Day 2 in Lovely Las Vegas

After visiting the Affiliate Marketing expo this morning, where we caught up with James and Arlene Martell, who introduced us to Greg Sheppard who runs an Affiliate Network that we will be utilising for our websites in the near future, we decided to go and do the laundry.

We piled all our clothes into a suitcase and set off. When we asked the bell hop to point us in the right direction to the 24hr laundromat in Arvill St he firstly looked shocked that we wanted to walk and then  mentioned that it was quite a long way off and we would be better off taking a taxi. Thinking that he must know what he was talking about we decided to get into a cab. After getting out of the cab only 5 minutes later we realised that we could have easily walked it and in fact that is exactly what we did on the way back.

The laundromat was an interesting experience. We have been to many laundromats in our travels but have yet to see one with slot machines conveniently located so you can gamble while you wait for your clothes to be washed. Seems like there are slot machines everywhere in Las Vegas.

We decide to watch the tv while we are waiting  and ’Breaking News’ cuts through the program - two different shootings in Las Vegas schools on the one day. This is fortunately something we don’t see in Australia.

Once our clothes are done we walk back to the hotel. It’s a beautiful day, the sun is shining and the walk (about 3 miles) is easy. The laundromat experience has really cut into our day but it had to be done – we were both running out of clothes.

So although we arrived back late to our hotel we decided to take the hotel shuttle to The Strip which for those who don’t know is where most of the biggest, more impressive casinos are situated. The shuttle took us directly to Caesars Palace so we went into the hotel to take a look. This is one really amazing casino/hotel. The theme of the hotel is Roman and there are huge Roman-style statues, a lifesize Trevi Fountain and a lifesize Statue of David. It is filled with fountains and up market shops such as Prada, Giorgio Armani, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana  and is absolutely massive as are most Las Vegas hotels.

We then walked across the road to the Bellagio Hotel which was also impressive but we felt that Caesars Palace really stood out between the two.

We weren’t really intending to spend so much time on The Strip tonight, as it was just a spontaneous move to go in the first place but before we knew it we had walked for miles and getting back would have taken at least another hour. So we decided to have dinner at one of the casinos at the Southern end of The Strip and decided on The Luxor Hotel , which has an Egyptian theme. We headed to their buffet restaurant known as The More. Well this was a great find. For only $19.99 we got to eat from a huge range of foods including prawns, mussels, sushi, salads of all different kinds, hot meats, vegetables, pasta, pizzas, crumbed shrimp and there were also plenty of desserts to choose from. Drinks were free, which we have since found is the norm, and your glass is constantly refilled by the waiter.

After the meal we started to head back to Caesars Palace but realised that it was going to be a really long walk. The hotels are huge and although there are only about 5 hotels from the Luxor to Caesars Palace the distance to walk is literally miles. So we headed across the road to the MGM Hotel to see how much the monorail would cost.

Walking through the MGM to find the monorail was an experience in itself as the hotel is huge so it took about 20 minutes to get to the ticket booth and on the way we stumbled upon a glass cage that contained a couple of lions. We initially thought that they were mechanical but eventually realised that they were actually the real thing.

Finally we made it to the monorail and for $9 we got a two ticket pass and headed up to catch it to Harrah’s Hotel which has a free bus shuttle back to our hotel.

Filed under: America & Canada • Las Vegas

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!