Hello Tangerinies from Las Vegas. We've been coming here for years now and despite that
something about every trip shocks us. Whether it's awesome, scary, freaky, awkward, weird,
quirky, something. So today we're going to be telling you a list of all of those things that
have happened over the years or on this trip specifically so that you know what to expect
when you come to Las Vegas. This is part of our series on Vegas so if you want to see more
videos just like this one please subscribe to our channel. So our first thing is all the titties.
There's something about Vegas that I think all the girls come and they pull out their sluttiest,
most revealing outfits and wear them all over the place. It's something about Vegas
that brings it out in people. And that includes the showgirls that you see on the strip which
sometimes they have nothing more than paint or pasties covering up everything. In any case,
it never gets less shocking - all the titties. The next thing that shocked us and continues to
is the freezing cold ac it can be over 100 degrees outside and then they turn the temperature down
to like 60 or something. You walk into the casinos and you're just freezing, instantly,
yeah instantly freezing. They're trying to keep you up so you keep feeding the machine money.
You'd think after coming here so many times we would have memorized the casinos by now and how
to get from place to place but the strip and these casinos and hotels are so big and complicated.
It is incredibly easy to get lost. One time, I was over here at Encore. I was leaving the club
trying to get out of the casino and I swear I walked around so many times looking for an
exit eventually security came over it was like "excuse me miss you're going to have to go."
And I was literally like "Thank you, yes. How do i leave this casino? I want to go. I want out!"
And then right over here at Venetian and Palazzo, I get lost pretty much every time i go in there i
have no idea where the exits or where i want to go or anything like that. And for both of us, we get
lost in caesar's every time especially the forum shops the caesars forum shops. Oh yeah just forget
about it. It is a maze in there. It is amazing how big and elaborate these casinos are and how easy
it is to get lost in their web. Is the forum shops where we ended up going out the wrong
exit and then we ended up behind mirage and then it was like 110 degrees outside we had to walk a
half hour around the hotel. Yeah! That's another thing, i mean this is just pro tip,
only leave through the designated exits don't ever try to go out the back way or something
because it will always turn out badly for you. After all of our trips here this isn't something
that surprises us anymore but speaking of how large and complicated the casinos and hotels are,
you would not believe how long it takes to get to the next hotel or one that's right down the road.
That you can see. So behind us there's uh mirage, caesars, there's even cosmopolitan that you can
see so it might be like "oh we can see cosmo let's just walk there" but there are multiple gigantic
hotels including caesars which is deceptively long to get there before you you'll arrive.
What is that. a half hour walk to Cosmo? Yeah at least. So however long you think it's going to
take you to walk from one hotel to another double or triple that. And along the same lines of how
long it takes to walk from place to place, let's not forget about how shockingly long it can take
to get from your hotel room to the casino or to the strip even. It can take you 15 minutes to walk
from your hotel room and get out on the street, it's crazy! Something that shocked me when we
started coming to vegas was the free drinks while gambling. When we found out about this we're like
"how do you know it's going to be free?" like "I don't have any money,
what if i have to pay for this drink?" "How does this work? Like how much money do i have to put
through the machine and then they just give me this drink and you just have to tip on it,
really?" I remember we went to a bar at aria where they had like machines on the bar top
and we were like "so are the drinks free if we're playing?" or we said something like "So how do we
get the free drinks?" And that clearly triggered him because he was like "um they're not free,
they're complimentary." Okay buddy, sorry for the wrong verbage. Another thing that really shocked
me at first because i had only ever heard of this in europe, was the european style bathing aka
"toptional" or topless pools that you can go in here in Vegas. There's one in mirage called bare,
there's one at caesar's palace called i forget what, and another one at mandalay bay. But
literally like where can you do that in the US? So it's kind of like "whoa this is definitely a
vegas thing!" Something that continues to surprise us every single trip is the crazy swings in luck.
sometimes you feel like you can't lose and then other times you feel like you can never win like
we're not high rollers, but one trip after a few days we're down like 500 bucks which is crazy bad
losses for us, especially considering we're playing like video poker which has some of the better odds
too, in addition to slot machines. But yeah so we're playing at like 25 cents a spin, right? And we end
up down 500 bucks. But then I go out to the parking garage and five minutes later she hits a jackpot
for $580. The next day or i think that same day we went to cromwell and i hit a $250 jackpot. We won!
