A Couple of Vegas Notes
Was in Vegas last week for a conference at the Cosmopolitan. A couple of notes:
- IMO the best bar in Vegas is the bar in the sky lobby of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Quiet, intimate, and with a drop-dead gorgeous view of the strip. Honestly, the picture in the link understates how dramatic the view is. Expensive drinks, of course, but the sliders they sell at the bar are excellent.
- Vegas is preparing itself for the sorts of terrorist attacks where trucks drive through crowded streets and sidewalks (the posts in the shrink-wrapping are all new). Seems like a reasonable precaution given the pedestrian numbers and their likely terrorist target ranking
- First time I have ever had a business meeting in a room with strippers on the carpet. Stay classy, Las Vegas. One attendee said "I am glad my HR director is not attending, she would probably call an alert and order an evacuation."
- Hey - a cigarette machine re-purposed to vend little bits of art.
