Tuesday, September 8, 2009

last trips in US.. part 2

The road for Las Vegas took us through desert mountains, even after travelling hundreds of miles, all you can see is more mountains. It was like "Road to Nowhere". The good thing is you can travel at a speed of 80 miles per hour on most of the roads and sometimes reach 100 miles per hour, so you feel that you are covering distance fast and swiftly.
When we reached hotel Stratosphere, we rested for about an hour or two in our room on the 21st floor. Now something about the hotel. The hotel has "Top of the World" Restaurant on the top floor which rotates 360 degree every 80 minutes.The hotel has the tallest free-standing observation tower in the US and has some extreme rides on the top floor. See the video below of one of the rides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbehfUGx6Rs
To go to the observation tower located on the 109th floor, you need to buy a ticket and there is ofcourse additional charges for taking one,two or all the three scary rides.
We bought tickets for the observation tower and went to the top. From the top, you can enjoy the 360 degree view of the city below. All the famous hotels- Trump, MGM,Bellagio,Treasure Island etc. on the Las Vegas Strip look small from the tower. We took some photos and as we had only one night stay in the city, we decided to go and see the famous Las Vegas strip and the hotels that line the street.
A lot of people come visit the city every weekend and this being a long weekend (holiday on Monday due to Labor Day), the rush was much more than normal weekends. As you walk on the street, you can see the big screens put up by each hotel to showcase the shows being played in their theatre halls as well as publicise their cool bars and restaurants. Some of the most famous personalities and groups come and perform in these hotels, to see these shows you need to pay for the tickets which may cost anywhere being 65 and 120 dollars, depending on the popularity.
In MGM, David Copperfield, the magician was performing this week while Tador, the winner of America's got Talent, was going to perform in Mirage hotel.
Each hotel had big casinos on the ground floor, the largest I saw was in MGM Hotel.
Some hotels had city or country themes like the New York New York hotel, Paris Hotel and The Venetian Hotel. New York-New York had replica of Statue of Liberty near its entrance and from the inside, it looks like you are roaming on the streets of New York. Paris Hotel had a huge Eiffel Tower starting from its entrance while The Venetian had Venice,Italy written all over the hotel design.
We had to walk so much from one hotel to another that time just passed by.
At around 10 pm, we went and ate buffet at Tamba restaurant which served Indian cuisine exclusively.
Casinos of some hotels were full with people. Some were gambling on horserace or playing BlackJack, poker or other games. I played BlackJack at one of the slot machines. The game was pretty easy to play and as expected I lost the 2$ in the bargain.
We tried to cover as many hotels as possible but could cover only a few - Treasure Island, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Excalibur.
By 1 am, we were pretty tired and called it a day. Our legs were aching with about five hours of walking. We went to our hotel room and slept.
In the morning, we had a nice breakfast at Lucky's restaurant inside the hotel. We checked out
at 11 am and started on our journey back to Santa Clara.
That was the end of our Vegas trip but I know that I am going to return to this place and Do Vegas Right. Adios !! Chirrio !!

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