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Las Vegas
Not my cup of tea. My wife and I did not enjoy it, but I think I see the appeal. I think I'm just too much of a misanthrope... the press of people, mazelike layout, the constant music, the sea of drunks. An environment intentionally funneling you into doing certain things. I also don't love gambling enough. If I liked gambling more and wanted to hit some strips clubs with dude friends or something, I could see being all for it. Did enjoy all the excellent restaurants, but being stuck on the strip (didn't rent a car) is a real liability from the perspective of doing anything or eating anywhere approaching normal so I got into this weird siege mentality being accosted by LAS VEGAS unless I was in my room.
The thing that sucked was between awesome meals you have to eat average meals for 20-30 bucks or whatever. Fuck, is it expensive on a day to day, most expensive place I've been (I've spent a lot of time in Europe, too). Crazy.
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The Mexican dudes flicking cards of naked women and slamming them in your hand when you walk by needs to stop. The utter lasciviousness of the city is worn way too much on its sleeve, and that's a huge turn off to the city. I have trouble looking past that to see the good points. I go because I have to. I'm not sure I'd go "on purpose", but I've never had the opportunity, so I don't know what I'd do. I'd NEVER bring my kids.
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Gary, I've been to Vegas four times and I love it. I've been for both conferences and tournaments. I love poker and have been there for the WSOP so that's my main attraction but the city has stuff for non-gamblers too. Lots of shows, lots of great eats, lots of fun activities, super high-end clubs (I hate that stuff, myself, and the pubs are terrible too there), they even have an In-and-Out Burger (my favourite burger by a mile).
You can eat there on the cheap no problem, you must have been doing it wrong. Ireland cost me a fortune to visit and eat, but Vegas was really inexpensive (as is every single place in the US).
They got that bunny ranch too which sounds pretty cool.
Anyway, sorry you didn't like it. I find it shines best when you go with friends. I regret never taking my wife when we were together. It's a pretty magical place when you do it right.
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We had a great time last time. My wife was there for a bachelorette party, but we went out three days early so we could hang out. We saw a couple of shows (Pin Up and Zombie Burlesque were both fun), went down to take the tour of Hoover Dam, and explored the city.
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I was up about $50 on the day I was heading home so rather than ending up blowing the $50 and going in the red playing Black Jack or Craps, I decided to head to the Pinball Hall of Fame. I jumped into a taxi and the taxi driver tells me he use to go the there all the time. The taxi drivers some kind of pinball wizard that's won a bunch of pinball tournaments. He told me about all the best machines in then place and he warned me about the dick owner that's thrown people out for swearing too much. We'll we got to the place about 10:30 am and it didn't open until 11:00 am. So I had him drop me off next door at the Crown & Anchor English bar that open 24/7. I sat down at the bar and the bar tender tells me that if put $20 in the video poker / BJ machine and play $1 a hand I can get a free breakfast and a beer. So even though I was on an expense account I was up for the challenge. The bar was great they played lots of late 70s and 80s music Clash, Blondie, Bowie. Soccer and Star Trek was playing on mute on the TVs. In the end I ended up up $1 and drank 2 Guiness so I tip bartender $5 and headed over to play some pinball.
The pinball place had zero atmosphere but the machines were great. They had 180 machines from all different decades. I stuck with newer stuff 80s, 90s and 2000's, Shrek might be one of my new favorite machines. The characters will insult you when screw up and the game play was good. They had Star Wars, Star Trek, Indian Jones, AC/DC, Metallica, Spider-Man, Lord of the Ring and a bunch more. I also played Gauntlet video game for about $2 worth.
One other suggestion. I did the zip line down Freemont street which was short but also a lot of fun.
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Is Mermaids still on Fremont? That place was FOUL. But hilarious.
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KingPut wrote: BJ machine
I'm headed to Vegas at the end of the month. Where is this magical machine of which you speak???? Hopefully I can be first in line for the day.
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