In the Hard Rock Hotel we took full advantage of the room service. American breakfast for one is enough from two hungry Europeans.
The journey in Las Vegas continued in the southern part of the city, the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign.
We headed back to the city. On the way we saw huge Coca-Cola bottle and M&M package.
It turned out that these are multi-storey shopping and entertainment complexes. We visited M&M store first. No special explanation needed.
All colors, flavors and sizes of M&M candies
3D cinema about M&M candies
The M&M Nascar car
Right next door to M&M store it was Coca-Cola store.
It was time to refresh ourselves. Luckly for us there was a Hard Rock Cafe not far away from all the shopping complexes.
Hard Rock's tradition is if you have a birthday, you get special treatment and whole cafe is singing "Happy Birthday" with the toast. Oh well...
The last thing we wanted to try in Las Vegas was a typical american dinner. In the Strip area it was impossible to find anything else than world-class, well-known and fancy restaurants. So we went on the north side of the Las Vegas. In so called Old Downtown Las Vegas, where we experienced a strange feeling. This area was totally different from the Strip area. Very small houses with grates on the windows and doors. Nearly every property had a sign "No trespassing" and walking through this area was unpleasant. There we found our dinner and we expected everything else than hospitality. People were nice and really friendly. And more importantly food was delicious.
Cheeseburger with bacon and fries
Medium-rare steak
Cheese cake
Pumpkin pie
We experienced Las Vegas in all it's glory and it's horror. Nevertheless nice and unforgivable journey. There is so much left to see that going back might be an option.
On the ground floor there was reception where we checked in. Passing through huge casino in the same floor, we finally found elevator to our room. At 8th floor of Hard Rock Tower, we opened the door of the room and immediately discovered the beauty of Las Vegas. This was not just a regular room but huge suite with big bathroom and gorgeous view on the hotel's swimming pools and on the Strip area of Las Vegas.
Right next to the hotel there was familiar restaurant.
For the first days we just explored the Strip area to get used to the atmosphere. We walked into one hotel and there was surprisingly casino. We walked through the maze in the casino and came to some kind of shopping mall. There were a lot of stores with well known brands. Unfortunately taking pictures inside the casinos was forbidden. But anyhow we manage to capture one interesting moment.
We passed the shopping mall and suddenly we were at casino. Again? No. This was a casino of another hotel. After a while we noticed that all hotels are connected and you could just walk through the hotels.
We finally came out of this neverending walking place and saw...
Each of the hotels had his own theme. The one was about the New Your City. The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the roller coster (passing through some of the hotel's rooms) and so on.
Another hotel had aquarium with all sorts of sharks swimming in.
The next in line was the Paris.
One of the best known hotels in Las Vegas are:
Hilton Grand Vacations
The Cosmopolitan
The Caesars Palace & The Bellagio
Speciality about the Bellagio hotel was the famous fountain in front of the hotel. It performed a water spectacle every 30 minutes.
