trv/2426449.txt

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--- 2426449
I’m flying out to Vegas in a few hours and need some advice. I know not to even touch the minibar/mini fridge because they will buttrape you with fees but how common is it to grab a styrofoam cooler full of beer and snacks up to your room? Is the strip walkable? Do restaurants require reservations or can you walk in? I don’t plan on doing much gambling so I’m probably going to see a few shows and concerts. Any recommendations?
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Stock up on booze at the Target or Walgreens near the MGM. Don't use the hotel stores, there's a reason they hide all the prices.

The strip is walkable but it'll probably wear you out if you try to walk it all at once (I did 11 miles one day when I last went and I only did one half of it). Getting a Las Vegas monorail pass can save a lot walking and there are a couple of other hidden away free monorails that go between 3 or so hotels each that also save on walking.

You'll possibly want an uber to Fremont street and Circus Circus as they're both awkward to get to and stopped their free busses (Ubers are quick and easy in general in vegas).

For the shows, there're cirque du solei's at loads of the hotels so you can decide on which one interests you. I think Paris is still doing Bat out of Hell the musical, which is a stupid but reasonably fun jukebox musical (you obviously need to like Meatloaf to enjoy it), assuming it's the same one as in the West End.

If in doubt, get a reservation. When I went most restaurants were allowed people to walk up but you may have to wait to get texted for a table. As with Cirque Du Soleil, lots of hotels offer their own versions of celeb chef restaurants (with tiny menus so they don't cross over ). I think most people would recommend going to the hotel's unique places over these (although I quite liked Guy Fieri's burger place in the Linq, even if it did have a weirdly tiny selection of drinks which meant they just gave you a jug of tap water before you even asked). Buffets are incredibly overpriced now, the expensive ones are good but you'll need to consider that PP they cost the same as a high end restaurant and that you could save money stuffing your face at a mid tier place.
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>>2426449 (OP)
rent a car. they’re cheaper in vegas than most other cities and you’ll save so much money going off strip that it’ll basically pay for itself.

Chinatown (Spring Mountain road just west of the strip) has amazing restaurants for great prices. When you’ve finished with your meal you can pop next door for a rub n tug.

If you’re into /out/ then Red Rock Canyon is only 15-20 min drive west and very scenic. But I prefer Valley of Fire about an hour northeast. Both will be incredible if you’re not familiar with desert landscapes.

The strip is perfectly walkable if you’re in half decent shape but don’t underestimate the distances. Something could look like it’s just down the road but when you’ve got to climb stairs and cross bridges or dip in and out of casinos at every intersection it adds up.

There’s cvs and walgreens every block and even one target on the strip. That’s the place to get your sundries if you don’t have a car, but if you do get a car, there’s some great liquor stores with a really wide variety.

If your hotel doesn’t have an empty mini fridge for the guests, you can call down the front desk and tell them that you need a fridge for your medication, they’ll send one right up without any further questions.

Restaurants generally won’t require reservations but if there’s somewhere you really want to go it can’t hurt to make one, especially if it’s a busy weekend. Worst case, you just bail on your reservation. 

