DH are planning on a holiday for our 10 year anniversary in 2012, i was thinking maybe fiji or NZ (no kids ) but he really wants to go to las vegas, i do to but is it worth just going over to go there and maybe one other place?? (he wants to go gamble and see the pretty lights)
were planning on going to Disneyland when the girls are older so will do family stuff then, so is it too far to just do that???
Leemar went to Vegas this year with her DH and they took the kids. Maybe send her a PM (she isn't on that often so may not see this) and ask her what she thinks? I know she loved the place.
DH and I got married in Las Vegas Dec 2006. We stayed for 9 days which in our opinion was too long maybe 5-7 days would have been fine for us. We both lived in the states previously which is where we met and had done a lot of travelling and sight seeing then. We are not big gamblers but saw a few shows (Jonathan the Amazing?? ( I'm a Brit never heard of him lol), Tom Jones, Beetles Love - Cirque du Solei) and had a look at every hotel/casino. There are tours you can do and helicopter rides you can take out/ over the Grand Canyon etc. There is also a discount retail centre about 10-15mins away from the strip. The hotels are amazing. There is one for every taste. We stayed at Circus Circus and next time we go maybe for our 10yr anniversary I will be definately staying at a different one. It wasn't bad but it is the family hotel (we were marrying and honeymooning lol) circus acts running upstairs every 15mins. Which we saw quite a few of lol.
Good Luck with deciding. If taking the children from what I saw/remember they are not allowed on the casino floor. Can walk around the edge but can't be on the floor with the machines and tables.
I loved Vegas - I had a girlie weekend there with a friend who lives in Phoenix. I think a couple of days there is enough though. It is close to some other fantastic places though, so you could easily make a great trip out of it - Vegas, Sedona, Grand Canyon, and even down to Mexico.
DH & I got married in Vegas, going back for 10 year anniversary! Love it, its like Disneyland foe grownups! 5-7 days is enough, & yep, def go out to Grand Canyon.
When we go back we're going to take the kids and do a bit more of Sth America while we are all the way over there! I don't think its worth it just for Vegas alone...JMHO.
Anyway, wherever you go, have a fantastic time & congratulations on 10 years of marriage!
Yeah I guess it is. We did Las Vegas as the first stop on our round the world honeymoon. We were there 4 days I think. I thought it was OK.
DH loved it.
I hate poker machines/gambling so it's not my ideal place to visit - he is the reverse.
We stayed at the Luxor (I highly recomend the hotel). We did a trip to the Grand Canyon and a day dirt biking across Death Valley which was cool. We walked the strip a few times and did a show saw the casinos etc. The M'n'M shop is a sight to behold.
It's definitely a place to see.
We also did Sanfransisco on that trip (as opposed to flying into LA airport). That's a neat place to visit too.
We have also done the fly/drive thing in NZ. Two totally different holidays there and then fiji is different again....
Guess it depends. Do you want to be a tourist or have a relaxing holiday?
The flight is long, but since you won't have kids it's not so bad.
I have friends who LOVE vegas! They've been twice now, at first I couldn't see the appeal. Same as you, gambling reallly realllly doesn't appeal to me. But I didn't realise all the other amazing things you can do over there, as mentioned above the shows & sight seeing sounds fantastic!!!
thanks everyone for the replies!!!
id love to go as we can go kidfree, wont be able to do the casinos etc.. with the kids next time, so much to consider, maybe i should get some prices for the 3 and go from there!
We were in Vegas for 2 nights as part of our honeymoon. DH loves the place - it was his 12th trip. It's not really my kind of place (hate pokies & no idea what I'm doing with card games). We stayed at he MGM Grand - had a fantastic big suite (with no view). If we went again, we'd stay where we could see the Bellagio Fountain. We did the helicopter ride out to the Canyon, saw Tom Jones, did a little gambling and discount shopping. We were there in May and it was stinking hot. We hired a limo at the airport to take us along the strip to see all the pretty lights on the way into Vegas.
If we went again, I've told DH we'd go via Hawaii or Tahiti or something.
1) to avoid flying through LAX, cos I hate the place with a passion and
2) so I can have a relax on a pacific island, which is my idea of heaven.
It depends on how much time you want to take, but maybe do 3-4 nights in Vegas and 4-6 nights on a Pacific island on the way home. That would be ideal.
How about a stopover in Hawaii on the way there or the way back? It will break up the trip. We went Hawaii - LA (Anaheim) - Las Vegas - NYC for a part of our RTW honeymoon. We stayed at the Luxor too, DH loves to gamble so I stayed in our suite and ordered room service from the spa and watched cable.
I loved, loved, loved Hawaii and am planning a trip for our 10th wedding anniversary (sans kids, we'll take them another time!).
LA's pretty boring IMO, I'd go to San Francisco as a side trip if you didn't want to leave the west coast mainland.
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