America West Arilines Flights from Orlando (MCO) to Las Vegas (LAS)
Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on America West Arilines, which operates a daily non-stop flight from Orlando (MCO) to Las Vegas (LAS) regularly scheduled to depart at 8:38pm and arrive at 11:00pm. Usually a Boeing 757 is flown for this route. The average travel time from Orlando, FL to Las Vegas, NV is 5 hours and 22 minutes.
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During your Las Vegas vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Adventuredome
This isn't a half-bad place to spend a hot afternoon, especially now that Circus Circus, the casino/hotel that built this indoor amusement park, has undergone a face-lift. The glass dome that towers overhead lets in natural light, a solace to those of us who look peaked under the glow of the artificial kind. A double-loop roller coaster careens around the simulated Grand Canyon, and there's the requisite water flume, a laser-tag area, and a modest number of other rides for kids of all ages. A dinosaur-bone excavation area will provide a good time for preschoolers, and a place to rest for the supervising adults. Video games and an arcade are separate from the attractions, cutting down just a tad on the noise level. Jugglers and magicians provide impromptu entertainment. Our only suggestion is not to leave kids here alone; they could easily get lost.
Luxor IMAX Theater/In Search of the Obelisk
This is a state-of-the-art theater that offers both motion-simulator films and IMAX projects, some in standard two dimensions and one in 3-D. The glasses for the latter are really cool headsets (though they're a little too heavy for comfort) that include built-in speakers, bringing certain sounds right into your head. The movies change periodically but always include some extraordinary special effects. If you have a fear of heights, be sure to ask for a seat on one of the lower levels.In Search of the Obelisk is a motion-simulator ride encompassing an action adventure involving a chase sequence inside a pyramid. Two other less-Egyptian-theme-tie-in simulator rides that also play at the Luxor are Fun House Express and Dracula's Haunted Castle.
Lady Luck
A complete remodeling didn't do too much to change this old gal, who is still a bit more smoky and crowded than we prefer, but that doesn't mean she's not good for a few go-rounds. Plus, its liberal game rules are attractive to gamblers. You can play "fast-action hold 'em" here -- a combination of 21, poker, and pai gow poker.
The Flamingo Las Vegas
The Flamingo is the Strip's senior citizen, boasting a colorful history. It's changed a great deal since Bugsy Siegel opened his 105-room oasis "in the middle of nowhere" in 1946. It was so luxurious for its time that even the janitors wore tuxedos. (Hey, new Vegas? That's class.) Jimmy Durante was the opening headliner, and the wealthy and famous flocked to the tropical paradise of swaying palms, lagoons, and waterfalls. A relatively recent renovation and expansion isn't going to make Siegel's "real class joint" cause you to forget about, say, the rooms at the new Venetian tower, but it did freshen the joint up -- including making it somewhat easier to reach the outside world, which in the past was often difficult. As we write this, several of the restaurants in the front of the building are being taken out and replaced by singer Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville nightclub, with a Baywatch-themed nightclub going in by the pool. So let's see how these additions continue to keep the old girl going.Rooms occupy six towers and are variously decorated. Some are done up in soft blues and peach, and enhanced by pretty fabrics, light painted-wood furnishings, and watercolors of tropical scenes, lending a resort look. Others use soft earth tones, forest green, or coral. The Flamingo's Paradise Garden Buffet is a decent choice. There are also several bars, plus a huge casino and the Second City Improv production show.For those planning some leisure time outside the casino, The Flamingo's exceptional pool area, spa, and tennis courts are a big draw. Five gorgeous swimming pools, two whirlpools, water slides, and a kiddie pool are located in a 15-acre Caribbean landscape amid lagoons, meandering streams, fountains, waterfalls, a rose garden, and islands of live flamingos and African penguins. Ponds have ducks, swans, and koi, and a grove of 2,000 palms graces an expanse of lawn. Although the water can be a little chilly, kids should be able to spend hours in the pool area.A health club ($20 fee per day) offers a variety of Universal weight machines, treadmills, stair machines, free weights, sauna, steam, a TV lounge, and hot and cold whirlpools. Exercise tapes are available, and spa services include massage, soap rub, salt glow, tanning beds, and oxygen pep-up. And the new monorail has a stop out back.Facilities: Casino; showrooms; 11 restaurants; 5 outdoor pools; 4 night-lit tennis courts; health club and spa; small video arcade; tour desk; car-rental desk; business center; shopping arcade; 24-hr. room service; in-room massage; babysitting; laundry service; dry cleaning; nonsmoking rooms; executive-level rooms.
