Ingvild & Janne travel the world

Oui oui oui!!

After spending the night at MGM Grand, arriving at Encore felt like arriving in heaven! What a hotel!

The same Roy as we went out with the night before is actually to “blame” for us staying at the Encore. Being one of Norways best poker journos, he’s been to Vegas many times, and really knows his way around. When he heard we were going here (some 9 months ago), he insisted that we HAD TO stay at the Encore.

He was actually so persuasive that we followed his advice. And we just have to say: THANK YOU ROY!

We were greeted at the reception by a very nice lady apologizing that our room was not ready. Of course – we could have another room, but not as high up and not with as good a view.

We decided to wait, and left our luggage (6 bags + one jacket) with the bell boy.

15 minutes later the same nice lady called us to inform us our room was ready, and that the bell boy would be there shortly with our bags.

On the 60th floor.
In a huge suite.
With a huge bathroom.
With wonderful silk robes.
With two gigantic beds.
With a livingroom.
Even with an office.
We had 70 square meters all to ourselves!!!

Take a look at some of the pics we took:

The bell boy, in addition to bringing our bags, showed us the main facilities – like the (automatic) drapes , the flatscreen TV that could be moved from facing the beds to facing the “livingroom” and basically told us all we had to know about our new home.

We have to admit that we were tempted to stay in the room for the rest of the day, but decided that going out in the heat of Sin City was even more tempting. We spent the rest of the day in the sun / by the pool, ordered strawberry daiquiries and enjoyed life. Until the pool closed for the night, that is.

Being tourists in Vegas, we walked from Encore, via Wynn to the Venetian where we had dinner by the canal. The only thing good about that dinner was in fact the canal, so we won’t use time & “ink” on it…

After dinner we kept walking up “the strip” to Bellagio. You can’t go to Vegas without seeing the wonderful fountain outside it! Want a sneak peak? Here you go:

And yes, like the french say: ENCORE UN FOIS, please! We’d definitely do it again!

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