Shot this Saturday from our room at the Bellagio. My wife and I went to a wedding almost 20 years ago at Bally's (directly across the street) when it was "the place". Now you can barely see it.
15 years ago my younger brother got married by an Elvis impersonator and we all stayed in the villa's by the pool at the DI (Desert Inn). That place was cool. It had the only golf course on the strip.
I stayed at the Luxor the week it opened and everyone was in awe of it.
Spent our first night in town at the Vdara and would have stayed all weekend there if we where not guests of someone at the Bellagio.
The Cosmopolitan is "the place" now. We went for a few hours of the freak show, but the Cosmo is a result of a bankruptcy. They had planned on selling condos and opened as a hotel as a result of lack of sales. It's the only hotel in Vegas that I know of with balconies.
Vegas is always going to be reinventing itself. Lots of people say they want the old school stuff, but it ends up being just that, old.
After walking through Bally's you couldn't pay me to stay there and it was the schnizzle in it's day complete with mirrored ceilings, now it's just $5 blackjack tables and the people that play them
Steve