In April of this year, my fiancé’s family and I went to Las Vegas, Nevada to see Aerosmith at their residency in the Park MGM Casino. I was a little hesitant to do a travel vlog around her family. I’m still always weary of getting on people’s nerves with all of my filming, but I’m glad I decided to record. I think this travel vlog is one of the best since the Seattle Trip.
Time Lapse at Caesar’s Palace
For the most part we just relaxed and went wherever we wanted. My fiancé, Wendy, and I aren’t really into gambling so we took in some of the many other attractions that Vegas has to offer. (I did gamble 20 dollars in slot machines and lost all of it in about 15 minutes)
I’ve been to Las Vegas 3 times in my life, but the last time was about 25 years ago when I was 11, so there was plenty of new stuff to catch up on.
Some of the activities that didn’t make it into the final video were riding the roller coaster at New York, New York, visiting the Coca-Cola Store, and of course the Aerosmith Concert.
The New York, New York Casino Entrance
The roller coaster is SO NOT WORTH THE MONEY. I think we paid $25 per person to ride it once. The line took about 45 minutes and the ride lasts less than a minute. The price gets slightly more reasonable if you plan to ride it more than 3 times, but unless you have a bucket list to ride a roller coaster in every state, I’d spend your money elsewhere.
The Coke store was just what you’d imagine, a store full of various coke products. They do have a tasting of Coke flavors from around the world that seemed popular. We tried a few, but I can’t remember if they were good or not. :)
Finally, the Aerosmith Concert. It was only their 6th show of their residency at the theater when we saw them. You’d think by then the technicians would have all the kinks ironed out. The theater was awesome. There were various “mascots” walking around before the show dressed as notable characters from their albums. Aerosmith performed as great as you would imagine. The problem was the the audio. The only way I can describe it is as if the sound person grabbed all the sliders on the mixing board, screamed, ‘This is a rock concert, turn it up to 11!’ and proceeded to slide every slider to the max.
It hurt my ears and it sounded like absolute crap. Everything was muddled together. Even Steven Tyler was having troubles with the audio. Twice he went over to the sound booth and more or less yelled at them because he didn’t like the sound of his in ear monitors. I’m happy to say I got to see Aerosmith, but I wish I’d seen them some place else. Hopefully by now they’ve gotten the sound sorted out.
Entertainment at the Linq Promenade
We spent quite a lot of time at both the Promenade at the Linq (yes, that is what it is officially called. I was struggling pretty hard to understand without seeing it written down anywhere, lol) and sitting outside the New York, New York casino. The Promenade had just a lot of various things to look at, while the New York, New York street area usually had a good musician or two to pick from. That’s where we were at the very end of the video.
Finally, we have to talk about cost. It’s expensive to visit Vegas. Wendy and I each ended up spending about $800 not including hotel rooms or tickets to Aerosmith. What cost so much? Everything. You can see me get excited by a drink that cost $7 being ‘cheap’ in the video.
The High Roller
That being said, the best fun for the money was the High Roller Wheel. Yeah, it’s $50 dollars for 30 minutes, but it’s a very fun 30 minutes and if you are inclined to drinking, it’s the cheapest place to go to get a good amount of drinks (I ended up with 9). If you’re friendly to the bartender, they’ll even let you walk out with more than 1 (1 is usually what they give you).
In this exclusive, website only video, you can see how much you can do in 30-45 minutes. (For the record, I wasn’t hung over in the morning. 😉)
We also went to Fremont Street which is in the old north part of Las Vegas. There’s a lot of history there (it was generally known as the sketchy part of Vegas) and it’s great that they are trying to revitalize it. However, like I said in the video, you may want to think twice about brining your children. There were lots of people protesting things or asking for petitions to be signed. There was also a lot of skin, more than what you see just walking on the strip. Think pasties and male thongs. You can see in one scene that I had to blur out a nude buttocks and a sign in the background of the video.
East end of Fremont Street. Feel the nostalgia.
Overall, it was a great trip. If you don’t like to gamble, there’s a load of things to keep you busy. We could have spent another 2-3 days with the amount of things we would have liked to do. The 2 things I enjoyed the most however are:
Bobby’s Burger Palace - That was amazing. I sent my parents there on their last visit and they both loved it too.
The Titanic Experience. - Yeah, it’s sobering and a quiet way to spend an hour and a half, but if you’ve ever been interested in the Titanic at all, you’ll find something interesting there.
Bobby’s Burger Palace Menu
With that, I’ll leave you to watch the video! Let me know what you think and share some of your favorite things to do in Las Vegas in the comments section below. Please share this with your friends as well if you enjoyed it.