Try and get tickets for Penn & Teller.
Their full show will completely fuck with your head for years to come.
The Reverend Lord Henry was not one of those new-fangled parsons who carry the principles of their vocation uncomfortably into private life.
"O" at Bellagio is a great show.
If a laydee firend is going, book dinner up the tower at Paris - get a window seat to see the fountains at Bellagio.
Drinks at Margaritaville (see the volcano girls at 6pm and 8pm)
The outside bar at Mirage is cool for cocktails
I quite liked the Harley Davidson burger joint for breakfast (missus hated it)
Helicopter ride along the Strip at night is awesome. To the Grand Canyon for champange breakfast is ok, not awesome
Visit the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon Skywalk
Didn't gamble at all, and liked the madness, but was ready to leavre after 4 days
Originally Posted by paultheoneyoulove
really? im pretty sure that blackjack has a real and mathematical house edge - this can be overcome with card counting but thats cheating
We had our end-of-Sales-Kickoff party there. It was dreadful (though the band they booked were probably the tightest I've ever heard).
If you order a 20oz drink (a UK pint) there, you get to keep the glass. None of my colleagues wanted theirs, so I've got 5 in my cupboard...I quite liked the Harley Davidson burger joint for breakfast (missus hated it)
Very much this - been twice for work, for a week each time. Initially (each time) I was all "Vegas, baby!", but by the end of the week I was dying to get home. For 3-4 days, though, you'll have a blast.Didn't gamble at all, and liked the madness, but was ready to leavre after 4 days
Fremont was definitely more to my tastes - if you are going to gamble (don't!), they've got $3 and $5 tables, so you don't wind up blowing your entire holiday budget in an hour (on the strip, you'll be lucky to find a blackjack table under $20/hand - more in the late evenings), and the drinks are reasonably priced ($3-4 a beer, as opposed to $6-8 on the strip, and don't forget the tip...)
First year, we stayed in the Bellagio, which, if you ignored the casino, was a pretty good luxury hotel. This year, it was Planet Hollywood, which really wasn't. However, the main bar there is staffed by stunners in corsets/lingerie (as are a lot of the tables) so it had its compensations.
Given I'll probably never go back there, the two things I wish I'd done were a Grand Canyon/Strip helicopter ride, and the rides on top of the Stratosphere. I have done the rollercoaster on NYNY though, which was great fun, as was a drink on the Voodoo rooftop club on top of the Rio (not for vertigo sufferers though, and you'll need a cab). Finally (and this may not be your thing), going to "The Gun Shop" and shooting fully automatic guns was something of a giggle.
ETA: On the way home, don't arrive too early at the airport - the international terminal (or at least the one BA fly from) is utterly dreadful - one tiny bar, one duty-free shop and the most depressing architecture you've ever seen.
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"Brilliant things instead of weeping will be for the person who comes to the truthful one. But a long period of darkness, foul food, and the word 'woe' - to such an existence your religious view will lead you, O deceitful ones, of your own actions." - 1000 years BCE, Zoroaster predicts the coming of Keanu.
If you get married there, get certified copies of your certificate at the same time, rather than having to send off for them afterwards.
...and have fun.
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
I think of the non-skill games Roulette is meant to be (statistically) the way to make your money last longest. Blackjack is better as long as you actually play to the stats (e.g. when to double-down, twist based on probability not hope)
Red ones are better.
ooh ooh, forgot one.
Circus Circus (which is a total dump) - the merry-go round bar used in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Go see these if you are up for a bit of high culture
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