Although the strip is only 3.5 miles long, you can’t get anywhere without a taxi driver. You certainly can’t drive down the strip - it’s far too congested, and takes hours. Equally, walking is a killer, as you spend so long walking through the casinos, you don’t have the strength left to walk between them (which is why there are huge moving sidewalks through some of the hotels, to help take the load off - the Venetian even has the world’s longest moving sidewalk, while the one at the Excalibur leads all the way to the Mandalay Bay, albeit in different sections rather than as one giant sidewalk).
So you’re stuck with the taxi-driver to get around town, which also means you’re stuck with his laconic wit and his suggestions for the best places to go around town. And this year, we had some real gems!
Posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2007 at 10:07 pm by Mike Evans
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Posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2007 at 9:42 pm by Mike Evans
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I was walking across the strip to Planet Hollywood (the old Aladdin) from the Bellagio, having just watched the Bellagio’s fountains (which are great, by the way, and well worth a look). As I was crossing the road, I noticed four huge blokes all be-decked in black suits. It was their suits that first made me notice them, as no-one wears all-black suits in Vegas in the middle of the day.
I thought no more than that though, and my eye drifted lazily to the tiny blonde girl walking next to them with the expectant smile on her face. As I looked at her some more, my mind started to make a few connections: “I know you from somewhere”, “hang on, they look like bodyguards”, “here, aren’t they your bodyguards?!” Yup, Vegas had two Paris’s that day - it was Paris Hilton, who was in Vegas to watch Prince play at the Rio (among many other things!).
Posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pm by Mike Evans
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I just got back from another trip to Vegas, with the last trip being a year ago, and the biggest difference I noticed was the huge amount of construction that’s going on at the moment. Apart form Dubai, Las Vegas must be the biggest building site in the world at the moment, and certainly the richest. From my hotel room at Circus Circus, I could see just four building sites, but they alone are worth over $15 billion!
