Bellagio Staycation

Yes, it was over a month ago already (but I'm finally blogging) that my hubbie and I celebrated our 10 years of blissful marriage by having a "staycation" at the Bellagio. It was WONDERFUL. Here are some "do's" and "don't's" I learned from the experience to pass on to my faithful readers who may, too, one day decide to staycation at this luxury hotel.

Do:

• Pick the Bellagio - it's gorgeous
• Get a tower suite with a lakeside view of their fountains. You can watch the entire water show from 29 stories high with the music playing from the special channel in your hotel room...all without having to go out in the cold, (or the heat, if you're staycationing in the summer).
  
• Get a room where the bathroom comes with a bidet. It's very European.
  
• Get free tickets to a show. We saw "Love" (The Beatles) by Cirque du Soleil - very cool!
  

Don't:

• Get a tower suite with a lakeside view of their fountains...that is, if you like sleeping before midnight. The fountain show sounds more like WWIII just broke out just outside your window, every 15 minutes, as the water explodes 29-stories into the air, and then the water plunges down again, another 29-stories before it crashes to the lake at the bottom. All the while, a slight hint of Andrea Bocelli music plays in the background. They should really look into quadruple-paning the glass in those lakeside rooms.
• Use the biday. I just couldn't do it. As much as I've always wondered what it would be like, I couldn't bring myself to trust the housekeeping service to have sanitized something like that to the degree that would be acceptable for me to put my you-know-what over it.
• Pick a fine dining restaurant with a name that in another language means "Circus". We went to Circo (French for circus?). Hence the red & gold drapery all across the ceiling, and black and white decorative balls on the posts. And to top it off, my sheet (yes sheet, like 6" by 6") of pasta looked like it had just come through the ink-jet printer. It was striped, in green, red, black and white. Black pasta? Come on. Rich's food was "ok".

There you have it, a fun, wonderful experience, with a few things to laugh at, kinda like 10 years of marriage.