YourFather wrote:We will just use the Duece to get use around. No worries.

The Duece stops right out front, by the Slots O Fun I mentioned earlier!!!

GRZFTBL wrote:Circus Circus has a casnio called Slots O Fun onsite. They have $5 tables, as does downtown and the off strip casino's.

Slots O Fun has a $7 plastic football you can get filled with beer.

MrTitleist wrote:

GRZFTBL wrote:Circus Circus has a casnio called Slots O Fun onsite. They have $5 tables, as does downtown and the off strip casino's.

Slots O Fun has a $7 plastic football you can get filled with beer.

Now that is what I am talking about. Anytime you can mix beer and football you have a winner.

Slots O Fun is the worst name ever.......I knew some girls in High School that went by that name.

I know I know bad joke

Definitely check out the Carnival Court at Harrahs. The piano bar just inside Harrahs is fun too.

Our favorite restaurant is Fusia at Luxor.

I tried to talk my wife into going here, but she was having none of it.

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I'm kidding.

That is possibly the funniest thing ever posted on eGriz!

Take some time to cruise around until you get to the Neil Diamond impersonator (click on Band)...Absolutely hilarious!!!

souvenirs can be had a few dollars cheaper on Fremont than on the Strip... if you're the souvenir type

for c-store type supplies(sodas, snacks, cigs), the ABC stores are your best bet

The only sit down meal we really spend much time at on the strip is at Margarittaville near the Flamingo. Good food and the only real relaxing place on the strip.

Hot dogs near Harrah's are awesome.

Great pizza place in lowerl level of Bally's near the sports book.

Don't take the gondola at the Venetian unless you want to get stared at.

Most times you can get a deal on the wax museum (worth it) and the Blue Man Group at the Venetian.

Go to the half price show ticket stand near the M and M Factory and Coke store. Think they open around 10:30--line starts early. Not every show is half price, but a good bunch are and they're legit shows.

Don't call one of the 900 numbers on the side of a bus and ask for Monica--she'll act stuck up and. . . .oooh, never mind.

New York New York is our favorite. The upper level has Coyote Ugly (you have to at least see it) and the dueling pianos and singalong is great. Also ESPN Zone is fun and you can pose with the Evel Knievel version of the Operation Board Game. Good for all Montanans.

Not a fan of much in the Luxor.

Mandalay Bay has the House of Blues which is good.

Honestly the best breakfast meal isn't a buffet at all but a little dive casino across the side street Bally's.

Most fun place to gamble is easily O'Shea's on the corner.

Imperial Palace can be avoided.

Second City is a great comedy show--how Saturday Night Live originated.

The big dogbone drinks that you carry around are only fun while you're drinking them.

If you are absolutely convinced you need to eat a buffet, try the Paris' seafood buffet or the one at Bellagio.

I am by no means an expert, only going to Vegas a couple times, but the last one being in December and fortunately I can remember some of the trip.

Don't fly Delta, I can't seem to make it through Salt Lake City without getting some kind of flight problems. I can't count how many times I have had meals comped by Delta in that airport because they have screwed something up in some way shape or form. Last December we sat on the tarmac in Vegas for 3 hours to try to get one of the engines started and missed our connection in Salt Lake and had to spend the night in SLC, wow, what fun.

I agree, Margaritaville is great, I love their big plate of nachos, it is huge and it tastes good and it's only about 8 bucks... I think... I can't actually remember paying for that, though.

For a fun little breakfast, if you like crepes, go over to La Creperie in the Paris, very tasty.

I haven't found a buffet that I liked down there yet and have pretty much given up trying.

If you like expensive food (it also tasted good but after paying I felt guilty that I could have fed a small country in Africa for a month) go to Bobby Flay's Mesa Grille in Ceasars. Like I said, it tasted good but it's smaller portions and I lost my head and ate my meal like I was eating a burger at Fud ruckers. So when I got done eating and was looking across the table at my wife's food I then realized that I should have taken a bit more time and savored my expensive food. Some older gentleman sitting alone at a table next to ours offered me one of his pork tenderloins and I politely turned him down three times before I went ahead and took it from him. So while I was eating the pork tenderloin (also very tasty) our waiter came around and saw me eating something that didn't look like the chile relleno that I ordered. I just looked up at him and said "Don't ask."

