Vegas

Sin city!

It’s been a fun few days and certainly very eye-opening. Neither myself or Andrea have ever been to a place like it, perhaps because there isn’t anywhere in the world like it! Our hotel is the Riviera, at the north end of the strip. It is one of the best places we have stayed in on our trip - its great to have our last few days here. The hotel has lots of amenities including many restaurants and shops, a pool area (where fat people get a tan), a wedding chapel (with an Elvis impersonator - of course!!) and a huge casino (which is busy whether it’s 6am or 6pm) taking up most of the ground floor.

The strip is an interesting place, we haven’t walked that far down it as its 3miles long, although we have explored some of the casinos around us. There is Circus Circus, which has free circus acts playing most of the day, Treasure Island, which has a few pirate themed shows in the evening involving scantily clad women and men with their shirts off (sex sells), and also Wynn, one of the newest and poshest casinos in town, which has some blackjack tables with a minimum buy-in of $500 per game! Mental!

Our end of the strip is more our scene. We have managed to find a place which sells really cheap drinks and also found some fun slot machines which allow for 3p bets. So far we are about $14 down (as expected - the odds are all in the house’s favour), but we don’t think that is too bad for two days of entertainment!

So far we have had a great time here. Tonight is our last night in Vegas before our flights back to the UK tomorrow. We’re still deciding how to celebrate the end of our trip - perhaps we will graduate from the slot machines to a blackjack table - or perhaps not, it‘s more expensive when you lose!

So this is the penultimate blog post from us, expect only one more before we see you all back in the UK !!


The view from our window