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simosimo posted:I said to a taxi driver where to go for good ribs, he said Ellis island. As far as bbq in Vegas, you done missed out son. Insane Totoro posted:We also saw jackrabbits and shot at a freaking mountain. You haven't really done the desert until you've run one of those suicidal loving jackrabbits over at 80 MPH in the middle of the night while trying to dodge another one. THAT'S the real desert experience. Ugh.
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Capsaicin posted:Where can I find some good ramen on the strip? I'm at venetian. Harrah's noodle bar has the best overall ramen on the strip (unless you want to pay a bazillion) but it's a bucket of diarrhea compared to Monta.
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As far as a no smoking hotels goes - Delano or Vdara? I've stayed at the Mondrian in LA before, but I know nothing about the Delano in Vegas besides the pillow thing.
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Bobalbmi posted:As far as a no smoking hotels goes - Delano or Vdara? I've stayed at the Mondrian in LA before, but I know nothing about the Delano in Vegas besides the pillow thing. Vdara for location. Mandarin > *
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Wow I started this thread! I'm glad people who know what they're talking about actually post in it and not me. For people who are more Vegas-savvy, I am planning a short trip with my girlfriend for late October/early November. She mentioned off-hand that she wants to try horseback riding/doing a day tour via horseback. Can anyone recommend a place/ranch that might be a short drive outside of Vegas we could do a day at? One with, you know, horses and people who know how to ride them?
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:Wow I started this thread! I'm glad people who know what they're talking about actually post in it and not me. I haven't tried any of these but you might look into them http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g45963-d552993-Reviews-Cowboy_Trail_Rides_Inc-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g45963-d2044045-Reviews-Wild_West_Horseback_Adventures-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html
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Hey Vegas goons there's a guy who put up a thread in GBS a few days ago because he recently became homeless in Vegas. Currently he's at the hospital because he ate some two day old boiled sausages he had been keeping in his car out of severe goon hunger. I remember his posts for a long time now and seems like a decent sane guy but I've never met him personally so I can't vouch for him or whatever, but maybe someone here can help him out since I'm not in Vegas any more. He doesn't seem to have a benefit card yet (that will get fixed soon I'm sure) so interim donations of food you don't have to cook (he can't boil any more, no cooking, so like trail mix and canned food with a can opener) would probably be welcome. Also if anyone is in a position to offer him work he'd probably take it, although he says in the thread that he can't do physical labor like he used to be able to. His skills:quote:I just built an entire e-commerce site with multiple vendors, Sphinx-backed search, an interface to a custom payment processing gateway, private messaging, etc, from scratch using PHP and Laravel 5. Apparently that's not even worth a call back after submitting a resume. I can configure a LAMP setup in my sleep. I once built a Usenet binary indexer that ran on a poo poo server and had instant full-text searching on a 750,000,000-row database. I noticed a lot of call for Angular.js, so the day after I put up a little resume site, I went back and redid it in Angular, which I had never read a single thing about until that day. It's super-simple Angular, with just a few routes and a menu, but it works. If you look at my posts in the Cavern of COBOL screenshots thread, you'll see other websites I built just for the hell of it, and an implementation of EvoLisa I wrote in C#. He lost his primary job and then had health problems and a span of not being able to find new paying work. I'm posting this for him here because he seems like the kind of guy that doesn't ask for help himself when he needs it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3743191
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JaySB posted:Vdara for location. Mandarin > * Thanks! Vdara it is! Now to get my group to not want to go to Zumanity....
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How crap is public transport in Vegas? I'm going to have probably only like one day free to myself during my business trip next week, and there's a store I want to hit up that's about 8 miles from the Cosmopolitan. Google Maps tells me I can walk to the Flamingo and take the 202 bus out there in about a half an hour, but if transport in Vegas is poo poo, I may just see how much it is to hire an Uber driver or something.
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Lots of people in here have praised Cut as the best place for meat in vegas. Would we need a reservation for a saturday? What kind of prices are there? I'm going either way but it's nice to know these things. Is there good mongolian bbq somewhere close ish to the nugget? What's a decent club that's sort of reasonably priced and what should we do to get in relatively painlessly?
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Man with Hat posted:Lots of people in here have praised Cut as the best place for meat in vegas. Would we need a reservation for a saturday? What kind of prices are there? I'm going either way but it's nice to know these things. You'll definitely want a reservation. It's been a couple of years since I was there but probably $50-100 for an entree if you don't get too crazy with the higher grade imported aged beef. I think we came out around $600 for a few courses for two people with tip and a reasonable bottle of wine last time I was there. I don't know of any good Mongolian bbq places anywhere in Vegas (we used to go to the outlet mall in Primm for food court quality) but please post if you find anything.
