So here we go again, another birthday trip to Las Vegas. It’s a tradition started some 25 years ago, and I just love going to Las Vegas with for a weekend during my birthday month celebration. Yes, Birthday Month! Because when you’re my age, one day is just not enough.
So this trip we had to Mandalay Bay Resort and Beach Hotel. The number one luxury feature of Mandalay Bay is time! The fact that Mandalay Bay is pretty much the first hotel you come to as you enter the Vegas Strip means you don’t have to deal with the traffic of the Las Vegas strip. This is a great advantage that Mandalay Bay has over other hotels. Mandalay Bay is connected on three sides with the Four Seasons Hotel, the Delano and the Luxor Hotel. This allows you to walk in air conditioned comfort to at least two other hotels, although the Four Seasons is not a gambling hotel, it is luxurious and nice to walk through and a great dinner location.
Mandalay is the former capital of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Myanmar is a small country north of Indonesia east of Vietnam. And that’s whats lost on Mandalay Bay. When you pull up to Mandalay Bay, you do notice that is lush, hidden behind lots of greenery, but no true indication of it Southeast Asian theme. As you enter Mandalay Bay through the lush greenery, you may catch a glimpse of tiger statues and other Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese influences, but they are very low-key and not very prominent, so you really don’t have quite an idea of what you’re really getting into. Upon entering Mandalay Bay, did you notice that palm tree and a slight wicker thing. Strips of marble, and beautifully laid marble it is, are highlighted by brown strips of a textured marble to resemble the wicker themes from Southeast Asia. You’ll also notice that there are an excess of shutters surrounding the crown molding and door moldings of the lobby area. And this theme is carried throughout the rooms. There are large ceiling fans throughout the lobby, but that is the only true semblance of southeast Asia here. The dining area is your typical Vegas style, the buffet and lunch dining areas have about as much sense of tropical fare as south east Florida. I would venture to say Myanmar had their theme long before Key West did.
What I do love about Mandalay Bay is it spaciousness. The ceilings are high, the casino floor is huge, as are the restaurants, and the room. The rooms in the Mandalay are a very nice size, and the bathrooms were very easy for my wife and I to navigate. A large single mirror straddles a dual sink. Built-in lighting provides a nice soft glow and even lighting that reflects both a separate shower and a relaxing bath tub. Unfortunately the bathtub is not a Jacuzzi tub, something which would put Mandalay Bay above other hotels on the strip. But the rooms are comfortable and very convenient.
My one recommendation upon making a reservation and checking in as to request a non-joining the room. That’s a room that has a joining door between your neighbor room, which is fine when you have kids or family to be able to share open the door and share both spaces. But when the people next to you are someone else’s kids, and not your kids, the spacing under the door allows every yell, laugh and giggle they utter to seep into your room. Not cool. Specially when you come straggling in at four in the morning, and they’re getting up for breakfast at 8 AM.
But the bed is cushy, the table provides a nice little office setting, with outlet for AC, USB, HDMI, and VGA plugs. One thing I truly like enjoy this time was as soon as I plug say HDMI cable in from my computer, I was able to watch my Formula 1 racing on the large 42″ HD TV on the wall. This was perfect
The shops at Mandalay our typical Vegas, although one aspect I truly appreciate is that the sundry shop is right at the base of the elevators. The elevators are located in a central triad broken off into 30 floor increments. Make a left off the elevator and there’s a sundry full of water, spirits, beer and assorted bandages. After all this is Vegas. Another genius move Mandalay the house that I appreciate pretty much more than any other hotel in Vegas, The Beach.
The beach is Mandalay Bay’s swimming pool. But more than a swimming pool, it’s an actual beach! Complete with scorching hot sand and rolling waves. No not the North Beach Hang 10 kind of waves, but low rolling waves, the kind you would find in southeast Asia. The entry to the beach is actually located one level before the main floor of the hotel. This is great because doing so allows elevators to go all the way down to the beach level past the main floor to the beach level. You walk out of the elevator take a left and out of the to the pool area. The genius here is that when you are headed to the beach or coming from the beach, you walk directly to the elevators without having to walk through the casino. I don’t mind walking to the pool from the casino going there but after spending all day getting sloppy drunk and still went in my swim trunks I hate to walk back. But this also lends itself to sandy elevators by late day. Oh well, I guess just like the beaches of Southeast Asia.
Very interesting subject, appreciate it for putting up. “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” by Socrates.
Time is often called the soul of motion, the great measure of change, but what if it is merely an illusion? What if we are not moving forward but simply circling the same points, like the smoke from a burning fire, curling back onto itself, repeating patterns we fail to recognize? Maybe the past and future are just two sides of the same moment, and all we ever have is now.
The potential within all things is a mystery that fascinates me endlessly. A tiny seed already contains within it the entire blueprint of a towering tree, waiting for the right moment to emerge. Does the seed know what it will become? Do we? Or are we all simply waiting for the right conditions to awaken into what we have always been destined to be?
The cosmos is said to be an ordered place, ruled by laws and principles, yet within that order exists chaos, unpredictability, and the unexpected. Perhaps true balance is not about eliminating chaos but embracing it, learning to see the beauty in disorder, the harmony within the unpredictable. Maybe to truly understand the universe, we must stop trying to control it and simply become one with its rhythm.
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