This is probably the most visually stunning area of the Strip, and also the most foot work. We started out however, catching a shuttle to the Marriot Grand Chateau for our timeshare spiel. We met a very nice couple from Australia who were staying at the Aladdin and had gotten lucky and upgraded to a huge suite 3 floors from the top. Our timeshare guy was a big fat Greek guy who talked on endlessly of his family and very little of business, which got very annoying after a while. I told him I had no money now, so then we toured the property, which was extremely fancy and really cool, but 17,000 for a 1 unit share was not something we were to interested in, anyways after 2 hours of being hassled and blabbed at we finally got out of there with our two free tickets to V and our free dinner coupons.
After that we were walking in a parking lot away from the strip trying to get to it, when some guy in a golf cart came and gave us a ride to the Aladdid (we had really wanted to start at the MGM Grand, but whatever) he was a real nice guy so I tipped him a few bucks and then we headed into the Aladdin.
This was by far my favorite place to be, one because it was middle eastern which I love, two because it had the best priced shops and coolest stuff(hookah bars, nunchukas, batons etc.), and three, because it was fairly close to our hotel.
After Aladdin we walked down the strip and went past a little strip mall with cheap luggage and water and stuff, and then past M&M Works and GameWorks, which we ended up going to later. THen on to MGM Grand.
It was a nice place pretty interesting, not too much to do there really so it was a fairly short stop. Then on over to Mandalay Bay. Mandalay Bay was pretty and fancy, but still it lacked anything interesting to do though because the wave pool and stuff was closed, which was the case with most places(pool wise).
So we headed on their free tram over to the Luxor, the one that I had highest hopes of. The outside was awesome, the theme was my favorite, but once we went inside it lost its appeal. It was still extremely beautiful and awesome, but you couldn't find your way around the place AT ALL! The maps of the place didn't show you where you were and actually pointed you to wrong directions and dead ends(which was the problem at Bally's and a few other places too) So that was pretty annoying but boy was it beautiful, they also had 3 IMAX theaters there, normal IMAX, 3-d, and interactive ride type, but they were expensive and we had a lot better things to see.
So onto the tram again, and over to the Excalibur. The castle theme was really cool but it was kinda cheesy Disneyland style almost but still cool. The buffet there was a little better then Flavors Buffet at Harrah's but it still wasn't the quality level that I expected, and I was really hungry so I would have eaten anything.
Then we went on over to New York New York, a very cool multi-shelled building depicting the skyline of New York. It was a pretty well themed one but it also had a superb ride. The ride was called The Manhattan Express and did a very unique move which I hadn't seen in my ridings. It flip you upside down on the track before going in a loop so you are basically doing a Uniracer crazy pull out of a dive thing. Hard to explain but quite unique. Other then the ride the New York New York was just scenery, but still good.
Are final destination for the night was the cream of the crop for sure. The beautiful Bellagio welcomes you to a symphonic water fountain montage, it is quite amazing and timed with the music very well. Then you head into the hotel, the first thing that hits your senses is the smell of wonderful flowers. Then you see that all around you are fresh flowers in crazy designs, complete with butterfly aviaries and water falling through the trees. The rest of the hotel was just luxurious over the top richness, but in a good way, very classy and cool. I consider it the top hotel on the strip.
Anyways, I could say so much more but I have already said a ton. But I will stop for now.
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