My thoughts on Las Vegas…

Its strange ; its unique ; its fun ; its tiring ; its full-on

There’s something in Vegas for everyone. The whole place is geared for entertainment. So whatever your pleasure, you can find it there … well except maybe a beach.

Some standout points:

• Casinos are all smokey. It can be hard to stand for a non-smoker
• Its hot outside.
• Everyone walks around drinking frozen cocktails or large cans of beer.
• All the girls seem to have big boobs
• Slot machines are everywhere – even in the airport
• Starbucks drinks are more expensive on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays

 

Las Vegas Monorail

Don’t bother with the Monorail. It doesn’t really get you anywhere interesting. It runs North – South up and down the back of the hotels on the East side of the strip. Good for some hotels – not that great for most.

MGM Grand hotel

We stayed at the MGM Grand hotel. Everything about the hotel is indeed grand.

It’s like a small city. Lots of restaurants, bars, shops, theaters and of a big casino. We often found ourselves lost. Trying to find the lift lobby or the exit was a challenge everyday. Quite often after a long day of walking the strip, we’d see the hotel entrance and think “we’re home, thank goodness we can rest.” No… it takes another ten minutes to get to our room!

One thing we didn’t like was the lack of roulette tables in the casino. Americans seem to love craps. The roulette tables that were there started at $10 minimum bets. I little pricey for us. We play a half mechanical / half computerised version, but the minimum bet was still $5. We found later a similar machine at the SLS casino that accepted a 25c minimum bet. We stayed there over an hour and got drunk on the free drinks.

The hotel was great. I would stay there again.

Penn & Teller

We saw the Penn & Teller show on Tuesday. That was awesome. See previous blog entry.

Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon tour was the highlight of the holiday so far. See previous blog entry.

Pin up Burlesque

On our last night we went to see the Pin up Burlesque show at the Stratosphere theater.It was good without being spectacular.

It featured Playboy’s 2011 playmate of the year Claire Sinclair.

It consisted of some rockabilly songs with dancing from 4 girls and a guy. The Band and Singer were great. The singing numbers with dotted with Claire doing various strip teases showing most of her stunning body. It stopped short of being dirty though. She kept her g-string and pasties on. Still quite sexy though.

The meet and greet after the show was disappointing. The whole cast came out, but we were not allowed to take personal photos. We decided against the “meet”