Las Vegas - What is good to do there?
I've been told that unless you have a good plan for Las Vegas, you're not going to have a clue what to do when you get there.
I and my two brothers have a trip planned in October from the 2nd to the 16th. We're starting in Los Angeles and then driving to Vegas. We have things planned for Los Angeles so that part is fine. However, we're planning to stay longer in the Vegas area.
So far we have a single casino visit planned, tickets to see Penn and Teller and time at a gun range sorted. But we plan to be there from the 5th to the 14th so we need more to do.
This is a once in a lifetime trip for us and we don't want it to be too much of a tourist thing. We're looking to find some good places to head out and have fun. We're all in our twenties (24-28) and Irish, so somewhere we can get drunk would be great.
Top ideas or good tips for hanging out in Vegas would be greatly appreciated.
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I am bit confused because you say "visiting las vegas" and "we don't want it to be to much of a tourist thing". Las Vegas is a tourist thing.
If you want to get drunk then visit the Hooters opposite the MGM. You find a lot of people handling out flyers for strip clubs on the main street (The Strip), and there is a place where you rent a ferrari or lambo for an hour or so, and recently some company opened where you can drive a bulldozer or digger and shovel some dirt around. "Sahara" had some ex Daytona racing cars set up as multiplayer racing game simulator, but the place closed down sometime in May 2011 - I blame the food.
Apart from that you can only really hang out in Casinos and watch the shows there, or the one shaped like a pyramid has the worlds largest Titanic collection inside. The casinos itself might all have a different theme, but at the end it's just plastic decoration around gambling machines and they are all the same.
I really recommend some day trips to either the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam or maybe Bodie, CA on the way from LA to LV.
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In addition to the casino rounds, food, Grand Canyon day trip and other entertainment, don't miss out on the Cirque Du Soleil shows in Vegas. Expensive, but if you are making a 'once-in-a-lifetime' trip, you can't afford to miss these. I would recommend O at the Bellagio and/or Ka at MGM
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