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Published: December 16th 2006
This is Vegas
You've all seen this sign, but we thought we'd put it here anyway.This is turning out to be a trip of contrasts.
After a week in the busy Apple and a few days in the more sofisticated DC, we've now spent a week in Vegas, with a couple of days on the road to see Grand Canyon and Death Valley (we'll write about this in separate posts).
Vegas is a bit of a disappointment. We thought is was going to be even more surreal than what it actually is. The Strip, or Las Vegas Boulevard as it's actually called, is littered with flashy casinos/hotels (to get to the front desk you have to get through a maze of gaming opportunities - do they want you to go bust before you even check in?), and every 3-4 blocks there's a deserted plot of land or a building site.
Our hotel, the Sahara, built in 1952, is one of the classics. Elvis and The Beatles among others have stayed here. The age of the place shows a bit and it's not as current as the MGM or New York New York for example.
Our first room, on the 3rd floor, facing the monorail station that runs along the strip, didn't have
The Sahara
Our home for the week. a working shower. Also, it was a smoking room. Not a very good start. Only for one night though. The next morning we moved up to the 24th floor, with a very nice view of Vegas. The first few days we spent walking up and down the strip, having a meal here and a drink there. There are lots of places we never managed to go near even! (We did manage to go to Coyote Ugly, at New York New York - disappointingly, no dancing on the bar!)
Speaking of drinks - the legal age to buy drink in a restaurant in Nevada is 21. H had to show a photo ID to be served a beer. You bet she smiled the rest of the evening...
After a few days on the strip we took a day off by the pool, to work on our (until now non-existent) tans. Nice!
As a last attempt to do something interesting we went to MGM, as we've heard they had lions there, as they should - it is MGM after all. Well, there they were, in a glass cage, with hundreds of spectators taking pictures. Luckily the lions are only
A room with a view...
on the 24th floor. A bit better than the view of the monorail station outside our 3rd floor room (the first night). there 4 hours at a time, one day a week, and spend the rest of the time on a ranch outside Vegas.
So, what do we think about Vegas? Well, it's cool to have been here. Are we going back? Doubt it. Overpriced (we were told Vegas was dirt cheap), overrated and lots of lonely, lost souls.
Now, we're off to LA.
(Don't forget to read about our Grand Canyon and Death Valley trip though and have a look at all the pics below.)
Det har ar verkligen en kontrasternas resa.
Efter en vecka i det surrande Applet och ett par dagar i det mer sofistikerade DC har vi tillbringat en vecka i Vegas, inkl ett par dagars biltur for att se Grand Canyon och Death Valley (vi skriver mer om detta i separata poster).
Vegas ar lite av en besvikelse. Vi trodde det skulle vara annu mer surrealistiskt an det faktiskt ar. Strippen, eller Las Vegas Boulevard som den egentligen heter, ar full av glittrande kasinon/hotell (for att komma till receptionen maste man ta sig igenom en labyrint av spelmojligheter - vill de att man ska ga i konkurs innan man ens
Pyramid
As Vegas "needs" to be the biggest and best of everything. Is this sphinx prettier than the original? checkar in?), och det finns en odetomt eller byggplats i vart 3-4:e kvarter.
Vart hotell, Sahara, byggdes 1952, och ar ett av de klassiska.
Elvis och The Beatles bland andra har bott har. Det marks att stallet har nagra ar pa nacken, och det ar inte lika samtida som exempelvis MGM eller New York New York.
Vart forsta rum lag pa tredje vaningen och vatte mot monorailstationen (taget som gar langs strippen), och duschen fungerade inte. Det var dessutom ett rokrum. Ingen vidare bra start. Det var bara for en natt dock, pa morgonen flyttade vi upp till 24:e vaningen, men kanonutsikt over Vegas. De forsta dagarna spenderade vi pa strippen, gaende upp och ner, at en bit mat har och tog en drink dar. Finns massor av stallen kvar! (Vi lycakdes doch ga till Coyote Ugly, pa New York New York - tyvarr forekom inget dansande pa bardisken!)
Pa tal om drinkar - man maste vara 21 for att fa dricka sprit pa lokal i Nevada. H fick visa leg en kvall for att fa en ol till maten. Gissa om hon flinade resten av kvallen...
Efter ett par dagar pa strippen tog vi en
New York New York
So good they had to name it twice.
The rollercoaster was fun...after the first ascent. dags semester och lag vid poolen och spallade, och jobbade pa vara (hittills obefintliga) solbrannor. Trevligt!
Som ett sista forsok att gora nagot intressant gick vi till MGM eftersom vi hade hoirt att de hade lejon dar, som de borde - det ar ju anda MGM. Minsann, dar var de, i en glasbur, med hundratals askadare med kamerorna i hogsta hugg. Som tur ar ar lejonen bara dar 4 timmar at gangen, en dag i veckan, och resten av tiden tillbringar de pa en ranch utanfor Vegas.
Sa, vad tycker vi om Vegas? Det ar ju helt okej att ha varit har. Kommer vi aka tillbaka? Tveksamt. Overpriser (vi hade fatt hora att Vegas skulle vara svinbilligt), overreklamerat och massor av ensamma bortkomna sjalar.
Nasta stopp: LA.
(Glom inte lasa om var resa till Grand Canyon och Death Valley, och kolla in alla bilderna.)
PS: Bibbi - har har man inte barbara toaletter du, snarare har de hans och hennes (och varsitt till hundarna) badrum, komplett med bubbelpool och allt! 😊
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