the "O" show by Cirque du Soleil and it was spectacular. We highly recommend watching this show while you are at Las Vegas.
Overall, Las Vegas was a very fun place to be to enjoy the long weekend and relieves all the stress. We think that the slot machines are essentially a rip off and we will avoid it next time. Since smoking is allowed at the casino, we don't recommend people to bring their kids to Las Vegas due to the amount of second hand smoke there.
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