The Top 7 Don'ts When Clubbing in Las Vegas

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? You can get as wild as you want to, drink and party until it's light outside and relax at the pool all day.

This all may be true, yet, there are still some things you don't do while you're here. Here's just a brief list of the top 7:

1) DON'T be nasty to the wait staff: These people have feelings, children and employers. Even bouncers/bartenders/dealers/cocktail waitresses have their boundaries! Think about this, you might be there to have a good time but these people have rules they have to follow.

2) DON'T dance on the chairs, the tables, the bar: You'll only have a chance to be up there for 30 seconds - the exact amount of time it will take for the security guard to come over to you and order you to climb back down. Don't climb up on any part or article of furniture unless you see other patrons doing it. And don't think because there is professional dancing up on a podium that you can join them. This is a sure way of being kicked out of the club.

3) DON'T forget to tip. The staff lives almost completely on tips and their actual hourly earnings is somewhere around minimum wage. If you decide not to leave a tip at all you should expect really bad table service and a swarm of animosity to hang close to you. Cocktail waitresses and bartenders will really avoid you. Dealers and slot attendants should be tipped when you win, and the valet and cocktail waitresses should be tipped all the time. The only difference between a great tip and a horrible tip is a few dollars.

4) DON'T avoid the crosswalk when crossing Las Vegas Blvd. Crazy tourists die every year when they try to dodge the taxis, locals and drive-in visitors that speed down the street at 60+ mph. Even So, if your safety doesn't convince you, maybe the cops giving you a jaywalking ticket of $250 will. Millions of dollars has been spent by Clark County paying for the pedestrian overpasses. Use them.

5) DON'T hit on a cocktail waitress. Guys: They might be in short dresses and they might be flirting with you, but that's because that's their JOB. Their warm smiles and enthusiastic salutations are what their employers want them to do and these behaviors doesn't mean that they like you/are in love with you/desire to be intimate with you. Making a move on them will do nothing but cause them to roll their eyes as they walk by. Simply enjoy the drinks, the laughter and the atmosphere and forget about anything else.

6) DON'T dress like a street walker. Girls: Please don't snatch up the tiniest dress you own, which barely fit you 12 years ago, or use your holiday as a reason to purchase a new hoochie dress from Forever 21 that does not quite conceal all your parts. If you are 40+, don't shop there. If you think this doesn't apply to you, then it probably does. You'll look and feel awkward and thus wind up drinking more to repress the insecurity. You might be trying for sexy but if you have love-handles it will show through that tank top or worse yet, rolls that show below that top. Ewww. Nobody wants to see that. Dress attractive, not hoochie - there IS a difference.

7) DON'T be a jerk. You aren't Joe Pesci in Casino and nobody will see you as being cool because you are acting like a ego-tistical jerk. Don't walk around and pretend like you are the big man in Vegas unless you are actually Sean Combs or Janet Jackson. If you are reading this, you most likely are not them.

Top Five Must-See Attractions in Las Vegas

The one and the only Las Vegas: Sin City, the gambling haven of America where even brothels - at least in some districts of the city - are still allowed. Ambiguous couples can tie the knot with a priest that is dressed up like Elvis, who sings their wedding vows to them. You can even have an Elvis-styled, spur of the moment bar or bat mitzvah. Indeed, from dancing burlesque troupe stage shows, to Elton John, the Blue Man Group, David Copperfield, and about a million and one variety shows that occur daily - similar to what you would find on Broadway in New York City - all the way to amazing casinos decorated lavishly with presidential suites, indoor amusement parks and even gondola rides, Las Vegas has a little bit of something for everybody. A city that was created by the then off-the-wall-fathoming of notorious gangster, Bugsy Siegel, who was later killed when his first casino took time to ferment. Just don't forget to check out these list-toppers of places that are must-see when you are in Las Vegas. And remember: What Happens here, according to many, stays here.

Fountains at Bellagio: Perhaps some of the greatest known of all landmarks in this gambler's haven are these amazing fountains. These water jets encompass well over a thousand feet and can shoot geysers of water into the air over 250 feet tall. They are choreographed to music as well. The best time of the day to visit the amazing fountains is during the evenings, when they are lit up with changing colors, truly a spectacle for all to see.

Fremont Street: Perhaps the Time's Square of Las Vegas, this street features nearly as many lights and sucks about 540,000 watts of power just to operate. Of course, nighttime is the best time of day to stroll this street, which also offers tons of stores and eateries and lots of other nightly events and going-ons. Make sure you add this street to your list of must-see places as it is just dazzling.

