Has anyone been to Vegas??

[Sideshow#36]

Hello to you all. Me and the mrs are looking at going to vegas in a few months and we were wondering if anyone has any reccomendations good or bad. Where to stay/avoid etc you get the jist.

Cheers. :smt024

[tigersaw]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Guide-Las-Vegas-Miniguides/dp/1858288908

[600+]

erm why Vegas? genuinely interested :)

[Sideshow#36]

Dunno really, we just like going to places that are not considered the norm. We arent your typical minorca or benidorm kind of people. You have the lights that are supposed to be amazing at night, grand canyon down the road, the shopping is upposed to be good and of course I get to have a bit of a flutter.

[TEC]

Been a few times, in fact I'm heading that way again on Tuesday :)

As I stay with a friend I cannot recommend anyplace to stay but I do know you will get what you pay for :smt103 You mentioned going in a couple of months, well it will be a lot warmer than it is now, tomorrows temp is expected to be low 26c high 40c :smt103:smt103:smt103 guess why I'm going out early* ;) So that would mean anything outsde of the main hotels will be very very very uncomfortable :( Thinking of hiring a bike, well yes thats possible (I am) but there's not many good roads anywhere near LV, you need to travel a bit and that really means kit though there is nothing stopping you running about in shorts n flipflops (with a lid) but its not just road rash you have to deal with:smt103 If you did hire you will be banned from Death Valley between late June to late Aug (think thats right), think some cage hires have similar restrictions. Yep lights at night in the strip are something else as are the Bellagio fountains, some of the hotels have other stuff happening besides the casino's. Helo ride over Grand Canyon (must do that one year) is supposed to be worth it, visit to hoover dam on a clear, calm night can be good for pics. Couple fo yatch clubs on the lake are open to the public and food aint that bad. On food, all down to you, we tend to go places that are not on the normal tourist routes and you really need some sort of transport (not taxi's) to get there

Last one ;) Do not stay in LV for more than a long weekend (arr Thur, dep Tue type thing) cause you will get bored, you can only see the lights, eat at the Stratosphere and watch a few times, may LV part of a longer trip

*Well no its all to do with a rally I go to, weather doesn't come into it :D

[Wayluya]

Hello to you all. Me and the mrs are looking at going to vegas in a few months and we were wondering if anyone has any reccomendations good or bad. Where to stay/avoid etc you get the jist.

Cheers. :smt024

Viva las Vegas!

I would tell ya, but..........."what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" :cool:

But strictly entre nous......

Stayed around a week, about a dozen years ago - only meant to stay a couple of days as never one for gambling (maxim - never gamble at anything yer can't cheat at :rendeer:).........but discovered free pints of Guiness and bar top machines that take USD100 dollar bills.....I was UP at one point very nicely.....3 guesses how that ended :(.....in fact the last few days were spent in a flea pit motel watching cable porn and re-runs of Ali fights waiting for Western Union to arrive so I could buy a ticket home!

Walked the WHOLE of the strip one night - well, it was well morning when I got back home......

In the strip joints try and avoid getting change in the House Dollars - cos' yer can't spend them anywhere else.......and also my first Lap Dance :cool:

Also met a freindly African American lady when staggering home one night / early morning - and her "boyfreind" who must have been a cousin of Huggy Bear. But I was single back then, and if yer can't get a BJ in a dodgy motel from a hooker on "the strip", then where can ya?

The top Casinos are amazing, inside and out - especially at night time!! And the older and smaller casinos were straight out of a 1960's mob movie.....of course they rebuild so much every 3 days who knows whether anything I saw is still their - but essentially it don't matter - it's always the same.........Only America could have Vegas - it's so tacky and tasteless, that it does the circle back to cool about a dozen times.......

Did I mention the gambling?

Very glad I went, but never going back :takeabow:

[Staffz]

I went to get married 2005, stayed at Golden Nugget, loved it!

We went to a couple of shows and just chilled out. Want to go back again soon, maybe a weekend during our trip to Canada!

Would look at something either Freemont St. or the Strip, but not anything too "inn" or "cheap apartments" as we saw a few that didn't look too secure or comfortable while exploring.

The discount mall is worth a look, and take a spare suitcase or just buy one of those too!!!

