Vegas, bright lights, kitsch, money, alcohol, clubs, guys pushing girls to your room - that is Vegas. Well Vegas really is a weird place. You have a full spectrum of people: you have the very rich (pompous even) people who fly in on their own jets, to the hard working individual out to have a good time, to the guy who is struggling to feed himself because he has a gambling addiction.
One side of the 'strip' is very new and well kept, while another side definitely does not look or feel as sharp, or as safe. However wherever you go, you hear the jingle of slot machines, which sums up Nevada in my opinion, i.e. Nevada is a gambling state bent on enticing anyone to 'gamble'. What I found funny was that right when you get off the plane, you can go and play on some machines hehe..
Anyway my visit to Vegas was with a group of misfits. People from work, friends of friends etc., and we all packed into two rooms at the Excalibur. Needless to say my sweet accent helped to get free room upgrades :D
On the Friday night we tried to go to a club called LAX. When we got there a bouncer approached me and said for my group to cut the line I would have to slip $150 under my ID and still each pay the $25 cover D: "What?"- I thought! Needless to say I declined and then a person from the club approached and said we could get in right away, only if we got a table and everyone spent like $100! Of course we realised that for that kind of money we could be having a much better time somewhere else. It kind of soured the night, and made the next place we went to feel not as good as it could have been.
On Saturday we went to look at the different Hotels and ate a very tasty buffet Dinner at Treasure Island. It was really quite good I though, especially with the selection of what they offered. I'm sure that I got my $26 worth from it! ;)
After that it was off to Stratosphere, a sky tower look alike, but it has thrill rides at its top. E.g. we went on Insanity, which was ride in which you were seated at the end of a crane type arm, which went out over the edge and proceeded to spin you round and you ended up looking straight down at the ground, which was about 300m below.
For dancing we went to Rum Jungle, which I highly rated. It had lots of dance floor space, the music was good, they had 'dancing girls' and acrobats which actually did entertaining feats.
The Sunday was spent gambling and playing roulette. I started with $20 and ended with $50, with my last bet being silly and costing me $10, but I thought that was a good result from playing about thirty minutes worth of roulette for the first time :)
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