Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Make your own moment
Why should celebrities have all the fun?
One of the most popular wedding spots at Bellagio is on the Terrazza di Sogno overlooking the fountains, which are coordinated to start with the couple’s first kiss. Those packages start at $3,500.
“We also have a lot of proposals go through there,” said Zachary Corbett, the hotel’s manager of front features. Those packages, which also include a command performance by the fountains, start at $1,000.
If money really is no object, Hyde nightclub will let you pick from the 35 shows and push a button to start the fountains whenever you want. The experience also comes with a 30-liter bottle of Ace of Spades Champagne, the equivalent of 40 traditional bottles, all for $250,000. remains one of its first : the scene at the end of 2001’s “Ocean’s Eleven” when Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and most of the titular crew silently marveled at the dancing water before disappearing into the night.
“You had people who watched the fountains more so than ever before” after the movie was released, said Paul Berry, who was director of hotel operations at the time.
Fifteen years later, Damon returned as the fountains served as the backdrop of a car chase in 2016’s “Jason Bourne,” during which the movie’s villain crashed a SWAT vehicle into traffic and launched a dozen or more cars into the air.
“I think it’s gonna turn out to be one of those iconic (stunts) with those cars flying right in front of the Bellagio,” Damon told the Review-Journal at the time. “I mean, literally, there’s that one tracking shot, and you just see the fountains going off in the back. And it was just, like, luck.
“And I couldn’t help but think of the end of ‘Ocean’s Eleven.’ You know, we’re standing in that exact spot.”