Las Vegas w/ 6 Kids - Crab Brunch at the Bacchanal Buffet!

good morning everyone and welcome to Las Vegas who was that was that Parker yeah I heard a sing-songy good morning where are you it's dark in here yep yep yeah what's happening uh we're leaving Las Vegas we are leaving Las Vegas but not before we go to one final Buffet this is actually the first thing I booked to do on this trip was go to this buffet and then plan the rest of the trip around it so this is the bacchanal buffet at Caesars Palace during the crab brunch because the birthday girl love the crab and it only happens between 1 and 3 P.M from what I can tell on weekends it has to be like Friday Saturday no Friday Saturday Sunday weekdays are out I had to plan this so that we were getting here right on time or leaving here right on time and so I put it at the tail end of this trip and uh we spent a few days in the week here and it's Friday now so they're having the the buffet brunch and we're going to it and uh you're gonna join us so thank you let's go let's go eat some crab [Music] oh foreign [Music] did not accommodate our very large fan we ended up parking at the Bellagio and it is very pretty on this side of the the Bellagio we didn't come through this way last night when we saw oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you've wanted a tiny Burger this whole trip huh and it's got bacon in it all of the crab legs are individually the biggest of the crab legs how impressive is that this is Stellar I also got a crab one I'm so excited and I have a system this is like what I got then I put trash and then I put the good stuff on The Clean Plate and that's my eating plate so that's my system and I put lemon and butter and salt on my eating cake with my friends if you wanted to know my system for grab I got my Maria quesadilla a Berea quesadilla yeah you love Berea yeah wow [Music] I'm gonna get some lemon Ade and there you go [Music] need some help try it way up here like open it up big and now do it a couple things about this Buffet first off it is very very busy I'm not gonna be able to get like individual shots of all the food the way I did on the last two buffets that we went to it's just there's too many people they're all moving it's it's a lot the food's really good and there is a lot of it there's more food here I think than any of the other buffets that we've gone to so far it is seafood specific during this time on this day so that that has something to do with it did you just get some snails snails for bails Bailey's got some interesting stuff going on here she's got is that clam which one did you like this and two snails oyster oh an oyster and uh I guess you'll get to that when she finishes her sorbet which she said what'd you say about the mango sorbet Bailey that's the best single sorbet best ever what stood out to you today Maria quesadilla I thought you might say that did you try the brisket if you like the Berea quesadilla you might like the brisket also did you try the burrito I did I did it's good right it was good yeah I've I've had it with like a little more flavor to it in the past it wasn't the best one but it was still pretty good it's kind of wild this whole room behind me here full of food and then you come out here and there's more food [Music] [Music] thank you foreign kimchi barbecue oysters hot crab is right there seafood boil and we got all the chilled stuff so we've got mussels donut crab claws Cortez clams Dungeness crab shrimp cocktail and chilled crab legs lobster claws welts and cajun poached prawns it's a huge meat Carving Station right here and then just food from all around the world all over the place different different cultures and different foods really really fun to go through the room and pick stuff out good morning Luke are you having fun with the buffet hi [Music] oh you got some baby wipes you got a baby wipe Teddy what did you eat you ate a hamburger how many hamburgers did you eat four five six that's a lot of hamburgers let's lay up all that food and then you come into the middle and it's dessert Central [Music] uh what did you find oh my goodness that's blueberry cheesecake and a blueberry sensation let's see how they taste you want to try it out okay give it a try oh it's getting deep in there it's good [Music] do you like it what's it taste like [Music] Buffet it tastes like Buffet Jacob just found something here yep it was hard to see I was looking for it but he found what did you find the crib station the crepe station you get to pick your sauce and you get to pick your berries and toppings and what did you go with today I I went with Nutella mixed berries and whipped cream nice all right let's see it okay how's it taste [Applause] I gotta get that whipped cream I got a little Berry a little bit of everything oh lost it lost it Gotta Get It Again refill all right okay good Crepes nice consistency oh no yep okay we are back home now obviously and I wanted to take a couple minutes and just talk about the trip your birthday trip your big birthday trip to Las Vegas it was so perfect thank you again no it it all seemed to work out really well I was nervous because it was the first big family trip with like everybody that I planned all by myself and um it