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

Push Pop · 27-03-2013 04:38AM

DainBramage wrote: »

Yess after seeing an elvis impersonator called Elvis Henderson then mud wrestling in the Stardust followed by a massive college girl bitch fight in my first few hours would definitely recommend it.
After this saw Zed the crazy guy from Police Academy arrested on the strip after the Blue Man show. lost most of my money on black jack by day 2 but had 15 bucks left to stuff my face at a buffet somewhere. Even an Irish themed casino called Mc Sheas with dancing leprechauns , what more do u need

In O'Sheas Casino on the strip back circa 2006 they had a midget dressed as a leprechaun who ran up and down the bar pouring whiskey (cheap sh1t) down your throat for $5. Some of the people in our group thought it was a bit cheesy and distasteful but funny nonetheless. He made serious tips though. I don't think they do this anymore.

BillyMitchel · 27-03-2013 04:39AM

Quiet disappointed, read the whole thread and only seen the word tit once. What's the strip clubs like?

Anyone know of anyone that's won a good bit in the casinos? I've never heard of anyone winning anything!

Every time I think of going to Vegas I think of the grizwalds winning the really flash cars. That's what I aspire to in Vegas.

DainBramage · 27-03-2013 04:47AM

Push Pop wrote: »

In O'Sheas Casino on the strip back circa 2006 they had a midget dressed as a leprechaun who ran up and down the bar pouring whiskey (cheap sh1t) down your throat for $5. Some of the people in our group thought it was a bit cheesy and distasteful but funny nonetheless. He made serious tips though. I don't think they do this anymore.

Agreed- when I saw this carry on I immediately tapped on a passing leprechauns head and got him to cash in my shamrock shaped chips and legged it in disgust.

cheesy and distasteful somes up Vegas tbh. In a sort of good way

Push Pop · 27-03-2013 04:57AM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Quiet disappointed, read the whole thread and only seen the word tit once. What's the strip clubs like?

Anyone know of anyone that's won a good bit in the casinos? I've never heard of anyone winning anything!

Every time I think of going to Vegas I think of the grizwalds winning the really flash cars. That's what I aspire to in Vegas.

To sum up the strip clubs there's lots of f@nny and twice as many tits!
Some of the very best looking women in the world in them that didn't quite make Hollywood or the catwalk but still of exceptional quality.

Xavi6 · 27-03-2013 04:59AM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

What's the strip clubs like?

Spearmint Rhino, too epic to describe :eek: :eek: :eek:

Push Pop · 27-03-2013 05:02AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Spearmint Rhino, too epic to describe :eek: :eek: :eek:

Did you get the free limo service and entry?? :pac::pac:

Xavi6 · 27-03-2013 05:06AM

Push Pop wrote: »

Did you get the free limo service and entry?? :pac::pac:

It was actually a taxi driver. We were headed for the Palms but he offered to take us to Spearmint Rhino instead and gave us a crisp $100 bill to cover the entrance fee.

Can't be saying no to that!

Killer Wench · 27-03-2013 05:23AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

It was actually a taxi driver. We were headed for the Palms but he offered to take us to Spearmint Rhino instead and gave us a crisp $100 bill to cover the entrance fee.

Can't be saying no to that!

That's cuz he made $500 for every shm...uh...smart traveler that got into his car.:cool:

Xavi6 · 27-03-2013 05:40AM

Killer Wench wrote: »

That's cuz he made $500 for every shm...uh...smart traveler that got into his car.:cool:

How did he make $500 off us?

It was $20 in and he covered that by giving us a $100 note.

Anyway, as a wise Father once said, "I had my fun..."

pickarooney · 27-03-2013 08:10AM

Witchie wrote: »

If you are into your literature go to a bar called Vesuvio on the Jack Karoac way. Claas spot. We sat in a booth upstairs and then realised it was dedicated to James Joyce. Outside the window in the laneway a poetry festival was going on. Also had breakfast in the coffee shop where the godfather was written. Such a class city. Head to La Taquria in the misson for best burrito I have ever had. Go look at the murals on the walls and visit the pirate shop.

Back on topic: If you don't enjoy vegas I feel sorry for you coz you must be dead inside. I am not a gambler and not a clubbing person but had 10 of the best days of my life in vegas last summer.

Defo do Grand Canyon. We flew from boulder city on laat trip of day and pilot delayed in canyon a bit so we would fly out to setting sun. Never have I experienced anything so beautiful in my life. Flying through a tightish gap in the mountains with "Danger Zone" pumping in my headphones and feeling like I was in a movie was just unforgettable.

Go shooting at a range. I was petrified of guns but went to keep other half happy. Turned me on big time! I used a big kick ass PINK machine gun and a handgun and found a side to me I never thought I had!

Do the Mob Attraction at the Tropicana. A really fun way to learn about the Mafia abd the last bit will leave you all shook up!

If you are a thrill seeker like me do the Big Shot on top of the Stratosphere. Oh my god. Shaking for an hour after it. Book a late lunch at the top if the stratosphere but don't go to restaurant just head up to the bar instead for free and enjoy the views over vegas (cocktail optional but gorgeous but expensive). Enjoy watching people jump off the building and fly past your window or be brave and jump too!

