The magnificent fountains at the Bellagio, dancing to the music, the Ceasars Palace in the center and right, the Mirage
Technically speaking, Paris is the City of Light! More than 24,000 miles of neon tubes light Strip and Downtown. In the early 80's, Vegas offered at night, an amazing sight, but in broad daylight, the city seemed sad and it left her without regret. In recent years, it has become a family entertainment. Without abandoning the gaming industry or the traditional shows, sponsors have expanded the show at all hours of the day: the facades of casinos compete in originality, and you can walk for hours with her children in a setting always different and never let them see a slot machine.
Major hotels are like small cities with restaurants, shops, art galleries on the ground floor, bedrooms on the upper floors compete with slot machines, poker tables, roulette, baccarat, and they could remain in his hotel and did not leave any holiday and never want for anything. But it would disregard the extraordinary spectacle of the street, and the enormous sun flooded the landscape 310 days a year.
The Luxor's Sphinx and the pyramid in a village
In 2009, thirty-six million visitors came. McCarran Airport, where more than 1000-bandits penguins await travelers, is the fifteenth in the world for passengers, and the seventh to air traffic: every day, more than 120,000 people arrive or depart in about 1600 aircraft. They come to play, visit, work ... Vegas is also the world capital of boxing, and hosts many trade shows, conferences and symposiums.
There is no need to be resident in the State of Nevada to get married: if suddenly seized by a passion during a pleasure trip, you feel like to marry without banns, it takes just to prove to the Marriage License Bureau that you are over 18 years and, if need be, that your divorce has been pronounced even in Nevada, we will not let you become a polygamist! In 2011, the license cost sixty dollars, but did not value marriage certificate, a valid return, worth seven dollars. Marriage is extra, and you can spend lots of money: with a little imagination, a fake Elvis Presley (or James Brown, if you like the singer) will accompany you, unless you choose to impersonate the alliance on a bridge or a Venetian gondola, and even the floor of the mini Eiffel Tower of Paris - Las Vegas. Gays can have their ceremony, but will obtain only a certificate of attendance. You can also opt for a limousine or a helicopter on, or you take him to the Valley of Fire, or the Grand Canyon. And if a release of doves you pleasure, feel free to ask, you can!
Wedding Chapel Treasure Island .Curious vision of marriage!
Johnny Weissmuller and Lupe Velez, Kirk Douglas and Ann Buydens, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Zeppo Marx and Barbara Blakely, Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim, Rita Hayworth and Dick Haymes, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton marries have here: why not you?
the Venetian
In summer, heat is torrid: the visit of the Strip days can be scary. Rest assured! Public transport, air-conditioned, are not lacking, and allow you to jump from one casino to another, leads a monorail from the MGM Grand to Bally's, another at the Bellagio to Monte Carlo, a funicular connects the Mandalay Bay Excalibur, a tram runs between the Mirage and Treasure Island, and a trolley runs through the strip without interruption.
Mandalay Bay - Excalibur ... By car, if you please!
Downtown has long been the heart of the city. The extension to the south and the amazing spectacle that was born have dethroned. To fight, Fremont Street was covered with a canopy of light, stage lighting effects at times like a film clip. They say, in the jargon tourism "Fremont Street Experience." The casinos have not changed, same walls, same lights, same colors, but the street lit giorno, pedestrian of 450 meters, sparkles in all its glory.
Fremont Street in the 1980
Twenty-five years, pedestrians have replaced cars, the Mint has been absorbed by the Binion's Horseshoe ... The decor, almost identical, appears very different
Downtown keeps one side rabble
This jumper dress in light, now owned by the
Neon Museum, was the sign of the Hacienda Hotel,
opposite the McCarran Airport
We often feel that once visited the Strip and Downtown, there is nothing to do. Yet the city has several museums, such as the Old Mormon Fort, the Nevada State Museum, the Liberace Museum, Guinness World Records Museum and the amazing collection of cars at the Imperial Palace, constantly renewed by sales and new purchases. The Pinball Hall of Fame has an amazing collection of pinball machines, with which you can play. The opening of the Mob Museum, dedicated to organized crime, is scheduled for December 2011.
Old washing machine, but improved The needle of a spinning wheel. But beware! Here,
no Sleeping Beauty
The climate is hot and dry: the average maximum is close 40 ° Celsius for 4 months and, even in winter, the minima does not drop below zero. The climate is particularly dry, but occasionally a big storm hits the region and can cause severe flooding. Las Vegas is surrounded by desert, very dry and boring but the vast body of water from Lake Mead, a few tens of kilometers, is a feast for boaters, fishermen and swimmers. The dam is built in a canyon with spectacular colors, on the road to Arizona. Twenty minutes from downtown, you can relax by exploring the Red Rock Regional Park. On the road to Bryce Canyon and Zion, you will enjoy visiting the Valley of Fire State Park, a rock rich in warm colors and rock carvings of prehistoric Indians. Many helicopter companies can make you see things from above, or take you to the Grand Canyon. To complete the contrast, know they skied _l'hiver only!, Just 80 miles from the casinos in the chain of the Spring Mountains.
Paris: anachronism aside, ballooning and Eiffel Tower are real references to the Champ de Mars. The decor also includes parts of the Louvre, the Opera and Arc de Triomphe, more or less nested within each other! Since 2007, the Aladdin is now Planet Hollywood
In comparison, the other cities of the game seem pâlichonnes, and sometimes sordid. Some have their own personality, forged by history, or heavy investment. Others are simply dormitories equipped with game rooms, where people come to spend a weekend because there are lights, we do not know what to do, because it's more or less close expensive. Las Vegas is an extraordinary show, an abundance, a flood of light which, despite some trivial details of implementation, the astonishment, the charm sometimes outweigh the repulsion that can cause this profusion of superficial decorations, alignments slot machines, or discovering the beautiful lingerie, when through the city on Interstate 15.
Without outward, so that forgets the time, the factory to play. The bandits, penguins are by far the game No. 1
Map of Las Vegas casinos 2011
There are no direct flights from Paris to McCarran Airport. Also, many Europeans Francophones will they come by road: we happen to Zion, Bryce or Monument Valley, Grand Canyon Hoover Dam, San Francisco via Yosemite and Lake Tahoe and Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Mojave Preserve, after landing at Los Angeles, the capital of the game is at the crossroads of major highways. The visit is the fastest to arrive in the evening, enjoy an overview of the city all lit up, lighting, fountains of Bellagio Fremont Street and then the next day walking the Strip the fresh. Those who like it too can stay two or three days, even ... a month?
Mandalay Bay. At night, despite the bright rooms, one gets the impression that the windows are black
Player or not, see Las Vegas! If you have already seen, go there: you'll always be surprised by the change.