I loved it, found you could do as much or little as you wanted. We went to shows, had a flutter (free drinks even on the penny slots! woowoo!) ate out in every possible restaurant, and even had a day at the cinema. Cirque de Soleil was supposed to be awesome, my sis saw before, we didn't make it but wished we had. They kinda move around, but there are some great acts over there which you can find info on the web for, anything local just go to the ticket booths - they are far better deals.

I'm feeling very jealous now!

H.

[Draper]

with all this blackjack hype... get on it!

would love to go

[fat_brstd]

spent 2 weeks in vegas as an under 21 which was an interesting experiance. The shows are intense and are availiable all over the place but the good ones do sell out every night so you will need to book a day or so in advance. Hotels are really really cheep tues, weds and thurs, like 25 dollars a night in the luxor (which was an awesome hotel) which saturday is by far the most expensive (250+ for the same room on a sat).

Make sure you see the grand canyon if you can. It is the single most impressive natural thing I have ever seen ever. It is simply stagering. It would be a crime for you not to take a look when you had the opotunity. Better than niagra falls or the pyramids.

The strip is well worth walking down and taking in, it is very long and hot though and best seen at night cause then you can see all the lights and everything, theres a pirate ship that sinks every half hour or something like that.

The best bit of advice I can give is eat at the buffets, not in reastaurants. For $6 you can get all you can eat prime rib and crab and pretty much anything else you can think of. The casinos make all there money on the gambling so subsidise everything else in an attempt to get you into there place - look cheep food and whilst your at it heres a slot machine.

As for individual casinos the circus one was mental, and the luxor was awesome but then I have a soft spot for egypt. They have a full sized copy of the eifle tower just cause they can and if you like rollercoasters there is one on the top of one of the casinos (i cant remember which one of the top of my head) which is awesome cause the view is just intense.

All in all its a fairly good place and there is a lot stuff to do. The shows are pretty expensive but they are increadably proffesionally done to west end/broadway standards but more over the top. Just walking around and trying to take everything in is good fun.

[Staffz]

Stratosphere - rollercoaster, spike shoot and the thing that dangles you over the edge. The view is not to be missed, 113 floors if I remember correctly, and the fastest lift ever!

[gruntygiggles]

Vegas is a great place to go. I wouldn't go for more than two or three nights though as it's actually not that big and unless you like doing the same things night after night, it can get a bit boring (in the same way you love chocolate, but eat too much and it makes you feel sick).

Definately go to the Grand Canyon, try and go to the North Ridge, less tourists (though prob still alot during summer months) but you get a better view from what I can remember and no matter how many pictures you look at (I've got ###'s) it will take your breath away.

Google Bryce Canyon in Utah, that's unreal and if you go there, take the scenic route through southern Utah through a little place called Pangwitch. It's near Bryce Canyon and has a beautiful lake and litterally hundreds of bald eagles during some months, but the locals like it if that is kept quite quiet.

Make sure you go over the Hoover Dam......stick an Elvis CD on and park up at the top so you can look down on the dam.....you'll be surrounded by little chipmunks...so cute.

Ok.....I'm going to far...but if you want to know a load of places to go in that area.....message me. Have been MANY times and LOVE it there. Take PLENTY of sunscreen, I've been out in November when it snowed at the Grand Canyon and was 44 degrees in Vegas, it's weird out there!

Hope you have fun...I'm getting itchy feet. Very jealous of you!!! :smt093:D

[Jamie Slick]

I've been twice. The first time I stayed at the Mandalay Bay. Pretty pricey and very nice, but it's on the VERY end of the strip. SEcond time I stayed at the Luxor. It was okay......

Both trips were for work conferences, but I got out and enjoyed myself in the evenings.

As some have mentioned, the shows are good, but get tix early.

And DEFINITELY go to the Grand Canyon if you can. I didn't go when I went to Las Vegas, but I had a business trip to Phoenix last fall and saw it then. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! If you can see the sunrise, it is absolutely breathtaking.

Have fun!

[$tevo]

Hmmm, dunno. Can't be nice having your head crushed in a vice:smt119

[Sideshow#36]

Cool, cheers guys. We are looking at either staying at the Bellagio, MGM or the Venetian. 5 nights seems about the right amount of time to go and do everything we have in mind. The temperatures wont bother us, considering what we both do for a living!! We both want to see the grand canyon and I had totally forgotten about the Strat tower.

So we do definatetly need to hire a car?? I want going to bother but I suppose some of the places we want to go are a bit of a treck away.

Oh and the Mrs wants to go and see Celene Dion.... :smt120