Circus Circus Adventuredome Theme Park: One of the coolest places that you can check out when you are on the strip. This fully-featured amusement park is one of the largest indoor amusement parks in the world; this place is just awesome. Adorned with tons of rides and vendors, and plenty of activities to keep you entertained for hours. Or to keep the kiddies entertained while the adults gamble and play.

Lion Habitat at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino: Don't forget to check out this breathtaking lion habitat which houses some of nature's fiercest carnivores. The habitat that they live in consists of several levels and you can usually see lion cubs getting pampered by their parents depending upon the time of year that you travel to Las Vegas.

Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat: Most locals really consider this to be the official zoo of the city because you can see all sorts of wild animals here, not just the dolphins. However, if you truly want an experience that is comparable to Sea World when you travel to Las Vegas, this is the place to stop and visit. Set aside a few hours, because you won't want to leave anytime soon.

Spending Your Holidays in Las Vegas

Famously known as 'Sin City', Las Vegas, Nevada, is celebrated for its many exciting casinos. Although the magnificent and entertaining casinos are a popular tourist attraction, there are many other activities and sights you can enjoy while visiting this famous city. This destination offers a wide variety of attractions that are sure to please every visitor.

When spending your holidays in Vegas, be sure to check out the following attractions:

1. Fabulous Resorts: There are so many gorgeous and luxurious resorts there that you will have a difficult time deciding where to stay. A few of these resorts that contain amazing spas, restaurants, and a wide variety of wonderful shops include: Wynn Las Vegas Resort, Bellagio, Mount Charleston Lodge, Caesars Palace, Imperial Palace, Trump, Mirage, Rio, Ritz-Carlton, and much more. A stay at a fabulous resort will be unforgettable.

2. Artistic Attractions: It has many diverse artistic attractions such as The Philharmonic, The Nevada Ballet Theater, as well as Concert Pianists and other instrumental performances. There are also a variety of museums and galleries such as Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Liberace Museum, Auto Collection at the Imperial Palace, Nevada State Museum, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, and much more. You will be astounded by the amazing culture showcases.

3. A Great Place to get Married: Millions of people have taken there marriage vows there. Choose from a traditional wedding or an exciting themed wedding. It is very affordable and the wedding memories will last forever. You will be amazed by the variety and number of Wedding Chapels.

4. Children's Attractions: Las Vegas is not just for adults. There are many events for kids to see and do. For instance, there are botanical gardens, chocolate factories, camps, swimming pools, recreational activities, exciting performances that are kid-friendly, and much more. Attractions with thrill rides include Adventure Canyon, Adventuredome, Big Shot, The Roller Coaster at New York-New York, and more.

5. Las Vegas Area Recreational Activities: This area has many outdoor excursions, national parks, sports-related attractions and more. A few attractions include: Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge, Brian Head Resort, Hot Springs, Ski & Snowboard Resort, Sportspark, Red Rock Climbing Center, and much more.

6. Golf: The Las Vegas area is famous for its fantastic and challenging golf courses. A few of the famous golf courses include: Aliante Golf Club, Angel Park Cloud Nine Short, Angel Park Mountain, Angel Park Palm, Badlands Golf Club, Bali Hai Golf Club, Black Mountain Golf & Country Club, Desert Pines Golf Club, and much more.

7. Las Vegas Shows: It's famous for its spectacular shows. A few of these shows include: Le Rêve, Blue Man Group, Zumanity: The Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil, Disney's The Lion King, KÀ Cirque du Soleil, Criss Angel Believe, and much more.

Fabulous Restaurants: Here you will find a host of hot and entertaining restaurants with a wide variety of delicious foods. A few of the restaurants include: Planet Hollywood, BOA, SPAGO, Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill, Lupo, CUT, and much more,

Las Vegas is not just for casino lovers. It has something for everyone to enjoy. When visiting Las Vegas for a holiday, you will have so much fun that won't know where the time went.

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Money Saving Tips For First Time Visitors to Las Vegas

This was our second trip to Las Vegas and it did not disappoint. There were more hotels than last time and more being built. A visit to downtown is a must to see the light show in the roof area. A technological marvel. We heard it cost $400 million. To say we wandered around hotels every day seems a strange thing to do but anyone who has visited Las Vegas will understand how facinating that is. Even in February the sun shines and we were able to sunbath around one of the MGM swimming pools.

Five things you should do. Walk into and around every hotel. Take a roller coaster ride at New York New York. Visit the lions and dolphins at the Mirage hotel. Take a helicopter trip over the Grand Canon. And finally take an elevator ride to the top of the Stratosphere hotel to see the fabulous night time view of the Las Vegas strip and surrounding city.

I was not sure if anyone would read an article on money saving tips when visiting Las Vegas. This is the city for gamblers so who is looking to save money? But then I though that, I am not a gambler and I have now visited Las Vegas twice.

