Here is a recent thread with ~400 posts that offers a lot of opinions on Vegas both pro- and con-. The folks who like(d) it have some advice you might find useful.
A few weeks back, my family and I flew into Las Vegas, and set out for the Hoover Dam, Death Valley Natl. Park & that general area.
After a couple of days of that, we returned to Las Vegas and drove up and down The Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard) to see what all the buzz was about. I had never been.
Here’s the thing- I had sort of imagined that Las Vegas was… more sophisticated than it is. As in, like genuinely high-end, luxurious stuff. And that it would be busy on a Sunday night, but mostly w…