The Best of Las Vegas
August 14, 2004I got back to Louisville yesterday, and it was thankfully cool (around 70 degrees). In fact when I got home I had to mow my lawn, and I sweated less in that hour of mowing than I did in ten minutes walking between casinos in Vegas.
But I’m feeling rested (slept over twelve hours last night) so here’s a recap of the stuff I liked in Vegas:
1. Le Village Buffet at the Paris Las Vegas. Good lunch and breakfast buffet.
2. Todai at Aladdin’s Desert Passage. Yes another buffet, this is good and reasonably priced Japanese buffet in the Aladdin. The ramen soup was good, as was the sushi and the tempura. Ate way too much.
3. The Las Vegas Monorail. Just opened a few weeks ago, and even though it doesn’t connect all the casinos it was a real god-send in the heat. It’s wonderfully air-conditioned and it goes from the MGM Grand down to the Sahara. It goes off-Strip for two stops–the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Las Vegas Hilton. Other than those two, the other stops are various Strip casinos.
4. The Orleans Casino. This is way way off the Strip and the only reason I even went was that Mom dragged me there. She wanted to see Englebert Humperdinck and didn’t think she could go on her own. So yes I did have to suffer thru the Humperdink show but in return I did discover The Orleans. Great little casino–they have real dollar roulette (The Excalibur has two-dollar roulette chips but the minimum inside bet is $5 whereas at The Orleans it’s real live one-dollar minimum). They also have a first-run movie multi-plex inside so if you get tired of gambling you can catch a movie.
Tomorrow, my Worst of Las Vegas.
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