What do you prefer, Barcelona or Las Vegas? For Barcelona press 1, for Las Vegas press 2. But first let us see what they have to offer.
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Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona is the capital of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and one of the biggest ports in Mediterranean Sea. This city will delight you with its architecture, gastronomy, art and culture and if you wish to explore it, you'll be busy.
Hotel Omm Barcelona is one of the superb architectural creations. It is located in Barcelona's shopping and business centre in fashionable Paseo de Gracia district, the transition point from historic Barcelona to the modern city. Only entertainment unit and lightweight metal wardrobe separates the bedroom from the bathroom, making a large open intimate space you will love. Before you go to the town to visit some of the excellent Barcelona restaurants, visit Omm's gourmet restaurant Moo which is a proud owner of one Michelin star. But probably the best thing that Hotel Omm offers is 400 square meters large spa temple designed in the Asian style. The interior of the hotel is a combination of stone, iron, wood and silk with smooth lighting that creates divine experience of relaxation and well-being. Treatment rooms include Tatimi cabin specialised for oriental treatments, a space for underwater treatments, holistic cabin, Turkish room with hot marble bed and hydro massage bath, so you will soon forget that you are on Earth.
After "awaking" visit the city. There's one thing you simply must to visit - Font Magica (Magical fountain), situated on Montjuic hill on the eastern end of Barcelona. Magical fountain was a part of a project built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition, originally intended to show people what could be achieved with filtered electrical light. During the winter time, shows are held on Fridays and Saturdays nights, and during the summer months from Thursday to Sunday. This 15 minute spectacular display of light, water and music is best to be seen is at sunset.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic and the most spectacular cities in the history of the world that almost didn't even exist in the beginning of 20th century or to be more exact in the whole valley lived only 30 citizens. Today, Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than New York and Chicago together. If you now think that the whole Las Vegas population work in service, you will be wrong. Even more people in Las Vegas work on constructions.
In 2001 hotel's and casino's owners died of laughter when California's government ask them to turn the lights at least during the night to save some energy. Can you imagine Paris without Eiffel tower, Himalayas without the snow and a city without the clocks? Well, that last one is Las Vegas. But, without lights, it isn't.
Bellagio Las Vegas is the only Las Vegas resort casino that received the AAA Five Diamond Award, the most wanted symbol of excellence in the hospitality industry. In 2004 Bellagio Las Vegas opened the Bellagio Spa Tower from you will go out dusted on the face and body with real gold. If we didn't managed to attract your attention until now, now we have it for sure.
Bellagio's spa offers extraordinary list of services: Belinese Massage that combine Chinese, Hindu and European techniques of massage, Watsu stretching massage which comes from a Japanese healing techniques, and The Golden Experience we mentioned before, the Egyptian ritual that moisturized and luminescent the body. 65000 square metres large spa have almost 80 treatments room for wide range of treatments and services you can ever imagine. Water walls and candles are just a piece of the atmosphere that will welcome your arrival. Bellagio's Fitness Centre spreads on over 557.000 square metres overlooking the pool and Mediterranean gardens. Very Las Vegas, isn't it? ■