Take at least one day and night down Fremont Street way. We spent a night in The Fremont hotel costing $38 for the night and got a free upgrade to a fab suite. Great to soak up atmosphere of the old town. When we were there 2 bands were playing and the lights show was amazing.

Eat in the cheese cake factory at least once. Nom.

Buy the one dollar slush puppy margaritas to cool you down while walking on the strip. So refreshing.

Go to dueling pianos in either New York New York or Binnions for a great evening of craic. God they are all so talented.

Leave your hotel, embrace the full on tackiness and you will have the time of your life. I can't wait to get back some day.

This is the first thing I've ever seen written that has me actually reconsidering my opinion of Vegas as the last place on Earth I'd ever want to visit. Makes a change from "gambling, alcohol, prostitutes, what's not to like".

Shenshen · 27-03-2013 09:23AM

SHOVELLER wrote: »

Not everyone has the same tastes as you.

Maybe you should go there and experience it before commenting. You never do know you might love it:)

From what I'm reading here about it, I very much doubt that.
But as I said, horses for courses.

Shenshen · 27-03-2013 09:30AM

CaliforniaDream wrote: »

How about the Botanical Gardens in Bellagio?
Or the Gallery of fine art?
Las Vegas Natural History museum?
Springs Preserve?
Liberace Museum?

Libraries in Las Vegas - not enough for you?
Bookshops?

Don't like excessive heat? Go in April/May or September/October.
Fantastic weather with very little rain.
Want snow? Come in winter and head to Mt' Charleston. 40min drive from the Strip.
Head to Lake Las Vegas, Lake Mead or The Lakes for some time on the water.

We have top restaurants, top shopping (any budget), gorgeous parks, Red Rock Canyon, mountains, lakes, gambling, shows, concerts, plays, sunbathing, museums, waterparks, rollercoasters, watersports, hiking, partying, cinemas, bowling, ice-skating, busy clubs, quiet trails and so much more.

Tell me again what you can't find?

Ok, now please explain to me why I would want to fly half-way around the globe when I can find all of that a lot closer?

I'm sure once you're there, you can find things to pass the time. But that's not really how I choose my holidays. I pick places I actually want to see and go there. Not go somewhere and then try and find things that I may find interesting...

Legs.Eleven · 27-03-2013 09:37AM

Thousands and thousands of places I'd rather go than there. It's fair to say I'll never go, although I've a morbid curiosity to have a peek at the place but not enough to fork out the spondoolicks.

BabysCoffee · 27-03-2013 09:39AM

I've been to Vegas 5 times. It's not somewhere everybody should visit at least once in their lives. I can think of a lot nicer places.

BabysCoffee · 27-03-2013 09:40AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

How did he make $500 off us? It was $20 in and he covered that by giving us a $100 note.

Anyway, as a wise Father once said, "I had my fun..."

The club pays him to bring in punters

Three Seasons · 27-03-2013 09:41AM

Best place I've been to so far. Amazing.

Odats · 27-03-2013 10:28AM

Been to Vegas 5 times. Going back 4th July weekend for a week. I don't gamble or drink really. I go for the UFC fights so work my trips around them. Must get to the Grand Canyon this time though.

Vegas is what you make of it and caters for all walks of like.

theUbiq · 27-03-2013 10:30AM

Maybe if it was not in America!

smurfjed · 27-03-2013 10:44AM

Spent 7 days in Vegas, what's not to like? Skydiving, Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon flight, Roller Coasters, 1st place i saw the Living Body exhibition, excellent shows, went to see Circus Du Soleil "O", and Holly Madison in Peepshow. Bet $10 on Black 8, won $360 and immediately walked out. Bars galore, permitted to walk the streets with your drinks, amazing customer service from just about everybody, singing taxi-driver. Excellent food with choices according to any budget, big buffets available in 7 casinos, you pay a daily rate and can eat in any of them as much as you like. Hotels midweek are cheap.

Would i go back? Probably not. I loved it, but as i did all the things that i wanted to do, the appeal isn't there to go back.

smurfjed

Cabaal · 27-03-2013 10:44AM

I've been to Vegas three times, bored of it now i have to say

I'd say everyone should go once for the experience, its abit of fun and you don't have to be into gambling to enjoy it

hooradiation · 27-03-2013 10:44AM

Odats wrote: »

Vegas is what you make of it and caters for all walks of like.

Provided you aren't allergic to fun.

krudler · 27-03-2013 11:02AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Ok, now please explain to me why I would want to fly half-way around the globe when I can find all of that a lot closer?

I'm sure once you're there, you can find things to pass the time. But that's not really how I choose my holidays. I pick places I actually want to see and go there. Not go somewhere and then try and find things that I may find interesting...

Sure why leave the house at all when you have the internet? I like museums, and architecture, and spending holidays doing more things than sat on a pool lounger burning myself and getting drunk for a week, but I still loved Vegas, there's so much to do it's impossible to be bored. The history of Vegas itself is fascinating as well, the whole Route 66 thing, the small towns on the way there like Sedona, which is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, its a piece of pure Americana. the surrounding desert is beautiful, the Grand Canyon is something everyone should see once in their lives.

