Vegas/Death Valley Advice

Come to think of it, the 3-4 times I stayed at Fitzgerald's, I never ate there. I always drove somewhere else.

 

For those talking about the Trop, I found this from Jan. 9, 2007 and wanted to share it with others (from www.vegaspopular.com):

The $2.75 billion buyout of Aztar in recent days means that the Kentucky-based Columbia Sussex Corp. is the owner of the Tropicana, and they already plan to demolish it and remodel the 34-acre site across from MGM Grand and opposite the Excalibur over the next two years. They've already submitted plans to the Clark County Planning Commission to spend another $2 billion for towers with 9,276 hotel rooms and 948 condo-hotel units. So, when completed the property will have 10,224 guest rooms, 85,000 sq.ft of casino games plus 644,000+ sq.ft for conventions and meetings and 270,000+ sq.ft of retail shopping.

The new owners said they wouldn't shut down the Tropicana entirely during the new construction phase. If all goes as planned after everything but the Paradise and Island Towers and the Showroom gets dynamited to destruction the Tropicana will then beat out MGM's new $7 billion City Center colossus and Boyd Gaming's $4 billion Echelon Place on the old Stardust site to claim title to the largest hotel resort in the world.

 

In a way, that's too bad to hear about the Trop. Vegas needs some of those old places, to remind everybody what once was and to give those not making six figures a year a place to gamble on the Strip.

 

It was tough enough losing Stardust and then the whole swap that ended Barbary Coast (in name only, it's still there, but called something else). I've not been to Vegas since last December, the longest drought for me going to Vegas in a long time.

 

The horror is losing the pool, which remained one of Vegas' five best, even after all the modern megoliths went up. Flamingo's the best of the old-time splasharounds, now.

 

Fuck Death Valley, man. Hit the west rim of the canyon, where the glass bridge is. Way, way better than Death Valley. In my opinion, that is.

And I had a miserable time in Vegas. Just not my bag, I guess.

 

New pool scene will be on the roof.

 

Are you talking about the Trop or the 'Dust? IIRC, the Trop has/had a swim-up blackjack table.

 

Trop.

Yes.

 

Yeah, Trop's new pool scene will be on the roof. I wonder if they still will call it the Island of Las Vegas.

 

good to see you back three bags.

and vegas isn't for everyone ... i wish you would have tried the north side of town where the locals hang out ... more relaxed and fun.

 

It's getting to the point where the Strip is becoming too much of a hassle -- traffic, expense, crowds. Last time in town, I spent most of my time at locals places (any of the Station Casinos will do) and enjoyed the hell out of it.