Today we have all day to explore Las Vegas. We had a good breakfast at MGM Grand Hotel, and ventured out onto the strip to see as much as we could in the limited time available.
First we checked out the nearby Casinos, Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay (also MGM properties linked by a monorail between the 3 Casinos.
The it was back for a very long walk along the strip walking through most of the famous casinos , but first a look through the substantial shopping complex in the Planet Hollywood Casino, and then on to Caesars Palace, The Bellagio, Paris, The Venetian (where we had lunch). All of the World’s top entertainers have shows on throughout the various casinos, but we are more interested in a relaxing night rather than rushing off to a show.
The scale and extravagance of the casinos is hard to comprehend and the sheer physical size of them meant we covered a lot of km, and by mid afternoon had aching feet, and were keen to get back to our hotel for a rest. We didn’t savour walking all of the way back, so caught a monorail, back to the MGM Grand, which is connected to New York New York.
After a short rest we it was around 6 pm, so we headed down to a bar in our hotel, where they had a great musician playing saxophone, and singing well known Motown, and rhythm and blues tracks. The quality of the entertainers here is amazing. He was followed up later in the evening by dueling pianos, two pianists sitting face to face with their pianos belting out some of the most amazing music and vocals.
We are driving to Dana Point tomorrow, so opted to not have too late a night.
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