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what's going on island Hoppers today we're coming to you from Las Vegas Nevada we're going
to talk about the things you need to know when visiting this beautiful Party Town let's do it
so let's talk about where to stay so there's Fremont Street which is where I'm at right now
so Fremont Street is considered a pedestrian mall and it is an attraction right here in
downtown Las Vegas this is actually where Las Vegas originated the city core here in downtown
along Fremont Street some popular places to check out Circa they also have the Pioneer
Club The Golden Nugget which is really cool we'll show you that in another video and then
there's the Las Vegas Strip this trip also known as Las Vegas Boulevard is actually located in a
town called Paradise which is an unincorporated town in the Metro Las Vegas area also connecting
to another town known as Winchester but it is 4.2 miles long with many large Hotel Casino
Resorts including Hilton Resorts World Venetian Bellagio Paris Paris Caesars Palace and Mandalay
Bay at the very southern end of the strip all right so a lot of people want to know where is
the absolute best place to stay in Las Vegas in my opinion Cosmopolitan if you can afford the prices
but there's a hack you can't afford the price of Cosmopolitan you can go right across the street
to something like uh Planet Hollywood or right next door to something like Paris or go across
the street from there to Caesar's Palace you'll find better prices but this little area right here
from Caesars Palace Bellagio Cosmopolis and Aria across the street Planet Hollywood that's really
the best part of the strip it's like the center it's the heart of it all that's where you really
want to be and I'm giving you that advice because I've been here enough times to know
all right let's talk about money here in Vegas so when you go to the ATM machines the ATMs inside
the casino are like eight to nine dollar fees and that's on top of fees that are also initiated
by your bank so if you can try to go to a bank outside of the strip typically a Bank of America
or chase or one of your local banks instead of getting money from the actual Casino foreign
expect to find lots of wagyu beef I think that if there's anything that stands out
to me it's the abundance of wagyu beef especially since it's such expensive beef
for a small six ounce steak I've paid as much as 220 dollars I didn't even know the price when the
waiter asked me so verify the price there's also lots of sushi restaurants these are mostly going
to be gourmet restaurants you're going to have everything from Gordon Ramsay to Wolfgang Puck
all the way on down the line to some of your other favorite celebrity chefs with restaurants
right here in Las Vegas and they're all really going to be Gourmet and then of course they're
going to have that food that you have when you're drunk and you're trying to just get some carbs
in your stomach to soak up all that alcohol we know how it goes that's basically drunken food
you know the restaurants are going to be open sometimes and in Las Vegas because it's a part
of the Southwest you can expect to find lots of Mexican food fajitas also plenty of Italian
restaurants plenty of variety like rigatoni and regular spaghetti noodle also they're going to
have some healthy food Alternatives like a salad with just steak or chicken also avocado and toast
fish and chips also they're gonna have some pizza this here is a pizza pizza but they've got a lot
of different pizza parlors they've got Caesar salad with chicken cucumber salad and then for
breakfast you can see here's a wide variety of selection for example they've got salmon
Tartine they've got egg Tartine and for dessert you'll be able to find warm chocolate lava cake
Frozen Custard you name it this is Las Vegas they're going to have lots of dessert variety
all right let's talk about hidden fees and how they can get you here in Las Vegas one of them
is Resort fees you'll go on kayak or hotels.com or booking.com and you'll see that the hotel's
79 to stay at New York New York and then when you get there you realize that it's a 40 to 50 dollar
Resort fee that's just one example but every Hotel especially on this trip is going to have a resort
fee for example you'll look at heras sometimes they'll have 29 rooms you can get there and you
realize that there's a forty Dollar Resort fee so that's how they get you at these hotel resorts
foreign let's talk about your health here in Las Vegas what do you need to know in preparation
for coming here obviously it's very hot in the summer but did you know that in the winter time
it gets very cold yeah so here we are middle of February and it's snowing if you see little
snowflakes right there so there's going to be different things that you're going to keep in
mind but generally bringing sunblock for Las Vegas a good idea also dehydration very easy
out here because we are a desert in Las Vegas so when you come out here make sure when you go
to bed you drink something with electrolytes or water otherwise you'll wake up with a dry
mouth going harsh especially since we're here in the winter time when we wake up in the mornings
the heat's on and it's very dry and arid so you wake up with a dry mouth I just want to
say dehydration is very possible make sure you drink a lot of water and electrolytes
and liquid when you're here foreign let's talk about ways to save money so the big way to save
money above all else is to not come during peak season peak season is basically from
January until about May some say give or take a month in either direction Summers not so much a
peak season and before uh Christmas not so much a peak season so if you want to save
money those are the times to show up now also another thing that affects the prices is going
to be conventions or events something like the Super Bowl something like a holiday or a big Mega
convention all drives up prices where they go from 39 a night at the New York or The Venetian
if you get lucky you can find it for 39 at the Venetian but then they go up to like well over 100
on those nights because of peak demand so that's one way to save money when coming to Las Vegas
all right let's talk about a tire and things to wear when visiting Las Vegas see Las Vegas is a
place where you can really dress up or you can also dress down in the daytime I would say jeans
or slacks with a collared shirt maybe even a t-shirt just walking around definitely have
a pair of walking shoes preferably some Nike cross trainers or some Reeboks whatever your
favorite brand is but then also summertime bring some flip-flops especially if you're going to be
hanging out at the pool it just depends on the season but if you're here in the winter bring
