This room is as big as my house! And with the balcony, even bigger!
So if you read my previous story about our invitation to stay at the Encore, that stay was the just the first half of our trip. The second half of our trip was an invitation to stay at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. I love the Cosmopolitan, and again, if you read my posts from July, you'll see that we stayed at The Cosmo this summer, including dinner at Momofuku. This hotel is geared towards the millennials and jetset crowd with a penchant for the naughtier side of luxury. The overall color theme of the hotel is purple and gray with wood and steel trim and accents. I really dig the hotel, it does have a cool hip vibe that screams La Dolce Vegas. The visual aesthetics of the hotel make it an eyeful to just walk around and take it all in. Think a grown up version of Hard Rock Hotel exuding the Vegas high-roller life.
The hotel also has some great restaurants, like I said before Momofuku, Egg Slut, and Holsteins are some of my favorites. (when there's not a line to get in) A large casino, an awesome party pool, and an ice skating rink!. Yes, In the winter time, they freeze the Boulevard Pool, situated above three stories above the Las Vegas strip facing planet Hollywood, and turn it into a skating rink. I need to do that next time, especially after watching I, Tonya, and start working on my triple axel. The Chandelier Bar is just an amazing installation. It's one of those objects you look at ... and you look at, and the more you look, the more you see. 30 feet of crystals is awesome enough from ceiling to bar, but the expanse of the chandelier, it covers around 600 sq ft or so, stretching from one side of the bar to the other. Can you imagine the clean process to keep this thing sparkling? Whoa!
So back to the story of this current visit, we had upstairs to the room and upon opening the door, we are met with gray walls, outlines of a couple of doors, artwork on the walls and a long hallway. I thought to myself this is really weird what is going on here as I thought walked down the hall, where's the room? When the room is revealed to me, I'm faced with a massive living room area, a huge bedroom, a wrap around balcony on east and south sides of the corner room. This was huge! I will be honest with you, I’ve stayed at some nice hotels, but nothing ever on this scale. Two 60 inch TVs hanging on the walls, one in the living room, and one in the bedroom, a huge kitchen area, although devoid of oven, fridge or microwave. But it did have a wine fridge for our planned mimosas. I just wish I had more friends that I could’ve invited over and we could’ve had an awesome party here!
The bath...area, for lack of a better word is a huge open-floorplan-esque layout. Japanese soaking tub, a separate shower sits in the middle of two good sized vanities. A water closet, towel heater and large closet make up around 200 sq ft. of space. A glass wall separates the bath from the sleeping area. Large comfy king bed with night light and table stands. The full glass wall also includes sliding glass doors to step out to the balcony. As a matter of fact, there are 3 doors for balcony entrance: one from bedroom and two from the living room. And what a balcony it is. Huge! Another 400 sq ft of balcony space, and on a perfect day like this, just sitting out here and over looking the strip is just incredible to experience. For the fact that this was December, the weather was absolutely perfect for sitting out and looking down a t the strip, over to the City Center, and out over eastern Vegas to the mountains. Look north, and you go from Planet Hollywood, Paris, Ballys, Flamingo, a part of the High Roller, Venetian, Palazzo and the Encore. Look south over Vdara, Aria, Veer, Mandarin Oriental and MGM. What views!
Looking back now, I realize that I have been spoiled for life. Not life as in time, but as in La Vita. I want to live more, take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way. No more passing up on opportunities. No more being intimidated into failure. I want this life! A life that beautiful and thrilling and breathtaking. These two hotel stays have my head swirling with ideas and dreams of what the future could hold. Next time I see someone in a Ferrari, I'm going to ask him, what do you do to afford this. And then I'm going to start doing that. I love Ferraris! And double terraced balcony rooms. And traveling the world. And sharing my stories in hopes that maybe I'll inspire someone else to reach for the stars.
Super cool!