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Thursday May 29, 2003/Las Vegas (NV)
WARNING : this text has been translated automatically from french
Alarm clock at 6h00… shower, bags, ice floes, car. It is confirmed, not breakfast. Thus ReStore 24h/24 and on the way with 7h40: Las Vegas direction.
Station-wagon with 8h40 in a coffee in the middle of nowhere and coffea refill for me. The presence of machines with under us indicates that we arrived at Névada, the State of the Play. One sets out again with 9h.
In the horizon, in the alignment of the motorway, Las Vegas, enormous megalopolis in full desert appears. Residences and Motels as far as the eye can see, motorways which tangle up, but not index of the Las Vegas of the postcards. Then, with the turning of an exit of the motorway, one takes the perpendicular and one engages on the STRIP, one enters the decoration: luxurious avenue to the million neons, palm trees blazing, frontages of casinos all more dazzling and gigantic the ones that others. The town of suburbs was transformed into paradise of strasse and spangles to the simple turning of a street.
With 10h one parks the car in the carpark of the LUXOR to get information about the tariffs of the rooms. The Guide of Routard indicates that the price of the rooms evolves/moves per hour and the day close according to the occupancy rate of the Hotels. One can hope for a luxurious room with 60$ in the best of the cases. But this morning the room is at 119$ the night… ah yes, nevertheless… with 500 meters of the STRIP is Motel6 with 43$, that will make very well the deal for the short night that one hopes to pass there.
Heat is already torrid this morning, it is air-conditioned it is super. One poses the businesses and one prepares to survey the casinos length into broad. It is with feet that one decides to discover Las Vegas, or at least Las Vegas Blvd for its most known part: LUXOR, NEW YORK NEW YORK, PARIS.
It is in NEW YORK New York that one lunches (of the pretzels). One visits then MIRAGE, the EXCALIBUR, the BELLAGIO, the CAESAR DE LUXE HOTEL…
Outside it makes surely 45°C, inside the casinos 22°C, that surprises!
In end according to midday one arrives at the VENITIAN, very pleasant one would believe oneself in it with the Place Marc Saint, his channels, his bridges, his gondoles and of the actors disguised as for the carnival, and all that in air-conditioned interior!
It is PARIS which surprises us more, one would be believed in the open air with the continuity of the streets, the places and the large gaming room which resemble a Parisian park with its machines with under and its tables of play moreover.
Everywhere the ciels are changing into luminosity. In the Desert Passage to casino MANDALAY BAY, a mini storm occurs every hour.
Towards 19h one returns to the hotel to change, then one sets out again in the car this time in direction of Downtown, the historical Las Vegas.
With Stratosphere, the most horse-gear in the world, one hesitates to go up on Big Shot, but tiredness makes us give up. One benefits nevertheless from the sight on the city in top of the Tower.
One takes again the car in direction of Fremont Street for the spectacle of lights of 23h: nothing occurs, they are broken down. Let us turn over to the MIRAGE to see the volcanic eruption all the 1/4h who finishes at midnight. One parks oneself right in front of for the last eruption of the evening.
It now remains for to us to play our 1$ each one. The gallery of the VENITIAN is closed, one chooses PARIS where one plays of the parts of 25cts, one loses all! One assied with a table of a Parisian bar in “full air” to finish the evening then one returns to lie down towards 2h30. Crowned day!
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