Back in 2000 my daughter and I bought my wife a surprise 50th birthday present of a four day trip to Las Vegas. The bonus being it was for four people, which included my wife, myself, my daughter and her husband.

You can fly direct to Las Vegas but this four day visit was an indirect flight stopping at Chicago for four hours then flying on to Las Vegas after four hours stop over. The return flight was the same. So our actual stay in Las Vegas was two full days and three nights. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience especially as I arrange a room upgrade to a suite which looked out over the 'Strip'. We did not gamble much as there was too much to see and do.

Our second visit to Las Vegas was a complete surprise. This Christmas we as a family decided to keep our present buying to a small token gift as we had started two new businesses and money was tight.

Our son who had not come on our first visit to Las Vegas has since had two holidays in Las Vegas with his wife and in-laws. He told us a few months before Christmas that he was taking another holiday to Las Vegas in February with the in-laws and did we want to go as well. Unfortunately we had booked our summer holiday and another holiday before that was not in our budget.

Anyway on Christmas day after all the small gifts were opened our son and his wife gave us a final gift. When my wife opened it we found a 'not new' roulette game, which we thought was a joke gift. He insisted we open the box and we found inside a picture of the MGM hotel in Las Vegas and a lovely short note inviting my wife and I to join them on the visit to Las Vegas, at their expense. We only had to find our spending money. How could we refuse? We had always wanted to go to Las Vegas with him and knew that this year they wanted to start a family and if they did we probably would never get to go to Las Vega with him for many years to come, if ever.

This time we flew direct with Virgin. I must tell you that I have flown with Virgin in the early days and thought them one of the best. But over the years I found the service from Virgin had dropped. This time the service from Virgin was top rate and I would recommend them to anyone.

On this visit to Las Vegas we were staying for a whole week, flying out on an 11am flight from Gatwick on a Friday, which meant leaving home at 5.30am, and returning a week later on a 4pm flight from Las Vegas, landing Saturday morning. Las Vegas airport is a five minute drive from the MGM Hotel.

When we arrived in Las Vegas it was decided to catch a bus to the MGM hotel. They charge $7 per person one way. On our trip back to the Airport at the end of our holiday we caught a taxi. Taxi's charge $9 per trip from the MGM hotel.

Tip 1. If you are staying at the MGM, Luxor, Excalibur, Mandalay Bay, New York New York hotels, it is cheaper to use a taxi than the shuttle bus if there is more than one of you. But if you are staying further down the 'Strip' then the taxi fare goes up and the shuttle bus may be more cost effective.

On this one week trip my wife and I took to Las Vegas £1000, which converted to $1360 at Feb 09 exchange rates. We converted a further £180 towards the end of the week and paid to see a show on a credit card $160. We returned from Las Vegas with $180.

With an eight hour time difference it was mid afternoon on the Friday even though we had left the UK at 11am and had a 10 hour flight. It's really UK bedtime especially for people of my age.

Tip 2. If it's your first visit you are probably very excited and want to hit the town or hit the gambling but what ever you do try not to go to bed until it's late evening. If you go to bed too early your body clock will take longer to adjust to the time difference.

Our first impressions when we 'hit the town' after we had unpacked was that the place seemed busy as if the 'credit crunch' had not affected Las Vegas. The second thing we noticed was it was not cheap. Having had a number of 'all inclusive holidays' over the last few years we found having to pay for everything quite difficult. For people that are used to spending time in hotels the prices are probably quite normal but for us the prices such as a bottle of Budwisser at $6 seemed expensive.

We visited the New York New York hotel the first evening and the first round of drinks at a bar in the hotel was $35 for 4 bottle beers, one coke and one glass of wine. We decided to have a meal in the same hotel and five had steaks and one had pizza. Very good food. The bill came to $153 + $27 (18% tip) + $11 (15% tax) = $191. we understand from past visits to the US that it is expected to tip 12-15%, which is normally a voluntary option. To find it on the bill at 18% is a bit much, we believe.

Tip 3. We found that the 18% tip included on the bill was normally for groups of 6 or more. Therefore if you ask for your bill in groups of two the 18% tip is omitted from the bill and left to your discretion. We found that 'Dennys' do not add a tip to any bill no matter what size your group is.

The major disappointment we found on this second visit to Las Vegas was that all the 'slot' machines in all the Hotels do not dispense coins as winnings anymore. You feed in dollar bills and if you are lucky to win you will get a slip of paper dispensed as your winning. The tinkering of coins when you win was sadly missing. This slip of paper can be fed into any other slot machine in the same hotel to continue gambling.

