Coming out of the hotel (more properly, casino resort) this morning, a guy walked past with a slogan on his T-Shirt which I thought nicely summed up many people's experience of Las Vegas: "One Casino, Two Casinos, Three Casinos, Poor" Actually, though, Vegas it quite an easy place to visit on a budget. The casinos seem to make something of an assumption that anyone coming here is going to be spending tons of cash and therefore should be enticed into doing so wit...

The Mirage Casino, I have discovered, is obviously called that because it never seems to get any closer however far along the strip you walk towards it - I felt like it took forever to get there, even though at any point it seemed to be just another block away. At one point in the not too distant past, the Mirage was one of the most spectacular Casinos here, the towering waterfalls out front drawing crowds in their thousands to gasp, point and wonder out loud how...

The following blog entries from Las Vegas were originally written in February 1999. I made arrangements with the hotel yesterday to be driven to Las Vegas by a friend of the Concierge, a guy called Carlos who acts as a tour guide and travel agent to groups or single travellers. I don't have the budget at this stage to be booking planes for these short journeys, and I figured that finding a ride through the hotel was probably the best way to ensure that I didn't ...