We woke up to a cloudless blue sky. The pyramid glittered and the pool shimmered....
we would be chilling in the Alaskan fridge next week so we took the opportunity to have a couple of hours baking by the pool and enjoying a refreshing dip.
Then we went back into town for another mooch around the mind-boggling hotels.
Mandalay Bay.THEhotel (thats what it was called!) couldn't be any golder.
It had nice elephant fountains whoop whoop!
And it had its own private man-made beach with imported sand and a wave machine pool.... pretty spectacular from this poster!
But the most amazing hotel was the Venetian. Quote Husb "Next time we come to Vegas we are staying HERE!" (next time???) It was like being in Venice. The Rialto Bridge, canals, lagoons, St Mark's Square, the Doges Palace are all here.
Gondolas serenade tourists outside the hotel in the lagoon.
They also serenade them INSIDE the hotel passing under several bridges. This is a ceiling painted like the blue sky. How amazebobs is THIS. When a real live seagull flew overhead we just gasped and then laughed, it is so jaw-droppingly effective.
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| This is INDOORS |
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| It is a ROOM honestly. Ceiling painted blue. |
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| Rialto Bridge! |
We walked past New York New York - it looks different in the light.
It is like "Who can be the biggest, brightest, goldest, best?"
This was the other ship in the bizarre battle with the pirates outside Treasure Island
Trevi Fountain, Rome. Ceasar's Palace.
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| Inside Caesar's Palace |
FIORI DI COMO - below is the beautiful ceiling of the Ballagio Hotel where fountains dance in time to both classical and "Rat Pack" music. Drake recognised the ceiling's glass flowers straight away. Chihuly's 2,000 glass blown flowers are impressive to put it mildly. Out of all the hotels we walked through, Ballagio seemed to be the most classy with beautiful, colourful balloon and flower decorations. Ballagio definitely had the most limos parked outside.
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| Fiori di como by Dale Chihuly |
After several photos I finally had the balcony to myself YIPPEE!
Well all the kiddies were doing this.
And one HAS to do a PLANK somewhere random. It's OBLIGATORY.
Having felt like we had visited Venice, Paris, New York and Rome, all in one day, we decided to have tea in Dublin in New York (!?!!) and ordered a very English fish 'n' chips and a very Irish Guinness in the IRISH pub THE NINE FINE IRISHMEN in New York New York before heading back home to Egypt and the Luxor.
Vegas at night. Think Blackpool on drugs. Think Disneyland for adults. It's crazy.
Total glitzy-lights-overload . And its all countries on one strip. Complete overthetop madness and great fun. Loved it!
2 comments:
Brilliant Ali! That ceiling is stunning. Smiling over the plank...Very funny.
We didn't know what to expect when we went to Vegas! But wow.. it is mind boggling! I'm glad we didn't go there AFTER Alaska though, we'd have been muttering "Switch those lights OFF!"
And Clare you should always look for a random place to plank!
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