Last week, as you may know if you follow me on Instagram, I was away for a hen weekend ( bachelorette ) for a friend of ours in Las Vegas. It kind of goes without saying that we all had an amazing time, I thought I would share some of my highlights with you.
Hotels / Casinos / Hotels
We stayed at
The Signature at the MGM Grand. Three golden sky scrapers in the grounds of the epic
MGM Grand Resort. We were just off the Vegas strip with an air con walkway between us and the MGM casino. In the UK we would maybe pop to a hotel restaurant to have dinner but in Las Vegas visiting the other hotels and casinos is encouraged, many of them have top restaurants, shopping malls and attractions that are designed to draw you in to spend time and money inside.
Many of the hotels in Vegas have such amazing themes with epic attention to detail. The Hotel opposite ours was New York, New York. The frontage of which is a replica of the Manhattan skyline including a roller-coaster.
Every hotel had its own casino, an epic floor layout of slot machines, craps tables and roulette wheels spinning 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
The Strip by day is spectacular, but by night it takes on a neon life of its own.
Food Glorious Food
If you are not a foodie person, you are going to be disappointed in Las Vegas. There is every taste catered for from sweet to savoury, sometimes both in one go. From high flying 5 star cuisine to your colour choice of M&M, you can eat anything at pretty much any hour of the day here.
Drinks are just as crazy, Slushy ice drinks come with a shot of rum or tequila if you prefer? A small is a large and a large is a bucket!
As well as breakfast for breakfast you can have lunch, dinner and dessert for breakfast at all you can eat buffets. Key-lime pie at 9am anyone?
My favourite meal has to be our last mornings breakfast at Serendipity 3. The restaurant is cute and quirky with a menu to match. My chocolate peanut butter milkshake and saints and sinners French toast were to die for, Amazing!
Shop 'Till You Drop
The phrase 'Money can't buy everything' does not ring true here. You can literally buy anything if you have enough money, it is a place where tacky and opulent go hand in hand.
From spiral escalators to make-up vending machines, Vegas is a place where the bazaar and unimaginable are in full practice. A place where a shop selling bacon plasters is opposite an Art gallery next door to Gucci!
As you can imagine I was loving it and have spent the past six months saving hard to be able to afford to pick up some special bits and bobs to bring home from the states. Including items from
Kate Spade,
Rebecca Minkoff,
Michael Kors,
Tarte,
Victoria Secret,
BKR,
EOS,
GlamGlow,
Diptyque and
Bath and Bodyworks.
Sights and Sounds
Shopping is not just about buying in Vegas, it is an experience like no other. The malls in the hotels are like movie sets. Both
Caesars Palace and
The Venetian have sky painted ceilings and an amazing array of designer stores.
The
Chandelier bar at the swanky
Cosmopolitan hotel was just so beautiful. Our pre dinner cocktails were made all that more amazing by sitting inside this giant crystal curtain and the view from the
Top of the World restaurant at the top of t
he Stratosphere tower was one of the most epic sites I have ever seen, The food was pretty spectacular too!
If nights out or shopping are not your thing try a Pool Party, we visited
Rehab at the Hard Rock Hotel and had a crazy, crazy day.
Las Vegas continues to be one of my favourite places on earth, it is a crazy, excessive, extravagant, opulent, epic place. I am starting to save now to head back there some day, I am already excited at the thought of being there again.
I hope you enjoyed that little peek into my long weekend adventure in Las Vegas. Have you ever been? Do you want to take a trip there? What's on your Vegas to-do list? Let me know in the comments below.
I'm still recovering from the holiday blues...
Sammy xxx
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