- Everything you need to know if you're considering staying
at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
But before we dive back into the room,
let me just tell you a little bit about the property itself.
The Bellagio has a fantastic location
at the center of the Las Vegas strip,
right at the intersection
of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo.
It is right across from the Paris
and the Planet Hollywood, next to the Cosmopolitan
and across the street from Caesars Palace.
If you're looking for hustle and bustle and liveliness,
this is the place pretty much any time of year.
And it's also famous for the gigantic fountain
in the lake in front of it
that has shows like all the time and are truly amazing
for big kids and little kids.
Like everyone really enjoys the Bellagio Fountain.
You can find taxis plenty full waiting here
in front of the Bellagio,
but if you want something a little more private or luxury
they have their own car service rates.
You can take a Tesla for $62
in and around the resort corridor,
or an eight passenger limousine up to $112.
Now if you're arriving to the hotel via taxi,
Uber, or valet parking,
you'll be coming into this main entrance right here.
As you go inside the lobby,
it has this really neat glass up art in the ceiling.
Big check-in area right in the back
that often does have long lines.
They've recently added mobile check-in
and checkout on these little tablets.
Although that didn't work for me
with the reservation with two rooms.
One of the neat things right next to the lobby
is the conservatory.
It is this little kind of indoor garden area
where they theme it for different times of year.
I was staying here around Christmas time
and so it was themed for the holidays.
If you're self-parking, self-parking is $18
in a parking garage that's also right next to the lobby.
So, the pickup and drop off super convenient for check-in.
Oh by the way, valet parking,
if you're doing that, $35 a day.
Mf you're an MLife Gold member or higher,
you can get free parking here, which is nice.
The Bellagio has two hotel towers.
If you're going to the main resort tower,
then you kinda walk about three minutes
through the casino to the guest elevators
and, in our case, up to the 26th floor for our room.
Now, on the ground floor in the backside of the Bellagio
on the other side of the lake
is the hotel's gigantic swimming pool complex.
They've made the swimming pool
look like the pool in an Italian villa
where they've got hedges
and they've got statues and they've got fountains.
Neat pool.
Open year round, though they do close off
certain sections of it during cold and winter seasons.
There's also a cafe in here and a bar.
Now, going to the fitness center,
you gotta get back in the hotel up to the lobby.
And then just beyond the lobby,
there's a sign that says Spa and Fitness Center.
To get to the fitness center, you go in there,
and then you take an elevator up to the second floor.
You walk through kinda like a second spa area
and then you get into a really large gym and fitness center.
Lots of machines for cardio and weightlifting.
And if you're doing the bikes
then you've got a really neat view of the pool down below.
The Bellagio Casino itself has a really neat
kind of old time Vegas feel.
Lots of table games, lots of slot machines.
If you're a gambler,
I think you'll like the Bellagio Casino.
Now there's way more than that here at the Bellagio,
but I think for the scope of a hotel review,
like what this place is,
if you're staying in the hotel room,
those are the basic amenities.
So, let's go ahead and head up to the guest room floors
where on every floor you will find ice machines
and soda and water bottle vending machines
that vend these 20 ounce bottles for $5 each.
Now that we've seen everything around the hotel,
let's check out the inside of the rooms.
This is room 26121 on the 26th floor.
Come on inside and let me show you around.
This is a newly renovated Premier Two Queen room
and it's nice and new.
I really like this room.
It's big, it's roomy.
The beds are soft.
Lots of pillows,
and they've got the signature B for the Bellagio
right there on those pillows.
Lights here and also lights up in the ceiling,
and also some nice molding up in the ceiling.
Let's take a look over here.
There's a nice little table here in the corner
and in this lamp, in addition to power outlets on the lamp,
there's also some USB outlets on it, which are pretty nice.
I like all the power in this room.
Nice seat right here.
Interesting lamp here in the back.
It is nighttime and we're looking at Caesar's Palace
just back in the back.
But that was what the day looked out in the daytime
so you could actually see it.
Really neat touch is the curtains
are automatic open and close.
If you just give 'em a little bit of a pull,
then they start to close all the way.
That's pretty neat.
Little table right here.
All of our junk that we checked in with.
This, what, buffet here.
Down here there are some wine glasses
and the gold ice bucket, not silver, gold,
'cause Bellagio is all about gold.
Here is the mini bar.
