Las Vegas!
Posted on Jun 25th, 2008
by 
*Ladybear~
*Ladybear~
The trip to Vegas was FUN & exhausting!
The heat was really intense & all the walking is getting harder to do every time
we go there! It all looks close, but it's a desert & distance is all a mirage!
My San Diegan girlfriend met us at the airport & we proceed to The Palazzo Hotel.
We booked by a United Airlines Vacation for 2, I called a week before we left, requested
2 Queen beds & early check in.
The vacation pack had a King bed. We arrived at 11 AM and told them my friend decided to come along and asked if there would be an extra charge for her to share the room.
NO charge. GREAT!
The room wasn't ready yet, so they let us store our luggage, took my cell # and called me an hour later to let me know the double queen suite was ready. GREAT!
The room was nice, view of the WYNN next door, and we were happy.
The Spa in the Palazzo was NOT open yet, when I called to confirm they said it would be by the time we arrived. Not True.
We had to use Venetian's Spa. We were very disappointed with that because
we were looking so forward to the new spa experience.
The gold topper to this hotel was Sky's son, who lives in Vegas came to eat with us, and we had a doggie bag.
Eric took his mother's key to put the bag in the refrigerator.
we were in room 32-919.
Eric having not been there, thought his mother said 35-919 and went to that room,
opened the door, used the toilet and realized it was not his mother's stuff in the room,
our stuff was not there and he had gone INTO THE WRONG ROOM WITH OUR KEY!!!
He had access to a room 3 floors above ours!!!
He could of stolen the guys laptop and everything in the wet bar and nobody would of known he was ever there.
I immediately went to the front desk to inform them and the SUPERVISOR told me
"it sometimes happens because if you don't pull the door closed all the way, it will stay a jar". Like that is acceptable in a 5 star hotel!
I told her at the MGM we had left our door ajar for 2 minutes to get ice, and security was there immediately. She couldn't care less.
First night we saw LOVE again. It's such a fun show & you have to get tears in your eyes at the end. I won't give it away in case anyone reading plans on going,
but if you love the Beatles, THIS IS THE SHOW FOR YOU.
We got out of there at about 9 PM and walking back decided to see if we could get tickets for the late show of Phantom of the Opera at The Venetian!
POTO Venetian Hall
This was my 15th time to see my all time favorite Broadway show.
But this production was very different.
They condensed some of the libretto & changed some of the set, but they made up for it with BIG SURPRISES in the Chandelier & creating a full lit up Paris Opera House on stage.
Those effects are not done in any other production, and after knowing every word in the
entire play, it was fun for me to see this new version.
So first night was 2 great shows!
Yesterday we did the Canyon Ranch Spa at Venetian & I had a BLIND Masseur!
Richard was wonderful.
I had asked not to have a male massage therapist, but when they couldn't change it,
I was so happy he was the man!
Great healing hands.
We hung out by the pool for awhile, and then went shopping!
We saw Barbara Walters signing her book, Audition, at Caesar's Palace. The View is filming there this week.
Barbara Walters
She is quite petite and surrounded by very large security guards!
Dinner at Bellagio, the best buffet in town.
Then on to Bette Midler at Caesar's Palace!
The show was fun, the beginning a movie played of a twister storm blowing in to the desert.
Burrow's were running for their lives,
Elvis impersonators were spinning by ala Wizard of Oz,
and in lands bawdy boisterous Bette laughing up a storm.
Personally for the money <$156> I wouldn't recommend it, and I say that with great disappointment.
It was our least favorite of all 3 shows. One Review
My favorite part of the show was her endless hilarity of Dolores Delago the wheelchair bound mermaid.
Delores Delago
Besides the 3 Harlettes, she has a chorus line like the Rockettes, called
The Caesar's Salad Girls, because they have a lot of dressing!
and the very end she says "this is my Titanic song" and went into
The Wind Beneath My Wings.
The row of gay guys in front of us, and me, were all wiping away tears!
All in all, ya gotta love Bette, she is one of a kind!
We flew out this morning at 6 AM & after only sleeping a couple of hours each night,
we are exhausted.
But I LOVE LAS VEGAS! Hope to go back sooner then later.
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bette midler
September 2008 
How fun!! Thank you for sharing your LV adventures. Did Bette sang songs from her Rosemary Clooney album?
WOW Samme! You're quick!
She did some standards. I don't remember if they were from that particular album, but she
looked gorgeous in a short black cocktail dress when she did them. lots of costume changes and that caused her to be OFF stage while the chorus line and Harlettes performed. But we didn't pay that to see THEM we wanted more of her!
She's really terrific and I think the reason I was disappointed in the show, was it was TO BIG!
The theater seats 4500 and if it had been in a smaller venue, I think you would feel more connected to her. She is so flamboyant it all gets lost in the massive theater and stage.
and the speakers weren't working great either. alot of static.
what a cool adventure! I've never been to vegas.
Sounds like a great time. Thanks for posting this. :)
Wow, the Venetian looks beautiful! I've not been to Vegas for a long, long time. I know it's changed a lot and I would love to see it again.
I want to see the Cirque show!