A week's worth of things to do in vegas

[habsfanca11]

With a group of people you can always take over the mechanical horse race "thing". The old carnival game thing where you bet on the horses on a tiny track. They used to be all over - but now I think the only one left is at MGM down by the poker room.

Off the strip - catch a band at "The Beach". Cool place - the netire lower floor is covered in sand and they usually have some good bands.

Someone mentioned a tour of downtown. They have their nightly Freemont Street Experience.

Some thoughts.

[growlers]

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Off the strip - catch a band at "The Beach". Cool place - the netire lower floor is covered in sand and they usually have some good bands.

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The Beach closed 9 months ago I'm fairly sure.

[TxRedMan]

strip clubs include:

sherrys cabaret ++++
seamless +++
all others = ripoff

sherry's is small, cheap, and they have at least a few hot chicks there all the time.

seamless = $$$

i reccomend eating dinner at mizunos in the trop.

very good stuff.

the automatic machine gun thing is neat, but very $$$$.

try walking from the wynn to monte carlo once. <wheezing>


helicopter tour at night is cool.


go to the stratoshpere, it's a must see view at the top.


tons of small time shows.


danny gans (if he doesnt cancel) seinfeld @ ceasars is good, and check out many others.


paris has a superb buffet.

[Mondogarage]

Great sushi: Ra (across the street from Wynn, on the outside of that Fashion Mall. Awesome sushi happy hours, seriously. We stay at Wynn, almost just to be close to Ra, it seems.

[pokerfloor]

The NBC National Heads Up is at Caesars 3/2-3/4 all the Poker pros in one place and you can watch for free if you get there early enough to get a seat

[Phanekim]

Hoover Dam. LoL.

[bav]

Modestly priced but high quality eats nearish the strip:

Mediterranean: Paymon's on Maryland.
German: Cafe Heidelberg on East Sahara or Swiss Cafe on E Trop
Mexican: Viva Mercado on W Flam or Lindo Michoacan on E Desert Inn
Cuban: Florida Cafe on LVBlvd north of Sahara
SushiBuffet: Makinos on W Flam
Random: Bahama Breeze on E Flam (it's a chain, but I still like it)
Cheap Steak: Ellis Island
Historic Italian: Batista's Hole in the Wall (food ain't spectacular, but it's got "atmosphere")

You can walk to Batista's, Ellis Island, Bahama Breeze and Cafe Heidelberg from strip hotels. The others I think I'd wanna cab or drive. (Technically you could probably walk to Florida Cafe from Sahara/Stratosphere, but I don't venture north of Stratosphere on foot without armed escorts.)

[DayTripping]

Batista's was a hangout of the character played by Joe Pesci in the movie Casino. I agree that it has very good atmosphere with unremarkable food.

[pig4bill]

I thought Seamless sucked. That may be a function of the lack of talent though.

[fishyak]

As bav said: Ellis Island for cheap eats. They brew their own beer and root beer. They have an off the menu $5 steak and its on Koval, one Las Vegas block behind Bally's.

One block further off, on Paradise Rd. is a tapas restaurant called Firefly in the same mall as Ruth Chris'. This would be a great place for a group of 20's. Just keep ordering different tapa's and pitchers of really good (3 day "marinade") sangria. I was there last weekend with my wife and we wished to had a group of people so we could try everything. It's open to 3 am too if so your group gets a late night munchie attack, this spot is 5 min. from the strip.

Ka is phenomenal - the stage cost $165 MILLION. But you would need to get your tickets BEFORE you go. The show is the same late night or matinee. Expensive, but, IMO worth it.