Hola Everybody
I'm typing this from our final stopping place on this holiday - we are in the middle of Hollywood, Los Angeles.
But we'll catch up with Hollywood when we've had more chance to look around a little...this bit of the blog is about Las Vegas which we left this morning.
I really don't know where to start with Vegas...
Firstly, it is intense. It is big, brash, noisy and trashy. But it is also peaceful, elegant, relaxing and very impressive! It seems strange that a place can be both classy and trashy or noisy and peaceful but Vegas manages it - you just need to pick the places you want to spend your time.
Our hotel was very impressive and luxurious - our room was fabulous and the rest of the hotel had several pools, restaurants and lounge areas where we could get away from the noise and bustle outside. However, we were also linked to the main MGM Grand hotel which had a huge casino with thousands of slot machines and loads of people in various states of excitement or drunkenness! It also had world class restaurants, several theatres (Liza Minelli in one of them; AC/DC appearing in another soon) and we managed to join a crowd of around 13000 people to watch an ice hockey match in the arena...in the hotel! Massive!!!
The Vegas strip itself was, by turns, full of sleazy, trashy shops and people or spacious and full of expensive designer shops and world class hotels.
I can't really begin to explain about the various hotels in this blog - there are whole guide books out there devoted to the topic! - but, suffice it to say that we were generally impressed. We ate huge amounts, walked for miles (although we were experiencing temperatures of over 100 degrees outside we could usually find a route to walk in air conditioned comfort or by using escalators, moving walkways and elevators!) and spent a lot of money in the various casinos. We did come away with a small profit though so we didn't do too badly!
Whilst we were in LV we took a drive out to the Hoover Dam (about 30 miles outside the city). It was an impressive place and was VERY hot again.
As I've said, I can't begin to give an accurate picture of what we experienced in LV so I'll just leave you with a bunch of photos - hope you find them interesting and can get some feel of what we got up to and saw in and around LV (I know it looks like I've attached photos of New York, Paris and Venice but they are all hotels on the Strip - honestly!)....enjoy!
We are off to see the Griffith Observatory, the Hollywood sign and the Getty Museum tomorrow (all being well) but I have stuff to tell you about our first night on Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Strip and will have some great photos of our latest accommodation....watch this space!
Take care - we'll be back soon.
D&M
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