Bellagio
The $1.6 billion luxury resort that ushered in the new post-Vegas-is-for-families elegance epoch. What do you get for that money? Well, for starters, though it is named for a charming Lake Como village, Bellagio is not, thankfully, as theme-intensive as some of its nearest competition. There is an 8-acre Lake Como stand-in out front, complete with a dazzling choreographed water-ballet extravaganza, plus a representation of an Italian lakeside village, while the pool area is sort of Hearst Castle Romanesque, but that's about it. Just as well. This is not much like a getaway to a peaceful, romantic Italian village. But it is exactly like going to a big, grand, state-of-the-art Vegas hotel. To expect more probably isn't fair, but then again, they tried to set the tone with dreamy, soft-focus TV ads aired when the hotel debuted. Nothing with a casino stuck in the middle of it can be that serene and restful.But does it work as a luxury hotel? Sort of. It certainly is much closer to a European casino hotel than a Vegas one. Fabulous touches abound, including a lobby that's unlike any other in Vegas. It's not just grand, with marble and a gaudy blown-glass flower sculpture on the ceiling (the largest of its kind in the world), but it's also brave with plants, natural lighting, and actual seating. There's also a downright lovely conservatory, complete with a 100-year-old fountain and stuffed full of gorgeous, brightly colored flowers and plants, preposterously (and delightfully) changed every few weeks to go with the season (yellows and whites for Easter, for example) -- it's one of the sweetest spots in all of Vegas.On the down side, you still can't avoid a walk through the casino to get just about anywhere (with the inevitable ruckus shattering your blissful state every time you exit the elevators from your room). At least the casino is laid out in an easy-to-navigate grid with wide aisles. (Tip: Black carpets indicate the main casino paths.) There are hidden charges galore (a pricey fee for the spa, another one for poolside cabanas). The rooms are nice -- nicer than The Mirage even -- but maybe not quite nice enough for the price. Furnishings are plush (good beds with quality linens, comfy chairs), the roomy bathrooms even more so (marble and glass plus good-smelling soap and hair dryers -- it works every time), but it's all just a busier and slightly more luxurious variation on what's found over at The Mirage. Strip-side rooms, while featuring a much-desired view of the hotel's dancing water fountains, don't quite muffle the booms said fountains make as they explode (although we didn't find it annoying). Note that a channel on the TV will play the songs as the fountains dance because you can't quite hear the music from your room. Still, service is top-notch, despite the size of the place; the staff is eager to please and nonpatronizing.Meanwhile, just about all the best new restaurants are found in Bellagio. Full reviews of Picasso, Le Cirque, Circo, Aqua, and Olives are found in chapter 6, as is a review of the buffet. And the man who brought us a free pirate show and a volcano explosion now brings us a water ballet, courtesy of a dancing fountain with jets timed to a rotating list of nine songs (everything from pop to Sinatra to Broadway to opera). This sounds cheesy, but it absolutely is not. It's really quite delightful and even witty (no, really), and is the best free show in Vegas.Bellagio also features an upscale casino, and O, perhaps the most incredible show yet from Cirque du Soleil.The hotel's pool area has skidded to the top of our favorites list; it boasts six swimming pools (two heated year-round and two with fountains) geometrically set in a neoclassical Roman garden, with flowered, trellised archways and Italian opera piped in over the sound system. The Grand Patio could have come right off a movie set (pillars, domes, you get the idea). Arguably a more sophisticated environment than the tropical party over at The Mirage (our other favorite), it is sure to be the place where thonged model types hang out with moneyed Eurotrash -- it comes off as that chic.The spa and health club are marvelous, but at $25 a pop, it's pretty pricey if all you want is a simple session on a treadmill (though with your fee, you are allowed to return throughout the day for additional soakings/steamings/workouts). The gym has the latest in cardio and weight machines, but can get very crowded. Attendants ply you with iced towels and drinks. The spa offers a full range of pricey treatments and has a serene soaking area, with sumptuous plunge pools ranging in temperature from icy to boiling. In addition to drinks and snacks, smoothies are often offered -- take one.The shopping area, called Via Bellagio, features all the stores that advertise in color in glossy magazines: Tiffany, Armani, Gucci, Prada, Hermès, and the like. There's also an art gallery that boasts enough highly regarded works to draw some million visitors a year.What does all this add up to? The ultimate in the Vegas luxury resort experience, certainly. If it doesn't quite work, that's probably more the fault of the initial concept than the hotel itself.Facilities: Casino; showrooms; wedding chapel; 16 restaurants; 6 outdoor pools; fitness center and spa; concierge; tour desk; car-rental desk; business center; 24-hr. room service; in-room massage; laundry service; dry cleaning; nonsmoking rooms; executive-level rooms.
