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| - Ya know The Bellagio IS still an upscale place in many, many ways ... but these Gardens are just not anywhere near as spectacular as they were under the hand of Steve Wynn.
I wandered The Conservatory just a few weeks ago. Most of what is there is not really flora or fauna at all. There was a massive towering Shogun, several huge white cranes, a large wooden tea house ... and other such items. Shogun did have a floral sash around his neck and the white cranes also SEEMED to have been coated in some type of white flower.
And most of the flora I did see scattered about the ground-level were just garden-variety daisies and tulips. Oh my! How exotic! How ... botanical !
Bottom line, this venue looked to me more like a bunch of high school homecoming parade floats ... than an actual Botanical Garden. Not at all the way my memory serves me regarding this space from back-in-the-golden-days.
I am pretty durn sure all these large objects are in-place to CONSUME the space ... thereby minimizing what The Bellagio actually has to SPEND on flora or fauna.
More cost-cutting, the singular expertise of many of today's corporate executives. Rather than traffic/customer/revenue-building ... that being exactly why Steve Wynn installed this space in the first d@mn place. Give 'em a few more years to think about it and they may well turn the whole area into a food court sprouting "exotic flora" such as Subway and Burger King.
[ Like the down-scale food court that's blossomed over at The Palms. While once-über-hot nightclubs like Rain, Playboy & Moon have been left to wither-on-the-vine. Heck, they can't even get a Hooters to take root there; now IT'S going dark. ]
RECOMMENDATION: It's OK to wander through these Gardens for three or four minutes, I suppose. And, yeah, it's a fine selfie spot. But I wouldn't recommend actually traveling to the property just to see it. Or traveling from the far side of The Bellagio to see it, for that matter.
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