What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

17 Sunday Feb 2013

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Nah, I’ll tell you any way. Maybe not some of the things that happened to some of the group however!

In the morning walked a bit of the strip some of and some of the the group went on the indoor roller coaster in New York New York (I can’t stand roller coasters but I don’t mind doing aerial aerobatics – I think its the screaming and the fact I have no engine). I was content taking pictures.

Saw a few more of the horrid casinos, some a bit less horrid then others and stopped for a drink in the Venetian. All the casinos have no clocks and are all dark and air-conditioned so you can’t look outside and tell whether it is day or night! Went back to the hotel and spent some time in the pool with the rest of the group. Once you see all the Casinos there isn’t really much to do!

In the evening we went to a classic diner in the base of the Stratosphere were all the waiting staff sang Broadway style and classic 50s songs and audience participation was compulsory.

The rest of the group went to throw away their money, I went up the stratosphere alone got some good views and pics. I walked back and took some photos along the route. I stopped outside the Treasure Island Casino to see an entertaining if a “little revealing” show outside the Treasure Island Casino

Yeah the picture above was taken in the middle of the night!

See more pics and where I walked

Viva Las Vegas

03 Sunday Feb 2013

Posted by tomaszdunn in Tomasz Travels

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Nevada, USA, Vegas

We got up in the morning and headed back onto the road and onto Las Vegas. As we got close to Nevada it finally got warmer and landscape more flat and arid and we stopped off for lunch on the way. No longer a need for hats, jackets and woolly hats.

We were introduced to Vegas by driving down the strip in the middle of the day. The enormity and the novelty strikes you straight away.

We eventually stayed in the “Hooters” hotel. Despite the stories of this particular chain surprisingly wasn’t as lurid as is reputed in Urban Legends (maybe I didn’t hang around in the bar long enough). Inside on the ground floor as expected was a casino and in the back a pool.

In the evening we were picked up by this horrid looking stretched truck limousine. By point many of the group had filled up before hand! We had a fantastic tour of Vegas at night and all the gaudy lights. Even my little IXUS was able to get some respectable photos (not of the group however!)

We stopped off and saw a light show in the old part of Vegas (can’t rembmer the exact name) with some images below.

We also made a compulsory stop to the Welcome to Vegas sign.

We were dropped off at Bellagio’s where we saw the famous light show (seen in Ocean’s 11). We went in and some of the group were far better at this gambling malarkey, I annoyingly lost $10 on a black jack table but made $7.5 on a slot machine. At that point I called it quits. They don’t make these casinos out of marble because people make lots of money! After a while I headed back to the hotel (last photo). (on a side not the people on the slot machines in the casino in the hotel would still be the same people, on the same machine in the morning, just with a glummer look.)

More pics and the route