Day 4 in Vegas

Today, Wednesday, was our last full day in Vegas. We had a huge list of places we wanted to go and see and things we wanted to do but we ran out of time so we had to cross about half of them off and mark them as 'next time'. What we did have time to do was check out the Venetian Hotel, all set up like Italy, complete with a gondola ride through the hotel.

Gondola rides at the Venetian

Our next stop was the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino where there was plenty of rock memorabilia and some very cool door handles, but not much else.

Hard Rock Hotel door handles

We then headed over to check out the Luxor and also Excalibur. Both have cool outside facades but inside wasn't that great.

The Luxor

For lunch we went to our new favourite, The Hard Rock Cafe, which is almost next door to the MGM (it is not attached to it's hotel). Then back to out hotel room for a little rest.

With my overly sugary mocktail

That night we went straight to the Coyote Ugly Bar in New York New York for 2 for 1 drinks before 9pm. Here we met Nick from Barbados who decided he would tag along on the rest of our adventures for the night.

Coyote Ugly Bar

(can you see all the bras hanging from the roof?)

From Coyote Ugly we walked down The Strip so we could finally see the dancing fountains outside the Bellagio, which we had neglected to see the previous few days. These were quite pretty and danced along to Frank Sinatra's Lady Luck.

Outside the Bellagio

Next stop was Koi night club at Planet Hollywood. The cover was $20 but then it was free drinks for ladies the rest of the night. It took us a while to figure out why our vodka and lemonades tasted funny and then Nick explained to us that when you say lemonade, they give you proper lemonade. You have to actually ask for sprite or you get bloody lemon juice! So bitter I could barely sip it.

At Koi

Our next stop was back at the MGM and we went to Studio 54, based on the legendary nightclub of the same name. Here I finally got my first drinkable drink of the night but the club itself wasn't exactly enjoyable to us. We left Nick here and went to quickly have a go at gambling as we still hadn't done any yet. I won $3 on the slots but lost $25 (the minimum) on roulette. Lucky Christie was really tired and wanted to go as I was all up for having another go! Damn my addictive nature!

Studio 54

Playing the slots

(Fact: the machines no longer take coins!)