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VEGAS TIDBITS (interesting
items to check out):
BEST DEALS
(???):
99 cent Shrimp Cocktail @ Golden
Gate
Still a Downtown classic........their restaurant also has a great steak
deal....
Free Maps, Travel
Packets and Coupons - Nevada Commission on Tourism. Click on the
link above, fill out the form, and they'll send you all sorts of
helpful stuff...for free!
$4.95 Steak Dinner @ Ellis Island - 24 hours - $4.95 (not on the
menu, ask the server....it is always available)
$1.50 Root beer. Again @ Ellis Island. They make their own....
Steak & Eggs @ Arizona Charlie's East and West - 24 hours -
Enjoy sirloin steak
& eggs for $3.29 or ham-steak & eggs for $3.29, voted "Best Breakfast
Special" by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Becks/Michelob or ?? Margarita... Beer @ Casino Royale - 24 Hours - $1 ...Center Strip at the bar in the Casino Royale any hour of the day or night, order up an ice-cold bottle of Beck's....or
Slots of Fun across the street for $1 Heineken, Fosters, or Amstel
Light...bottles...
Superbuffet @ Gold Coast - Daily - $6.95-$12.95 / $17.95 for Thurs.
Seafood dinner... (prices went
up....as everything has).....still the Gold Coast's Ports O' Call might be the city's best all-around buffet.
Mac King Show @ Harrah's - Tues.-Sat. - $6.95-$16.45
Best show deal is the Mac King Comedy Magic Show at Harrah's.
(Note: if you're not a member of Harrah's Total Rewards slot club, wait
until you get to Las Vegas to sign up. You get two free tickets (with a one-drink minimum at $6.95) to the
show (can't hurt to ask for some extras). Also check out the offer of two free tickets to the Ronn Lucas afternoon show at the
Rio.
Hamburger @ Wild Wild West - 24 hours - $1.99
The hamburger deal is at Wild Wild West coffee shop, an eight-ounce cooked-to-order
burger plus for $1.99.
Happy Hour @ McCormick & Schmick's Seafood
Restaurant (Las Vegas) (702) 836-9000 - Mon.-Fri. - $1.95-$11.95
one from 3:30 to 6:30 and the other from 9:30 to 11 Monday through
Friday. appetizers at $1.95 apiece...Located at the corner of E. Flamingo and Paradise.
Recent Friday's Menu, but remember they do change them at times depending
on availablilty, so some of these items might not be on the menu the day
you might come in:
$1.95 Menu: Cheeseburger, Edamame Martini, Salmon Sashimi,
Parmesan Garlic Chips, Steamed Black P.E.I Mussels,
Potato and Horseradish Fish Cakes, Ahi Poke
$4.95 Menu: Curry Clams, Kobe Beef Sliders, Popcorn Shrimp,
Korean Cross Cut Ribs, Turkey and Brie Sandwich
Check out the ride to the "top" of the
Eiffel Tower...cost $8 (?), closed on bad weather/windy days...worth the elevator trip and
view...quite a view from the metal platform, like being in a cage....but there are
rectangular holes to take pictures thru...
Rio has updated "Masquerade Village Show in the
Sky"....one of the better free shows...will be a "beach party"
theme...combining circus-style performers, singers, dancers...etc...lots of energy, people
go crazy for the "beaded necklaces" that they throw out to the crowds...
BELLAGIO
HOTEL:
The Bellagio
hotel-casino has been ranked the 4th-best hotel in the world by readers of Travel and Leisure magazine.
Ranked ahead of the $1.6 billion dollar Bellagio are the Four Seasons Resort Bali, the Ritz-Carlton Chicago and the Ritz-Carlton Naples, Florida in this year's rankings.
The MGM MIRAGE-owned property wasn't the only Las Vegas property to make a showing on the list. Sheldon Adelson's
Venetian ranked
42nd globally, while
Four Seasons
Las Vegas was ranked 67th.
The Bellagio Hotel & Resort, Mirage-Treasure Island owner-impresario Steve Wynn's Italian-flavored resort-casino is
found on the Strip, at a corner that also includes Caesars Palace,
Bally's, and Barbary Coast and Hilton Flamingo...Wow! Dining at
the Bellagio, you may pick from thirteen restaurants, which run the gamut from gourmet dining to easy informal meals.
Gourmet dining includes the Le
Cirque, or at its sister restaurant, Osteria Del
Circo. Picasso in Bellagio, probably the most beautiful restaurant in Las Vegas.
Aqua is a French-flavored high style seafood venue.
Prime features signature dishes such as crab mango salad with cumin crackers; an assembled tomato accented with basil oil; and entrees such as the house prime steaks that come with a variety of sauces from béarnaise to tamarind, or seven different mustards. For Asian meals, seek out either
Jasmine, Shintaro or
Noodles restaurants.
Also, please don't forget the Bellagio Buffet....one of the best in
Vegas...and probably one of the more expensive ones too...
Las Vegas Spas and Pools....
When staying at one of
these plush luxury strip hotels, or other Vegas hotels...be sure to
check out their wonderful Spas...if you have never done it before...you
will be in for a very special treat...and since you are in Vegas, why
not spoil yourself...guy and gals should both look into this...enjoy a
massage, manicure, pedicure, facial...best deal, is to get a package
that includes these options!!...click here for our Vegas
Spa List and here for as list of Vegas Pools....
New York Style Hotel
January, 1997 saw the opening of New York-New York Hotel & Casino. This 2,035 room "lodgertainment" was developed on 20 acres at a cost of about $460 million by MGM Grand, Inc. and Primadonna Resorts Inc. The hotel recreates the feeling of the Big Apple's skyline using 12 hotel towers designed as one-third-scale models of well-known structures in Manhattan, including the CBS, Chrysler, Empire State and Seagrams buildings. Standing the tallest is the Empire State Building tower, at 47 stories.
(Don't forget they have quite a roller coaster ride....wow!!)
A myriad of restaurants include Il Fornaio Italiana, Gallagher's Steak House, Gonzales y Gonzales Mexican restaurant, Nathan's Famous, Schrafft's Ice Cream, Motown Cafe and Nightclub, Chin Chin Asian, actor George Hamilton's namesake Hamilton's Lounge and Fine Cigars and Village Eateries. There are nine bars in the casino and a number of scaled-down models of New York's most famous landmarks such as a 150-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty and 300 foot-long re-creation of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Stratosphere Tower
Also on the Las Vegas Strip, but at the far end, going towards
"downtown) is the tallest free-standing observation tower in the U.S.A. The view from the top is spectacular -- you'll see all the hotels on the Strip, the suburban
Las Vegas and even Mt. Charleston in the distance, a snow-covered peak which is over 11,000 feet high.
There's also a roller coaster at the top, the world's highest roller
coaster, and if that doesn't prove to be enough of a thrill ride, you can try the Big Shot, a reverse bungee jump which will shoot you 160 feet into the air at 45 m.p.h. and then send you zooming back down. If you survive all of this, there's also a bar and restaurant at the top where you can order yourself a stiff drink. Stratosphere Tower is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
There is, of course a charge to go to the top...unless you have a
restaurant reservation...or buy a ride ticket...
(they use to have a discount coupon available in their coupon
book for the ride to the top)
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