The Mirage
Even though it has become somewhat eclipsed by the very hotels whose presence it made possible, we still really like this place. From the moment you walk in and breathe the faintly tropically perfumed air (we think it's vanilla) and enter the lush rainforest, it's just a different experience from most Vegas hotels.The Mirage was Steve Wynn's first project built from the ground up. It seems funny now, but back in 1989, this was considered a complete gamble that was sure to be a failure. That was before the hotel opened, mind you. On opening day, the crowds nearly tore the place down getting inside, and The Mirage soon made its money back. Now it is the model upon which all recent hotels have been based.Occupying 102 acres, The Mirage is fronted by more than a city block of cascading waterfalls and tropical foliage centering on a "volcano," which, after dark, erupts every 15 minutes, spewing fire 100 feet above the lagoons below. To be honest, it's not very volcano-like; if you've seen any of the lava-saturated volcano movies, you'll be disappointed. Instead of lava flow, expect a really neat light show, and you won't mind a bit. (In passing, that volcano cost $30 million, which is equal to the entire original construction cost for Caesars next door.) The lobby is dominated by a 53-foot, 20,000-gallon simulated coral-reef aquarium stocked with more than 1,000 colorful tropical fish. This gives you something to look at while waiting (never for long) for check-in.Next, you'll walk through the rainforest, which occupies a 90-foot domed atrium -- a path meanders through palms, banana trees, waterfalls, and serene pools. If we must find a complaint with The Mirage, it's with the next bit, as you have to negotiate 8 miles (or so it seems) of casino mayhem to get to your room, the pool, food, or the outside world. It gets old, fast. (On the other hand, the sundries shop is located right next to the guest-room elevators, so if you forgot toothpaste, you don't have to travel miles to get more.)The rooms have recently been redone to a strong color palette that is oddly similar to the rooms' original tropical decor scheme. Frankly, it's here most of all where The Mirage isn't holding up its end; the rooms are nice, but there are nicer -- and larger -- ones all over town now, and the bathrooms are a little too cramped for what's supposed to be a swanky hotel.Off the casino is a habitat for Siegfried and Roy's white tigers -- yes, still in place despite the recent unpleasantness, a plaster enclosure that allows for photo-taking and "aaaahhhs." Behind the pool is the Dolphin Habitat and Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden -- at this writing, Montecore had been taken off this exhibit -- which has a separate admission.The superb Renoir, the Italian food at Onda, and the Mirage Buffet are detailed in Restaurants.The highly prominent production show by Danny Gans is reviewed in chapter 10, and The Mirage has one of our favorite casinos.Out back is the pool, one of the nicest in Vegas, with a quarter-mile shoreline, a tropical paradise of waterfalls and trees, water slides, and so forth. It looks inviting, but truth be told, it's sometimes on the chilly side and isn't very deep. But it's so pretty you'll hardly care. Free swimming lessons and water-aerobics classes take place daily at the pool. The Mirage Day Spa teems with friendly staff anxious to pamper you, bringing you iced towels to cool you during your workout and refreshing juices and smoothies afterward. The gym is one of the largest and best stocked on the Strip.Facilities: Casino; showrooms; 14 restaurants; beautiful outdoor pool; fitness center and spa; concierge; tour desk; car-rental desk; business center; shopping arcade; 24-hr. room service; laundry service; dry cleaning; nonsmoking rooms; executive-level rooms.
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