The Resort Experience

The resort experience has become Las Vegas’ business model. Treat visitors like royalty. In fact, the idea of the luxury resort, one that synthesizes art and culture with luxury and elegance, is best summed up in Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo has been a model for European gambling and high-style luxury accommodations and haute cuisine for generations of Europeans. Although Las Vegas might prefer to believe it designed the resort concept, the finely detailed hotel, casino, resort and spa wrapper was designed generations ago along the French Riviera.

New American Resort Vacation

Las Vegas, in reinventing itself, has spun a new tale for the future. In fact, the business model is becoming so successful that the Las Vegas concept is influencing Atlantic City’s development.

The new resort is no longer exclusively catering to the desires of gamblers. For many visitors, the casinos of resort hotels like the Bellagio and the Venetian are secondary attractions. The architectural display of design enthusiasm is what captures many visitors. The Bellagio’s intricately choreographed fountains are essentially directed by operatic and classical music pieces. Inside, an art gallery sporting the works of masters is like some esoteric sundry addition in comparison to the spectacle of architecture. The Bellagio also maintains its own botanical gardens full of exotic flowering plants with colorful garden installations that change with the holidays and seasons.

The Venetian Hotel and Resort recreates a Venetian canal route punctuated with high end retail and specialty gift shops. Real Venetian gondolas glide along the water way. Visitors might almost be fooled into thinking they are in the heart of Venice.

Haute Cuisine

As the world renowned chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse have arrived and put down roots, so have many more promising young chefs who are now envisioning the former gambling capital of the world to be possibly the new culinary center of the country. Bobby Flay has opened a Mesa Grill in Caesar’s Palace. Chef Joachim Splichal, a world-renowned chef and restaurateur, has opened one of his “Pinot” concept restaurants, ”Pinot Brasserie,” in the Venetian Hotel.

In Las Vegas, every cuisine is represented, just as nearly every great architectural period is represented and meant to delight and entice.

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