Should every body visit Las Vegas at least once in their lives?

Tom_Cruise · 26-03-2013 06:23PM #1

I have never been, but i would really like to go.

Most people i know are planning on going or have been already.

Do you want to go to Las Vegas?

If you have been, is it a magical place?

For Forks Sake · 26-03-2013 06:26PM

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

is it a magical place?

Like Disneyworld with hookers.

Curry Addict · 26-03-2013 06:28PM

no its a ****hole tbh. a very antisocial place. its very annoying to get around. the dealers are grumpy bastards in general, your better off going anywhere else!

clairefontaine · 26-03-2013 06:30PM

Good god no.

Mr Benevolent · 26-03-2013 06:36PM

No, boring and overhyped. Go to Monte Carlo, at least the restaurants are worth visiting there.

RayCon · 26-03-2013 06:36PM

Ive no desire to ever visit it.

Sunnyisland · 26-03-2013 06:38PM

Never been there before Going to wedding there in september,and no its not my own :-)

My name is URL · 26-03-2013 06:38PM

I only spent a day there and have no wish ever to return. Seemed like a complete shithole to me.

Truncheon Rouge · 26-03-2013 06:39PM

Shocked by this thread. had great expectations of the place.
im all shook up.

Toto Wolfcastle · 26-03-2013 06:39PM

I loved it. I didn't think I would but I really loved it. I have no idea why. I didn't gamble, didn't drink much, didn't stay up all night, but I had a great time. I don't necessarily think everyone should visit it though. I know loads of people who would hate it.

Zillah · 26-03-2013 06:40PM

No interest, sounds like a wretched place.

krudler · 26-03-2013 06:41PM

It is what you make it, there's tons of stuff to do, the nightclubs are class (one has a swimming pool in it) ,there's free drink everywhere, food is crazy cheap, tons of shows and events, I was there for 3 nights and loved it.

brandon_flowers · 26-03-2013 06:41PM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

No, boring and overhyped. Go to Monte Carlo, at least the restaurants are worth visiting there.

Are you serious? I live in Monaco and if anyone was to be advised on a place to go once in their life it would be Las Vegas and not Monaco. You can drink for free in Vegas with the odd tip to the dolly, you can drink for €20 a beer in Monaco.

Go to Las Vegas OP, you won't regret it.

eviltwin · 26-03-2013 06:42PM

Spent a day there, hated it. I thought I would love it but the Vegas you see on tv is only a fraction of it. In reality its a very seedy, quite desperate place.

Agricola · 26-03-2013 06:44PM

I would rather boil my head in urine tbh. A monument to capitalist greed and excess. Comrades.

Chuck Stone · 26-03-2013 06:44PM

I like poker but the place doesn't call me at all.

It's like, toadally artificial and stuff.

tony007 · 26-03-2013 06:45PM

Agricola wrote: »

I would rather boil my head in urine tbh. A monument to capitalist greed and excess. Comrades.

You wouldn't really though.

ColeTrain · 26-03-2013 06:45PM

The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds.

frozenfrozen · 26-03-2013 06:46PM

You can beat the system by going and just taking the cheap rooms, free drink and food, and not gamble. take that capitalism

dark crystal · 26-03-2013 06:46PM

Yeah, I'd love to get married there by Elvis. Honeymoon in the Bellagio or MGM Grand, catch a show and eat buffet until it hurts.

Kitsch bliss.

furiousox · 26-03-2013 06:46PM

Curry Addict wrote: »

no its a ****hole tbh. a very antisocial place. its very annoying to get around. the dealers are grumpy bastards in general, your better off going anywhere else!

The dealers??
Oh right...the dealers.

MarkyMark22 · 26-03-2013 06:47PM

It depends what you're in to, I guess.

I've been lucky enough to been their twice and I really liked it.

If you're into an energetic atmosphere then it's brilliant, the lights from the hotels are fantastic. And of course there are numerous music and theatre productions on the strip, they can be pricey though.

Basically everything is on the one road, the strip. Each hotel usually has its own attractions, E.G the ballagio with the famous water fountain.

Then there's old vegas, where you can visit historic places. The desert is interesting in itself.

I would recommend at least one visit, even for a few days. The shopping is also quite good. With every hotel practically having a shopping centre and then a few outlets out in the desert which are pretty good.

I probably won't visit again for a while, but only due the fact I want to see more of the world rather than consistently visiting the same place. It can be quite expensive to go, the flights are the most expensive part of the trip. The hotels are ridiculously cheap.

kingtut · 26-03-2013 06:48PM

Vegas is an amazing place, anyone who says differently probably never ventured outside of their hotel (or away from the strip).

There is far more to Vegas than just gambling !! I'd love to go back

efb · 26-03-2013 06:49PM

Went there for a PBF Fight. Apart from the fight, and Tom Jones- nyeh

twowheelsonly · 26-03-2013 06:49PM

Went last year for 4 nights and loved it !!

You have to take it for what it is, as someone said earlier Disneyworld with hookers :-)

However it's a great place to visit and you'd be hard pushed to get bored. The sheer scale of the hotels and casinos as well as the over the top decor is impressive in it's own right.

krudler · 26-03-2013 06:49PM

brandon_flowers wrote: »

Are you serious? I live in Monaco and if anyone was to be advised on a place to go once in their life it would be Las Vegas and not Monaco. You can drink for free in Vegas with the odd tip to the dolly, you can drink for €20 a beer in Monaco.

Go to Las Vegas OP, you won't regret it.

One of the clubs we went to were charging 12 dollars a drink for some stuff, so we just went down to the casino , stuck a few cents into a slot machine and got free drinks off the waitress, I figured they'd be watered down crap but they weren't, free booze is best booze.

MarkyMark22 · 26-03-2013 06:50PM

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Note to self: proof read.

26-03-2013 06:51PM

I've been told its an amazing place, by both men and women. I know people who have been twice and cant wait to go back again so I'm surprised about the complaints. I reckon I will love the place, over the top and full of gambling and free drink whats not to like

3ndahalfof6 · 26-03-2013 06:52PM

There are some great historic features to see and it is steeped in old town history, there is no other place in the world I could think of that would draw me more, somewhere else worth visiting on the way there is the toilet.

annascott · 26-03-2013 06:52PM

I have always wanted to go just for the hell of it. Yes, it is really tacky but treat it like a fairground attraction. Embrace your tacky side, don't spend more than you can afford to lose and enjoy! I think that five days would be more than enough though.

cson · 26-03-2013 06:52PM

It's a bit overwhelming if you haven't been there before. Great craic and I'd recommend a visit but tbh about 3 nights and 4 days and you'll have seen everything. Their unique quirks aside, every casino is the same. The Venetian is the one that impressed me the most; it cost $1.5bn and you'd know it. The canal recreation replete with actual gondola's is frankly insane. You've the madness and brilliance of Vegas captured in that for me. To properly blowout there you'd want to be packing $200 a day imo. Yeah you'll get by on half, even a quarter of that, but for the full experience you need a wedge.

Definitely spin out to the Grand Canyon. That was my highlight of my trip to Vegas. It's incredible. Like nothing I've ever seen before.

Should every body visit Las Vegas at least once in their lives?

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