The Restaurant at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino

"Though it was already the finest pool area in town, recent overhauls have given it even more style, adding in a poolside casino, restaurant, and bar"

"The giant Mandalay Bay offers a ton of features for kids (wave pool, streaming lazy river pool, shark reef aquarium) and adults (lively bars, world-class restaurants, a large spa), but the constant crowds, long lines, and airport noise can make it a slightly less attractive mid-tier luxury option"

"Mandalay Place, a nice sky-bridge mall that connects the hotel with the Luxor, contains a number of upscale boutiques and restaurants, a chic barber and even Forty Deuce, a 'back-alley striptease lounge'"

"With a 50-foot octagonal skylight as its centerpiece, the adjoining Mandalay Place houses more 40 restaurants and shops"

"weekenders, hip-hop artists, and other entertainment-industry types check-in for the dozens of restaurants and nightspots, as well as a beach complex the size of some tropical islands, complete with wave pool and river"

"Supporters "love, love" this "swanky" resort with "stunning" decor that's highlighted by “elegant”, “spacious” rooms that are “well appointed” with marble baths, and features a “competent” staff that “makes you feel at home”; most deem it “expensive, but worth it” thanks to an abundance of amenities that include a “beautiful” pool area (with man-made beach, wave pool and lazy river), “amazing” casino, restaurants from such celebrity chefs as Charlie Palmer, a "magnificent" spa, a Cirque du Soleil show, more than a dozen bars and lounges, and a large aquarium"

"Mandalay Bay is an all-encompassing casino resort at the southern end of the Strip, with restaurants, bars, shopping, entertainment and nightlife inside gold-tinted towers"

"One venue is a spin-off of New York's Aureole restaurant with a four-story wine tower, and an Italian trattoria is designed as a small piazza from Puck"