Gondola rides
by imlikeabird
Arrive early if you want to ride the gondolas. I think they open at 10:00 a.m. If you are there when they first open, and when most people are still sleeping off their hang-overs, you can avoid a long line. And I mean a LONG line. The first time I didn't do this and the line was about 4 hours. The second time the line was about 5 minutes cause I went first thing in the morning.
Getting Ready is Half the Fun!
by RudyVEGAS
A trip to Vegas is a lot like fishing. I often have as much fun laying out all of my gear and making little adjustments to my boat as I actually do on the water. Getting ready for a trip to Vegas is also loads of fun!
If you have never been to Sin City, check out the King of all Vegas bargain websites, "Las Vegas on 25 Cents a Day". http://bigempire.com/vegas
Matt and Stinky lay out the best places to get free and cheap rooms, food, gambling opportunities, and little crappy trinkets.
Every hotel worth staying in is outlined and reviewed in their sister site. El Cheapo Vegas
http://cheapovegas.com Seeing Las Vegas for the first from the air at night is something I will never forget. If you're up for a little adventure and something really unique, try a Neon Nights Helicopter Tour. Maverick and Heli-USA are a couple of good companies operating out of McCarran Airport. They are easy to find on the web and offer discounts for booking online.
Stay away from the Strip located tours, people have told me they aren't nearly as good.
The thing that everyone does...
by tim123
The thing that everyone does in Las Vegas is check out the Strip. This is where everything happens. Even if you don't gamble you can have some fun going from hotel to hotel to see what they have to offer. My favorites were the Mirage, with it's erupting volcano; Caesar's Palace, with it's Forum Shops; Mandalay Bay, with it's tropical atmosphere; and the Venician, with it's Venice canals. Of course, these 'attractions' are all meant to get you in the door, but if you don't let yourself get carried away with gambling you can have lots of fun.
Downtown Freemont Street -...
by doreenellen
Downtown Freemont Street - the old strip. Lazer shows, each hour of the evening., we saw the 7pm, 8pm and 9pm show, they all had a different theme. The atmostphere is amazing. Did not want to leave. A trip around the hotels there is also a bonus as they are all so different- The Golden Nugget still have the biggest Gold Nugget in glass case for all to see. The food in lots of the Casinos are buffet style
There were little stalls and live music too which made it a very entertaining evening.
We went in 1997 and 2000 and was so amazing still second time around.i We were lucky with the Sunshine, There was great atmostphere everywhere, music, different free shows and the strip was so magical in the evening.
Each Hotel so different and unbelievable.
No Pictures?
by SteveOSF
Nevada casinos typically don’t like people taking pictures. Historically, their reason for this policy was to ensure the privacy of their customers. As gambling is considered a vice, many people might not want to be photographed within a casino. In fact, some people might not be found within a casino when their employer or spouce thought they where elsewhere.
Another consideration was that in the days before corporate control of the casinos, some cheating may have occurred. In order to prove a case of cheating to the Gaming Commission, some physical evidence like a photograph would be extremely useful. There are those who believe that casinos used to ban pictures to prevent the collection of evidence.
With the widespread use of camera phones and compact cameras, numerous pictures are being snapped daily by tourists visiting the casinos. The casino security seems to be overwhelmed by all this photographic activity and seems not to enforce the no pictures rule to otherwise harmless tourists. But keep in mind, if you do take pictures within a casino, security might give you a stern warning to stop doing so.