{"id":10325,"date":"2015-01-22T00:31:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T08:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:27:32","slug":"grand-bazaar-shops-at-ballys-go-from-ugly-ducking-to-swan-under-cover-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/grand-bazaar-shops-at-ballys-go-from-ugly-ducking-to-swan-under-cover-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF Just Happened: Grand Bazaar Shops at Bally’s Go From Ugly Ducking to Swan Under Cover of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seriously, what just happened?<\/p>\n

We’ve spent the better part of a year lambasting the Grand Bazaar Shops<\/a> at Bally’s Las Vegas for being an appalling eyesore, a pox on the otherwise glorious Las Vegas Strip, then all of a sudden, we visited the alleged eyesore at night and, seemingly out of nowhere, voila.<\/p>\n

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We just swooned at a mall, and we’re not typically a swooner. Unless chicken parm or Claire Sinclair are involved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s right. The Grand Bazaar Shops, the former laughing stock of The Strip, is actually sexy as hell in the dark.<\/p>\n

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The Grand Bazaar Shops may have pulled off a Grand Fake-Out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It might be helpful to put this phenomenon into context.<\/p>\n

Say you’re in a Las Vegas nightclub. You hook up with a hottie and have the time of your life. Then the sun comes up. You see your conquest in broad daylight. In many cases, the daytime reality is a far cry from the vision in your head.<\/p>\n

Nighttime, it turns out, is the Vegas equivalent of beer goggles for the Grand Bazaar Shops at Bally’s, and we’re going to say it straight up, we were wrong about you, you sexy thang.<\/p>\n

What’s not to love about the undulating glow of the kiosk rooftops that during the day look like the scales of a fish exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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The fish scales have turned into butterfly wings. Or something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And we’re even loving Grand Bazaar Shops’ Piet Mondrian-inspired (sorry, “Partridge Family” bus-inspired) pillars that live somewhere between modern design and the anachronistic, vintage feel of Bally’s Las Vegas (formerly the MGM Grand, long story).<\/p>\n

Just think “Logan’s Run,” and you, too, will begin to appreciate the Vegas vibe of this much-maligned (we should know, we’ve been maligning it<\/a>) new shopping center.<\/p>\n

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Whatever you call them, we approve.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not a fan of the color scheme? Hang out for a minute. The colors change. Check out our video below.<\/p>\n

How did this monstrosity suddenly become one of the most eye-pleasing free shows in Las Vegas? We’re going to chalk it up to Sin City magic. Or Captain Morgan spiced rum. One of those things.<\/p>\n

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