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Recap: The Cosmopolitan 10/5-10/8 for my birthday

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  1. claired67

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    Hotel: The Cosmopolitan (duh). The first night was my actual birthday and I stayed in a Lanai Suite.

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    My favorite part of the room was the patio.

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    The next two nights I used my gold nights and upgraded to a terrace angle suite at check in.

    My SIL used my companion nights and upgraded to a terrace one bedroom with fountain view when she checked in.

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    I love this room. Two bathrooms. Two closets. All fountain views.

    We had a red eye flight home and my SIL decided she wanted a room until we had to leave for the airport and found a good rate on Vegas dot com (she does not gamble and it wasn’t a big enough deal for me to see if I could get it comped or use casino rate.)
     
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    @claired67 that suite is fantastic! Great pics.
     
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    Food:

    Holsteins brunch: I hated this so much that I’d have a hard time going back for a regular meal. It was busy, so it’s probably just me. I had the egg, cheese, hashbrown, and bacon sandwich with a side of tater tots.

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    It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t great. The menu lists half bottles of champagne, but they’re actually splits. Fine-I ordered Moët Nectar Imperial Rose. It’s not what they served me. It was loud and our server was not the best, so I thought she just heard Moët when I saw it was a green bottle but it was the Moët Rose. I like it-that’s not the problem but I swear I didn’t see any pink foil on the bottle so it didn’t seem right to me. But she uncorked it in front of me so I’m sure it was fine. And my SIL insisted on paying the bill so it was easier for me just not to say anything. Until I wrote this.

    Milk Bar B’Day cake: I specifically told my SIL not to buy a cake. Not to order a cake.

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    I love this cake, but it’s too big for 2 people. It requires refrigeration and the box is too big for the room refrigerator. It’s like $50 and you have to plan for plates and silverware. There’s a smaller version that would have been perfect, but is too small for any writing.

    My plan was to get cake slices from Milk Bar. They had b’day cake, pumpkin dulce de leche, and chocolate chip passion fruit slices. Next trip I’ll have a cake buffet in my room.
     
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    Food: the less crabby part

    Vanderpump Cocktail Garden: I loved this. I thought the drinks and food were great. We went on a Sunday around 4pm and waited in line about 25 minutes. Actually, I played Quick Hits while my SIL waited in line. We sat at the bar and talked VPR and Bravo with the people next to us.

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    The Vanderpink margarita-so good.

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    Charcuterie board and a warm bacon and gruyere tart with a citrus micro green salad. Might have been my favorite meal of the trip.

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    Cookie board-the pink rectangles are raspberry rose marshmallows.

    Beauty and Essex: I did swear this place off after my first visit years ago, but I wanted to try their Wonder Wheel dessert. I had a much better experience this time. Our server was adorable, we had a great table, they have Tattinger by the glass. The grilled cheese dumplings are good, my SIL loves the Caesar toast. But the best part was the Wonder Wheel.

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    It has bite sized pieces of brownies, caramel corn, cotton candy, whites chocolate Oreo bark, thumbprint cookies, Rice Krispie treats that tasted like Frankenberry, truffles, and cake pops.

    Blue Ribbon: It’s always great and I had a gigantic glass of Veuve. The restaurant is beautiful and service is always great.

    Also had good stuff from room service (4am burger craving), secret pizza, and Eggslut. And the salted chocolate chip cookie from District Donuts with a large chocolate milk was .
     
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    Opium: I am so glad I finally went. I have a friend that had nothing but bad things to say about it, but she’s crazy. I have a video of the hula hoops guy and I’ve watched it like 100 times. It just makes me smile.

    Had the Jell-O shots, popcorn, and a gigantic glass of Chardonnay. Beginning of the end on Sunday night.

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    Boulevard pool daybed: My happy place. A friend from home arrived in Vegas this day for her friend’s wedding and joined us. Blew past the minimum.

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    Chelsea pool daybed: This was great. We had one of the daybed with a canopy that are parallel to Harmon. Not too much sun, close to the pool.

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    My SIL found Vegas Girl dolls on a trip to Walgreens and thought they were hilarious.

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    The unicorn speaker came from home. Worked great. Listened to “Lover” over and over while drinking in the jacuzzi.

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    Bellagio conservatory

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    I always balance a penny.
     
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    More pictures:

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    From Beauty and Essex-so good.
     
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    Terrace pictures:

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    I love that sky.

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    I tried the time lapse mode on my phone and had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t bring my DxO One (not even sure it works with my phone any more) and it was weird not having it.
     
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    Love your pictures. It looks like you had a great birthday! The dessert wheel is amazing.
     
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    Gambling pictures: I liked the .5x option for slot machine pictures more than I did for the terrace pictures.

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    Eight Quick Hits were $75.75. Like I feel you can only get 8 Quick Hits a few times in your life and I played the $75.75 machine.

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    I loved this game because I started with $100 and got it up to over $500 and played on that for a long time (for me).

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    I love 3x4x5x.
     
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    Outstanding pictures, as always. Happy belated birthday. Looks like you had a great time.
     
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    So a great trip. Separate rooms is the only way for me to travel with friends. I just like my space.

    Spent a lot of time at Vesper in the evening. Had a lot of fun.

    Next trip is probably for SIL birthday which is ok because the Vesper remodel will be done by then.

    Good luck to everyone heading out soon!
     
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    Happy Birthday and great report! Those Vegas dolls (and posed pictures) are hilarious....
     
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    Very nice room and food pictures. Happy belated Birthday! So nice to have 8 quick hits, the most we got was 6 quick hits, but I like quick hit slots. Enjoyed reading you recap, Thanks for sharing!
     
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    Fantastic birthday trip. Love the dolls posed round the suite. Thanks for the wonderful pictures and recap.
     
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    Another great report with lovely pictures! That tiny unicorn float is a speaker too? Interesting!

    And yeah M occasionally used the 0.5x-0.9x settings on her Galaxy S10 on our trip. My S9 doesn't have it. It was nice for pics that we were apparently standing too close to.
     
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    Great recap! I always love your sunset pics. That lanai suite looked incredible - nice gift to yourself. You and I were born only 10 days apart; same year. Vegas must run in our blood!

    Did you eat any of the cake? I’d like to try chocolate chip passion fruit. Maybe next week
     
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    @tringlomane it is a Bluetooth speaker and it’s not terrible. $5.99 on clearance. I’m only iPhone so I had to use attachments for wide angle until now.

    Thanks everyone for the replies!
     
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