Las Vegas was a city we were looking forward to visiting for some time....and we weren't disappointed.
It's a great place, assuming you treat it the way it is....it's a fake city, with fake attractions, but at the same time, it also seems to be the type of place that realises this and for this reason, it doesn't take itself seriously, as many other US cities possibly do.
At any rate, we liked Las Vegas.
We stayed at the Imperial Palace Hotel which was, let's be honest, not the flashest hotel but hey, it does the job and the location in the centre of the 'strip' is brilliant.
You could turn left or right from the hotel and head towards fantastic highlights.
We hardly gambled, in fact, that was the least of the attractions for us.
Why waste time and money gambling when there are so many free attractions to take a look at.
Some of the highlights were...
Paris Las Vegas.....Vegas' version of Paris, complete with 2/3rd scale Eiffel Tower....a ceiling designed to be similar to Galleries Lafayette in Paris....fake Parisian streets to wander...not quite as cobblestoned as the real thing, but cleaner with less dogshit than Paris! They even have their own Arc de Triomphe.
It's pretty cool.
Bellagio Hotel is very cool. This is a pretty up-market hotel and has some pretty cool displays inside...plus, one of the absolute highlights of Vegas, the dancing fountains. They are great to watch and with various different themes, you could watch for ages.
We saw the Lions at the MGM Grand, the volcano, the Pirate Ship and show, Caesars Palace Casino, the Castle at Excalibur, the Pyramid at Luxor, the clown at Boardwalk Casino, M & M world, the small scale Venice and one of the better places was the less visited Fremont Street. The TV Monitor on the ceiling is about half a kilometre long (maybe more) and is very cool.
We also visited Hoover Dam while we were there (which is bloody huge!) and all in all, we had a cool time in Las Vegas.
Can't wait to get back there!