could have ended in complete disaster so it didn't the first thing I wanted to talk about was the bacchanal buffet and what our final thoughts were on that bacchanal was wonderful I think it it's so tricky to figure out like the absolute best I feel like each place we went to we were there and we're like this is the best um but the all I feel like it might have been my favorite and also we were there for the seafood one specifically so I don't know what it was like if it wasn't like that Seafood time but it did have the really great crab legs and I was so impressed that they had the individual like they picked out the biggest crab leg and it was there in the hot the hot crab legs I really appreciated the Wicked Spoon and the bacon all for both both having hot crab legs the other thing that I thought was really fun about the buck and all was that there were so much and they were kind of constantly shifting out different things so like there'd be something there and then it would change to a different item it's the biggest variety yeah and it felt like I was constantly discovering a new thing like oh my goodness that was there like these hidden Gems or like opening a pomegranate and being like Oh there's another little pomegranate Arrow I thought that was really fun I definitely didn't try all of the pescetarian things even I still feel like the Wicked Spoon had the best food quality of all the places that was my favorite yes but the bucket always really close like it was up there and it had a wide variety of just like really interesting exciting things and I was like wow it had like caviar and it wasn't even labeled it was interesting I was like what is that and they were like oh that's caviar what the Asian area I didn't even get into but it normally like that would have been enough like that little area alone was super cool and then they also had a crepe station which I loved Buffet at the wind had a crepesation as well but Wicked Spoon did not I feel like the Wicked Spoon their main desserts were kind of like these little pick them up and take them away ones and gelato but it was like little shot glasses like it was like little tiny servings of stuff and I don't know what the Wicked Spoon if I just had filled myself up with crab which was kind of the case like none of the desserts really excited me that much and I know the kids were really into the gelato there I don't know I feel like dessert wise Wicked Spoon was not the topic I feel like if you if you're going to go to a buffet for a Vegas style Buffet Buckner the buffet at the wind was beautiful like it's what I envisioned a Buffet it was surprisingly beautiful to me like I was just I was very impressed with the Ambiance it was just so pretty and it felt like being in a prettier area of Disneyland which is like uh Mary Poppins and Bert on a like a Disneyland date and I'm not really like big on crab and and lobster and stuff so I feel like that going to that specific brunch seafood brunch like if you're going for that that's definitely the place to go the bacchanal but I will say since you mentioned the lobster the bacon all had Lobster was the first place that had like like a real like a Lobster Claw and I don't know what version it was or what but it was a big fail like and I've never experienced Lobster like that where like I couldn't even get into it I couldn't open it it was like very stuck um to the inside of the cloth so I don't know what kind of lobster it was or like what the deal was there but I think you're hitting on something there though because like at the buffet at the wind and at the balkanal you get some dud things right there and some of the stuff was really really good but some of the stuff was like I'm not gonna go back for more of that yeah I kept going back for more and more and more at the Wicked Spoon because it's just everything was delicious yeah and it wasn't as crowded I felt like the bacchanal was very crowded it was hard to get food but you had to wait a lot and the service was not good yes like the bacchanal the service was the worst service of all three buffets and I don't know if it was just our server or just in general but like we had stacks of plates on our table because they weren't coming to pick up the plates it was hard to get water for the kids it was hard to get napkins it was it was the one place where like the crab station it was there and there was like I think lemon and drawn butter but they did not have the crab utensils out at the buffet and they didn't have it already at the table and you had to ask your specific server so for 30 minutes we were asking various people and our server hadn't come and they were like nope we can't get them for you your server has to and it was so bizarre but it spent like we spent a lot of time just trying to get utensils and things the reason I'm saying this is like not so much to complain because overall all three experiences were wonderful but I'm trying to help you guys and be informative of like our genuine experiences because these things matter like in different ways to different people seriously all three places I would be delighted to go to again and they were like all my dream I loved them all but just to really like we were trying to