It is amazing how many rooms the hotels must be able to fill and how many slot machines they need to keep it in business. Las Vegas certainly pulls in the crowds regardless of the economy. Each hotel / casino is a resort within itself and each has their own theme. All of them are competing for the dollars vacationers bring to their town. The people just keep coming and the hotels just keep being built. The old ones go down and just as fast a new one pops up. It is absolutely amazing!
Monday I took Terry to the airport for his flight to Phoenix for the dentist and then on to Portland for his doctor appointment. Then, Tuesday the Hyders came knocking at the door. We were going to check out a few more fancy resorts on The Strip.
If you’re looking for a resort with waterfalls, high-end stores, inside and outside gardens as well as an 18-hole golf course, the Wynn is where you want to stay .... if you can afford it. It certainly took the prize in my book for glitz. We had fun checking out the menus too. Rather, we had fun looking at the prices on some of the menus where every item was priced separately. This wasn't a place to find a cheap meal deal.
We still haven’t seen all of the casinos. We're certainly trying but I really don’t believe we ever will even make a dent in all the casinos around Las Vegas. Here are just a few we sampled on Tuesday.
The glitzy Wynn and a few of the shops
Rolling out the red carpet at the Wynn Casino.
The very elegant Palazzo
Inside Caesar’s Palace
The Mirage
A sculpture of Siegfried & Roy at the Mirage hotel
Inside the Venetian - care for a gondola ride?
Isn't Denney’s just about everywhere?
Other lower cost food choices include McDonald’s and Panda Express. Aren't they absolutely everywhere too?
Are the prices at McDonald's and Panda Express the same or are they inflated for Las Vegas?
ReplyDeleteI love the Venetian. I cannot get over how many new places there are there. How can people afford this place in our economy? Maybe we aren't as bad off as "they" want us to believe?
ReplyDeleteA few years ago we computed that Vegas had 100,000 rooms. At that time they changed out 80,000 visitors each week just through the airport. Since those days, we quit counting but my guess would be there are around 110,000 rooms now.
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