Ultra Premium Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas

By Ray Lam

Bellagio is a 3400+ room AAA Five Diamond award winning hotel and casino resort located on the famous Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The resort opened on October 15, 1998. The design of Bellagio was inspired by the Lake Como resort of Bellagio in Italy and features an eight-acre lake located between the hotel and the strip. Bellagio is one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring resorts on the Las Vegas strip.

There are 3,241 rooms and 512 suites inside the Bellagio. This casino also includes a 45, 000 square foot Grand Ballroom, 22, 000 square foot Bellagio Ballroom and 14 meeting rooms. There are tonnes of shopping that can be done inside the Bellagio, 10 shops to choose from. All the shops are located in the Via Bellagio. If you want to just relax and unwind there is a 65,000 square foot Spa. This spa offers multiple types of massages and services in its 56 treatment rooms. This casino has world class dinning, with tones of restaurants to choose from. Some restaurants you can dine at are; Jean- Philippe, Pali Pronto, Picasso, Sensi, Jasmine and many more.

Just outside the hotel is the Beautiful Bellagio Fountains. Here you can see an incredible water ballet created by a thousand choreographed sprays that burst into the air and blossom like flowers. The display is accompanied by classical music that matches the beat of the water jets. They are so mesmerizing that it is not uncommon for Las Vegas visitors to spend an hour or more gazing at the water show, especially at night.

Guest's rooms contain a flat screen television with pay per view movies, mini bar and in room safe. There are a number of up market stores in the Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas complex, including Tiffany and Chanel. Guests can enjoy the use of six different swimming pools. There are several restaurants, including the award winning Le Cirque, a French cuisine experience by the lake. Japanese and Chinese restaurants are also first class and there is a traditional steakhouse.

At the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art there is a small but quite impressive display of dozens of works by masters such as Picasso, Monet, van Gogh and others. You tour is aided by an audio presentation. Art lovers will certainly find this to be a must visit spot on their Las Vegas vacation.

If you are looking for a show to see while in Las Vegas, Bellagio is home to a Cirque du Soleil show simply called O. In Italian, O means water and that is what this show is all about with 85 acrobats and swimmers performing in and above a 1.5 million gallon pool of water.