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Sep 25, 2015 18:44
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BabyJebus posted:You'll definitely want a reservation. It's been a couple of years since I was there but probably $50-100 for an entree if you don't get too crazy with the higher grade imported aged beef. I think we came out around $600 for a few courses for two people with tip and a reasonable bottle of wine last time I was there. What he said. There's tons of Korean BBQ same same
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Sep 25, 2015 19:54
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Any other recommendations for excellent steaks aside from cut?
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Sep 25, 2015 20:53
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Is that all you can eat Korean BBQ place right on the strip in a lovely strip mall south of Planet Hollywood any good? I don't really care if its overpriced, it's hard to care about that when I'm tossing about money on table games, but I like the idea of walkable Korean BBQ without getting in cabs...
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Sep 25, 2015 21:25
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Tab8715 posted:Any other recommendations for excellent steaks aside from cut? I enjoyed Brand steakhouse at the Monte Carlo better than Cut. Cut might have had the edge if I was some money-is-no-object Gourmand, but as a rube Midwesterner who likes a high end steak it was loving delicious (and cheaper, but we're talking the realm of high end steakhouses, so like $40-$50 for a filet instead of $50 to $70). I also enjoyed Carnevino at the Venetian but it never really makes any best in Vegas steak lists. I also like Del Frisco's, which is a chain, but I've never tried the one in Vegas.
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Tab8715 posted:Any other recommendations for excellent steaks aside from cut? My steakhouse order goes something like: Cut, Carnevino (for the reserva only), SW, Strip Steak, Gordon Ramsay, Craft, Bazaar Meat, Prime, Oscar's, STK, Golden Steer, Del Frisco's, Delmonico...With a few others but If you make it that far down the list I dunno what you're doing.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:41
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I'm a little surprised Hugo's doesn't make that list
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Sep 26, 2015 06:08
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Has anyone had any experience staying at the Downtown Grand or SLS? We're currently looking at those two for an upcoming trip as cheap places to stay. We're mainly going to be out seeing the sights and doing activities during our trip and won't be spending a lot of time in the hotel. We want to visit Fremont St. and do some cheap gambling downtown one night, but also would like to check out the sights at the other hotels along the strip. We'll be purchasing the Express/Deuce all access bus passes and using that to get around, if that makes a difference.
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Sep 28, 2015 04:06
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Riller posted:Has anyone had any experience staying at the Downtown Grand or SLS? We're currently looking at those two for an upcoming trip as cheap places to stay. We're mainly going to be out seeing the sights and doing activities during our trip and won't be spending a lot of time in the hotel. We want to visit Fremont St. and do some cheap gambling downtown one night, but also would like to check out the sights at the other hotels along the strip. We'll be purchasing the Express/Deuce all access bus passes and using that to get around, if that makes a difference. The bus sucks. Take a cab downtown. From SLS it won't be that bad. It wastes a lot of time.
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Sep 28, 2015 04:26
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pig slut lisa posted:I'm a little surprised Hugo's doesn't make that list Hugo's Cellar is not even remotely close to a steakhouse
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Sep 28, 2015 06:11
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JaySB posted:not even remotely close to a steakhouse I would use this phrase to describe a place like Itsy Bitsy or Vegenation, not a place that lots of people call a steakhouse, order steak at, etc
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Sep 28, 2015 06:50
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pig slut lisa posted:I would use this phrase to describe a place like Itsy Bitsy or Vegenation, not a place that lots of people call a steakhouse, order steak at, etc Let's argue semantics: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=hugo%27s+cellar "Classic Continental cuisine" is how they define themselves.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:22
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Well I guess if you want to argue semantics the question you were responding to asked about excellent steaks--which Hugo's has--and not excellent places that define themselves as steakhouses, so
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Sep 29, 2015 01:36
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I don't know about those other places but we went to CUT yesterday and had the best meal of our lives. Not only was the stake ridiculous but all of it was so stupid good. We got a steak and a side each and an okay bottle of wine for 650 ish, tips and all included, three people.
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pig slut lisa posted:Well I guess if you want to argue semantics the question you were responding to asked about excellent steaks--which Hugo's has--and not excellent places that define themselves as steakhouses, so You questioned my list of steak houses.
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Tab8715 posted:Any other recommendations for excellent steaks aside from cut? In addition to Jay's list of steakhouses, Hugo's Cellar also serves excellent steaks, offers a unique Vegas experience, and is worth checking out if you want to do something downtown
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TheReverend posted:I've heard both have rooms that are kinda meh. The one saving grace about SLS is Bazaar Meat, 5 dollar craps, and the monorail. Monorail usually sucks but at SLS it'll be convenient. Take it to MGM Grand and walk back. Both hotels have really small base rooms as well. I actually dig the SLS though - the rooms are more interesting than the glorified condo/Holiday Inn thing a lot of the other strip hotels have, the food is pretty good (especially Bazaar and Ku), and almost everything has some sort of discount/prix fixe going on to get folks in the door. Dunno about the clubs or anything like that, but it doesn't sound like that is what they were looking for. But yeah, just take a cab for anything the monorail doesn't touch.
