Today was our one and only full day in Las Vegas, and after a very lazy morning watching Sin City type daytime shows (Maurie, Jerry Springer and other white trash TV shows), we finally got our lazy asses out of bed and down to the Starbucks for some breakfast (no bagels!!!). We felt like we were both hung over, although strangely enough – due to lack of funds – we hadn’t actually drunken any alcohol. Shameful I know, but when you’re spending purely on credit cards, alcohol is not exactly a top priority. Our first stop today was the Venetian hotel and the Grand Canal shops inside, which has Venetian vibe (duh!).
A short pit stop at Sephora, we continued on to have some Maccas and then it was time for back-to-back casino tours, being Paris and Planet Hollywood. Paris has a fairly Parisian feel to it (the name does inspire it) and it is truly inspired to have everything within the casino to begin with Le or Les as well as adding the appropriate symbols to make everything sound French. Case in point, take the hotel lobby: it was renamed Le’Lobby. Ingenious!
Planet Hollywood isn’t really the planet Hollywood that you are used to, in fact there is nothing remotely planet Hollywood about it (an interesting fact, the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood restaurant is in fact inside the Caesar Palace Forum Shopping centre). Instead, the most interesting thing about Planet Hollywood is the Miracle Mile Shopping centre with everything ranging from FCUK, Urban Outfitters, the Hawaiian ABC stores and even a tattoo parlour. To take a break from all the casinos, we stopped along the two themed stores of Coca Cola and M&Ms. The first was the Coke store which sold everything from Coke branded apparel, badges, bottles and money banks. They also sold a Taste of the World tray that allowed you to taste 16 different types of Coke and Coke products from around the world.
Satisfied with the 2 floors of Coke, we then stopped over at the M&M world store, which doubled the number of floors, found at the Coke store and included a full M&M wall of all the possible colours of M&Ms in both milk chocolate and peanut. There were numerous numbers of M&M product timeline references, spoofs on movie posters, featuring Red, Yellow, Green and Blue as well as a level that is dedicated to a mannequin exhibition of the making process where by a 5mins 3D movie was presented at the conclusion of the walk. The final floor of M&M world was all dedicated to the M&M Nascar team.
All merchandised out, the final stop of the day was the MGM Grand, it is after all Maximum Las Vegas and the city of entertainment (according to their slogans anyways). We saw the MGM lions, which had just come back from the ranch that is about 12miles from the casino (its set on 12 acres of land). We also signed up to a TV rating survey that let us watch a new episode of CSI (it was alright), but what was exciting about that was that we got to use the worm! Lol. Before coming back to the hotel, we passed Walgreens (a supermarket) to get some dinner of sandwiches, drinks and chips ahoy for dinner. We ate while watching the CBS comedy night but came down to Sirens Cove to watch the Treasure Island show, but due to the high winds that is affecting Las Vegas right now, they had cancelled the show.
Tomorrow we will be heading back to Los Angeles to fly back to Honolulu, so hopefully I don't get pulled over by the Highway Patrol again! LOL.
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