Fancy
visiting New York, Paris, Venice, Rome, Egypt and getting married all
in one evening ?
Well, it’s possible at Las
Vegas, the city that never sleeps and where everything is destined to
keep the gambler awake, making him lose all notion of time (cocktails
served regularly, casino interiors, real labyrinths so you
can’t find your way out...).
The city is designed so everyone will
be satisfied: gamblers, couples, families, students, businessman...
The main artery is called the Strip. It’s 3 miles long
and it’s where you’ll find all the most modern
casinos, with their attractions each more incredible than the others. A
mono rail links up a few of the casinos, but we advise you to visit the
Strip on foot. The get there, you can take the Strip
Trolley, which leaves every 20 minutes from 9:30 to 1 am.
The
casinos on the Strip, from north till south.
-The
Stratosphere offers a
panoramic view, along with two very impressive attractions (a roller
coaster on its roof, the highest in the world).
-The Circus Circus, the
entrance of which is in fact a huge circus tent, displays circus
performances every 20 minutes.
-Treasure Island, where you can witness two pirate sailing
ships attack each-other from 4 pm till 11:30 pm, every hour and a half.
-The
Venetian proposes trips on its gondolas under an
artificial sky that looks as real as ever.
-The Mirage’s volcano
erupts after nightfall every twenty minutes until midnight. It owns a
small zoo with dolphins, white tigers, black panthers and an elephant.
-Flamingo
is the home of several flamingos and
penguins, near the pools and waterfalls.
-The Caesars Palace’s
theme is ancient Rome.
Its show, Atlantis, is every hour.
-The Bellagio (our favourite) is very luxurious. Admire
its famous musical water display and its greenhouse in bloom
that’s changed every 15 days..
-The Paris
Las Vegas shows you Paris’s most famous
monuments.
-The Aladdin
plonges you into the Arabian nights with its souk (Desert Passage)
-The MGM Grand is the biggest hotel in the States with 5035
rooms. Its theme is Hollywood.
-The New
York-New York gives
you a glimpse of the “Big Apple” with it
skyscrapers, Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge. Inside it is the
Manhattan Express, a roller coaster.
-The Excalibur offers you a medieval set.
-The Luxor sends you to Egypt with its pyramid and
sphinx. The attractions aren’t free. Neither is the entrance
to Toutankhamon’s grave.
-The Mandalay Bay is very elegant. Its hotel includes an
aquarium with sharks
We were located on Fremont Street, in the centre of
Downtown, an axis that runs parallel to the Las Vegas Boulevard.
That’s where the first casinos were built (Golden
Gate Hotel & Casino, Binion’s
Horseshoe, Golden
Nugget and the Fitzgerald).
Fremont
Street Experience is worth seeing with its giant screen (89
feet above the ground with over 2 million spot lights). there are 5-6
minutes long representations every hour as from 8 pm. The place is
calmer than the Strip because it’s aged a little, but we were
told that’s where the real gamblers go
Las Vegas really is like nowhere else on Earth, a town where everything is permitted. It’s a huge theme park for adults. You like it or you don’t, but we definitely loved it !
