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| - When it comes to high end resorts there are a few to choose from. You have the Wynn/ Encore, the Aria, the Cosmo, Mandalay Bay. But for my money the Venetian is the best. I liken it to Disneyland. While other parks have better rides, Disneyland is about the whole experience. Likewise with the Venetian, it is about the whole experience, the atmosphere, the totality of the entire resort, not just individual entities. In Las Vegas there are Better hotels, there are better casinos. However the Venetian takes the best parts from it all and puts it together into a single resort where you can escape, you can get away from the chaos that occurs on Las Vegas Blvd. The hotel is superbly furnished, extremely relating and very quiet. The Casino is exciting, it is not dingy or worn down. There is no choking clouds of smoke everywhere. Then you get to the 2nd floor and are taken to Italy. You can walk "outside" and browse through the Grand Canal shops, Take a Gondola ride and be serenaded as you do. This is my favorite Hotel. Sure it might not have incredible fountains in its front, or doesn't have it's own buffet. But what it does have is the very thing that makes Disneyland so successful. It simply takes you away from life and transports you into a sanctuary where you can take a breath and experience a distant place without the inconvenience of the "real world" where what you imagined it to be, how it should be takes over for how reality really is. And that is why I will be going back.
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