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I've heard a lot of people talk about getting a cab to the airport and tell them to not take the highway. Why is this, and is it true for all of vegas or just the strip? We're in downtown.
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The tunnel is a way to long-haul people. It's quicker, but more distance. Most of the time, distance is the primary factor in the taxi cost. The thing though is that the further north you go, the less true/exploitive it is. Under normal traffic conditions "Swenson" is the way to go. But if you look at a google traffic map when you land and Swenson is jammed and I-15 is clear then maybe it's worth it. What's funny is that if you were to rent a car, you'd absolutely take the tunnel because it's quicker and no stopping, etc.
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^^this guy has it right. It's still true technically, just less so. And you do pay by the minute when idling at traffic lights. It's a crapshoot either way. Man with Hat posted:I've heard a lot of people talk about getting a cab to the airport and tell them to not take the highway. Why is this, and is it true for all of vegas or just the strip? We're in downtown. http://www.aboutfact.com/Las-Vegas-Taxi-Scam-Long-Haul Looking at maps, it looks like it's applicable to both downtown and to the strip. Could depend on traffic. The last time we went I believe we just let the cab driver do his thing (to the Strip) and he long hauled us. The time before that though, we asked for him to stay off the highway, and we were met with some resistance (it's faster from the highway, etc etc) and we politely insisted he take local roads. It was definitely cheaper on surface streets though. And there's way more to see that way.
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Man with Hat posted:I've heard a lot of people talk about getting a cab to the airport and tell them to not take the highway. Why is this, and is it true for all of vegas or just the strip? We're in downtown. I always stay downtown and my preference is for cabbies to take the highway. If I've rented a car it's different; I like to drive down the strip in those instances.
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Currently posting from the 15 on my way to Vegas. Last trip out here I got burger recommendations and Holsteins was a home run with my group, so good. We'll probably do that again this time, but how about any good pizza places?
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Teeter posted:Currently posting from the 15 on my way to Vegas. Last trip out here I got burger recommendations and Holsteins was a home run with my group, so good. We'll probably do that again this time, but how about any good pizza places? On Strip? 800 Degrees, Five50 and Secret Pizza. Off strip Settebello
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What's a good place on-strip to watch the USA - Mexico soccer match on Saturday night? I don't feel like dealing with college football fans/bettors so it seems like the sportsbooks would be out. I'm staying at Caesars if it matters.
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coronaball posted:What's a good place on-strip to watch the USA - Mexico soccer match on Saturday night? I don't feel like dealing with college football fans/bettors so it seems like the sportsbooks would be out. I'm staying at Caesars if it matters. Probably nothing on strip. Crown & Anchor is close and worth going to
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coronaball posted:What's a good place on-strip to watch the USA - Mexico soccer match on Saturday night? I don't feel like dealing with college football fans/bettors so it seems like the sportsbooks would be out. I'm staying at Caesars if it matters. The P.U.B. at Crystals/City Center is decent and will probably show the game, but Jay's suggestion is better if you don't mind leaving the strip.
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JaySB posted:Probably nothing on strip. Crown & Anchor is close and worth going to This looks promising, thanks. I won't have a car. How has the Uber/Lyft experience been in LV so far? Like other cities, cheaper/cleaner than a cab?
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Not much cheaper, if at all. Better by any other measure.
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My Girlfriend and I Flying into Vegas this December for 4 days/3 nights. Looks like Excalibur and Circus Circus are the go to cheap places to stay. First time going so a few general questions Rental car vs taxi? We plan on going rock climbing at least one day. Rental cars from the airport seem to be the same cost as a taxi. That said, taxi is probably way more convenient for getting around. We need a way to get to red rocks. I've heard you can get rental cars from a lot of hotels. Is this true? So far on our check list Gambling Climbing Nightclub - leaning Xs a show - absinthe or cirque du soleil (best to buy tickets in advance or day of?) Nice dinner - open for anything, neither of us are picky eaters. $30-70 a plate Looking for more stuff to do. We'll probably budget a day for just walking all around the strip and doing whatever looks fun Any players cards from specific casinos that come with awesome deals?
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We like to hike Red Rocks and have been pleased with the pricing of rental cars in Vegas. Every casino has massive free parking ramps to accommodate people that drive there. Imo its a great proposition if you're going to do that, I'd have to image a taxi would be ridiculous if they'd even drive out there. You can rent at the airport but we like to do it from the Westin one block off of the Strip on Flamingo, which has an Enterprise counter in it. We usually rent it just for a day or two and then taxi/walk the rest of the time.
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