My wife and I got married there by Elvis in 2002 (and returned to renew our vows in 2012) and the next morning took a helicopter flight (Sundance Helicopter Tours who are still running), down to the Grand Canyon for a champagne breakfast. That was awesome and well worth the money.
The piano bar in New York New York is well worth visiting at night, as is the Grand Square in the Venetian (lovely string quartets play there).
Circus Circus has a purpose built theatre for the Cirque du Solei, that’s wicked.
Don’t know if it’s still there, but in 2012 the Luxor had an amazing Titanic exhibition running, with mockups of cabins and a 10 tonne section of the hull on display…just checked, still there!
We had fun doing the CSI experience in the MGM hotel. Best bit was when my wife, who watches every murder show on the telly, queried why we were trying to figure out the calibre of some bullets and I had to take her back to the murder scene and help her count the ‘odd’ number of ‘eyeholes’ in the victim’s skull.
Last time we were there I also booked a guided MTB trip around Red Rock Canyon. Nice hire bike, an Ellesworth as I recall, fabulous scenery, just watch out for the frikken Chipmunks….they’re everywhere!
Fun show we did, because we missed it first time round at the Excalibur (where we’ve stayed both times), was the medieval joust and banquet. Excellent stuff and Merlin was well impressed when he discovered we were Scots.
Other than that, most of our time there was spent gawping at stuff and drinking slushy cocktails…oooh, Dick’s Last Resort! A bar in the Excaliber, brilliant place for a great laugh, good live music and food. Really funny place, they go all out to insult and embarrass the patrons. Google it, it was cracking good fun!
