• Nevada Tourism and Hotels Guide: Includes Las Vegas Tourism, Reno, South Lake Tahoe Casinos and More.
  
  The great State of NEVADA is without a doubt the most desolate state in America, and consists largely of endless tracts of desolate, empty desert. Its flat sagebrush plains are cut irregularly by angular mountain ranges, and the lack of rainfall and fertile soil has ensures its maintenance as untouched wilderness. Apart from the vast acreages given over to mining and to grazing cattle and sheep, much of the Nevada desert is under the control of the military, who utilize it to test aircraft and weapons systems, including Stealth fighters and atomic bombs. Dozens of interesting small towns are scattered about the state, some showing the signs of strong Basque influence. Many more are crumbling roadside ghost towns, often little more than a gas station, general store, flanked by a saloon and perhaps a brothel. Nevada is the only American State not to have outlawed prostitution, though it is not legal in Las Vegas Nevada. For more Las Vegas Tourism information visit our recommended websites below. We offer you recommendations on the best: Las Vegas hotels, Restaurant and Destinations.
  
  Though millions pass through Las Vegas on their way to and from California, there is only one real reason why anyone ever visits Nevada, and that is to gamble: as soon as you cross the state border, you'll be attacked by a 24 hour blitz of neon signs and gimmicky architecture, each boasting the best odds and biggest jackpots, nowhere more than in the surreal oasis of Las Vegas . Even the smaller and more down-to-earth settlements of Reno and state capital Carson City Nevada revolve around the casino trade. At least the casinos' energetic pursuit of passing trade keeps rooms and especially food inexpensive, so the towns make good places to break a long journey and, with Nevadas relaxed marriage and divorce laws, make or break a relationship.
   
• Las Vegas Nevada Tourism
  Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latter day El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most energetic, exciting city on earth. At the start of the twentieth century, Las Vegas didn't even exist: at the start of the twenty first, it is now home to well over one million people, with enough newcomers arriving to need a new school every month.
  
  Las Vegas Nevada isn't like other cities. No city in history has so explicitly valued the needs of visitors above those of its own population. All of the growth of Las Vegas has been fueled by tourism, but the tourists have not spoiled the "real" city: there is no real city. Las Vegas Nevada doesn't have enthralling little known neighborhoods, and it's not a place where visitors can go off the beaten track to have more authentic experiences. Instead, the whole city is completely self referential: the reason Las Vegas Nevada boasts the vast majority of the world's largest hotels is that around thirty seven million tourists annually come to see the hotels and casino hotels themselves.
  
  The area code for all telephone numbers in the text, unless otherwise indicated, is 702.
  
  Each of these monstrous buildings is much more than a mere hotel, and more too than the casino that invariably lies at its core. They are extraordinary places, self contained fantasylands of high camp and genuine excitement that can stretch as much as a mile from end to end. Each holds its own flamboyant permutation of showrooms and swimming pools, luxurious guest quarters and dining, high tech rides and attractions.
  
  The casino hotels want you to gamble, and they will do almost anything to lure you in; thus the huge moving walkways that pluck you from the Strip sidewalk, almost against your will, and sweep you into places like Caesars Palace Hotel Casino. Once you are inside, on the other hand, the last thing they want is for you to leave. Whatever you came in for, you will not be able to do it without crisscrossing the casino floor inestimable times; as for finding your way out, that can be virtually impossible. The action keeps going day and night, and in this windowless and clock free environment you rapidly lose track of which is which.
  
  There is little emphasis placed upon the gambling clubs, no cheap and easily parodied slogans have been adopted to publicize Las Vegas, no attempt has been made to introduce pseudo romantic architectural themes or to give artificial glamour or gaiety.
  - WPA Guidebook to Nevada, 1940
  
  Las Vegas never dares to rest on its laurels, so the basic concept of the Strip casino has been endlessly refined since the Western themed resorts and ranches of the 1940s. In the 1950's and 1960's, when most visitors arrived by car , the casino hotels presented themselves as lush tropical oases at the end of the long desert drive. Once air travel took over, Las Vegas opted for Disneyesque fantasy, a process that started in the late 1960s with Caesars Palace and culminated with Excalibur and Luxor in the early 1990s.
  
  These days, after six decades of capitalism run riot, the Strip is locked into a hyperactive craving for thrills and glamour. First time visitors tend to expect Las Vegas to be a repository of kitsch , but the casino owners are far too canny to be sentimental about the old days. Yes, there are a few Elvis impersonators around, but what characterizes the city far more is its endless quest for novelty. Long before they lose their sparkle, yesterdays showpieces are blasted into rubble, to make way for ever more extravagant replacements. The Disney model has now been discarded in favor of more adult themes, and Las Vegas demands nothing less than entire cities. Replicas of New York, Paris, Monte Carlo and Venice now jostle for space on the Las Vegas Strip.
  
