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I attended a large conference in Las Vegas in August and as this was my first time, I was impressed by the seamless way that Bellagio dealt with 3300 attendees, feeding them breakfast, tea, lunch and dinner, changing meeting venues from huge appointment rooms to reception rooms, to elegant dining rooms hosting 1500 plus people.  Normally, in this type of situation, I would expect the food to be pretty bad – not so with Bellagio.  With 9000 employees, 900 of whom are chefs and 3 master wine sommeliers, the buffets were excellent with lots of choices – no rubber chicken here!  Dinners were all sit down affairs with full service. The staff was great – very happy to accommodate requests, very organized, very efficient.  I found this throughout the hotel.  There are close to 4000 rooms with 9 possibilities of restaurant/cafes and enough shopping to allow one to never leave Bellagio.  In fact most of us never did leave Bellagio, what with the 800am to 430pm vendor appointments and then dinners every evening.

Whoever is in charge of making the Bellagio machine work should probably be voted in as President of the United States.  I have never experienced organization of this magnitude.  One can understand why large corporations keep returning to Bellagio.