And get a frozen baileys at O’Sheas in the Linq promenade.
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>>2426449 (OP)
>how common is it to grab a styrofoam cooler full of beer and snacks up to your room?
It's very common and is the most economical thing to do. Get your booze this way instead of paying $9/beer or $20/drink. Use the ABC Stores that are all over or use the CVS/Target/Walgreens like the other anon said. I think the ABC Stores have better prices and selection but any will probably work.
>Is the strip walkable?
Yes but the blocks on the strip are bigger than they seem. It will take you like an hour or so to walk from the Venetian down to Luxor for example. If you are going somewhere for a nice steak dinner or something, just take the $8 Uber IMO. Or play boomer for the weekend and rent one of the rascal scooters and scoot around.
>Do restaurants require reservations or can you walk in?
It depends on when you are there. During Friday/weekend, it will be very busy and you will likely need them. During the week, you can easily do walkins to most places unless there are lots of conferences in town. All of them use OpenTable or whatever it is so it's easy to do a reservation and cancel if you need.
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>>2426449 (OP)
There is free liquor in literally every strip casino, if you put at least $10 into the bar mounted card machines the bartender will put a folded receipt into a cup in front of you and bring free mix drinks like screwdrivers until you pass out. Go to any bar, play the five card poker game, min bet is like 10 cents, play slowly for an hour getting unlimited comped drinks, tip bartender a couple dollars then go do whatever your plans are. 
The only way to fuckup is by playing too fast or betting over minimum. Optimally you spend maybe $2 on games, $2 on tip, get 8 comped drinks and walk away.
The nicer casinos will have servers walking around giving comped drinks to people playing slots and roulette too. Never buy your own alcohol.
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>>2426497
is better to get the bus or monorail. I'm staying in the Aria for 5 days.
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>>2426449 (OP)
Do they still have the Star Wars VR there? I'm not into capeshit but it was pretty cool when I went before covid
--- 2426848
What are the strip clubs like? My wife wants to go to one. I’ve been to clubs before but not in vegas
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>>2426848
Oddly enough for sin city none are real close to the strip and they’re especially expensive because of being in Vegas despite being worse than the shady club in your town with the 9 dollar omelette brunch
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>>2426449 (OP)
>how common is it to grab a styrofoam cooler full of beer and snacks up to your room? 
Very. Once you check into your hotel the first thing you should do is get a case of beer at a local CVS/Walgreens. 
>Is the strip walkable? 
Yes, but if you're going to the other end of the strip it's worthwhile to just get an Uber.
>Do restaurants require reservations or can you walk in? 
When it doubt it doesn't hurt to have one, but most places take walk ins.
>I don’t plan on doing much gambling so I’m probably going to see a few shows and concerts. Any recommendations?
Can't go wrong with any of the Cirque du Soleil shows. I saw Blue Man Group last time I was in Vegas and that was pretty fun, especially if you drink/blaze beforehand
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>>2426796

From the Aria, you'll have to walk across the Blvd to access the monorail. If I remember correctly, you'll also have to pass through another casino's floor to get there. However, it definitely helps save on walking since the Strip, despite being a straight road, is frustrating to navigate when it is full of people under the influence of different substances.

As far as snacks/drinks go, it's perfectly reasonable to hit up a CVS to stock up and just go about it that way. That's honestly how I did most of my drinking last time since I'm a skinflint who hates paying $13 for a domestic beer inside of a casino
--- 2427553
I freaking love this place bros. Everything’s within walking distance and everyone’s in a partying mood. Expensive as shit though.
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>>2427553
I got here on a 737 too. No fucking around with cazadors or deathclaws. Ain’t that a kick in the head.
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>>2427553
>Formerly Chuck's
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>>2427553
It's a shame none of the photos I did at night came out. All got reflectioned (should have turned off the room light)

Probably easy, but wonder if people can guess my hotel
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>>2427553
>>2427868
>Probably easy, but wonder if people can guess my hotel
Tropicana Las Vegas
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>>2427927
>Tropicana Las Vegas
Nope
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>>2427868
>>2427959
Easy... Flamingo. Do you like staying with all the blacks there? Or are you black?
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>>2427959
If it's across the street from MGM Grand & Hakkasan, and it's NOT Tropicana, then maybe it's Excalibur?
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>>2427975
Yep. There were a lot of black people, and they were fucking loud
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>>2427999
Stay at Cosmo, Wynn, Palazzo, Nomad, or Aria to avoid *most* of the blacks.
--- 2428090
Where are good places to gamble if I’m a (relatively) poorfag? I mostly wanna play blackjack and roulette
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>>2428090
Ellis Island
Downtown Vegas
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>>2428098
El Cortez downtown is always good when you want to gamble cheap. In the mid 2000's, the table minimums were $1-2 for craps, roulette and blackjack during the week.
--- 2428996
I used to love Vegas but last time I went there I felt like they were stealing from me.

I'm a gambling addict, I'll straight up give it to you.
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>>2428996
That's what's so fucking irritating with Vegas. I brought $1500 cash to spend, stop trying to rip me off. All it ultimately did was mean I found it really easy to budget and barely put anything on my card because I don't like getting overly ripped off.

At least other holiday destinations that rip you off like Disney rip you off on things that you can't get elsewhere and try to make you smile with your over-priced purchases.
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>>2429006
For real

Wife and I took like $3,000 cash and I ended up putting another $750 on my room credit card.

>$35 resort fee
>$50 early check in fee
>$20+ cocktails 
>everyone who helps you wants a tip
>everyone else is trying yo hustle you

At the end of the day I just want to get sauced at a card table, see some shitty cover bands, eat a nice meal or two and escape the rat race for a weekend. But dealing with the Vegas bullshit has become so exhausting that you just give in eventually or stop going altogether
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>>2427975
>>2427999
You can see the Tropicana sign in the bottom of the picture. Excalibur is on the the other side of Las Vegas Blvd.
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>>2429013
Wrong image anon
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>>2428090
Ellis Island
Silver Sevens 
El Cortez 

Even most downtown casinos are $25 tables on weekends these days. Ellis Island and Silver Sevens almost always have $10 available
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>>2428090
if you want to gamble cheap you shouldn't gamble in vegas. go to reno or an indian casino in your home state
--- 2430994
Lets get the elephant in the room out of the way.

