Caesars Palace Forum Shops

Looking for things Free in Vegas? Head over to the The Forum Shops inside Caesars Palace. They are incredibly ornate with statues and and paintings everywhere.

There is a massive aquarium near the Cheesecake Factory, called the Atlantis aquarium. Divers fee the fish twice a day at 1:15 PM and 5:15 PM.
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There is a free show, "Fall of Atlantis",  in front of the aquarium several times a day. It is a pg show, so you can let your kids watch without worrying.



The Forum Shops has tons of restaurants. Some of the restaurants found in the Forum Shops include Spago, The Palm, Sushi Roku, Max Brenner, Trevi, Cheesecake Factory, Joe's Stone Crab, and Planet Hollywood.

Las Vegas Guide

Are you planning a trip to Vegas?  Whether you are planning a girls trip, family vacation, or a quick weekend getaway Mommy Travels can help you out!

Las Vegas City Guide

Where to Eat

Best Breakfast in Las Vegas

• 2nd Best Breakfast in Las Vegas

Breakfast at Della’s Kitchen at the Delano

Best Brazilian Steakhouse in Vegas!

Best German food in Las Vegas

Best Happy Hour in Las Vegas

Best Mexican food in Las Vegas ← You must eat here!

Best Romantic meal in Las Vegas

Best Tapas in Las Vegas

Best Thai food in Las Vegas – Seriously good and James Beard award winning

Canelleto restaurant inside the Venetian

Family Restaurants in Las Vegas

Giada’s Restaurant

Kid Friendly restaurants in Las Vegas

Serendipity 

Sugar Factory and maybe see some celebrities!

Where to Play

12 Awesome Free things to do in Las Vegas

Bellagio Conservatory – Always changing and always free, the conservatory is always decked out in flowers.

Caesar’s Palace Forum Shops

Calico Basin – free hiking near the Red Rocks

Girl’s Trip to Las Vegas

FREE Activities in Las Vegas

Fremont Experience

Half off tickets in Vegas

High Roller Sky Wheel – The tallest observation wheel in the world, peaking at 550 feet, the High Roller offers views of the Strip and the surrounding desert valley.

Indoor Rock Climbing

Mandara Spa at Planet Hollywood (day spa)

Pawn Stars

Tivoli Playground – An outdoor shopping center with a covered playground for kids. Plus, there is a splash pad and a sandbox.

Shark Reef

Springs Preserve

Where to Party

Best Bloody Mary’s in Vegas!

8 Outrageous Cocktails in Las Vegas

Best Day Clubs in Las Vegas

Best Night Clubs in Las Vegas

Chandelier Bar at the Cosmopolitan

Freezone – Vegas Gay Bar

Handcrafted Cocktails at BLVD. Cocktail Company

Rain nightclub at the Palms

The Mix

Ladies – What to wear out at night in Vegas

How to find a club promoter, skip the lines, and get if FREE

Where to get free beer in Las Vegas without gambling

How to throw a divorce party in Vegas

Where to Stay

Aliante Station (North Las Vegas)

Caesar’s Palace

Cosmopolitan

Golden Nugget

The Luxor

Mandalay Bay

Monte Carlo

Residence Inn Las Vegas South

The Palazzo

Trump

What Happens When your property gets stolen in Vegas

Recently, my wedding ring was stolen from my purse, in my parent's hotel room at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.  Here's what happened.  I decided to take the kids swimming that day, so we headed down to Caesar's Palace where my parents were staying.  When I got there the room had already been made up.  Seeing this gave me the false belief that no one else would come into the room.  I hung all my jewelry on a bracelet and placed it in my purse.  We then headed to the pool.  3 hours later I came back to the room to change and go eat.  I immediately noticed my jewelry was no longer on my bracelet and my wedding ring was gone.  I called security. 

Here are some of the things I've learned (these are also helpful other cities):

Hotel Security
1. They will not call the police!  You must do this yourself.
2.  They will not investigate.
3.  You need to insist they run a check of who keyed into your room that day.
4.  You have to fill out the report yourself.
5.  Once they have left your room with the report they will refuse to speak to you again and give you
     no further information. 
6.  They then turn the incident over to a 3rd party - Their insurance company.
7.  They do not have the property covered in cameras. 

3rd Party Insurance Company
1.  They send out a standard form that says the hotel has determined it has done nothing wrong. 
2.  You only have a certain amount of days to call and protest. 
3.  They do not investigate until you call and protest. 
4.  They are not investigating who did what.  They are investigating if the hotel should compensate you for your lose.

Police
1. You must call the police yourself.  The hotel will not do it. 
2.  They will fill out some sort of report after asking you questions.  You will not be given a copy. 
3.  They will give you a generic form with an event number on it. 
4.  The police officer files this and puts in a description with pawn detail.
5.  A week later they will assign a detective to your case.

Pawn Detail
1.  Pawn detail is some sort of part of the Vegas police system.
2.  When your item is stolen and reported it is put on to the pawn detail list.
3.  You need to call and confirm the description the police officer gives to pawn detail.  (in my case    
     the description was generic, despite showing the officer a picture)
4.  Give them the most specific description possible, they will refuse to look at a picture.
5.  Each time a pawn shop takes in an item they must hold it for a certain amount of days and list it in
     the pawn detail registry.
6.  The workers in pawn detail search through these items looking for items that have matching      
     descriptions. 

Detective
1.  About a week after filing a report you can expect your case to be assigned to a detective.
2.  You must follow up and find out who this person is.  If you don't, they are not legally obligated to  
     follow up. 
3.  The detective knows what he/she is doing and a much better source than the previously mentioned
     groups.     
     (The detective blew me away by locating my ring and arresting the person who took it with in two 
     days of being assigned my case.)

