Being in the US for 24h made again one thing very clear: it’s going to be an expensive chunk of fun, so we better started thinking value.

Living next to the „old“ Vegas seemed to be extremely cheap. Only 17$ for a nice Hotel room until we learned about the resort fee that comes on top of the room price ;(.

From the point of food this meant for Las Vegas skipping breakfast and opting for one of the many buffets in the big Hotels. This doesn’t mean it’s cheap. We paid 28$ each but got an enormous choice of salads, vegetables, fish, meat, asian food, seafood, deserts, cake and ice creme, even including water, coke and coffee. We managed to eat the total of three plates and a bit more of cake on top. So an approximate amount of 2000 kcal and left very happy and very full.

I am not a big fan of food pictures, but I couldn’t deprive you of the cause of Tom’s little sphericity.

From there we started strolling down the strip, meaning through the collection of enormous luxury hotels and casinos. The casinos are basically pretty much the same but each of the hotel environment feature some other kind of attraction. Eiffel towers, impressive decoration of flowers or glass, a huge chocolate fountain, an erupting volcano, venetian channels or a romain colloseum everything spiced up with people strolling around enjoying themselfs, gambling and openly drinking in the streets.

The flower decorations in the Wynn Hotel.

How needs to go to Italy, if you can go to the Venetian Hotel.

Guess what you will find in the Hotel Flamingo.

And Hotel Paris really put some effort into it’s advertisement.

In my opinion Caesars Place has the nicest Casino environment.

but my absolute favourite was the Bellagio (some might know it from the movie Oceans Twelve). Not because of it’s legendary fountain, that was quite disappointing, but because of it’s no matched beautiful interior and it’s chocolate fountain.

When we after hours returned to our hotel, to drop the bags before heading to the casino ourself we just wanted to lay down for a second. We woke up the next morning without having put our fingers on a single game.

And just to make it clear, we neither lacked the alcohol nor opportunity, but we did not marry.

Already on the next day we were leaving this big party location, but first we had to pick up our transportation vehicle on the other side of Las Vegas. While walking there we observed how this place would look, if not enormous amounts of water would be pumped into this artificial assembling of buildings. Very sad, very dry, very abandoned (the only people living here in cheap motels were kind of crazy).

A ’normal‘ street in Vegas literally and really leading no where.