take note of the things as we were eating at each place so we could really weigh pros and cons to each place for you guys because some of those things matter more than others the bakanal was definitely busier yeah and a little bit harder to get around yeah but it had so much and it just felt like it just kept going and so many interesting Foods I think the kids like that one the best because there was just like all these like different things to to get oh and as far as service goes too I have to shout out this is for Jacob Jacob loved the crepe station person so the person who was Manning the Crepes he was great great service the hostess Stan was great they helped us get in a little earlier because we arrived really early with this like giant party so they were great and um and very accommodating and the uh crave station person it's like everyone to everyone like you could ask them questions yeah they were like they were very they were very helpful but I don't know if they just don't have enough people on the floor or what because I don't think our server was like necessarily like they weren't rude or mean or anything they just weren't there and we needed them for a bunch of things because of the setup of the actual restaurant place on the table I feel like mean Christopher on a date wouldn't be that big of a deal no but when we have all these little kids and they're like reaching for things and there's like knives and like it's just it gives me a little bit of anxiety to have stuff on the table um but I also understand that that wouldn't be like not everybody it wasn't that problem we didn't have that problem at any of the other buffets like you'd finish a plate and they'd be like are you done yeah they take it away and I think I think also the Wicked Spoon probably had the best service too they had particularly good service yeah um but the buffet at the wind was also was good speaking of our experiences uh we saw some shows while we were there what what was your take on on the show every show was great yeah like that was my take was Mister I was like yeah yeah so good searches are amazing and with mystery you could take all ages so started with babies and that's what we did and it was entertaining for all um oh you had to be over five yeah and it was the best job I've ever seen like I mean we it's even better than Mr and mystera like wonderful um and then Bailey and I saw six and it was perfect she was so happy and I was so happy and um we're actually seeing it again now for Mother's Day because we loved it so um it's it's in a different category I think um as far as it's Circ and it's also not in Las Vegas anymore it's a touring show so um everything was perfect seriously like everything was perfect and then also I wanted to just real quick talk about um hotel and having a lot of kids like bringing kids and going to a hotel the reason we ended up at um Treasure Island was one was price and two was that they could fit us they could give us three adjoining rooms connecting connecting yeah that so they all had doors like you could you didn't have to go in the hallway to get to any of the rooms um and that's actually if you are ever booking for a larger party like ours that terminology is really important and I've learned that over time adjoining which I always thought meant the door was in between them that in hotel terminology just means that the rooms are next to each other so if you say I want an adjoining room it doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna have a door it means that your rooms are gonna be next to each other you have to say connecting if you want to have that door access and we really need that yeah because we have all these people and so for that reason alone I thought it was great place for us to to stay while we were there when you stay in Las Vegas with kids it's important to know that like you have the hotel room that you stay in there's usually some sort of Resort thing like the pool or something like that but for the most part there's like a casino and there's gonna be smoking in the casino the kids can't stop you have to keep moving when you're in there so you have to follow the laws and you are in charge of knowing there the laws like it's your responsibility as a parent to know the laws at Treasure Island or TI as they call it there wasn't a whole lot to do other than the pool or go to your room with the kids I mean obviously we saw the show but there wasn't much to look at whereas when we went to the wind there were these big open places with like flowers and stuff there was stuff to look at you could stop you could sit down you didn't have to be like on the move don't look at that game like keep moving you know that that sort of thing whereas at Treasure Island there wasn't that much yeah for them to do and I think I think that as far as I know the most common hotel for that sort of thing would have been Circus Circus like that's what I've heard is that Circus Circus is like this great place for kids we've been there before in the past we did not even stop in that area at all it's kind of far from where we where our activities were and that that was something I really learned on this trip that Christopher already knew thankfully because