LODGING- Exchange No. 011490109 Confirmed To:
Westgate
Flamingo
Bay 5625 West Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV, 89103 702-251-3435 • WFB Unit: UUU2 (2 bedrooms) Week: 21 Sun, May 27, 2007 to Sun, June 03, 2007- http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=dspv&&itid=&itdx=&itty=new&from=m- Expedia has good info on the resort, go to Expedia and search for “
Westgate
Flamingo
Bay”- http://www.wgflamingobay.com/resort.asp- I’m liking the BBQ, pool/hot tub, awesome looking room, and interesting activities- Activities http://www.westgateresorts.com/resources/pdfs/activity_guide_flamingoBay.pdf
- The activities are a bit more focused on kids than at the Grand Mayan Riviera Maya (Best resort I’ve Stayed at yet!), but there’s still hoops competition, ping pong, mini golf competition, horse shoes, a blackjack and poker night, a Pool Party BBQ, and wine and cheese social! They also have board games, water basketball and water volleyball, shuffleboard (old folks, look out!), but the morning exercise walk was disappointing. I mean, take me on a walk to see something interesting. If I want to walk thru boring neighborhoods I can do that on my own!
ACTIVITIES
- Legends of the Fall - great impersonators [we got these at the half price ticket places]
- Cirque du Soleil: KA (awesome) and Zumanity (interesting but not a performance to go back to)
- Lance Burton - best magician in Vegas. He’s not as campy or flashy and doesn’t profit off of exotic animals. He just puts in an honest night’s work making stuff disappear and reappear, with a great deal of square humor. At The
Monte Carlo, 702-730-7160. Wednesday-Saturday, 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 p.m. Price: $66.50 and up.
- UltraLounges
1. Caramel, Bellagio Hotel Hours: Nightly, 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. Cover charge: None Information: 702-693-8300
2. Light, Bellagio Hotel Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 10:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Cover charge: $20, or complimentary for local women Information: 702-693-8300
3. Risqué, Paris
Las Vegas Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Cover charge: $20 for men, $10 for women and local men, complimentary for local women Information: 702-946-4589 At Risqué, the male and female restrooms are separated by a translucent wall creating silhouetted views of the opposite gender.
4. Tabu, MGM Grand (
3799 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
; 702-891-7245): Nightly, 9 p.m. to dawn Cover charge: $15, complimentary for local women Information: 702-891-7183 Tabu: Sensual images are projected onto tables in a semiprivate area of MGM Grand’s new ultralounge. A semi-private area at Tabu, in fact, is called the Kama Sutra Room. The riffraff can join visiting celebs such as Bruce Willis, Dan Aykroyd and Shaquille O’Neal in checking out suggestive images projected on the tables, fashioned by Cirque du Soleil designer Roger Parent. The waiters and bartenders all have modeling experience as well. “We hire models because we’re going to do fashion events here with different designers,” says general manager Candace Carrell. “And they’re attractive.”
5. Mist,
Treasure Island Hours: Nightly, 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. Cover charge: None Information: 702-693-8300
6. After a decadent dinner at Ah Sin, the stylish pan-Asian restaurant downstairs, couples can nuzzle on private terraces and enjoy treats by a French pastry chef at the city’s first free-standing dessert bar. Unattached patrons can ogle female servers in short black dresses or, at one of the bars, Kama Sutra dolls in various sexual positions.
7. Playboy Club/Moon Nightclub (The Palms? 4321 W. Flamingo Road; 702-942-7777; cover $40), a unique two-in-one ultralounge and dance club connected by escalators and a uniform cover charge on the 52nd and 53rd floors of the Palms’ new Fantasy Tower. The lower level is the sleek Playboy Club. For a more energetic experience, there’s the upper-level 12,500-square-foot Moon Nightclub with the only retractable roof over a dance floor in
North America.
8. Pure (
3570 Las Vegas Blvd S.
; 702-212-8806) in Caesars Palace, a 36,000-square-foot club co-owned by Celine Dion, Shaquille O’Neal, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf. It has been named the hottest club in
America by E!
9. Light (
3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
; 702-693-8300) A sleek, lavish club at Bellagio. Ascend an escalator, wander down a candlelit corridor and finally enter an intimate — only 7,000 square feet — room softly lit and decked with wood and blood-red drapes. Because this is Bellagio, of course, the place is a magnet for high-rollers and celebrities, although there are private rooms where they can lurk without being spotted. Open from 10:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Thursday through Sunday, although prepare to wait a while if you arrive after 11 p.m. Cover: $35.
10. Ghostbar - exquisite sidelong view of the Strip (
4321 W. Flamingo Rd.
; 702-938-2666), a durable favorite on the 55th floor of the original tower of the Palms. People jump up and down on the small glass floor exposed to the ground to tempt fate, but nobody has fallen through. The open-air deck can be windy
11. Studio 54 (
3799 Las Vegas Blvd S.
; 702-891-7254) at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino hardly defines pop culture for its era or its city, but it is still an attractive place to dance the Vegas night away to early 1980s hip-hop on either the main dance floor or one of two raised platforms. Tuesday-Saturday at 10 p.m. Cover varies.
12. Tangerine Lounge & Nightclub (Treasure Island
3300 S. Las Vegas Blvd S.
; 800-944-7444), a lovely speakeasy-style nightspot. The outdoor patio offers the best views of the insipid but sexy “Sirens of T.I.” show, and 15-minute burlesque performances come on at 10:45 p.m., 11:45 p.m., 12:45 a.m. and 1:45 a.m. The deck is open daily 5:30 p.m. to midnight, while the lounge is open Tuesday-Saturday from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Cover: $20 for men, $10 for women.
13. Seahorse Lounge One of the cutest, most clever lounges in Las Vegas is the Seahorse Lounge (
3570 Las Vegas Blvd S.
; 702-731-7110) at
Caesars
Palace, which the hotel makes little fuss over but should promote better. They have a 1,700-gallon tank that contains about 100 potbellied seahorses and a waitstaff trained to answer complicated questions about the seahorses and their biology. The Seahorse Lounge is also a lot more low-key than the other lounges and clubs. It’s free to get in, and it’s open 24 hours a day.
- First Friday - (702-384-0092), a monthly four-hour crawl among about 50 galleries, restaurants, thrift shops and other funky locales in downtown
Las Vegas. The event usually runs from 6 to 10 p.m., with a special trolley that ferries attendees between nine stations in an area of about two square miles. This event was generally disappointing. It is not comprised of attractive arts as the
Laguna Beach art & wine (held first Tuesday or Thursday each month), and most places offering refreshments charged for them. This is more of a teenagers’ street fair with twenty somethings in funk also having fun. In my opinion, even for the twenty somethings this event would rate fairly low, except for the possibility
Las Vegas doesn’t offer them anything better. There are many antique stores with amazing collections, but you won’t find any bargains.
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