I love Vegas. I love to gamble. I love how everything is over the top nice but fake at the same time. I love the shows, the tigers, the nudie bars, the whole gig.
Thats why I was really interested when the Travel channel had the top 10 casinos in Vegas last night. I was flabbergasted!
Stratusphere #3? WTF
Mandalay Bay - not on the list? WTF!
Lady Luck ahead of Belagio? Bullshit!
I can’t believe I wasted a hour just to find out their list totally sucked. When Lady Luck showed up I should have known it was going to be a waste of time but I had to know what places they had ranked above Belagio.
I will not waste my time with their recommendations if that is representative of the quality. I mean what if I was planning trip to Jamaica ro somewhere else I have never been, and actully used their suggestions and ended up in a Stratusphere type equivalent! I would be fucking pissed.
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out that some of those casinos paid for those plugs. Man that would REALLY piss me off. If I’m going to sit through the commercials, I don’t want the programming to be a big commercial too!
Have you ever sat down and WATCHED the Travel Channel? It’s been doing nothing but half hour Vegas casino ads thinly veiled as “documentaries” for years. I’m not sure precisely which casino owners are behind their programming, but that’s who runs it.
I really wish they’d drop the “Top” from the “Top Ten” series. I would have no problem with the channel if they simply presented programs called, “Ten Casinos in Vegas” or “Ten Beaches in Florida” or “Ten Rollercoasters.”
I wish People would do the same thing: “One Hundred Sexy People.”
Gosh, I hated Mandalay Bay. Too big, too impersonal, nothing special about it except its size. Sizzle and no steak. I wouldn’t say Lady Luck was that good, but I’d rather gamble there than Mandalay Bay.
I’m rather fond of Monte Carlo and the MGM Grand, myself. Not too much chintz, not outlandishly ornate, just a nice place to hang between games and shows.
I just caught a glimpse, but seems like Fitzgeralds was on there?? It might have been Lady Luck like the OP said…
IIRC??
Man, I’m with RickJay…the Nugget is the best as far as the Downtown casinos. At least Binions will still take any bets. But Lady Luck??
I guess they were trying to get people to visit some of the lesser known casinos…I mean people will go the Bellagio or Venetian just to check them out. I’ve never gone to Vegas with the Lady Luck as my destination of choice.
Mandalay Bay has the nicest rooms, a great spa, good shows, great bars, and the best pool/water area (lots of eye candy as well) in Vegas. The rooms are a bit spendy and its expensive to gamble there but it has a lot more going for it than its size.
BTW none of your top choices were on the list either.
rjung MGM Grand was #1 on the list. Its nic,e but number fucking one? Come on.
I guess everyone has their own tastes and goes to Vegas for different reasons so I guess I have to agree with Ravenman . It is pretty tough to rank the top tier. But their choices weren’t even in my same universe.
For some reason, when I’m in Vegas I spend a lot of time at the down-and-out Casino Royale. The location is perfect, between Harrah’s and The Venetian, the gamblers are typically young, the table games lively, and the limits low. It’s small and a bit dumpy, but a lot of fun.
Newer casinos tend to have rather bland casinos, IMHO. They were mega-resorts that were built in one phase, so the casino tends to be just a single large room. Some new mega-resorts, like the Mirage and the Rio, do a fairly decent job at breaking up the casino room and providing some visual interest. I’m not a fan of the casino at the Venetian and the Monte Carlo, because they just seem like large, ornate rooms.
Older resorts, which grew in an unplanned manner, tend to provide lots of interesting nooks and crannies, and they’re a lot more interesting to explore, IMHO. Caesar’s Palace is a great example.
For REAL gambling, I go to Binion’s Horseshoe. I stay on the Strip, but there’s something about the atmosphere of Binion’s that says “gambling,” not “gaming.”
Shrug I’m not a die-hard gambler, and when I go to Vegas, it’s usually with the family to have a fun weekend. Adjust your perception of my response accordingly.
