Questions to our first trip in Las vegas!

"George Perry" wrote in message om...
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Hi,
A very Happy New Year to all of you!! Me and Hubby are going to las
vegas in Feb. This will be our first trip to vegas and the last
(hopefully) before we become 3!! Thought we should cover the sin city
before we enter the family kingdom! The last of our lazy-n-free
days...
So here are a couple of questions:
4) las vegas is the 'night city'. can you suggest any activities for
the day there?

Shopping, Eating, Shopping, Eating,... Don't know how long you'll be
there, but the outlets out in Primm (all the way on the Cal/Nev
border) are great - it just takes a whole day to get there & do them.


Hi went to Vegas last March - superb

stayed at the Luxor with no issues, the Blue Man group is a must, also
saw Lance Burton (pretty Good) and O which was reat.

Cheap and cheerful lunch - then try the cheesecake factory at Caesars
Palace where the service is good and the food is better (with large
portions)
i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Red Rock Canyon is pretty cool, and the temps probably not too oppressive in
Feb.

"George Perry" wrote in message om...
"brenda" wrote in message
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Hi,
A very Happy New Year to all of you!! Me and Hubby are going to las
vegas in Feb. This will be our first trip to vegas and the last
(hopefully) before we become 3!! Thought we should cover the sin city
before we enter the family kingdom! The last of our lazy-n-free
days...
So here are a couple of questions:
4) las vegas is the 'night city'. can you suggest any activities for
the day there?

Shopping, Eating, Shopping, Eating,... Don't know how long you'll be
there, but the outlets out in Primm (all the way on the Cal/Nev
border) are great - it just takes a whole day to get there & do them.


Hi went to Vegas last March - superb

stayed at the Luxor with no issues, the Blue Man group is a must, also
saw Lance Burton (pretty Good) and O which was reat.

Cheap and cheerful lunch - then try the cheesecake factory at Caesars
Palace where the service is good and the food is better (with large
portions)
i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Red Rock Canyon is pretty cool, and the temps probably not too oppressive in
Feb.

"BR Eagle" wrote
is firstly a word?

Yes, providing "chapo" is. At the Las Vegas page at the site at Right
in the sig, it's http://www.cheapovegas.com/index.php.

"Visaman" wrote:
Firstly try http://www.chapovegas.com
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Brenda (above) mentioned the show Mamma Mia! which is at the Mandalay
Bay Theater. It's based on the songs of ABBA and is highly rated (and
hence well attended). We loved it.

We spent a week in LV over the recent New Years and the "high season" is
obviously NOW.
We'd wanted to see Celine Dion's new show at Caesars Palace but felt the
tics @ $350 (each)
in the mezzanine(!) were too steep. Some folks were paying $800 and the
front seats were gone.

Shopping and eating were our main activities outside of the casinos. The
24 hour activity inside the hotels and casinos (going outside to move to
another venue is a shock) makes one forget the obligatory sleep....so we
came home exhausted. Vehicle traffic jams (again, 24 hours) on the Strip
and heavy cig smoke in the hotels were the downers. Coming home with
modest winnings was the high.

Bob McNabb

George Perry wrote:

i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Is that still there? We drove all over looking for it and couldn't find
it at all.

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Evelyn C. Leeper
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain
or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:55:49 GMT, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
wrote:

George Perry wrote:

i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Is that still there? We drove all over looking for it and couldn't find
it at all.

Well, it's kinda hard to move the dam, so it's still there. :-)

--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

Bill Funk wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:55:49 GMT, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
wrote:


George Perry wrote:

i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Is that still there? We drove all over looking for it and couldn't find
it at all.


Well, it's kinda hard to move the dam, so it's still there. :-)


Okay, I mean the chocolate factory....

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Evelyn C. Leeper
http://www.geocities.com/evelynleeper
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain
or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain

"Evelyn C. Leeper" wrote in message v.net...
Bill Funk wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:55:49 GMT, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
wrote:


George Perry wrote:

i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Is that still there? We drove all over looking for it and couldn't find
it at all.


Well, it's kinda hard to move the dam, so it's still there. :-)


Okay, I mean the chocolate factory....

Despite its size, it's surprisingly easy to miss. Because, even
though it's "right off of Sunset Road," and Sunset is such a large
road, Ethel M.'s is located at an awkward location. If you're driving
east on Sunset Road through Henderson [from the west, and the
direction of Las Vegas], you eventually come to a T-intersection.
Turn right, and you're still on Sunset. Turn left and you're on
Mountain Vista. Go straight [which seems pertty impossible when
you're actually driving on Sunset] and you're on Sunset Way, which
will lead you to "Cactus Drive" and the Ethel M. factory and catcus
garden.

If you're driving west on Sunset Road [from the east, and the
direction of Sunset Galleria, Sunset Station, etc], you'll want to
drive on the right side. Then, when you hit the intersection that
tells you that the left two lanes continue on Sunset, while the right
two lanes go to Mountain Vista, stay to the right and be looking for
that Sunset Way to turn off on.

I thought I had heard that the tours of the factory might be ending.
Just as well, as the "tour" itself was pretty pointless. But the
cactus garden should still be there, as well as the factory store.

TK

Todd Kunioka wrote:

"Evelyn C. Leeper" wrote in message v.net...

Bill Funk wrote:


On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:55:49 GMT, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
wrote:



George Perry wrote:


i'd suggest Ehtel M's cocolate facotry/cactus garden. However, you might
want to save that for when the three of you return and you visit the Dam.

Is that still there? We drove all over looking for it and couldn't find
it at all.


Well, it's kinda hard to move the dam, so it's still there. :-)


Okay, I mean the chocolate factory....


Despite its size, it's surprisingly easy to miss. Because, even
though it's "right off of Sunset Road," and Sunset is such a large
road, Ethel M.'s is located at an awkward location. If you're driving
east on Sunset Road through Henderson [from the west, and the
direction of Las Vegas], you eventually come to a T-intersection.
Turn right, and you're still on Sunset. Turn left and you're on
Mountain Vista. Go straight [which seems pertty impossible when
you're actually driving on Sunset] and you're on Sunset Way, which
will lead you to "Cactus Drive" and the Ethel M. factory and catcus
garden.

That's the problem--when we got to the T, we assumed it was the end of
Sunset Road and gave up.

You'd think they'd have a sign or something.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
http://www.geocities.com/evelynleeper
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain
or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain