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Just think of all the other amazing stuff that you could see or do if you're prepared to go all that way... The American South West is an incredible landscape.. I'd hate to waste any time in what is posisbly the worst bit of the entire region 🙂
Glad I've been but I won't be back. Definitely more hype than substance.
Atlantic city is worse than vegas, but both are awful - at least vegas has desert with single track in it - apparently they never market the desert as there are no slot machines! I have to go occasionally and always squeeze a day ride with a guide in (beagle boy great pic of red rock!) and visit a mate who lives there - those things are great, the strip is fine once then awful. Hoover dam is cool (once) too and the bridge next to it. The smell of ciggy smoke and furniture polish in the casinos is unforgettable.
I spent 7 days in Vegas at a Microsoft conference, it's an odd place to be kind of alone. Had 2 days before I flew back to entertain myself, so ...
+ Penn and Teller, Phantom of the Opera, and visits to all the mad casinos up and down the strip. I didn't gamble anywhere.
I have a mate, I say mate, I hadn't seen him for 20 years, who seems to love the place. Last time I saw him he was off with his wife to Vegas for two weeks. I gather they go twice a year. They sit by a pool drinking all day and spend all night in casinos drinking and playing Blackjack.
The overlap on a Venn diagram of mtbers and Vagas lovers must be pretty small.
I have yet to meet someone who claims to like the place who in an other respect has any redeeming personality traits. It seems to be a great arsehole indicator.
I understand that there are a lot of creative types that live there instead of LA because it's cheaper and more "always on". Have any of the people who hated it made any effort to look beyond the Strip and the obvious rubbish?
FOF manages some sort of gun range there. Never really had much of an interest in visiting.
Stayed there either side of a trip to Hawaii. Never seen so many wearers of ill-fitting toupees gathered together under the same fake sky before. It's a fascinating place--I like the mix of ingenuity and seediness. And the desert is amazing. Wouldn't want to spend too much time there but it's definitely worth a visit.
I've never been, but it looks about as appealing as Blackpool, but then again some people love Blackpool
I went once for a friend's wedding. I was on a tight budget, and it's the wrong place to be when you've no money.
Can't say as I enjoyed it really, couldn't afford to do the cool stuff it seems to be famous for, like visiting the Grand Canyon, high stakes gambling or hookers. The whole place felt artificial, the impressive looking 'marble' constructions are chicken wire and fibreglass; a poignant reflection of the facade that is Vegas. Oh, and as a vegetarian I figured the one place I'd be able to eat without problem in the US would be a holiday destination; I almost starved to death.
Its one saving grace for me was the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton, which isn't there any more. It was an impressive exhibition, very well put together. And even if the theming isn't your thing, Quark's Bar turned out to be the cheapest place we could find to get drinks of an evening.
List 1: Places I really want to see before I die.
List 2: Places I'll go if it suits or wouldn't avoid if the opportunity presents itself, but not breaking my neck to get there.
List 3: Places I'm never going, oh no, no sirree.
Vegas is on List 3.
I updated the network infrastructure in the hospital just outside town some years back. There was an administrator with a name plaque on her door. Ora Lee. I hung around but she was out that week.
Been twice unfortunately, first time was on our honeymoon in the late 80's when we spent a couple of nights there before heading to LA. Don't remember much about it apart from winning $1k on a slot machine which nearly paid for the trip.
Second time and nearly twenty years later we stopped over with the kids for two nights and it was the utter pits. Full of low life's and tramps from what we could see. Had a nightmare bus ride up the strip when some frigging tramp jumped on the bus and caused havoc, walking up and down the aisle spitting at people and generally causing trouble. Bus driver wasn't interested and luckily there was a large British guy on the bus who managed to force this guy off the bus at the next stop.
Oh what memories.