text: When it is scorching hot on the strip Crystals is an air conditioned connection between the elevated walkways that offers some eye candy as you speed walk through it It is an oasis of sorts a place to daydream of things you could blow money on if you ever won Mega Millions As you look into the stores with service people waiting on no customers you can only imagine how attentive the service would be if you ever stepped foot inside a store or two If you know where to look you can see the signs trumpeting the buildings LEED environmental status But then it hits you unless you are filthy stinking rich this is not the place for you You quicken your pace and head for the exit pausing briefly to check out the cool small airplane hanging from the ceiling before you step outside to the strip breathe in the exhaust fumes from Las Vegas Blvd and realize life outside of Crystals is better without much of the stuff they sell inside nnCrystals is a textbook of example of just because you can does not mean you should MGM Resorts plopped this ridiculous looking architectural abomination on prime strip front property as part of the biggest privately funded construction project in America to date It is a temple to excess bad design and wasted square footage Walk through it once looky loo and then go find something better to do nn stars because it is air conditioned for the entertainment value I got by watching women come out of Prada toss their shoes and slide on their new pricey ones only to say these really suck after a few steps They ended up digging their old shoes out of the trash It was a priceless Las Vegas memory for me