The next day we went to cromwell on the same machine hit another $250
jackpot. So that's exactly what you're saying, sometimes it seems like you're
winning, like winning, winning, winning, and other times you're losing your ass.
So if there's one thing about vegas that's consistent it's the lack of consistency.
I think they're used to getting fed. Yeah! On this trip in particular something that really
shocked us - we're coming back now after the pandemic, or well we're still in the middle of
the pandemic but after everything was shut down. In some casinos the machines are spread out so
far apart or there's hardly as many as there were before like it's very sparse. Others haven't
changed at all, like cosmo, they still are enforcing like leave a machine empty in between people. And i
think limited in table games as well. And then other casinos have every other one turned off.
So it's like a totally different casino floor for a lot of casinos which shocked us and made
me a little sad because a lot of our favorite machines are now gone. I know, yeah, that really sucks.
Another thing that really shocked me during this trip was to increased security here on the strip
and now it's not just private security in the casinos but you also have a lot of metro police in
and around the casinos. Yeah, cop cars just posted up in random spots on the strip
An increased presence of all of those. And what was really crazy was going in to Wynn this weekend
It was like going through airport security. You had to take everything out of your pockets, then
you are scanned with a metal detector, they searched my bag every single time. Yeah if you had a bag, it
was searched. And then you have to go through a temperature screening process. And you might be
wondering why on earth is there all this increased security that hasn't been there in previous years
is it because of coronavirus? I think maybe it's that some casinos are trying to enforce the mask
wearing and everything. But there's also, right now for whatever reason, a different crowd in vegas. One
that we've never seen before and it's been kind of shocking to see how disrespectful and classless
people are acting on the strip. The same type of people that are able-bodied but renting these
power scooters to get around the strip and like mowing people down to get by. Taking them down
the escalators and everything. It's just been interesting to see people like just throwing
their trash all over the floor, pushing and shoving, getting a little bit more violent than we've seen
the crowds be in the past. It's a shocking change and i hope it doesn't stay like that forever
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caesar's now we're passing by this gigantic, truly enormous sign that's probably a couple million
dollars at least. And that's another thing that shocks us every single time we come is how big
and grand and fantastic all of these casinos and hotels are. And especially the strip as a whole.
Looking at it from a high vantage point or even looking up at these casinos it's just like "wow!" We
did a nighttime helicopter ride this trip and from that perspective you could really see how much
money is in this city and how enormous all these casinos are. We were just talking about which one
to do next and Maddie's like "let's do the hookers." I was like "Be careful, wear protection."
Uh, that's not what I meant. A very very classically shocking vegas thing is the fact that there are
hookers here and they're pretty prominent. Like you'll very likely meet one on a trip when you
come. One time, jordan and i were sitting together playing on a machine at mirage and one just came
up and sat down started chatting with us. She was really nice but it was a very weird thing and i
had a lot of questions. She wasn't trying to get business from us she was just preparing for her
night. Right. But she was very nice, she answered all of my very nosey questions about kind of, you know,
the stuff that she does. But that is a pretty common thing and to me it's very shocking i just
don't understand like a hooker lifestyle. Like a... Yeah. If i'm ever out in the casino after midnight
alone it's very likely that an attractive girl is going to come up to me at some point
and i don't think it's because they're interested in me. There is a scam though with this too and
it's not necessarily hookers but there's a scam where a very attractive girl will come up to a guy
and be like "hey do you want to come out to dinner with me?" and their their ploy is to get you to pay
for a very expensive dinner by they'll excuse themselves to go to the bathroom and then never
come back, leaving that person with the bill. And they went into it being like "oh it's on me"
yeah "I had a really big win, let me treat you to dinner, i'm just here by myself, i'd really
love someone to go with me."Anyway, speaking of scams though, we made an entire video about scams
and tourist traps in vegas so we'll link that on the screen right here. The next thing that always
shocks us about las vegas coming to the strip is that each time we come something new shocks us
You would be surprised, because at a certain point you think "okay you've been coming here
for like six, seven, eight years, you wouldn't have that reaction anymore. But every trip, every trip,
there's something or multiple things that do. Like this time it was all these people on
scooters and the different crowd that's here, the different groups of people, the increased security
And what was the other one you mentioned? Oh the the number of homeless. Oh yeah, and how unruly
some of them have been. Yeah there's always a lot of homeless people in and around the strip
like begging for money and stuff. But this time, like for one example, we saw a lady who just picked
up an entire trash can and dumped it out all over the sidewalk. I've never in my life seen something
like that. So that's vegas for you. No matter what, no matter the length of your trip, or where you're
staying, or what you're doing, i guarantee something is going to shock you every time. Something else
that shocks me about vegas is no matter how much we eat we still end up losing weight while we're
here. Yeah, oh my gosh, because like we were saying, the strip is so spread out and unless you
want to spend a bunch of money on transportation and ubers everywhere, it's just better to walk
sometimes. Just get the exercise, and be outside, people watch. That's one of our favorite things to do
while we're here is just see whatever crazy things people are doing. Which reminds me of another
thing that shocks us, and hear me out on this one because i know it would seem kind of obvious but
the level of drunkenness that some people can be. Oh yeah! And yes this is vegas so you would
probably expect that to a certain extent. But until you see people at their most drunk it's still like
it's almost unbelievable that some people act the way that they do and the amount of alcohol that
people consume to where they're literally like straight out of a movie or a cartoon they're like [Maddie acting really drunk].