he was the planner um it was just that when you're at on the Las Vegas a strip it maybe on a map it looks simple but you're kind of more stuck in your Zone like in your hotel or the hotels around it that connect and it's it's harder than you think it's gonna be to go to like one end of the strip to the other and then also that's why he chose a hotel and not a VRBO which we often do it made more sense to be just there on the Strip because that's all the where all the activities we wanted to do was and it was really nice that you planned for the first show right the night that we got there to be mystere because that's in Treasure Island and that's where we were staying and it was so simple to get there things got a little more complicated later in the trip because we were doing a little bit of driving and parking because it's very hot outside so it's hard with um all the little kids to expect them to walk or just even experience the heat outside for a long period of time even the distance like you'd go oh it's just two hotels over but each hotel is like a two city blocks yeah they're huge and I did not expect that I didn't realize that but he knew he was like no no like one hotel away is pretty far so you know send yourself some time to get there and um Treasure Island at the time that we stayed there free parking which was great like you could park in and that was great but when we had to drive to like the Bellagio there was very expensive parking and the size of our van had some like height restriction problems with some of the parking lots so yeah we couldn't park at all in Caesar's Palace Caesar's Palace had no place for us to park our van yeah it has a seven foot top clearance that it requires so anyway that then those are all just things to think about as a parent going to yeah because all parents have 15 passenger vans no no no but yes that just meant the driving and parking part yeah not all parking lots are equal as far as pricing and um I I will say the hardest thing because I did get I saw some comments like oh my goodness you took your kids to Vegas that's what and it really was a wonderful place there were so many things we still wanted to do such as Circus Circus we really wanted to go to meow wolf and we didn't get the chance to um so there were so many things for us to do and so many things I was like thrilled to have done with the kids but the hardest thing for our kids was the smoking because we're from California we're not used to a lot of smoking in general it doesn't I know that that is a little bit more location specific to California but it was really uncomfortable for the kids to like be around smoking and they were that was like the biggest complaint I'd say also at night when we walked from oh over to Paris and we were only with the older four kids but as we were walking there were people that were handing out little pictures and I think it was cards that had um like naked people on them and that was getting also thrown on the ground because people didn't want them so they were just like tossing them on the ground so that was very like the streets themselves were a little bit more Rowdy like there was yeah more but it was that specific for us that one moment was kind of the time that was like oh okay um I would say and and there were some like cars that drove by with stuff like that um but overall I would say it was still like a pretty kid-friendly atmosphere especially like depending on where we were but um I did have some people asking about stuff like that so that was like a couple of things that I would say were more like adult Focus that was like oh I hope the kids don't notice that or like don't look too hard over there because that that was a surprise Vegas has this reputation but you don't have to engage in all the things that Vegas has a reputation for that especially in the 90s they really tried to like change Vegas into like a family destination and that remnants because that's when the Treasure Island show went from like the very fun pirate show to the like show girl no that was the 2000 yeah the 90s they tried such a way that second one yeah and now there's no show there's no stunt show there anymore sad yeah um so anyway I thought it was a wonderful family trip there are certainly things you need to be aware of and looking out for but um overall like it was perfect the drive was good I like stopping at that Diner like everything was it was it was a good it was a good trip so happy birthday thank you and thank you for my birthday presents too I know we both turned 40 this year she got me three days at Disneyland and I got her three four days three days in Vegas something like that so you have to give yourself four um yeah most of that was driving up at such a busy couple of months for us we have Duncan's birthday we are going to the Regionals for Parker's gymnastics TNT and he will be competing to see um I think it's competing is like eight or nine other states for his trampoline and tumbling and then we also have Parker's birthday Bailey is getting her wisdom teeth out it's a lot that's happening but we're very excited for it and we're excited to share all those adventures with you so make 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