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The Bellagio casino

The Bellagio is one of the numerous casinos belonging to multimillionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s MGM Mirage groupe and opened its doors in October 1998. The Wynn group spent no less than 1.6 billion dollars on its consruction, before selling it to MGM Mirage. Its name was inspired by an Italian town near to lake Como, 77 kilometres north of the city of Milan. This casino is renowned throughout the world for its fountains, which combinine water, music and light. The Fountains of Bellagio alone are an exceptional show, which dazzle audiences with fascinating water jet choreography. This choreographed Fountain display can be seen in the film “Ocean’s Eleven” in which the Bellagio came under Steven Soderbergh’s spotlight. The story of “Ocean’s Eleven” concerns Danny Ocean who has regained his freedom and is preparing to carry out the burglary of the century:  to rob the Bellagio, Mirage and MGM Grand casinos at the same time, with the tidy sum of 150 million dollars in view. Ocean’s Eleven has an all-star cast (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts) and shows off one of the Las Vegas Strip’s most beautiful casinos to good effect: The Bellagio Casino.

The Bellagio is a luxurious complex which includes no less than 4,000 rooms and suites, spread out over the building’s 36 floors. This hotel has received the AAA Five Diamond Award, the most sought-after title in the United States hotel business world. To receive this award, the hotel has to meet criteria such as the reception skills of its personnel, cleanliness, upkeep, park and public areas, interior design of rooms, atmosphere and facilities and services provided to clients. These different points must be duly fulfilled in order to benefit from this opus, which is highly respected in the United States.

The casino games offered at the Bellagio

The Bellagio is an enormous complex which gathers all casino games together in sumptuous rooms: slot machines, traditional games, poker rooms and horse race and sports betting. For lovers of excitement, 2,400 slot machines are at the players’ disposal. All kinds of one-armed bandits are available to the public: from the low-income player, who can indulge his passion by staking only 1 cent, to the wealthy player who stakes $1,000 at a time. The range of slot machies is very diverse: machines with tumblers, video tumbler machines and also video poker machines. Numerous progressive jacpots are to be won and can attain several million dollars!

For those who prefer to sit down at a gaming table, immense rooms give access to traditional games: blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, Pai Gow poker, Let It Ride® and the mysterious Pai Gow. These table games hold an important place in the range of games offered by the Bellagio. The game of poker is, like the traditional games and the slot machines, a casino game. This card game has won the hearts of millions of players throughout the world and the poker room occupies 650 square metres. The Bellagio is one of the most important stops on the famous World Poker Tour, a direct competitor of the WSOP. No less than 40 poker tables, and two rooms reserved to high antes, are dedicated to poker.  To take a seat at a table from Sunday to Thursday, players have to pay an entrance fee of $540 and hold $3,000 in poker chips. For the satellite tournaments, the buy in amounts to $130 On Fridays and Saturdays, the buy in is between $1,080 and $5,000 in chips. The satellite tournaments are $240 at weekends.

The Bellagio is not a gaming venue like the others and some rooms are exclusively reserved to private players:  very big players. Bobby’s Room pays tribute to Bobby Baldwin who won the WSOP in 1978 and was the MGM Mirage’s engineer in chief for design and building. This room welcomes a highly selective kind of player: millionaires and multimillionaires. These privileged players must play an entrance fee of 20,000 dollars (yes, you have read correctly, twenty thousand dollars). These players bluff in the strictest privacy and great professional poker players come to Bobby’s Room to take on less well-known opponents.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) has a stage at the Bellagio and the “Voyage” channel broadcasts the WPT games. This tournament is renowned throughout the world, like its cousin the WSOP and also the European Poker Tour.

An area of 520 square metres awaits lovers of horse racing and sports books, with an electrifying atmosphere. No fewer than 100 individual racing monitors and one large racing screen. Sometimes, the broadcasting of horse races covers 25 different racecourses per day throughout the world.

For aficionados, 32 flat screens located in the sports bar and various other sleek screens broadcast the best sports events from the four corners of the earth.

Entertainment at the Bellagio

The Bellagio is not only a hotel which possesses its own casino it is also a place with a life of its own. Entertainment is the watchword in this temple of the Las Vegas Strip. Whether you prefer a dynamic evening letting off steam, or are searching for an intimate atmosphere, the Bellagio caters for all kinds of tastes and décors. The Fontana Bar and Lounge has a view over the 3 hectare lake and is the best stategic spot for viewing the choreographed dancing water fountain display. A large dance floor and concerts are provided in an “exclusive” atmosphere. The Bank is a nightclub covering more than 600 square metres, aimed at night owls looking for wild dancing. Caramel is a spot dedicated to the art of cocktails and conversation. Caramel is an intimate lounge where you can talk peacefully, while rubbing shoulders with celebrities. The Petrossian Bar is an epicurean temple: serving vodka, smoked salmon, caviar and large cigars. In the 1920s, the two Armenian brothers, Melkoum and Mouchegh Petrossian, founded the Petrossian caviar company, supplying the whole of Paris with caviar. All of the world’s great restaurants and hotels still offer Petrossian caviar today, which enjoys a prestigious image as a luxury product. The Bellagio offers the Petrossian Bar, whose exquisitely refined pleasures are at the disposal of a wealthy clientele.

Numerous luxury boutiques are open in the Bellagio including Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Gucci, Hermès Prada, Tifanny & Co. and also Yves Saint Laurent. On its website, the Bellagio invites its clientele to come without a suitcase and go shopping in one of its numerous boutiques. But one needs a certain amount of money to treat oneself to off the peg clothes at exorbitant prices.

Lovers of prestigious shows are catered for by “O” from the Cirque du Soleil circus. The international team of acrobats, synchronised swimmers, divers and characters perform in the water, on the water and above the water. The magnificent theatre in which this show takes place will remind you of the European opera-houses and this show is so popular that two performances take place every day, from Wednesday to Sunday.

On the culinary side, the Bellagio offers its clients some very attractive menus which vary according to their mood. Gourmet restaurants such the Circo, Jasmine, Le Cirque, Picasso, and also Michael Mina. The latter with Michelin stars, and also the “Prime Steakhouse” belonging to the famous Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who served his apprenticeship with that greatest of schools of cuisine: Bocuse and Haeberlin.
These great names of international cuisine give the Bellagio and its generous menus a certain renown. Not forgetting, for desserts, Jean-Philippe Maury, who is no less than world champion pastry chef.

The Bellagio was purchased by the MGM Mirage in 2000 and was bought from Wynn Las Vegas. The Bellagio is one of the world’s largest casinos and Kirk Kerkorian possesses other treasures such as the Excalibur, Luxor, Madalay Bay, MGM Grand, Monte Carlo, New York-New York and The Mirage and has just sold off Treasure Island. If you visit Las Vegas, call in on the Bellagio, its casino and its fountains… it will leave you dazzled.

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