Best Strip casino for??

[TENNBEAR]

never been to Vegas. but i'm just wondering you can really get around every where just walking?
i mean i'd be one to prefer walking but i've heard it is really a lot of territory.
how about downtown for walking? is downtown near the strip?

On the strip from Harrah's to MGM Grand there is the monorail, all day pass was 9.00 ( last November ) . This is my perfered way up and down the strip.
Downtown is much like one huge casino, you simply go next door to the next one. I just eat the 20.00 cab fare each way when I go downtown. We normally stay on the strip.

 

[shadroch]

Unless you are being comped,staying on the strip is an expensive waste,if you are there to play BJ.
For the price of an average resort room,you can stay downtown or at any other ofthe nicer locals casinos,rent a car,have dinner and still have some leftover gambling money.Parking at almost every casino is free,you can valet your car for the price of the tip.

 

[InPlay]

Unless you are being comped,staying on the strip is an expensive waste,if you are there to play BJ.
For the price of an average resort room,you can stay downtown or at any other ofthe nicer locals casinos,rent a car,have dinner and still have some leftover gambling money.Parking at almost every casino is free,you can valet your car for the price of the tip.

What if the rooms dowtown are not up to your standard of living? Maybe they are not what your are a customed to ? What if the rooms smell ? Maybe I am being a little to snobish. Also the quality of the people you are sitting with are quite something. I hear you can get fleas and ticks from them. Lets not forget about head lice from your cheap hotel room.

 

[shadroch]

What if the rooms dowtown are not up to your standard of living? Maybe they are not what your are a customed to ? What if the rooms smell ? Maybe I am being a little to snobish. Also the quality of the people you are sitting with are quite something. I hear you can get fleas and ticks from them. Lets not forget about head lice from your cheap hotel room.

Your nor being snobish. You're being a dick.

 

[shadroch]

It actually is quite a walk.

From Mandalay Bay (what I consider the southernmost point on the Strip) to the Wynn (what I consider the northernmost point) is about 2 hours. Downtown is sufficiently far from the Strip that you shouldn't attempt to walk it. Palms and Hard Rock are close enough to the Strip that you can walk, but it's probably not worth it in terms of time/effort/risk of mugging, especially if you're plastered and it's 3am.

I've been to Vegas enough so that I have no incentive to take the "scenic" route through all the casinos; even in the midsummer, midday heat, I'll walk outside and can get from MB to Wynn in 45 minutes. The first two years we went out we had a car; it was moderately useful for the "oh crap we're staying at Mandalay Bay and I need to cash a sports bet at the Bellagio" or "oh crap we've got 15 minutes to get from TI to MGM Grand" moments, but we just have fewer of those moments now.

Two hours walk from MB to Wynn? I'm assuming thats a typo and you meant 2 miles,which is about 45 minutes walking distance.
I walked from El Cortez to The Sahara once. It was long and boring. Almost nothing of intrest to see,and it took the better part of an hour.

 

[InPlay]

Your nor being snobish. You're being a dick.

Next time you are downtown take a look around and see if you don't start itching. Always take your flea and tick spray when you go downtown. I always carry a can and spray my room if I EVER stay dowtown.

 

[callipygian]

Two hours walk from MB to Wynn? I'm assuming thats a typo and you meant 2 miles,which is about 45 minutes walking distance.

2 hours at tourist pace - going through the casinos for the AC and seeing at least one thing that interests you enough to stop.

Maybe I am being a little to snobish.

No, you are being a dick.

Strip casinos are definitely nicer; whether you're willing to pay the premium for, say, a wave pool or access to a spa is up to the individual.

 

[InPlay]

2 hours at tourist pace - going through the casinos for the AC and seeing at least one thing that interests you enough to stop.



No, you are being a dick.

Strip casinos are definitely nicer; whether you're willing to pay the premium for, say, a wave pool or access to a spa is up to the individual.

You probally are going to make money playing BJ so why not enjoy life you only go around once. Pay the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

 

[callipygian]

Pay the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Well, I definitely do. But I don't look down on people who don't.

I usually stay at the Bellagio, and aside from buffets, and the last time I ate dinner at a restaurant that wasn't four star was probably 2002 or 2003 (last trip I hit dB Brasserie @ Wynn and Mixx @ THEhotel). I would 100x rather pay $100 for a meal I really enjoy than get a fried food buffet for $10 - but that's me.

