This is the best and most Italian part of the Casino. Night skies, Roman Streets, Fountains, Statues and bars and cafes. It doesn't get more realistic than walking around this area. As night slowly comes down and outlines the ornate buildings, you can easily be fooled into thinking it is evening when it is just mid-day. If I only had one casino to see, this would be the one. Not the newest, not the loudest, but definitely the one the most worth seeing.

It is a nice shopping area, and worth the walk through to see the fountains, statues, and stuff they put in, but most of the stores try to be very high-end or are. The FAO is neat to see and there is an animated statue show at one end, too.

As high end malls go the Forum Shops is decent. It has mostly the same chain shops you will find in other malls in Vegas or in most cities and comparatively the prices are usually high. It looks nice and is well maintained. The animated statues are a nice novelty but are getting a bit dated and are not something you will want to watch more than once. The aquarium on the backside of the statues podium is cool and is missed by most folks. More unique stores would help this place a lot.

If you're going there strictly for the shopping, and you're not extremely well-to-do, I'd skip this one. If you're rich and love blowing lots of money on stuff, then by all means go ahead. Also, no matter your class, if you want to see an interesting show on the hour involving a big fountain and moving statues....well then come on in!!

I found the show to be loud and a bit overbearing. The decoration in the mall is awesome, no doubt about it. There's something about extremely upscale malls that rubs me the wrong way though. It seems that people blowing that much money on so little is just so wasteful, given the sorry state of so many of the homeless people on the streets. That's another topic, though.

If you want a good mall in the area though with sensible shopping, try Fashion Show...it's right nearby.