# Going to Vegas, looking for recommendations **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-vegas-looking-for-recommendations/983514 **Category:** Cafe Society **Tags:** vacation-travel **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-vegas-looking-for-recommendations/983514 "2023-05-03T18:17:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [May 3, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-vegas-looking-for-recommendations/983514/6 "2023-05-03T19:41:06Z")
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. > [@Anyone else surprised (dismayed?) by Las Vegas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-surprised-dismayed-by-las-vegas/980948): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-vegas-looking-for-recommendations/983514)._