First vegas trip recap.

Hi guys my girl and I had an amaing time. The first few nights we walked the strip we saw alot and learned alot. We stayed at the excaliber. Great hotel near the south end of the strip. Only 2 annoying things in vegas that we encountered. 1. When you first check in (and also outside on the strip). We were stopped at check in by someone asking if we were married and how long we were staying. Next thing they were offering free show tickets.. (too good to be true) the guy had us believe that we were going to a conference about going on a cruise and it was a timeshare thing. 

4 hours later!!! we were being offered a timeshare in condos in vegas.. (yep college kid had to say no to that 1).. After the 4th hour they gave up and gave us our tickets. 2 tickets to the midevil tournament of kings and (the gf's pick) the shark reef at the mandalin bay,

2. The most annoying thing of the week!!! out side on the strip there are guys and a few girls handin out little cards about hookers. I was holding my gf's hand walking around and they still try to hand them to you. A few people were making funny jokes aobut them..

 The midevil tournament was awesome!!  by the way it was at the excaliber. they fed you a cornish hen and a few potato wedges and tomato soup. The soup was really good. If you were paying they wre bout 60 each. The show was entertaining for both kids and adults. The shark reef was alright.It was at the mandalin Bay. Not much to say about it. its an aquarium that you can go into a all glass tunnel and the harks are oll around you. There was a small tank in the middle of 1 of the rooms where you are able to touch a small stingray that was pretty cool. (we dont have stingrays in canada).

If your on a budget like we were there are tonnes you can do. We never got to see the water show at the billagio or the treasure island free pirate show but we still saw alot. At new york new york If your goin to have fun with the boys a pick up a few chicks the Coyote ugly bar looked like the place to do it. There were tonnes of groups of chicks there. The food there was great. If your looking for cheap eats the excaliber has the sherwood forest cafe where oyu can get a 10oz steak dinner for $7 and its actually good food. There is the "deuce bus" its a bus where it goes talmost everywhere on the strip and you can even take it downtown for 2.50 a ride or $5 for a 24 hour pass. 

theres so much we did and I'm way too tored to write it all out right now. any questions ask and when i wake up all try to answer then..

 

a  special thanks to every one who gave me info before I went..

 

smalltimer

Funny story, I was walking the strip outside of the now Planet Hollywood and one of those "escort" guys tryed to hand one of the cards to an old lady who was with her son. The son got so pissed that he knocked the guy out cold - literally 10 feet in front of me.

 

Now you would have thought that all his pals would have jumped in but instead they all ran off, and after the guy got off the ground he ran off as well. hmmm illegals?

 

Glad you had fun smalltimer.  

Ahhhh, to be college-aged again. I always miss the frenetic metabolism of that youthful age, which allowed me to eat as much ice cream, pizza, fries, and nachos and not gain one pound.

 

Glad you had fun, but I wouldn't necessarily call Excaliturd a "great hotel". Stayed there once and it kind of reeked of a stale, moldy medeval castle. Since you're young, try the Palms (though I do think it's overhyped), Hard Rock, or TI (nee Treasure Island). Rates can be reasonable at times. 

I get the feeling you'd like to see the wrecking ball take a swing over that end of the Strip Lemonsky what with the Tropicana across the street.