Yes, the walking can be an ordeal to get from one place to another. I didn't mind it, it wasn't like I was on a schedule or anything and it was fun to just take a walk with my wife. It was not fun to take a walk with my boys, couldn't hear enough complaining. It's like they never walked to school in 4 feet of snow uphill both ways, ever in their life. So buy the pass to the monorail, it's worth it... kind of... sometimes you have to walk just as far through the big casinos to get to the monorail station as it would have been to walk down the sidewalk to where you wanted to get in the first place.

I am not a smoker but after spending time in those casinos I felt like I needed a 3 pack a day habit just to get my lungs ready for it.

Damn, this message is longer than I had planned, I just burned the hell out of my breakfast on the stove. (Think fire alarms and hard boiled eggs exploding)

If you go to Freemont, don't take the bus. That is all I need to say about that, just don't take the bus.

With all the escort service leaflets with mostly naked girls on them that are thrown on the ground my 16 year old son never did see Vegas, he walked around with his eyes glued to the sidewalk. I had to occasionally give him a course correction so he wouldn't run headlong into a light pole or building. Come to think of it, he never did complain about going for walks... it was only my youngest son that complained.

The NASCAR cafe was fun, interesting memorabilia and pretty good hamburgers.

Circ du Solie was very cool we went to Mystere, it was absolutely crazy, very impressive. Just don't pay the $43 freaking dollars for a stinking picture and the end of the show. I just looked at my wife and said, "Yes dear, get it if you want." She did...

The Rainforest Cafe, in the MGM, was cool, the kids really liked it. But after walking down there, I almost fed them to the Lions.

The Bellagio fountains are cool... once or twice... The volcano at the Mirage is cool... once... The pirate show at Treasure Island has been closed every time I have gone to Vegas.

Maybe next time we can make it out to the pub at Torrey Pines, sounds like a cool place.

cadwiz.

The only buffet I found decent is the seafood buffet at the Rio. I think I ate 4 lbs of King Crab. Other than that, they all taste the same, and it's not good.

The only problem I had w/ the bus and downtown was coming back at midnight on a Friday. I think we waited an hour. (huge line)

Wow plenty of great information from everyone thank you. When i win my million I will remember you all.

Bozgriz wrote:That is possibly the funniest thing ever posted on eGriz!

Take some time to cruise around until you get to the Neil Diamond impersonator (click on Band)...Absolutely hilarious!!!

LMAO, nice catch. So you checked it out?

Checked it out??? Let's just say I have some new sites to see on my next trip...

Oh wait, I just saw the photos of the owners...NEVERMIND!

I've lived in Las Vegas for the past couple years, and I must say that I am pretty impressed with most of what has been offered on here for must sees and dos in Vegas. All pretty good info.

Just a quick couple things...at the Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino (center of strip intersected by Flamingo St) you'll find the best deal on drinks at the bar. Only $2 for ANY DRINK. I drank more Crown Royal there than any man woman or child should ever have to admit too. (just kidding) Contrast that with prices of $12 a drink (call drinks) at many posh Vegas nightlcubs (the best ones in the country), and it's a steal. The Barbary Coast is a laid back, come as you are type of casino--with cheap drinks.

Best value Buffet in Vegas at the newly renovated Golden Nugget downtown. Good food on the cheap. I don't remember exactly but I believe it had pricing around lunch - dinner 9-12 dollars. Gourmet Buffett dining can be had at the All Suite Rio Hotel and Casino, and the Planet Hollywood (formerly Aladin). Those two are voted every year as the best in Vegas. Not cheap however, but incredible food.

It's true about what someone said above about the people in Vegas that are servicing you to some extent expect to be tipped. They are not there for their health. Even though those cocktail girls look to be in extremely good health. When the poster above mentioned he tipped $2 a drink that is fairly common and just plain smart, you'll get great servide. You'll get phenominal service if you throw her a $20 for you and your friends and say keep the drinks coming, you won't have to tip her again and you'll have her undivided attention. The norm is 1-2 a drink. Just put yourself in their shoes ask yourself would you go out of your way to come back and service someone that was constantly stiffing you or would you work on those that were showing you a little appreciation? hmmm? Those cocktail girls, valet, bellman ect can't pay their rent with just a "thank you". Even though that is appreciated as well. Just not the ultimate thank you.