a coat also at night that's when you really want to dress up so this is the time to bust
out the tuxedo or the suit whatever you have for dress clothes ladies you know your favorite dress
that you've been waiting to wear that you never actually wore that's where you're going to bust
it out here in Vegas at night when you're going to The Cosmopolitan or the Bellagio to one of these
nightclubs if you're here in the summertime it's going to be hot walking around the strip
so probably dress accordingly we're talking well over 100 degrees out here in Las Vegas
during the summer months foreign let's talk about Transportation getting around Las Vegas obviously
as you can see they do have Rideshare I found that to be the easiest way to get up and down the
strip now you can rent a car but the problem with renting a car versus Rideshare is parking so if
you do decide to drive you're going to have to pay for parking in each one of these Resort Casinos
but who wants to drive when you're drinking when you can just take Rideshare to go from say the
New York New York to the win cost me about 15 in a taxi so it's Rideshare a taxi they also have a
bus they have a hop-on hop-off tour and they also have parking for you who want to bring your car
but I would say ride share and taxis are the best way to get around this trip and if you wanted to
go from the strip to Fremont Street it's going to cost you about 25 each way and as you can
see they also have a monorail tram that takes you from resort to Resort now the Mandalay Bay
to the Excalibur is a tram and then they have one from Arya all the way to the Bellagio area
so here's some interesting facts about Las Vegas did you know the strip is actually
not located within the city limits of Las Vegas it's in Paradise also they have 22
000 conventions per year 41 million people visit Las Vegas every year and it's actually
voted in the top 10 every single year as a foodie city in the United States
something you should know about Las Vegas it's a nighttime City yeah there's activities to do
in the daytime especially adventure activities like a helicopter ride over Grand Canyon going
to Valley of Fire but really Las Vegas doesn't start coming to life until two or
three in the afternoon right now is peak time which is around 6 PM that's really
the time you want to start hitting the town especially if you want to go out on this trip
so one of the big questions is how many days do you need in Las Vegas you can do 24 hours and see
a lot of Las Vegas like Las Vegas is a 24 to 48 hour City but really I would say you need 72 to
96 hours in Las Vegas at three to four days so if you come to Las Vegas prepare for that time frame
three to four days and you will see much of this trip and you can even do Fremont Street which is
downtown so I would say three to four days is the best time frame for Vegas seven days is too
much 24 hours is not quite enough if there's barely West your palate so there I go foreign
container walking along the strip so that's a convenient thing for a lot of people who
are going from casino to casino also one more thing I want to point out is yes they do have
cocktail waitresses when you're gaming they will give you free alcohol although it seems
like what it's going to cost you to put the money in the slots unless you're winning it's
usually going to be a really expensive drink to sit there and wait the 15 to 20 minutes
for your cocktail waitress to come out also I consider Las Vegas to be a dream come true for
people who are really big into a variety of different alcohols if you consider yourself
a connoisseur Las Vegas has you covered with so many variety of cocktails also one more
thing guys if you're looking for things to do in Las Vegas check the link description
below because we did put 50 things to do in Las Vegas down below as well as
a full travel guide of Las Vegas and Las Vegas best hotels all links in the description below
Las Vegas here in 2023 is that they are developing the north side of the strip this area where Circus
Circus is you look right across the road there we have the convention center for Las Vegas
and then they're also building Fountain Blue Las Vegas right next to this big building so
they're really building up the north side of the strip right now south side of the strip
seems to be silent no real projects going on and right around here is actually where they
built the Hilton Resorts World so it seems like most of the emphasis is going north on the strip
now obviously there's lots of Casino gaming to be had here they're going to have roulette
they're going to have craps lots of slot machines and for me I do have an opinion
on some of my favorite casinos that I game at Mandalay Bay New York New York so basically
the MGM properties I like I also like Venetian Paris Paris I've had luck at some places that
I haven't had much luck at I'm not going to maim unless Arya sorry but I really gave that casino
a chance and I was there for an hour each time and honestly I had no luck whatsoever both times
so we already kind of touched on the weather but let's go in a little bit
more detail about the weather so you get extreme hot and you get extreme
cold that's what makes this place a desert plants can't live and freeze and they can't
live in extreme temperatures but Las Vegas is one of those places that really only has
one month in between where the weather is perfect but outside of that summers are hot
Winters are very cold you'd be surprised Vegas doesn't have the most ideal weather
oh and also while in Las Vegas you can do a tour to the Hoover Dam and see the hydroelectric power
plant also you can take a helicopter tour to the Grand Canyon Las Vegas is actually one of
the closest areas to the Grand Canyon when it comes to big cities so if you've ever wanted to
go there Vegas is your destination also they have the Valley of Fire a place where they have really
cool geological formations as well as a good place to do some hiking and take some pictures also have
some Native American petroglyphs nearby is also Death Valley I thought I'd throw that in there
Las Vegas has a population of two million people and did you know it's
also the number one most visited tourist destination in the United States it's
usually competing with New York Orlando and then Vegas but as of 2022 the data
came out they said Las Vegas was the most popular tourist destination in America
my best advice to you guys would be watch our other video about the 50 best things to do in
Las Vegas so you guys have an idea of what to do when you're here but also remain flexible
be flexible with your plans you never know you could hit it big and that changes everything
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