General information:
Famous worldwide as the capital of gambling and brilliant show. Gladiatorial battles and pirate battles, fascinating beauty the finest variety, the stars of hard rock and jazz, a huge hotel-casino with free drinks. This is the Las Vegas - entertainment capital, a city-myth, the city-deceiver.
Every year 12 million visitors visited Las Vegas and taken out of their pockets 4, 2 mldr. dollars. Once in 1931, the government of Nevada legalized gambling, Las Vegas has long remained a sleepy provincial town in the middle of the desert. Only by the imagination of an assassin Bugsy Siegel, this desert oasis into a coin.
Las Vegas is not only the capital of gambling, but the center of entertainment worldwide.
The whole world renowned show, taking place daily in the halls of the largest hotels. In the conference halls of the hotel there are many international exhibitions and conferences. By the way, only a third of their income city receives from the gambling business, else - family tourism and exhibitions.
Las Vegas is divided into two parts: the Strip and downtown, and Glitter Gulch. Once in Las Vegas, the best - is to enjoy an event, play, play, win or lose just return itself. Nothing beats a night strips, drowning in an ocean of colorful lights. MGM Grand hotel guests (MGM Grand Hotel) there is no need to go beyond the threshold of the lobby: to visit all the casinos and movie theaters, two concert halls, 6 restaurants, 2 pools, 4 cocktail lounges, 10 tennis courts and a shopping center will need more than one week.
The restaurant at Caesar's Palace (Ceasar's Palace), decorated in a luxurious Roman interior, you served the waitress, dressed in flowing garments. On the territory of the hotel raspolozheno18 restaurants.
You can go to a gigantic neon clown on the roof of the casino Circus Circus (Circus-Circus) - here over the rows of slot machines are the tightrope walkers.
Entertainment:
Dangerous Paradise
Casino in Monte Carlo is not the oldest, but certainly the most famous. His visit - the same social event, like Christmas balls, or the Vienna Royal Ascot races in. Hundreds of thousands of the rich and famous from all over the world come to the tiny Monaco to posorit money in a luxurious palace on the beach. The most beautiful yachts stand side by side berths in the local port. Solar flares are the windows of the most expensive cars. Almost all known past and present people bestowed this place with his presence and his money. Suppose somewhere in the lights burn brighter, even where a game is harder, but if you have never lost nor won at the green baize of Monte Carlo - you do not belong to the major league players.
But the casino - it is not just a game. Among other things, this is a great complex economy. Every morning in his shop check balls, balance wheels and inspect the blades roulette croupier. There is even a generator. So any attempt to disable the building from the city power to take advantage of the gambling halls in panic to steal, is doomed to failure. Moreover, at the slightest hint of unrest, an employee at the touch of a button can send all the money in cash armored basement.
Security measures at the casino special. The halls are constantly on duty police officers in plain clothes. Because Monaco is too small a country to, from time to time, we have to write from abroad to patrons and employees of the casino did not recognize the agents. In addition, the security service includes a "group memory". Gash in the boys club jackets, standing at the entrance to the gaming halls, keeping a sharp look around every visitor. There is always aware in the face of those who categorically entrance to the casino closed. Moreover, there avid players voluntarily zanesshie themselves in "black list" in an attempt to keep the game and guard against temptation. No requests, promises and gimmicks will not help them then erase its own name from the list of undesirable clients.
The first of the magnificent suite of rooms casino - "salon of Europe". Here, playing roulette. Not inferior to the neighboring luxury "Pink Salon" and "White Room" has a more modern fillings - machine-roulette, video poker, slot machines. Here there are nebolypoy museum where you can see old pieces and the very first slot machines.
Oath Countess
But in the beginning, was nevertheless of Bad Homburg. In 1840, the twin brothers François and Maurice Blanc dramatically intervened in the fate of this small German resort of signing an agreement to build a city park in a casino - Shpilbanka. Thus, in the heart of Bad Homburg originated therapeutic and entertainment center, surpassing the magnificence of the local palace Landgraf. One of the local streets named after the Countess Kiseleva. This Russian countess of Polish descent - a historical figure in Bad homburgskom casino. Her passion for the game was so intractable that the Pope himself had to call an end to the Countess pernicious fad. She vowed that a whole year does not sit at the gaming table. And kept his word by continuing to play while standing.
