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Did someone say Road Trip?
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Montelago Resort, Henderson, NV - We visited Las Vegas Nevada 4 ttimes in 2005. We do our best to stay in a differnent hotel or resort each time. We stayed at the classic Bally's after the new year, then we stayed at in the pyramid at Luxor in September, the pictured Montelago in October and then at a Westgate Resort near the Palms the days befoer Christmas. But getting back to the Montelago resort; this is an incredible place to stay. We booked a 2 bedroom suite overlooking Lake Las Vegas. This place is located about 20 minutes from The Strip, on the outskirts of Henderson on a lake. This seems to be a property for Vacation Ownership programs, but they also rent out the rooms like a hotel. So we booked a 2 bedroom suite for the weekend and ended up receiving a 3 bedroom 3 bath suite with 2 balconys. Pictured is a look from the kitchen area out past the dining room into the living room. I didn't catch the square footage of this place but this "room" had to be near 1600 sq ft. Parking is underneth the property and in a secure garage accessable with a room key card only. On the property is a pool, hot tub, shopping village and a casino of course. I only took this place for $800 but i will clean them our next time. It appeared that they offered water toys also for daily rentals, and if your last name is Gates you can package a round or three of golf at a private championship course. I can't tell you how that course is, and probably never will be able to tell you.
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We got a treat this past Christmas, we had relatives come out to visit. We did some golfing at the Point Shouth Mountain Hilton Phantom Horse course. This has to be the most challenging course i have ever had the privillage of embarrassing myself on. We also headed north to the high country and visited Walnut Canyon National Monument. It consists of about 300 cave dwellings from the Sinagua Indians down in a 600 foot deep circular canyon. the main area for walking is called "the Island" and you can actually enter most of the dwellings. The path starts at nearly 7000 foot elevation and you decend 185 at a very steep decline. thats not the hard part, you come out the way you went in and oxygen is a rare commodity at thie elevation so it takes a while to get back out, but worth the hike. We also visited the Oak Creek area and stopped at the overlook for a family photo and decended down into the Sedona Red Rock Country for a little shopping and sustinance. For more information visit the link page.
JIM
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