Imperial Palace Hotel Las Vegas

Journée bien remplie.  Une grande randonnée de 3 heures dans les montagnes entourant Sedona (plus de 6 km avec un changement d'altitude de plus de 350 mètres).  Après, une petite balade en voiture de plus de 5 heures pour se rendre à Las Vegas.  La route partant de Sedona est tellement sinueuse et cachée entre les montagnes que le GPS ne parvenait pas à capter les satellites.

C'est la fin.  14 jours, 5800 km et 1200 photos plus tard, on se prépare à retourner à la maison.  Un long vol Las Vegas-Montréal nous attend dans quelques heures.  

Le voyage a été très plaisant.  Le seul point négatif est la trop grande distance entre les attractions, mais à part ça, tout est parfait.

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After such a long day yesterday I figured that I would take it easy today, have a lie in and then head down to the strip later - no such luck - housekeeping were banging on the door at 9.00am, do they not realise this is a hostel - its not supposed to be clean!!! I did manage to sleep again though and finally headed down to the strip about lunch time - god knows what the temperature was here today but it was hot so walking in the full sun wasn't an option. I took the bus down to the strip. Th...

Amazingly, we got up at 9AM, and got discounted tickets for Phantom of Opera show at $80 each. It was quite a good deal, and the performance was absolutely astonishing (the decoration of the theatre is amazingly detailed and impressive). * Get a discounted ticket and see one of the shows in LV is a must! After visiting th lion habitate in MGM, we headed out to Billagio for lunch buffet. The $20 buffet was good value, although below my expectation due to no king crab legs, it still provided lo...

After an uneventful flight that left Dayton at 7:20 with a layover in Minnesota I arrived at around 11pm in Las Vegas and tried to haul it to a shuttle to the strip to make it to the Bellagio fountains. I decided to take a shuttle since taxis are now up to $25 each way. A shuttle was $6 each way. Unfortunately the one I chose decided to take its time to fill up and I just missed the last show at the Bellagio when I arrived on the strip about midnight and met up with my parents. Oh well. Gave ...

Day 2



Again, I really didn't want to sleep very much because it is Vegas afterall. Before heading out I stopped at the casino to try my luck on the penny machines. I may have lost $2 but was up a free Jaeger bomb, a great start to the morning. Since we did not go to the North end of the strip on the first day, we decided to hit that this morning.



The first stop was the Mirage, where I would be seeing Cirque du Soleil's "LOVE" the following night. With the excepti...

Day 3



Being the last day in Las Vegas, I had to make the most of it. My parents got up at 6am to catch their flight, so I got up to see them off before going back to bed. Considering I had been only sleeping about 5 hours I needed a bit more. I slept in til about 9:45 and was checked out by about 10:30. Since I had to go directly to the airport that night I left my bags in the bag check room ($1 tip to the attendant) and headed out.



Considering it was almost 11am...

We arrived in LA the day before we left Fiji - very odd, and it took us about 3 days to get over it. This was not a bad thing as we recuperated on Venice beach. We loved it there (could probably live there too) We had a long walk to Santa Monica and hit the shops on the boulevard (window shopping again...) and chilled out in the neat bars and cafes on the beach front. After a trip to LA hospital to have stitches removed we hired a car and headed down to San Diego for a few days. We hired a co...

After getting up early, we were picked up by the taxi and headed to LAX for our flight to Las Vegas. The flight was only about 45 minutes long, but we had some good views out over LA and the Mojave Desert on the way there. After landing and catching the train between the terminal and baggage claim (it's all class in Las Vegas) we caught a shuttle bus to our hotel, The Imperial Palace. Despite getting a complimentary upgrade to a suite from a standard room (just by asking for it), I wouldn't d...