Alas, in 1872 the kingdom of roulette in Bad Homburg suddenly collapsed. After the death of the last Landgrave, a tiny German principality became part of the united German empire, whose laws prohibit online gambling. Casino Bad Homburg immediately closed, and Francois Blanc, the remainder of that time without his brother, bored. But not for long. His gambling Blank moved to Monte Carlo, all repeating it, "Bad homburgskoe miracle." So the famous casino in Monaco, just a younger brother homburgskogo Shpilbanka.
At the same Bad Homburg casino was revived only in 1949. In 1985, there occurred the first million prize, which was repeated in three years.
The surrounding park Shpilbank you proud to show the tree under which allegedly shot prototype "player" of Dostoyevsky. Our classic, as is known, had a weakness for gambling and his novel, written with great skill. Exactly the same tree you can easily find at other German spas. Such "historical counterparts" in the world are not uncommon. And where is the "right" tree from the "Gambler" is unknown. But the casino in Bad Homburg - certainly, the most hot spot, where once again famously lost money Dostoevsky.
The American Dream
Meanwhile, America, accustomed to do things their own way, has created a completely different kind of gambling empire that never ceases to shock the rest of the world an incredible scale. Gambling capital of America - Las Vegas - begins at the airport, all
space is lined with "one-armed bandits." In the 30s it was just a small dusty town in the middle of sun-scorched desert.
But today, a scattering of its bright lights in the night even see astronauts. Light flows like lava, filled the Strip - the main street of the city. They pulsate, flashing flashes on the facades of buildings giant, each of which - the casino and hotel "in one bottle." There is no other. One without the other in Las Vegas just does not exist. The main concept of the local gambling industry - themed hotel-casino. In these entertaining and hotel complexes you can bet and watch at the same time, the pirates are trying to capture the beauty in bra and fakirs make two white tigers disappear.
You can enjoy the fountains, spewing coconut milk, and a five-meter volcano of fire, around which the fields are green gaming tables and slot machines are placed. The thirst for winning is proportional to the scale of the sci-fi show. And if 15 minutes later you finally go mad, then do not realize it, begin to pull in all those knobs and stick the coins in every possible gap.
In the city of gambling all on a grand scale. A beam of light from a powerful laser on top of a giant pyramid casino "Luxor" crisscrossing the universe. Sign in to it - between the legs of a giant sphinx, ten times bolype Egyptian original. And why, he wondered, to drag in some kind of Egypt, if the "Luxor" is a replica of Tutankhamen's tomb. In Las Vegas, all truth and all hype. Here is his "Paris" and its "Venice" with canals, gondolas and the Doge's Palace. The American "Venice" is covered with a huge roof navesnoi under kotoroi kazhdyi hour sweeps flock of pigeons, on the Rialto bridge you can climb the escalator, the water in the canals cleaned up to drinking, and their banks are waiting for you 122 gaming tables and a half thousand "armed bandits".
There are in Las Vegas and its heroes. Four years ago, an Australian immigrant Johann Hoyndl, celebrating in Las Vegas, his 74th birthday, pulled off a jackpot of 22.6 million dollars. Good luck caught up with an old lady on her way to breakfast at one of casino online "Bali". And this brought a fabulous sum to her very modest rate of $ 3.
The biggest win in Las Vegas was recorded in 2000 and accounted for 34.9 million. The casino-hotel "New York - New York," a record 12.5 million in prize went to a resident of Las Vegas Sue Henley. This casino is one of the largest in Las Vegas, covers an area of several hectares. It's a real New York in miniature air-conditioned Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, shop on Fifth Avenue, Forty-Second Street's famous, gardens, cafes and restaurants. Unending stream of people flowing through the streets of puppetry and spills on the area with gaming tables and machines.
Hotels (Las Vegas (Nevada)
Bellagio Resort Deluxe class
Venetian Resort : Casino Deluxe class
Luxor Hotel : Casino Superior class
Monte Carlo Resort Casino Superior class
Planet Hollywood Resort : Casino Superior class
Circus Circus Hotel and Casino First class
Riviera Hotel First class
Mandalay Bay Hôtel Resort and Casino
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