Learn me about Vegas

Another off-the-beaten-path place to visit is the Valley of Fire. It's a Nevada state park, 58 miles NE of the strip. It's absolutely stunning. There's been a bunch of movies shot there, and most of the desert motif/twisty roads car commercials are done there.

That said, it's never crowded and there are lots of cool things to see, including ancient petroglyphs carved into rock faces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Fire_State_Park

 

Stratosphere is a horrible place to stay, let alone walk to from anywhere as Mongo said. Plus, the strip is north/south, not east/west.
If you are bringing the wife, the Palazzo is a great place to stay. Nice rooms and a nice mall in the Palazzo/Venetian. But it is more at the north end of the strip - well, other than the way the eff up there Stratosphere. Caesar's is a good place with the wife as well for the same reasons (nice rooms, mall shops) but is more central.
With the wife, the Eiffel tower at the Paris in the evening is nice. Go up there just before dusk and stay up there while the lights come on, see the Bellagio water show from above.
There actually are plenty of things for a couple to do in Vegas, it isn't just a bachelor party place.
As for Exotics Racing, I have done that 4 times now and it is always worth it.

 

Go see Jubilee!

 

Tickets just went on sale today.

 

I was quickly learning that! I was ready to start swinging bombs, or whatever , if I had to. Thankfully not.

 

I'd did a quick research when booking, and didn't find/see anything to not book it, but it was fairly cheap, so shoulda took that in consideration, but again.... I'm cheap. It didn't seem too bad while we were there, and didn't have any issues, but I'll remember for next time.

Really? Didn't know it was North/South. I was drunk at the time, so it didn't really matter.

.... That's better.

 

Only 3.75 miles from MGM Grand to Stratosphere. Not as far as I thought, but sure was while walking intoxicated.

 

+1 meeeeeellion

Bellagio, MGM, Aria, Caesar's (has the Forum mall; wife will go nuts and even as a guy it's fun to just walk around it) and my personal fave the Mirage.

Stratosphere's rooms made me think of a Holiday Inn. The Mirage's rooms look like the high-rise penthouses you always see in movies.

 

Yea but being drunk and walking east-north-south-west, you probably walked 11 miles total

 

Oh, another thing about Vegas. It is impossible to get social diseases. Fuck those hookers without worry.

 

Wishful thinking on the adage "what happens in vegas stays in vegas."

-jim

 

BTW, Scotty. Film Hangover III while you're there.

-jim

 

The moon. We landed there!

 

n+1 then.

I don't do theatres.

-jim

 

Neither do I.

 

+2 or 3 or 4 on Fremont Street and the container area. if you are there at night, see if they'll fire up the praying mantis. you'll get it when you see it.

also hit up the Mob Museum. pretty cool and worth an hour or two or three there. Gives you some good history/background on LV.

hoover dam, red rocks, or north to Zion if you want to get outside and the weather is decent. I've been there when it was literally 120 degrees (even riding a friends Multi Strada felt like someone was holding a blow drier in your face on high/hot settings. at midnight.) and when it was 35 degrees. I think I'd take the cold over the heat. I know, it's a dry heat.

just about anywhere has excellent people watching. the later it gets the better the watching.

 

My wife & I wanted to be there on 07/07/07... but 06JUL07 we were there when LV tied its all time record high at 127. It was so hot my wife's fingernail polish began to curl & pull painfully at her fingernails.

We did manage to get in some science in the parking lot at the Luxor. Right in the middle of the uppermost floor there's a stop sign on a big steel plate base. I went back in ~2009 or 10 & you could still see the outline of the egg.