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| - Stayed recently first in a fountain-view room, then in a corner-fountain-view penthouse (had credit card points to use; would not have spent the $ otherwise).
The views of the fountains and the Strip (and the mountains, for that matter) were unbeatable. I wouldn't have thought I'd want to sit in a hotel room to watch water be shot into the sky, but sure did. Over and over.
This isn't a negative per se, but I have to admit that although the fountain view room was 100% fine and the penthouse enormous, I kinda like the Venetian more for the "over the top holy crap how much marble can you have in one place is the phone gilded you know you're in Vegas" feel.
I think Bellagio caters to folks who have money and so aren't looking to be "overwhelmed" by opulence because they're used to it. Which is fine, I just like being bowled over.
Was oddly underwhelmed by the spa. Well, let me restate. Totally blown away by the size of it; getting from the locker area to treatment rooms involved what seemed like a quarter-mile walk through an uber-contemporary series of hallways.
My body scrub and mini-facial was fine but--and this is due in part to my choice of services--I feel like I paid a heck of a lot to have someone rub some salt on me, for me to take my own shower to wash it off, then coat me in goo. And when I heard the telltale "beepbeepBEEP" of a Clarisonic face cleaner, I was like, "Seriously? I'm paying you to clean my face with the same exact gizmo I have sitting on my bathroom counter at home?!?"
The buffet is AMAZING. Just typing that made me drool. I ate my weight in sushi. Which in no way stopped me from also eating lamb, sea bass, goat cheese, mousse, key lime tarts, peach sorbet...
Cirque's O show. Come ON! It's stupendous. Sit a ways back from the stage, though, and you get to actually see more (like the underwater action). You can't swing a dead contortionist without hitting a Cirque show in Vegas, but THIS is the one to see.
I would certainly stay here again. It's beautiful, the service is perfection and it's well located for all things Strip. But if you're price sensitive, this is not the place to go!
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