Back when I used to do my nine-day West Coast Tours, they would always start in Los Angeles and I would fly in a day early just so I could make it to Disneyland. When I arrived at the House that a Mouse built, I headed straight over to Disney…
One of the more curious questions I get here on this website as well as I see in Vegas-related groups online is about kids and families. In a nutshell, the questions are usually framed like this: “Why do parents keep wanting to bring their kids to vegas? There’s nothing here…
Watch this video on YouTube. On any other Super Bowl weekend, the Las Vegas Strip would be packed with tourists and rabid sports fans. Normally we would have upwards of 300,000 tourists in town. But as we all know, this was not your normal Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas….
[arve url=”https://youtu.be/mFolHboS8G4″ title=”Hanging out with SmileyJoe Wiley” /] When my friend Joni from LV Wedding Connections told me she had a great comedian I needed to meet, she was right, like always. Comedian SmileyJoe Wiley is his name and he has a new gig I think you are going to…
[adinserter block=”8″] In 2009 we at The Vegas Tourist, as well as the rest of Las Vegas media, were invited to tour the new music venue at the Hard Rock Casino. The reimagined Joint was now ready for its big debut and the opening act was going to be the…
Earlier this week, my wonderful wife and I went out to Boulder City. To the Southern Nevada Railroad Museum. Home to Rail Explorers Las Vegas office. We were there to do the Sunset Railbike Ride! [arve url=”https://youtu.be/IK5WCECUUDs” title=”Riding Sunset Railbike Ride in Boulder City!” /] To refresh your memory: Rail…
After all these years, I finally get around to making a general guide to tipping in Las Vegas! [arve url=”https://youtu.be/RmfvRub29oY” title=”My Guide to the are of tipping in Las Vegas” description=” Tipping in las Vegas. Who and how much!” /] Tipping. The art of giving a gratuity for great service…
Do you want your very own piece of Las Vegas history? How about owning your very own Las Vegas roller coaster? You can now own it! Remember Speed the Ride? The roller coaster at the Sahara? It’s on the auction block. Well, parts of it are. [arve url=”https://youtu.be/HbgNePtih64″ title=”Buy Your…
For those not so initiated to the letters, EDC stands for the Electric Daisy Carnival. This is an annual three-night electronic dance music festival, with its flagship event held right here in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Attracting 150,000 people a night. Adding about $350 million…
Hoover Dam is one of the engineering marvels of the modern era and was built literally in the middle of nowhere during the Great Depression. Pretty much everyone at the time said it was not going to work. It was too large, too complex and it would fail. Obviously, the…