Why you getting so uppity and defensive about a place you've never been to? so have zero experience of for yourself? I went to Paris a few years ago, expected to love it, most overrated place I've ever been, its filthy, the people are horrible, its maddeningly expensive unless you spend ages wasting time looking for smaller cheaper places to go, but I'd still tell people to go and make their own trip of it, purely for the museums and the buildings.

Drakares · 27-03-2013 11:05AM

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.

I can drink it my own house. Why should I want to go somewhere else to do it?

No desire to ever visit Vegas, or the States.

krudler · 27-03-2013 11:08AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Horses for courses, love.
I wouldn't dream of making a thread asking if everybody should see the Uffizi in Florence and hike around Iceland at least once in their lives.

Yeah but if people were giving uninformed opinions about places they'd never been you'd think they were pretty silly

Three Seasons · 27-03-2013 11:09AM

Drakares wrote: »

I can drink it my own house. Why should I want to go somewhere else to do it?

No desire to ever visit Vegas, or the States.

I bet you'd like Las Vegas, you just don't know it because you haven't been there.

Super-Rush · 27-03-2013 11:31AM

Went or five days and enjoyed it.

Sometimes its nice to switch off and just go with the flow.

Its fake as hell but its Vegas so what more would you expect.

I'm not into slots or poker so i didn't gamble but there are plenty of nice places to eat, good value on drinking, loads of shopping opportunities, tonnes of shows and other attractions to pass the time. A lot of the hotels will offer good deals on upgrading your room as well.

We broke up our time there by going to the Hoover dam and Grand Canyon which cost feck all and gets you out of town for a day which meant we didn't get sick of the place.

There are a few annoyances like the guys every 10 yards along the strip clicking their business cards and offering you hookers and the queues for some places and attractions are never ending. I hated the fact that the gambling aspect is so ott, you walk through a mini casino when you arrive at the airport and you will find slot machines every where you look.

I'd go back but not for as long this time.

SHOVELLER · 27-03-2013 11:45AM

Shenshen wrote: »

From what I'm reading here about it, I very much doubt that.
But as I said, horses for courses.

So you admit you have never been there yet have commented negatively at least 6 times in this thread about Las Vegas.

Like trolling much? No need to start another thread about fun when logic has chased you out of here!

I have never been to Cuba but would be very interested in reading about it from those who have.

Merkin · 27-03-2013 11:56AM

I spent three nights there last August as part of a USA road trip along Route 66. It was HOT then by the way, it reached 111 degrees one afternoon. It's somewhere I'd wanted to visit and I'm glad I did but would I go back? No way in hell.

It's a funny place insofar as everything is just excessive and extravagant beyond belief so that's entertaining in itself but I actually found it quite a sad and soulless place. It's like a very shiny, lit up tin man but with no beating heart. The amount of lonesome and geriatric compulsive gamblers there was sad. There were also a lot of families there with kids which I found shocking to say the least, it's definitely not a place for tots and is very much an adult location I reckon. Fair enough, it doesn't sell itself as anything other than that. Hedonism is where it's at after all.

I saw so many brides there walking through the chaotic and smokey casinos and they looked miserable. I mean really miserable and unhappy and bewildered and I'm so glad it wasn't on my list of wedding venues. People who think it quirky or different I fear would be desperately disappointed as it's just the definition of tacky and crass to be honest.

We had a Deluxe suite in the Venetian which in itself is a sight to behold but it was wildly expensive. Great eateries but as with everything in Vegas, the idea is to extract as much money as possible out of you in as short a time as possible. We did have great fun there, gambled and got pissed as farts but were also glad to leave.

So in answer to your question, should everyone visit Las Vegas at least once in their lives? I'd say only if you're in the area or driving along the West Coast. Laying eyes on the breathtaking Grand Canyon or sitting and having lunch while people-watching along the crazy Venice Beach or driving along Route 66 at sunset would take precedence for me anytime, simply because they've got some substance to them where as LV doesn't really.

Shenshen · 27-03-2013 12:04PM

SHOVELLER wrote: »

So you admit you have never been there yet have commented negatively at least 6 times in this thread about Las Vegas.

Like trolling much? No need to start another thread about fun when logic has chased you out of here!

I have never been to Cuba but would be very interested in reading about it from those who have.

I've not commented negatively once about it.
All I've said is that I'm not interested in it... but for some reason, that seems to be enough to get people's feathers ruffled.

There are lots of places I'd be interested in seeing, but equally there are lots of places I've little to no interest in.
Paris, for example, doesn't really interest me. I've never been, but I wouldn't really want to, either. The same would go for, oh, I don't know, Australia. I'm sure it has lots to offer and many people adore it, but I'm simply not interested.

I never claimed that I've been to Las Vegas, I never claimed I don't like Las Vegas. I simply said I wasn't interested, so for me the answer to the OP would have to be "no".

The Backwards Man · 27-03-2013 12:24PM

You're running out of places to go now.

I hear Antarctica is nice.

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

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