Tip 4. If you want to hear the sound of coins dropping with your winning the only place that still uses coins is next to the hotel Circus Circus.

Not being much of a gambler I tended to watch the others but found I wanted a beer while I watched. My son had found on past visits that if you gambled, either on the slots or on the tables, you will be offered complementary drinks from waitresses or barmen at the bar. These drinks are free of charge other than a tip of a couple of dollars to the waitress or barman. The more you gamble the more drinks you are offered.

Every chair in the gambling halls is in front of a slot machine. Even at the bar each seat is in front of a gambling machine embedded in the bar.

Tip 5. It was recommended to me at a number of bars by the barmen that so long as I feed the slot machine with $20 he could feed me complementary drinks. If you win you could be drinking for free all night.

On the first evening of our stay we were advised by my son to join the 'Players' club, which meant queuing with passports to receive individual swipe cards. These cards gave you points when you inserted them in the slot machines before you gambled. If you achieved 1500 points during your stay then you may receive complementary gifts like free buffet meals etc.

Just by signing up to get a 'Players' club card mean we were entitled to a two for one deal on any of the MGM shows. This option only allowed you to buy the expensive seats at $160, not the cheaper seats at $80. We choose to go to see the Circus du Soliel which was great and cost $160 for two of the bests seats.

Tip 6. Join the 'Players' club at any hotel, as soon as you arrive, to ensure you get any complementary deals or freebies going. You can also use your 'Player' card in any other hotel in the MGM group which are:

MGM Grand, Bellagio, City Center, Mandalay Bay, Mirage, Luxor, Excalibur, New York New York, Monte Carlo, Treasure Island, Cirus Circus and Railroad Pass.

There are plenty of places to eat within the hotels and along the 'strip'. A good steak will cost you $17 upwards and a bottle of wine start around $28. There are always deals around and the MGM hotel was offering their buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner for $29 + tax, which taken individually would cost $60.

Tip 7. Before you go to Las Vegas search the books and guides that are in the shops and online for any deals and discounts that are on offer. You could save enough for your gambling.

If you live north of London as we do, then getting to Gatwick in the early hours of the morning is not some thing you can get a friend to do, especially when there is six of you. There are three options, drive down and leave your car in a long stay car park. Stay over night at a local to Gatwick hotel, which provide long stay parking, within the price of the over night stay price. Or get a taxi to take you and pick you up on your return.

Over the years we have tried all three options and when we drove down for the first four day visit to Las Vegas we stayed at the Worth Hotel near to Gatwick. Another time we have driven down on the day of our flight and left our car in a long stay car park. I would recommend using http://www.bargain-breaks.org if you want to book a Hotel or Car Park. They provide a very good and competitive service.

Cheap But Good Steaks in Las Vegas

I am fairly young so when I hear Las Vegas old timers talking about the great deals that Las Vegas used to have on food it makes my mouth water. Unfortunately, with the corporate takeover of most of the Las Vegas Casinos a lot of those great deals have gone away and even the buffet prices in some major casinos can start at $25.00 plus. Now don't let that stop you from looking for some great deals in Las Vegas when it comes to food. I personally love steak, so lets go over a few good steak deals I have found in Las Vegas.

Terrible's Casino
Located a few blocks off the Las Vegas Strip on East Flamingo, Terrible's has a $9.99 steak special that runs twenty-four hours a day. It is a great deal and you get a 16 oz. New York strip steak, your choice of potato, rolls, and a draft beer for one price. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the steak, it was cooked to perfection, and tasted great! It is a steak special that I will be taking advantage of more than once.

Arizona Charlie's on Boulder Highway
If you are looking for a cheap steak on Boulder Highway, look no further than the Sourdough Café located at Arizona Charlie's Boulder. They have a twenty-four hour breakfast special of a New York Steak, two eggs, hash browns, and toast and jelly for only $3.29. You can also get the bone-in ham steak with the same sides for the same price. The steak is good and I would estimate it is 8 oz., it was cooked right and enjoyable at a great price. The only catch here is that you have to show your players club card to get the special, so when you walk through the front door get your players club card, it will only take a minute, and take advantage of the special.

Ellis Island Brewery and Casino
Located a few blocks off the strip Ellis Island has a $7.00 steak special that comes with an 8 oz. steak, salad, potato, and a free beer that they brew themselves or their own brewed root beer if you prefer. Be aware that this steak is not on the menu, you have to ask for it. If you are a beer drinker this is the place for you, they brew their own beer that is excellent and cheap. They also have a king cut prime rib on the menu for $10.99 and it is also good.

There are plenty of great deals on cheap food in Las Vegas, just not as many as there used to be. So you have to look a little harder and keep your eye out for a great deal.

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