I can’t not believe I got my Wedding Ring BACK!!!

It has been over a week since my wedding was recovered after being stolen from Caesar’s Palace.  I still can’t believe it!

Last week the detective assigned to my case called and ask me to come to his office I agreed.  I thought I was going down to get a copy of the police report.  I literally gasped out load when he said he needed to give me my ring back!  I was circling around the airport when he called to pick up my parents.  They also gasped out loud when I told them the good news. 

I went to pick my ring up and sure enough it was mine!  The detective told me that after I sent him a picture he knew what to look for in the pawn registry.  He came across one that match and went to see if it was mine.  It was.  The pawn gave the gal $1,100 for it.  He already had an idea of who stole it.  A woman’s name he recognized as a problem, was one of the names that registered as keying into the room that day.  The name of the gal who pawned it was not hers, but her daughters.  Obviously she took it.  Now that he had the ring in his possession he went to Caesar’s Palace to question her.  She denied at first, but then confessed.  The detective also recovered the money the pawn shop gave her and gave me some great truths on hotel security.

Caesars Palace pool

The pool area at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas is very nice.  There are multiple pools, but some are private and others we never saw open.  This is the pool I was at when my wedding ring was stolen out of my purse by the mini bar attendant.





View from upper pool at Caesar's Palace

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The Truth behind Hotel Security

Until recently, I never thought much about hotel security.  It was only once I needed them that I interacted with them.  I found that many of the assumptions I had about hotel security were completely off based.

False Belief - No one comes in the room except the house keeper.
Truth - At any time, in a hotel were a card key system is used, there are many people that can gain access to your room.  Housekeepers, mini bar attendants, room inspectors, managers, maintenance, and more.

False Belief - There are cameras all over the hotel. 
Truth - They have cameras in the elevators, but beyond that not many.

False Belief - The room has already been clean, therefor, no one else will enter the room.
Truth - Workers come in your room for many other reasons besides cleaning. For example: the head housekeeper may come in your room to inspect the work the housekeeper did.

False Belief - When the privacy light is on no one can enter your room.
Truth - These lights mean nothing to the staff.  One security officer at Caesar's Palace told me that meant: Knock instead of using the doorbell.  A hotel manager at Caesar's told me that 85% of people leave them on "accidentally" and become upset if their room is not made up.  The hotel policy is to disregard the privacy light all together and assume you left it on by accident. 

False Belief - The room door shut all the way when I heard it slam shut. 
Truth - Many of the doors are heavy and seem to slam shut.  Due to fire codes, that prevent smoke from spreading into rooms, there is a barrier all around the doorway.  The door slams into this and may or may not actually close.  You should actually push it a little until you hear the door click. 

False - Placing items in the safe will prevent them from being stolen.
Truth - Items are often stolen right out the safes and sometimes the entire safe is taken from the wall.  (This is information I was told by a detective.)

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My Wedding Ring got Stolen at Caesar's Palace yesterday

     

The last two days have been difficult and frustrating.  My ring was stolen from my purse inside our room at Caesar's Palace. I have never had anything of value stolen from me before and it feels terrible. I'm mad at myself for leaving it in the room, while I took the kids to the pool. Ironically, this is the first time I have ever left my ring anywhere other than my house. We got new rings for our 10th anniversary. My 11th anniversary is in two days, I didn't even have it a year. 

     The last two days I have found out many things from the security at Caesar's and from the Vegas police.  I thought I would share them with you. 

1. Even if your room has been clean someone referred to as an "inspectors" may come into your room to make sure it was cleaned properly.  I was wrong to assume that no one would come in the room because it had already been serviced.
2. Leaving the privacy light on does not mean they can't come it.  It means they shouldn't knock or ring the bell. 
3. Most of the hotels in Vegas do not have cameras monitoring all areas of the hotel.  Caesar's only has them in certain towers.  I assumed the tower I was in had them and I was wrong. 
4. Depending on the key system in the door they can track which keys opened the door and who the key is assigned to.
5. Pawn shops in Vegas are not allowed to resale the items they have purchased from individuals for 30 days.
6. Pawn shops are required to compared the items they buy to items listed as stolen with the Vegas police department.

For more hotel security info check out my article and The Truth Behind Hotel Security

New Years Eve in Las Vegas

We currently live in Las Vegas  and we could not resist going out for New Year's Eve. We heard all the horror stories of how they block off the strip and close all the exits off of I-15 and you get stuck in traffic forever. Despite this we headed down there. We actually got down there quickly, but it took a while to get into a parking garage. We finally ended up in the Caesar's parking lot. They have a huge parking garage and we should have just gone there to begin with. We walked through Caesar's on the way to the Bellagio and they had random ice bars set up throughout. The ice bars were elaborate.
It didn't take us long to make it to the Bellagio, but we did stop out front to watch the water show.  Around 10:30 PM we went back out and watched another show.  This time it was a very long one, the longest I have seen there.  I assume they did this because it was New Years eve.
This is us inside the Bellagio. We did a tiny bit of gambling and of course lost!  It was very crowded and hard to get drinks, so be sure to start gambling near the area the waitresses come out of.
Here we are in front of the lounge we went to called Caramel inside the Bellagio. It was fun. They turned it into a kind of night club with a dj. They had a few party favors and covered the ceiling with balloons. It was so dark we couldn't get picture inside. The tickets were over priced and the drinks were insanely over priced. Although we had fun, we would not go again and would not recommend it. Their staff was incredibly rude. I watched some of the interactions the staff had with guests and I saw people get yelled at for no reason. I understand there are a lot of people out and the workers are probably uptight, but they were still awful especially when you factor how much money you are spending in there.

About twenty minutes til midnight we started to make our way outside for the count down and fireworks.
We could see fireworks going off at six different casinos.