I completely understand if people would rather stay off-Strip, eat comped buffets, and take a big wad of cash home. I personally consider card counting a neat subsidy for an otherwise extravagant vacation - I've never even left Vegas with more money than I entered with (although I came damn close once, foiled only by a flaky roommate who left a day early because his wife was pissed at him for losing more than he was allowed to lose).

 

[InPlay]

Well, I definitely do. But I don't look down on people who don't.

I usually stay at the Bellagio, and aside from buffets, and the last time I ate dinner at a restaurant that wasn't four star was probably 2002 or 2003 (last trip I hit dB Brasserie @ Wynn and Mixx @ THEhotel). I would 100x rather pay $100 for a meal I really enjoy than get a fried food buffet for $10 - but that's me.

I completely understand if people would rather stay off-Strip, eat comped buffets, and take a big wad of cash home. I personally consider card counting a neat subsidy for an otherwise extravagant vacation - I've never even left Vegas with more money than I entered with (although I came damn close once, foiled only by a flaky roommate who left a day early because his wife was pissed at him for losing more than he was allowed to lose).

Thats what you are supposed to do enjoy it you can't take it with you. To me that is the purpose of making extra money it affords you all the little extras in life that you would not indulge in normally.

 

[shadroch]

I can stay comped at any Harrahs but Caesars.The thing is,I don't consider a trip to Vegas to be a vacation.Its a working trip,laying the groundwork for the future.If I want a vacation,I'll hit my timeshares in Pompano or Edisto Island.,or my bungalow on the Great South Bay.If I want an excellant ,yet overpriced meal,I have some 20,000 restraunts within 15 miles of my home.
To each,his own. But to suggest that only on the strip will you find acceptable lodgings and people without lice is still being a dick.

 

[InPlay]

To each,his own. But to suggest that only on the strip will you find acceptable lodgings and people without lice is still being a dick.

Next time you are downtown take a good look around you and look at the people around you. Tell me if you don't think they don't have fleas.

 

[InPlay]

To each,his own. But to suggest that only on the strip will you find acceptable lodgings and people without lice is still being a dick.

Recommended for those who stay in downtown LV. Don't leave home without it. I don't!

 

[callipygian]

Next time you are downtown take a good look around you and look at the people around you. Tell me if you don't think they don't have fleas.

Not all of us sleep with as many downtown tourists as you apparently do, so we have fewer data points to work with.

 

[jimmtech]

Like on CSI, you can get a light to detect blood, urine and "other bodily fluids" in your hotel room, that may not be visible to the naked eye:

(Dead link: http://www.dojes.com/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=436)

If you get one of these, you may never want to stay in ANY hotel room ever again!

Regarding downtown - of greater concern to me is personal safety - Fremont St. is ok, but walking to the El Cortez garage in the early AM can be a harrowing experience!

 

[callipygian]

Like on CSI, you can get a light to detect blood, urine and "other bodily fluids" in your hotel room, that may not be visible to the naked eye:

Ever watch The Office (US)?

Two co-workers on a business trip turn on a blacklight in their hotel room, and there are fluorescent stains all over the bed and walls.

Dwight: "This can be blood, urine, or semen."
Michael: "Oh, God, I hope it's urine."

:laugh:

 

[jimmtech]

:laugh::laugh:

I found that scene you mentioned here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2boczY_myc

:laugh::laugh:

Tks

 

[InPlay]

Not all of us sleep with as many downtown tourists as you apparently do, so we have fewer data points to work with.

I don't. Nexer have stayed downtown. Lots of offers from the Nuggent a couple of years back. I usally stay first class. I don't worry about being comped. If I get it fine if I don't no big deal. It won't make me or break me.

 

[shadroch]

I don't. Nexer have stayed downtown. Lots of offers from the Nuggent a couple of years back. I usally stay first class. I don't worry about being comped. If I get it fine if I don't no big deal. It won't make me or break me.

Ploppier words have seldom been written.
Seems you are talking about stuff you have no idea about. Again.

 

[mdlbj]

Your nor being snobish. You're being a dick.

:laugh: