Rooms are dramatically cheaper weekdays than weekends . Prices soar especially on Friday and Saturda

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Mirage Hotel Las Vegas Here are my Tips for Travellers visiting Las Vegas.The best Las Vegas Hotels, Las Vegas Shows and Attractions. Best time to visit based on the weather in Las Vegas which can be boiling hot in August and very chilly in December. Also a brief history of the city and history and observations and thoughts on this great city. 1. THE BEST TIME TO VISIT
It is easy to think of Las Vegas as being permanently hot as it is right in the middle of the Mojave Desert, but this is not the case. It does get very hot indeed in the summer months of July and August with maximums of around 40 degrees Celsius, but in the middle of winter and around Christmas time it is much colder with temperatures at night below freezing (around -2 Celsius) up to about 16 degrees Celsius.
It is very hot indeed vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee in the summer months and can even be too oppressive to walk far in the daytime and so, unless you like the heat, you should stay away and try and visit more in the Spring and Autumn months where the weather is more moderate to warm and still not too cool in the evenings. In summer the pools are even warm both from the sun but the many people vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee trying to cool off. Though of course the coolest places to be are the chilled vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee casinos and shopping malls. I have to say one thing that is amazing to see are the monstrous air conditioning units – well they are more like air condition sub-stations it seems – that sit behind all the big resorts, malls and conference centers!
But there is a more important consideration, in my view, about the best time to visit than the time of the year to visit since you can regulate your exposure to the heat by venturing out more at night anyway or taking advantage of all that air-conditioning. This one is that, unless you absolutely have to, is to avoid being in Las Vegas on the weekends and be there on weekdays. This is for a few key reasons:
Rooms are dramatically cheaper weekdays than weekends . Prices soar especially on Friday vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee and Saturday nights when the hoards of weekenders converge in their droves. As a result rooms, even though there is something like 75000 of them, can be hard to get on weekends. vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee It is usual practice in Las Vegas to pay a different rate every night you stay in a hotel based on how many people are there. It is the most dramatic example I have ever come across of variable hotel pricing based on supply and demand. I guess they use a system like the airlines, which assess prices and constantly adjust them. On this trip I was there for 6 nights at the Bellagio, and our Friday night rate was close to double some of the rates for earlier in the week. Sunday was our cheapest night as I suspect that this was a day when the weekend pleasure trippers had left and before the conference crowd started to arrive on the Monday.
Related to this, we also noticed that the table minimums for games like Blackjack seemed to be higher on the weekend than during the week. I am not 100% sure that this is the norm but we did notice it on this trip
The hotels, casinos, pools and streets are not only much more crowded on the weekend but also much more rowdy and full of drunk, over boisterous people that makes having fun a bit less easy and comfortable. Although it is mostly good natured high-jinks you do feel a bit less relaxed and comfortable – something we especially noticed that groups of women felt. The casinos especially are just much less fun on the weekends for the casual gambler.
One watch out about going on weekdays is that most of the shows are “dark” (i.e. not on) at the beginning of the week as they run twice a day over the weekend and so if you want to see shows check out before you book your trip when they are on.
Most people, in my view, stay for too short an amount of time in Las Vegas. So many people that I have met seem to think that 2 or 3 days in the city is enough. I really vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee don’t think it is as you never get a chance to do more than just flirt with what the city has to offer – and you risk never getting past just the brashness of the place.
There are 5 main things to do when visiting Las Vegas and you need time to do them. These are: The mega-resorts as “destinations” vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee in themselves Going to shows and entertainment like concerts, extravaganzas Getting out of the city into the Grand Canyon or Hoover Dam and Lake Mead Gambling Visiting vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee the “old centre” of Las Vegas gambling where the Fremont Experience now runs in the evenings. This is a massive covered walkway with quite remarkable effects.
“The Strip” which is Las Vegas Boulevard  is where the “new” Las Vegas is . On the strip are all the mega-resorts vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee and themed hotels and I think is really the area that captures what Vegas is about today. On the top of the strip towards the airport is where the younger, professional and more couples seem to stay. Lower down the strip towards the huge Stratosphere Tower Hotel seems to be where more families vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee stay. This is partly as the hotels like Circus-Circus have more family features and also they are more reasonably priced. This part of the strip also still has some “tackiness” to the area with loud trinket and souvenir shops and small 7:11 style shops but seems safe despite some strange looking characters hanging about. “Off the strip” has a mix of hotels that seem to attract a much older crowd, like the old Hilton . This may be because they have been in Las Vegas for a long time and so are familiar but may also be the fact that being off the always busy “Strip” they offer a less frantic place to stay. This may be why  Las Vegas Hilton timeshares  are also very popular for those who enjoy returning year after year. There are also, though, a number of “off the strip” hotels that are popular with celebrities, like Hard Rock and Rio, and this maybe as they attract less of a gawping crazy tourist type! Glitter Gultch” is around the Fremont Street  area . This was the original heart of Las Vegas with many properties that have been there for a very long time. This area was pretty much driven into a dire state when all the mega-resorts opened and many people never venture there now despite the huge investment in this stunning covered pedestrian walkway down Fremont Street  that does light and sound shows. It is well worth seeing but the area, in my view, feels run down and unsafe and the casinos vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee seem dated and attract a crowd that feel a bit frayed around the edges. “The suburbs”. On the outskirts of Las Vegas and even out at the Las Vegas Lake where the rich of Vegas live there are many other casino hotels to stay. Friends of mine who know people in Las Vegas often chose to stay there, but it seems you really need to know people in the city to be able to choose the best ones.
4. TOUR THE “MEGA-RESORTS” AND SEE THE FREEBIES All of the huge mega-resorts are themed and have built in various free spectacles or features to try and lure the crowds in. There is such a formula to how they work to try and get people to have them on their “must see” list – and they are all designed to get you there on the hope that you will spend your gambling vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee dollars there as that is where all the money to be made is. Saying that they are worth planning to take a visit to. This is an advantage of staying for a few days, as you can then swing by to see one or two of them each day using them as an escape from the too hot middle of the day when you start to fry if you stay by the pool at your hotel. Saying vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee that some of the best free features are to be seen at nighttime vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee and so plan around those. The best mega-resorts to ensure you visit are the following: The Luxor with its impressively huge Sphinx head and needle and pyramid shaped main hotel building. At night a beam shines from the top that is supposed to be visible from outer space should you ever find yourself in space and want to locate the hotel. Inside it is a veritable Egyptian overload with quite stunning replicas and the dizzy spectacle of looking up inside the atrium where a few jumbo jets could be stacked in theory.
Luxor Hotel Las Vegas The Venetian . Although there are some paying attractions like Madam Tussard’s wax works of mostly celebrities and Guggenheim Museum, the main attractions are the replica St Marks square and Venetian canals that run from outside through to the shopping mall inside where the gondola drivers burst into song once inside much to their passengers embarrassment and the shoppers delight.
Bellagio . This was the first of the (even) more up market mega-resorts and still advertises vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee itself as “above all others”. There is a man made 8.5 acre lake out the front that has the most staggeringly amazing fountain and music shows. These run every hour from 3pm until 8pm and then every 15 minutes until midnight . They thunder over 30 stories high at some points and are not to be missed.
The latest trend and development vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee in Las Vegas is the huge City Center complex . A collection of modern hotels like the Oriental Mandarin, Aria and Vdara along with a large shopping complex of designer shops. This complex is a modern, cosmopolitan major global city style development that is targeted at a younger professional crowd that Las Vegas seems to be trying to attract. Visitors with a more discerning vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee and modern style than the themed hotels.
The “best of the rest” includes the original mega-resort of Mirage with its volcano that goes off regularly at night that is very clever, and the Siegfried Roy Secret garden with big cats and dolphins. The best shopping mall is at Caesar’s Palace vacation rentals in gatlinburg tennessee by a long way, while the ne