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One common thing you will see is a lot of people on the strip passing out cards for escort services. These people will try to give the cards to anyone walking by.
I'd been warned about the cards!!
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Both of my favorites are off strip. The first would be the seafood buffet at the Rio.
For breakfast or dinner, The Orleans. Hands down, the best buffet I've ever had in the 10 years of living in Vegas.
I LOVE Las Vegas. I find when I book, I like to visit VegasMessageBoard.com. I love the Forum Shops at Cesar's and Miracle Mile at Planet Hollywood. We did the Hoover Dam once and I'll be honest, I hated it.
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Oh and one more warning. I don't know if you are going to be there on a weekend, but the casions, Excaliber included, have dancing girls above the poker/blackjack pits. Scantily clad ladies dance suggestively on platforms above the tables. You can see them when going through the casino. They usually start around 9-10.
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It's been a few years, but I LUUUVED the breakfast buffet at Paris. Worth every penny! I could have lived on the fruit, Belgian Waffles and Nutella . The made to order crepes and omelettes were great, too.
Oh yes, that Paris buffet. I could eat there for every meal. All of the Cesar's properties now do a 24 hour buffet pass. It is now $44.99, I think. When we got it, we ate a fairly late (9ish) breakfast at the Paris buffet, lunch at Harrah's, dinner at the Rio buffet (you can do the seafood buffet for an additional $15, but I've heard it's not worth it, the regular buffet was awesome, and then did breakfast at like 7 the next morning at Paris. Yeah, we got our money's worth.
A man alone will be approached with cards. Sometimes a couple will be, but not generally. If you have kids with you, they'll leave you alone. Not sure about the law, but they know their market. Single men.
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Oh and one more warning. I don't know if you are going to be there on a weekend, but the casions, Excaliber included, have dancing girls above the poker/blackjack pits. Scantily clad ladies dance suggestively on platforms above the tables. You can see them when going through the casino. They usually start around 9-10.
The Rio has a free "show" as well. At certain times they have a carnival (Mardi Gras) themed "floats" and they toss beads. It's neat.
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I have not been to Vegas (yet)- but we will also be visiting for the first time in June also. My oldest is 14 and this is what we have planned: (I know you mentioned budget, so I'll list approx costs as well)
Hoover Dam $9 vis center or $11 power plant tour
Madame Tussaunds $35 aprox adult price; I think $28 teens
M & M Factory $free
Volcano @ the Mirage $free
Don't forget to watch the Sirens show at TI. It doesn't play on windy evenings but the pirates will pose for pix near the hotel entrance if it's cancelled. They used to do several shows per night but it's been a few years since we last watched.
World buffet at Rio and the buffet at Flamingo were big hits with my DH and kids. I know it's cheap but I liked the buffet at the garden restuarant at Circus Circus (just the sorts of simple foods I like).
We take the bus when we need transportation while there. the cost used to be $5 for a 24 hour pass. I'm sure it's more now though. Just walking through the resorts is fun. There really is a lot to see. There was a mall beside the now Planet Hollywood, used to be call Desset Passage for some such thing. They had a little body of water in the mall and every so often the is a storm that brews over the water. It was really neat to see. I haven't read all the other comments, but I'm sure others have mentione the Volcano @ Mirage, the Sirens show @ Treasure Island. At the Flamingo we went to check out the pool it was neat and there were come animals to see there, birds, turtles as such. Living statues at Ceasars and Venetian were fun to watch.
Check out the chocolate fountain in the chocolate store at the Belagio ( I think). there is a shark aquarium at Mandalay Bay. They charge admision but it wasn't too expensive.
One word of caution. They have LOTS of people handing out cards for call girls and they are explicit. They are shamless with reaching over "junior" to give them to dad! many people will take them possibly not knowing what they are and then through them on the ground. Just a heads up. Your 14 yr old might get an eyeful quick.
A man alone will be approached with cards. Sometimes a couple will be, but not generally. If you have kids with you, they'll leave you alone. Not sure about the law, but they know their market. Single men.
I've personally experienced and seen quite the opposite. I don't know how many hands I had flung in my face trying to give my DH a card who was deliberatly walking on the side furthest away from them. Also I've seen then hand them to a dad walking down the street holding his kids hand.
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Dessert Passage was the name of the mall when the PH hotel was called Aladdin.
I believe the Aladdin was the oldest or last? hotel on the strip to be renamed. I remember going to an exhibit at the Tropicana hotel maybe in 2002 or 2005 and reading all sorts of interesting tidbits. (Shame I can't remember them-lol)
I have not been to Vegas (yet)- but we will also be visiting for the first time in June also. My oldest is 14 and this is what we have planned: (I know you mentioned budget, so I'll list approx costs as well)
Hoover Dam $9 vis center or $11 power plant tour
Madame Tussaunds $35 aprox adult price; I think $28 teens
M & M Factory $free
Volcano @ the Mirage $free
Hope you have a great trip!
Don't pay full price for Madame Tussauds. you can get tickets 1/2 price at any one of the multiple tix 4 tonight locations around town. If I had paid full price, I would've been upset. It was nice, but I won't rush back there.
Dessert Passage was the name of the mall when the PH hotel was called Aladdin.
I believe the Aladdin was the oldest or last? hotel on the strip to be renamed. I remember going to an exhibit at the Tropicana hotel maybe in 2002 or 2005 and reading all sorts of interesting tidbits. (Shame I can't remember them-lol)
The mall in the PH is Miracle Mile Shops. I remember the exhibit at the Tropicana as well. It was like the Vegas Museum or something. It was free admission and was really cool. It's too bad they shut it down. They did however just open a Vegas Mob Museum.
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