>Is prostitution legal in Nevada?

Yes only in certain parts of the county but its illegal in the entirety of the las vegas region

>But my buddy said he paid $1,000 for this smoking hot hooker

Yes these working girls roam the Casino bar/club scene for lonely men and "proposition" them 

>If illegal prostitution are that prevalent in casinos why isn't casino doing anything about them?

Because hookers (along with other sins like gambling and drinking) are part of the lure in vegas so casinos and hookers have a mutual understanding

>How do i go about finding a hookers without getting arrested or losing a kidney?

There should be plenty of hooker vegas guides on reddit to help you out
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>>2430402
>>2430402
indian casino's suck. go to reno.
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>>2430994
Vegas is unironically the worst place for cooming.
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>>2431008
i have a few nice Indian casinos in my state, all about 20-30 miles away
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>>2431013
what state? I am in MN and they only have slot machines and blackjack with the most unfriendly dealers you ever met.
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>>2431019
i live in CA
--- 2431988
>>2431012
This. 

Stay away from the black prostitutes that prowl the casino floors at night. They are run by violent pimps who will fuck you up.
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>>2426449 (OP)
go to their lunches
--- 2433186
What is cheaper: travel from LA to the Strip or the other way around? I'm planning a trip where I HAVE to go both places and I'm not really sure how expensive is to travel on bus/train/flight between the two cities or if there are cheaper alternatives, I don't mind uncomfortable rides and I'm not fat if that matters
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>>2431012
This. Expensive as hell just like all of Vegas. You're paying the outrageous hotel costs as it is, why put yourself deeper in the hole when escorts/whores in Vegas are more expensive than anywhere else in the US?
For a sleazy place, it's oddly expensive to get your dick wet. Better off going to a cheaper state, or better yet, a cheaper country.
Enjoy Vegas though.
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>>2431013
>>2431019
>>2431140
Thoughts on Arizona’s Indian casinos? I’m visiting for work in a few weeks.
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>>2431988
>They are run by violent pimps who will fuck you up.
I mean all of the hookers that roam the casino floors are looking to rob you or otherwise take advantage of you somehow.
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>>2436512
They're casinos bro. Casinos are all the same.
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>>2433186
Round trip flights to Vegas are subsidized by the casinos so they are the cheapest option.
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>>2436883
You go to a casino to pick up hookers, not to gamble.
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>>2437157
Why is it always an old white man picking up below-average looking black women?
--- 2437220
It's a shame that most casinos are more interested in night clubs and pool parties than gambling now. The Wynn was great when it opened, but last time I stayed there it was full of Calvin Harris bros who would sleep 8 in a room meant for 2 and talk about cabanas and bottle service a lot.

Totally agree with the anon further up that renting a car opens up a lot of cool stuff. Shame that so many casinos now charge for parking on top of all the other shit.

Personally, I like the dive bars and shitty strip clubs like 'Talk of the Town' over the overpriced glitzy places. There are so many great food places away from the strip, but taxis probably cost the most per mile in the world.
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>>2437220
Bottle service is retarded. How did they ever convince normies to pay $500 for a 35 dollar bottle of grey goose and some redbulls?
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>>2437269
Status
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>>2437269
>bottle service in Vegas
>only $500

 Lol. Lmao even. Try $5k
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>>2437302
I haven't been to a club in Vegas since 2009 lmao
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>>2426449 (OP)
casinos boy
--- 2439922
pinball hall of fame. play pinball circus, only working copy in the world.
--- 2441248
I'm going to Vegas next week and we're staying at the Luxor, like 3 miles from the airport but everything I'm seeing says it will cost at least $20 each way.
I'm worried the path is not going to be the most walkable, especially with the F1 renovations.
Probably just going to walk
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>>2441248
get a segway
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>>2441248
Dear Lord. You're going to Vegas and you can't afford $20 to get from the Airport. to your hotel You aren't going to have a good time. Enjoy your room at the Luxor. They haven't been renovated since about 1993. You'll get a really nice variety of bed bugs, head lice and fungus from tourists all over the world in your room.