We are in Vegas! Kamie got 10 days off work so we booked this trip < 2 weeks ago. We have never been to Vegas and we cant go anywhere else (basically) so we thought wed see what was up with this place. For the record, thanks to our jobs, we are both COVID vaccinated but we are still wearing a mask everywhere. We both wore double masks in the airport and on the plane. However, on the plane we were told they recirculate the air every 3 minutes with fresh air and the quality of the air on the plane is the same used in hospital surgical rooms. We flew out of Springfield and the 3 hr flight should have been uneventful but there was an incredibly strange man in the seat behind me who clearly had some sort of mental issues. He ran on the plane last huffing and puffing, loudly dropped his phone as the flight was and scared the heck out of everyone, and then lost his passport somewhere on the plane somehow. He was a mess. This is a pandemic, right? The plane had 29 rows of 6 so 174 seats... I counted 8
empty seats. There was a large group (maybe 15 people) at the airport that surprised a guy who with his girlfriend - it was his 50th Birthday and they were all joining him to celebrate. People are traveling but our seats were in the back so we had no one in our row but the two of us. Btw, thats my flight tip to you - if you book the back of the plane its always where the extra/empty seats are located and its quieter than other areas.
Flying into Vegas is definitely a canyon, landscape. We arrived in the airport and the first thing you see are slot machines. They are in every terminal. Next, Kylie Jenner makeup kiosks. I saw at least three of them. If you know anything about her lip gloss, it sells out in like 10 seconds the day it is released. Im not a fan but how is it that you can buy it here in the airport but nowhere else. About $30 for a tube so I passed. We took Uber to our hotel - Planet Hollywood. Again, the landscape is new to us. - definitely a desert surrounded
by mountains. Vegas looks clean and well kept driving from the airport to our hotel. Our Uber driver tells us you cant just walk the strip and we need to take Ubers up and down the strip. Shes wayyy wrong.
Planet Hollywood Hotel is fabulous and in the middle of the famous strip!! Great hotel choice on our part! We go to at the kiosks but I had a plan so I chose a kiosk that had a helper dude next to it and I didnt my drivers license all the way so the system kicked it out. He offered to in. I handed him my license, our credit card, and a $20 bill and ask if there might be a room with a fountain view available. He winked at me and said he bet there would be! After moving us to the 31st floor with an amazing view of the strip and the Bellagio fountains, he said he greatly appreciated our business and away we went! I read about this online and apparently, it works like a charm. By the way, not only can we see the Bellagio fountains but we can hear
them because the water is being pumped so high into the air it lets us know when they are which seems to be every 30 minutes. Its nice.
We didnt even unpack. We got a drink and started walking the strip. We walked over to the Bellagio Resort and through the shops (security standing at every door), then through their poker tables (packed and its slot machines, and on to their conservatory. The Bellagio entrance has a ceiling of blown glass which is beautiful. We walked through the conservatory and then down to see the chocolate fountain. We walked outside and watched the fountains and listened to the music. Nice. We walked over to Caesars Palace. It was busy because by this time it was 5:30pm and the California weekender crowd was arriving. Their sports betting bar arena area is huge. We walked by and took a picture. When we walked by an hour later, there were people everywhere and a long line of people waiting for a seat at the bar to bet.
