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| - Never thought I'd be writing a review for a swimming pool, but here I am. (Mental note: check out DC YMCA very soon.)
MGM's pool complex is a really nice oasis of relaxation -- minus the drunk, sunburned fools with 100 oz. souvenir MGM mugs, sucking down frozen daiquiris and shaking you by the shoulders while scream-slurring, "Vegasssh, bayybeee! Get exshiteddd! Why aren't you exshitedd?"
There's a lazy river (!!!), and it's fun to float a few laps around the complex -- but BOOOOO on you, MGM, for charging for a tube. The lazy river is mostly where the aforementioned scream-slurrers hang out, but fortunately there are 5 other pools to escape to. One of them is adults only and another is 14-and-up. Barmaids circulate taking orders for $19, 20 oz. piƱa coladas or $7, 12 oz. Bud Lights in metal bottles, or whatever your little liver desires. Riiip offff, but who's going to sit poolside *without* a tasty bev in Vegas? Charge it to the room and forget about it.
And while Vegas as a whole provides endless opportunities for killer people watching, there's still no better place for it than the pool. I got to scratch 6 species off my People Watcher's Life List at the pool alone this weekend.
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