General

On your first trip to Vegas you will likely be overwhelmed initially & wondering what the hell you're doing there in the first place. The crowds (albeit, smaller than in the past) & traffic will drive you nuts, the street hawkers, the scale of things, the 30-something idiots acting like teenagers just out to party hard, the assault on all of your senses, the lights at night (which are really quite something), the incessant noise of the slot machines in the casinos (you will first hear it at the airport & later it will be ringing inside your head as you drift off to sleep), the excess, the conspicuous consumption..........it will shock you.

After a couple of days or so, you'll start to get into the rhythm of things (not sure if that's necessarily a good thing), but if you do spend the money to go down, you might as well make the best of it, especially if you don't think you'll be going back for quite some time, if at all. We usually try to keep sensible hours - in bed before midnight or shortly thereafter & up a reasonable time so that we can do things before the outside temperature gets too high. The streets are far less crowded before 10:00 or 11:00 AM.

You're probably thinking that it sounds like we won't be having any fun with those staid & sensible hours, but nursing a hangover when you are on vacation is a waste of your precious time.....especially in Vegas where there is soooo much to see and do and then before you know it you are heading to the airport to go home.  So don't be fooled by what you've read so far because we do find lots of time to enjoy our fair share of Perfect Margaritas and casino cocktails and street beers!  That urban myth about oxygen being pumped into the rooms just might be true.  We have never suffered from hangovers in Vegas!!  Mind you, we always try to ensure that we also drink lots of water during the day & before retiring for the evening!  Then again, perhaps we just didn't drink enough rolly-pops in the first place!  ;-p