  The customer is king in Las Vegas. What the visitor wants, the city provides. If you come in search of the cheapest destination in America, you'll enjoy paying rock-bottom rates for accommodation and hunting out the best buffet bargains. If it's style and opulence you're after, by contrast, you can dine in the finest restaurants, shop in the most chic stores, and watch world-class entertainment; it'll cost you, but not as much as it would anywhere else. The same guidelines apply to gambling . The Strip giants cater to those who want sophisticated high-roller heavens, where tuxedoed James Bond lookalikes toss insouciant bankrolls onto the roulette tables. Others prefer their casinos to be sinful and seedy, inhabited by hard-bitten heavy-smoking low-lifes; there is no shortage of that type of joint either, especially downtown.
  
  Finally, while Las Vegas Nevada has undoubtedly cleaned up its act since the early days of Mob dominance, there is little truth in the notion that it has become a family destination. In fact, for kids, it doesnt begin to compare to somewhere like Orlando or Anaheim. Several casinos have added theme parks or fun rides to fill those odd nongambling moments, but only ten percent of visitors bring children, and the crowds that cluster around the exploding volcanoes and pirate battles along the Strip remain almost completely adult orientated.
  
  Las Vegas Neighborhoods and Orientation
  It doesnt take long to come to grips with the physical layout of Las Vegas. Downtown Las Vegas is located slightly southeast of the intersection of I-15 and US - 95, may stand at the center of an urban sprawl that stretches fifteen miles in every direction, but it is the legendary Las Vegas Strip, starting three miles south of downtown, where the main action takes place. In fact, by no happenstance at all, the Las Vegas Strip begins at the point where Las Vegas Blvd. leaves the city limits, and casino hotel owners are as a result not liable to city taxes.
  
  The Las Vegas Strip consists of the five miles of Las Vegas Boulevard between the Sahara and Mandalay Bay Casino Hotels, and thus now reaches as far south as McCarran International Airport. Almost every building along the way is a casino, each hysterically clamoring for the attention of the tourists who throng the road day and night. For the sake of convenience, it's often loosely divided into the South Strip, from Mandalay Bay Casino up to the MGM Grand Hotel and New York New York Casino Hotel: the Central Strip , which includes Bellagio Resort, Caesars Palace Las Vegas and the Venetian Hotel: and the North Strip, from the Stardust to the Sahara Casino.
  
  Whatever you may expect, downtown Las Vegas is not a bustling area where locals go about their business far from the mayhem of the Strip. Instead, it too is utterly dominated by casinos and mega resorts. Its centerpiece, the Fremont Street Experience , is an extraordinary architectural conceit, in which four blocks of its main thoroughfare have been roofed over to give it the feel of a theme park rather than a real city. An unfortunate side effect has been to make the rest of downtown seem even more derelict and menacing than before; it is not an area any visitor should attempt to explore.
  
  In between the Las Vegas Strip and downtown lie two somewhat seedy miles of gas stations, fast-food drive-ins, and wedding chapels, parts of which have been optimistically but pointlessly promoted as the Gateway District .
  
  Being closely paralleled by both the I-15 interstate and the (currently inactive) railroad line, the Las Vegas Strip also serves as the dividing line between east and west Las Vegas. The closest attempt to match the success of the Strip has been along Paradise Road , immediately to the east and home to the Las Vegas Hilton , the Convention Center, the Hard Rock , and several popular restaurants. A large campus to the east of Paradise Road, between Flamingo and Tropicana avenues, houses UNLV - the University of Nevada Las Vegas - whose students tend to hang out on Maryland Parkway , another block east.
  
  Although the area to the west of the Strip is less susceptible to generalization, the Rio Suites Hotel and the Palms Hotel have encouraged tourists to stray across to the far side of the interstate, and Decatur Blvd., especially around Sahara Ave, is a thriving shopping district.
  
  Las Vegas residents, of course, can distinguish between the demographic profiles of any number of neighborhoods in Las Vegas, but tourists spend so little of their time anywhere other than the Strip or downtown that they can remain oblivious. Broadly speaking, the North East and North West regions of the city are its less prosperous areas, while its most fashionable district is Henderson to the southwest, ranked in its own right as one of the fastest growing cities in America, with the new Summerlin development to the east tipped as a future rival.
   
• Reno Nevada
  If you cant make it to Las Vegas, you can get a feel for the nonstop, neon lit gambler lifestyle by stopping in RENO NEVADA, on I-80, close to the California border. "The biggest little city in the world," as it likes to call itself, is a somewhat downmarket version of the glitz and glamour of Vegas, with miles of luminous slot machines and poker tables, surrounded by cheesy wedding chapels and quickie divorce courts. While Reno Nevada may not be much to look at, its setting, at the foot of the snowcapped Sierra Nevada Mountains, with the Truckee River winding through the center, is magnificent.
  
  There are three things to do in the State of Reno Nevada: gamble, get married and get divorced. The casinos are concentrated in the downtown area, along Virginia Street either side of the railroad tracks. To get married , the requirements are the same as in Las Vegas, though here you obtain your marriage license at the Washoe County Court at Virginia and Court St. daily 8a.m. - midnight: tel# 775 328-3275). Wedding chapels all around the city will help you tie the knot: across the street from the courthouse, the Starlight Chapel, a drive through Chapel, does the job for under $55.00, providing a pink chintz parlor full of silk flowers and heart shaped seats tel# 775 786-4949.
  
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