We didn't really have a plan for Las Vegas during the day. I decided to treat it like a European vacation (not like the movie, which would probably have been more fun). We just went sightseeing around each hotel, treating each like a palace or museum. But I wildly overestimated their entertainment value. There's really not much to see, and it doesn't even register high on the kitsch scale. So we ended up doing a quick walkaround each property, then shopping and gambling a bit and moving on.



Our first stop was Mandalay Bay, which is supposed to be pretty high end and geared to a party crowd. It's one of the ugliest of the hotels on the outside, a gold embossed suburban office tower, and its location is almost suburban as well, right at the very end of the Strip and somewhat hard to get to. It's supposed to have an Asian theme, which I guess is where they got the name from, although as I'm sure you remember from the bloggers' visit to Mandalay, it's in the middle of Burma so it doesn't have a bay. In any event, the Asian theme is very understated, in fact, invisible. It had more happening bars and restaurants than the Bellagio, and seemed geared to a college kids on spring break sort of crowd.