Here's one little nugget of info that I haven't seen on here. It's a nightspot called Ivan Kane's 40 Deuce. It's tucked away in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on the south west side of S. Las Vegas Blvd (the strip). It came from LA (and is still there as well). It's small, intimate cabaret lounge. At midnight and periodically after that, a female caberet dancer comes out and dances at a fast pace and is elevated behind the bar (to alive band on the side--elevated as well), she is a phenominal, sexy dancer. It's not a striptease, it's better with her skimpy clothes on if you can imagine that. She does 1 song and then disapears, it's kind of cool and she has the whole lounge standing (men and women) and starring with adoration.

My best steak dinner to date has been at N9NE Steakhouse in the Palms Hotel and Casino (main floor). It is a Chicago Style steakhouse and very cool. It's a dress to impress type of place though, with a menu to match. I brought my friend that has been around the world and he said it was one of his favorite places after I took him there. It has nothing to do with the $1000 hr hooker that sat down by us at the bar either. The Palms has a lounge call the Ghostbar. It is on the to floor some 50 stories up. Part of it is inside and part of it is outside. It has stunning views of the strip. And a section of the floor outside is see through, so you can look down to the pool.

The best nightclubs are TAO (Venetian), PURE (Ceasars Place) and RAIN (Palms), and BODY ENGLISH (Hard Rock).

Best movie theatre is at the Red Rock Casino and Hotel, west of the strip towards Red Rock Canyon. It's a new property and just gorgeous.

Take a tour of Hoover Dam, it's a short drive and a lot of fun. It's an impressive structure and I learned a lot. Not only do you tour up above but you get to go down below in an elevator and stand above one of the pipes of flowing water, it rumbles and shakes the floor.

Best diner, in the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino, the name escapes me. But it's a 50's style diner and has great food. The waitresses/waiters get on the mic and sing as well. (Usually a good thing) Best Clubhouse sandwhich is in the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in their little diner by the giftshop.

For Mexican food on the strip, try La Salsa in the Luxor. And get the Margarita by the yard.

The MGM Casino and Hotel is extremely large and impressive. You've gotta check it out. Don't mind the live tigers.

NY NY Hotel and Casino is a great time, as mentioned by someone above. How can you go wrong with the ESPN ZONE?! The NY NY has a good, urban vibe about. Go to the storefront section on their and get your slice of pizza, it's great. The piano bar inside is a long of fun, he's a good entertainer (mixing it up with the crowd) and plays fun music.

If you like fine italian cars, check out the Wynne and it's lineup of vehicles.

The Wax Museum was ok, but you'll just have your partner taking pictures on a bed with Hugh Hefner and standing with Brad Pitt. You on the other hand will stand in the shadow of Superman Shaquile O'Neil.

Torrey Pines Pub is great on Griz gameday during the season, and the owner is a cool dude. A Real Griz fan. But I've never been their during the offseason. It's up in the northwest and my house is in the southwest (it's a half hour drive).

Someone mentioned In-N-Out Burger. THIS IS A MUST!!! It's just a couple Vegas blocks off of the strip (down Tropicana) and it is quite possible the door to heaven my friend. I'll leave it a that.

A couple new projects (there are several) of note are located center strip, maybe a touch south. The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino, and The City Center.

The Cosmo kind of speaks for itself.

The City Center is an astronomical 7 Billion dollar project. It will be all inclusive, you won't even have to leave or anything.

Condos are being offered for sale at both properties, last time I checked they started at 1/2 a million per 500 sq feet.

The Barbary Coast is now called Wild Bills or something like that. Harrah's bought it and changed the name. It is still run the same though.

ALSO!

Try a Sin City Brew.. I found it inside of Treasure Island, at one of the quick eat places.. great beer.

I wanted to thank everyone for their advice. The wife and I will be flying out of Billings tomorrow afternoon.

Do everything on our list. You won't regret it.

Hope you're rested up!!!!!!!

I will try to do everything you guys mentioned except taking my wife to the swingers joint. I might end up getting left there if I suggest that.