Las Vegas has always been a place of secrets.
They still find bodies in the desert, some from the old mafia days and some newer ones.
In Las Vegas, you will hear the old timers say, that there was not as much crime, when the mafia ran the town and many say they want it back.
If it were all adults wanting a vacation, I would go to Laughlin, NV. It is 100 miles from Las Vegas, smaller and cleaner.
Scott said a couple weeks ago that they had special rates at the Riverside, $15.00 a night.
Several of the Laughlin casinos will do the special rates, when they are not pulling enough visitors, and since gas went so high, none of them are.
Edgewater, Riverside and Twin Palms all over the cheap rentals, but usually it is between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I worked at Twin Palms, when it was Gold River and we have offered rooms for as low as $5.00 a night, until Christmas day and then it goes up, by New Years Eve, it is about $1,000 per night and most of the rooms are booked a year ahead for New Years.
LOL, I worked in hotel reservations.
They have live stage in Laughlin, but I am not up to date on who or when they will be there next.
One of the Las Vegas radio stations is kdwn.com, you can listen on the internet, they have almost daily school shootings, during the school year.
I have found the internet police scanners for San Diego, Denver and Las Vegas, LOL and several other towns, and listen to them more hours than I do the regular radio.
All the towns, investigate important crimes, that we never find in the main stream news.
scan san diego.net is a good example, one night they had a couple of guys attempt to kill a cop.
The Police Officers, the K-9 dog teams and the Police helicopter, worked together, chasing them, for hours, finally into a canyon.
It was exciting, but more importantly well done by the police department.
The news report said it all in two small paragraphs, something like “and 2 were arrested, after being chased”.....
I imagine the gas prices really are hurting the casinos, actually it's hurting just about everything and everywhere. I can't believe the prices in the supermarket for a loaf of bread!
I need to run and fix dinner. It's getting to be about that time. TTYL!
We like Laughlin but there isn’t much for a child there. I think a couple of Vegas hotels have family type entertainment.
We will have to check it out; it may be too expensive during the time we would be able to go.
Vegas is changing so fast that you need to go about every 5 - 6 years just to see the changes.