Arriving to Las Vegas

It was definitely the best decision to drive into Vegas in the dark, as the casinos start with their funky lights and signs way outside of town. We drive past one that had an enormous roller coaster surrounding its hotel building! I'll have to update this with photos from the camera later, as I took a lot of cool ones. Thankfully our chosen casino/hotel was really easy to drive into as it is near the end of the strip, and we didn't need to drive in a crazy traffic jam or anything. Oh by the way we took forever to decide on a hotel, reading so many opinions, reviews discussions about the different hotels. God they are all so opinionated, people spend a lot of time in Vegas, however fun it was, I can't imagine personally experiencing it 10+different times in different hotels, I think I would have better ways to spend my time at that point. Anyway we decided to stay at Treasure Island, which is a slightly older one with no crazy theme, but we got a better price for it, and we can walk into all the other ones to experience them anyway. We decided to book it for both Thursday and Friday, as checking out at 10 the next day and finding a new place sounded really painful. It was a hard decision, as for Friday the price was about 5 times higher. At checkin we mentioned that we are newlyweds, hoping for a cooler room or something, and at least we managed to get a free bottle of champagne out of it! Although calling room service they told us it will be about 40 minutes until it arrives...Read more