And we've we've seen multiple people who we were pretty sure were
not homeless passed out on the sidewalk. Yeah, literally just laying across the sidewalk
and then it's not even drunkenness too. It can be other stuff. You'll see people that are on another
level. Something recently that's shocked me and this is like not in a good way, it's the amount
of weed smell and the amount of people literally smoking weed just on the sidewalk anywhere around
like in public. Even though it's not really legal to do that and we've been getting in the elevator
at our hotel and we're getting high just from the person who was in there before us.
okay i mean i wouldn't say that but it definitely does smell like pretty strong and crazy. Prior to
coming to vegas i had only ever gone to really low quality buffets that were basically cheap like
something under ten dollars and not the nicest food, so i just kind of assumed... Not the nicest as in
basically pig food. Yeah it's just low quality, filled with carbs and artificial ingredients
and all that, like barely any fresh stuff. So i just kind of assumed it was like that everywhere until
we came to vegas. And something that shocked me was, first of all the price that you pay for buffet, but
it is worth it in my opinion especially when you get like buy one get one free and stuff because
the food is like international cuisine, five-star incredible stuff that you leave there like you
have to roll yourself out in a wheelbarrow basically because you just want to eat it all.
We're not saying they're all five-star buffets but you definitely do have that option. Yes. Thank
you for clarifying because there's some that are amazing some of our favorites are the Wynn buffet,
Aria is pretty good, mirage is a good budget buffet. We're about to go try cosmopolitan
because we've heard great things about that one. About wicked spoon, but yeah just in general, don't
don't skip the buffets is my advice if you're thinking that it's going to be kind of low quality
meh food. The price, it often matches how amazing it is. Something that never ceases to shock us in vegas
is how expensive it can be. Sticker shock. Yeah, there's so many hotel rooms here for over a thousand dollars.
There's even one at the palms, it's a hundred thousand dollars a night.
Yeah, and you wouldn't believe some of the prices for food too. We were looking at a restaurant in
Wynn and a a single salad was over $20. And there was one time, this was probably one of the biggest
sticker shocks we ever had, we were at a nightclub and we wanted some waters. They wouldn't serve us
glasses of water and said we had to buy a bottle of water. And it was thirty dollars, thirty bucks, for a
bottle of water. One bottle of water. It still, to this day makes me mad. Like we paid that much for
water. But it's water, we needed it. But despite how expensive things can be, another thing that shocks
us is how we can come to vegas and stay at five star resorts for almost nothing and then use all
kinds of hacks to have a very cheap and quite fun trip here. Yeah, where we get free rooms, we
can sometimes get resort fees comped, we get buy one get one free rewards for attractions like the
high roller or buffets. Just all sorts of things all sorts of activities and food and anything
you can think of in between. Transportation even. And we've made actually probably a dozen videos
at this point in las vegas, all about how to save money and have an awesome time while you're here.
Because we're not talking about pinching pennies to the point where you're worrying about every
dime that's going out there, we're talking about having like a high roller vacation on a budget.
Ballin' on a budget. Ballin' on a budget. We're going to link the playlist of all those
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