The Venice Experience; The Venetian Casino and Hotel

Beautiful gondolas drifting from one place to another in the Venetian canals and bringing lovers even closer together. Romantic Italian music guitar music paves the way into a couples dream. The gondola has arrived at its destination and awaiting you are numerous shopping malls and various cafes. You step out of the complex and find yourself in the scorching heat. Was it all just a dream? No, because you have just been charmed by the Venetian casino hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Venetian casino hotel opened in 1999 and various attractions and complexes had since then been added. The casino hotel is owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and the Venetian is part of the world largest hotel and resort complex. A total of 7,128 suites can be found in the Venetian casino hotel. The suites itself are perfectly clean and have very spacious bathrooms. You can get a classy and luxurious suite for around $100 to $200. The suites all have king-size beds and come with concierge or with jet stream bathtub.

The entertainment section of the Venetian casino hotel offers a wide spectrum of signature attractions and permanent shows. The permanent shows are called The Blue Man Groups and a new version called Phantom, of the popular musical The Phantom of the Opera. The Venetian also has a couple of museums like the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum and they even have a Madame Tussauds Wax Gallery.

The Venetian casino hotel has 17 renowned restaurants and the Venetian houses the creation Bouchon, which is the restaurant of America's best chef, Thomas Keller. This huge casino hotel also features three pools and one hot tub on the Pool deck on the Venetian Tower. Then we have the Tao entertainment which is a complex that has a nightclub and is Asian inspired. The huge shopping mall is also part of the Venetian complex and the gondolas can be found in the artificial canals created within the shopping mall. The little surprise on the ceiling of the shopping mall will delight you, because the ceiling emulates the day or night sky, depending on the real time of the day.

The casino itself at the Venetian houses 2150 slot machines and a total of 139 table games out of which 9 are poker tables. The casino is 116, 000 square feet big and is home to every possible casino game imaginable. The Venetian was also host to several television shows and movies such as Miss Congeniality 2, Rat Race, and National Geographic series MegaStructures.

The Venetian truly brings the Italian flair into the Las Vegas strip and deserves the five diamond rating that it has been given by the American societies.