Come take a look at what we've got here on the mini bar.
This is a sensor mini bar, so everything is weighted,
and if you lift it, they charge you for it.
But if you come over in here, there's another mini bar
that has a lot of alcoholic drinks, things like that.
There's a small personal shelf here
that you can put personal items on.
And then one little shelf here you can put personal stuff.
Flat panel television on the wall.
This is a connecting room.
I don't know who's over there.
Here's the closet.
This closet is illuminated.
It's nice and big.
We've already put some of our stuff in it.
It's got robes, it's got a safe here in the corner,
and came with a couple of slippers down at the bottom.
One for me and one for OC girl, big and small.
We didn't ask for that.
I think that's just how they plan it.
And the final part of the room, the bathroom
is a big bathroom with a big walk-in shower,
just a fixed head.
But I wanna show you the soaps.
They are Lanovera and there is an interesting sponge
that comes with it, nicely wrapped,
so you know nobody used it before.
There's a couple of big sinks right here.
And now through the magic of editing,
I'm behind the camera instead of OC girl
to show you the rest of the bathroom.
'Cause even though it's big, big sink, two sinks on it,
nice, they give you a toothbrush, mouthwash, a razor.
I like all these extra bathroom amenities.
There's also a mirror for shaving there.
The toilet here in the corner.
And a telephone should you need to make any phone calls.
Oh, I also like the ceilings in this room are really high
and there's even kinda like a little chandelier
here in the bathroom.
Oh and there's illuminated mirrors.
Quite nice.
So Spunky Princess, on a scale of one to five Tophers,
how many Tophers does the Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas get?
(twinkling music)
- Four.
- Four Tophers, that's right.
And so, now we're gonna tell you about the pros
and the cons of why this hotel got four Tophers.
First, the pro.
It's a really great location.
It doesn't get any more center strip than this.
Two, the remodel.
It's really nice.
The rooms are really quite nice.
We slept quite well in here,
and even though we're sort of looking
at the Interstate 15 and Flamingo Road,
we didn't hear much noise out of this window.
Just kind of a light rumble, which was nice as well.
Comfortable beds, air conditioning worked well.
And so, overall just a great hotel room
that's nice and remodeled.
Alright, now let's talk about some of the cons
for staying at this hotel.
Number one, being center strip,
it can be kind of busy to get in and out
particularly of the parking garage that is kind of small.
The parking garage had limited spaces when we were here
and so, if it was really busy
we think there might not be any place
to park in self-parking
and you'll have to end up doing valet parking.
Con number two, although I said we slept well
and we didn't hear much noise from out the window,
we did hear a lot of noise out from the hallway.
The doors, when they close,
they're really those kinds of doors that slam.
And I think there's just something about Vegas
that people in hallways are noisy
and we had people, you know, midnight, 1:00 AM, later
coming back to their rooms
talking like they were having a party in the hallway.
While we do really like that the room is really big
and the bathroom's really big,
and they clearly made that bigger.
The shower, we wish there was a handheld,
not just a fixed one,
'cause it would make it really good
to wash the spunky princess
if there was actually a handheld.
Other cons in the room.
I really wish there was also like a coffee machine
or a teapot or something.
There's no hot drinks made in the room,
which means you gotta go downstairs
and spend like six bucks on a tea or a coffee downstairs,
which is obviously what they want you to do,
but just feels like by the time you're paying
multi-hundreds of dollars for a room,
they should at least give you free tea or coffee.
And then for the food options in the hotel.
In the Bellagio, they're kind of,
let's call them upscale food options.
And we tend to like the lower scale,
cheaper eats food options,
which you're not gonna find really any here.
The closest, it's Caesars Palace.
There's a food court that we did venture over to
to get some pizza for the spunky princess later.
Also convenient, there's a tram
that goes from here over to Park MGM
where the spunky princess got some gelato.
Question is, would we stay here again?
You know, we absolutely would.
We liked our stay, but in this category,
some other hotels you might consider are Caesars Palace.
You might consider The Venetian,
you might consider The Wynn.
You might consider one of my new favorites, Resort World,
and I've got a whole review of that right here.
Well, fellow explorers, if you wanna check that out,
you'll find the link on the screen or in the description.
You can click right here.
Well, fellow explorers as usual, I won't say goodbye
because the spunky princess will.
Spunky Princess, say goodbye.
- Bye-bye!