As a Christmas gift for my wife, I got tickets to Celine Dion's A New Day on 1/12/06 and a room at Caesars Palace. This was our first time in Las Vegas and we had very high expectations. Checked into Caesars at the airport and paid for a taxi. $21 from airport to hotel, but only $11 from hotel to airport (not sure how that happened).
Celine Dion did not let us down. Her show was absolutely perfect. Before going to the show we listened to her Live in Las Vegas CD and I was a bit concerned because some of the songs on the CD are slow. My wife even made a comment that out of all her hits the Live in Las Vegas CD really did not cover many. We were happily surprised that A New Day included all of our favorite songs (I Surrender, I'm Alive) and left out the ones we don't care for (Nature Boy). The sound in the colosseum was excellent and the video screen at the rear of the stage was amazing. Personally, I didn't get the purpose of the dancer/mime dressed in all white (he spent more time on stage than Celine and really did not do anything). However the show was perfect. I would have bought tickets for the following night's show if they were available.
Wish I could say the same for our experience at Caesars Palace. The room was nice, but the hotel is under construction in many spots and the front fountains and entire pool area was closed for maintenance during our stay. Not that I would have gone into the pool in January, but I would have liked to at least see it and take pictures. We only ate once at Caesars and it was at the Augustus Cafe. Found it to be overpriced and without many choices. Our waitress was borderline rude but actually the entire staff at the resort should probably take a course in hospitality. We spent our last day in Vegas as most do, hotel hopping. Loved the fountains at Belagio and would probably make are next Vegas vacation at New York New York.

Last note: I love roller coasters and went on the Manhattan express at New York New York and was disappointed. The ride is rough and the shoulder bars continue to bang rider's head.

I visited the lounge named Cleopatra's Barge in Caesar's Palace Thursday night (1/5/06) and can't remember the last time I had such a great night out. This fantastic band, The San Fernando Band played all the old-school R&B dance music that I liked. They played until 3 am and I was still ready for more. I highly recommend checking out this band whereever they are playing. Check out their website at TheSanFernandoBand.

We only had 1 night in Caesars after staying the Bellagio, we fancied a change! We were not dissapointed, we paid an extra $80 for an Augutus Tower Room...it was superb!

This part of Caesars has only recently been built, the rooms are a fantastic size, huge bathrooms, flatscreen T.V, massive floor to ceiling windows (our overlooking the Bellagio fountains)

We enjoyed the pool area as well, it was a great time of year, warm..not too hot!

Thouroughly recommneded

Stayed in a Palace Tower Deluxe Room from 29/12/05 to 4/1/06.

Check in was efficient by a very helpful and friendly lady.

The room was fine, a bit sparce decent view of the North end of the Strip from 23rd floor. Big comfortable bed, good sized bathroom, desk, TV, 3 phones etc. There was no minibar, no robes/slippers, no writing paper..

Whenever I phoned for service be it room service, house keeping, laundry or concierge you enter a queuing system.. most calls are answered reasonably quickly.

The concierge service at this hotel is the worse I have ever encountered. They couldn't book a hire car for me, they couldn't organise an airport transfer for me, they couldn't get tickets to a club for me (but offered to transfer me to the club!)... very poor.

It is a very very impersonal hotel - I know many of the large resorts in Vegas are, but this was an especially baron place.

The facilities of the property are immense but as a hotel it never made the grade. I'd call it a casino or convention centre with rooms!