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Vegas Hotel
There are so many options,
so many varied and varying possibilities in the Las Vegas hotel area of
choices for visitors and tourists that my choosing only one to crow and
gush about seems unfair. But I have to start this piece with
a huge nod of kudos to my favorite Las Vegas hotel: the Paris.
The Paris Las Vegas hotel is affordable. It is even
“cheap” or inexpensive, to use a nicer word, when
you take them up on a non-weekend offer—a package deal of
casino gambling coins/cash, a coupon or two for discounted dining, and
even, in some luckier cases, an airline ticket price
reduction. The Paris Las Vegas hotel is also clean, quiet,
well-maintained, and staffed by clever, courteous, and accessible
people. But the best part for me of the Paris Las Vegas hotel
is downstairs in the Paris casino. The walk to the entrance
of the Paris is a cobbled walk of shops and eateries on either side and
a ceiling painted like the Paris sky (must be
“painted). Inside the Paris is really
outside: the décor, temperature control, ambience,
and furnishings all contribute to the feel of being outdoors in Paris,
near and under trees and, even, in some parts of the casino, under the
Eiffel Tower! From the outside of the casino building, you
see the Tour d’Eiffel to scale, built as it is around and
atop the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino. Inside, you are at
the ground floor of inside the legs of the great and one-of-a-kind
architectural phenomenon.
Maybe, though, I should digress before I start speaking in tongues I
have no business (or skill) speaking. Other Las Vegas hotel
delights abound. As you likely have read about, seen, or
heard about, many of the Las Vegas hotel and casino accompaniments and
structures simulate a place somewhere in the world. The Las
Vegas hotel that does this is usually on the strip (in the center of
town, that is), and boasts such thematic likenesses that when you drive
or walk through the center of the area, you feel as if you are a
world-traveler, visiting modified or reduced countries, cities, and
cultures. New York is represented in black and white and
post-mod pop (and when I was there, after 9-1-1, sadly, the New York,
New York had constructed a long fence of donated t-shirts belonging to
firefighters, victims, and survivors and residents. The
t-shirts, numbering in the thousands, had signatures and sayings and
notes of thanks and empowerment…making for the whole viewing
and visit experience one of true realism, not just imitation Las Vegas
hotel-style). The Bellagio is water wonderful; the Luxor is
mystical Egyptian; the Monte Carlo is classic; and the Venetian is
Italian magic.
Of course, to visit Las Vegas hotel history, one must not be so dazzled
by the new that one misses the Rat Pack and Elvis days recapitulated at
every older Las Vegas hotel and casino from the Flamingo to
Ceasar’s top the MGM to The Sands. But I tell you
what: I bet if Frank and Elvis and Sammy and George were alive and in
town, they would swing by to catch an O show or drop in at the Paris
for a quick spin of the roulette. Mais oui.