What the **** do footballers say when they walk into a tattooists? 'Please tattooist make me look like a ****?' As you can see from Exhibit A - A complete and utter ****ing mess.
Everyone check back to post 28,and see where "he" said this. "How can you be bored having a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon while in Vegas". Bumchin reckons i said that !
Yeah I was miffed with the nitpicking from whoever it was and mistyped - what I meant was you said "Anyone who was bored in Vegas didn't have the helicopter ride". Anyway - THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!!!! The point is you saying a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon being the best part of being in Vegas when it's over 200 miles away says exactly how good Vegas is. Jesus Christ, why is everyone going on about the minutiae rather than actually focussing on the point I was making? For ****s sake.....
'Airport to airport'? You're beginning to hallucinate, pal. The point being made implies a flight from Vegas to the GC. I know - I did it myself in '91. In fact, I flew in a small prop. plane, landing on the South Rim and having a barbie with the Hualapai Indians. It is one of the 'attractions' of Las Vegas, you know. Fact.
Did he imply that? And even if he did fly from Vegas to GC THAT'S NOT THE POINT. I give up.... I've been to Vegas, to say the GC is a reason to go there is ridiculous. In America they think nothing of a 2 hour drive to visit a certain eaterie, in England we know that is the other side of the country and nobody would ever think something 4 hours away by car is part of the same place. FACT.
By car? No - by helicopter or by light aircraft. So, in reality, a 4-hour drive doesn't come into it! And it remains - the Grand Canyon, from the air, is one of Las Vegas' attractions. [Edit: In 1991, when I went, I went precisely because I knew it was possible to get a flight to the South Rim]
It's interesting that I think only 2 posters have stated any reason to visit Vegas other than an attraction 200 miles away. Backs up my OP.
It's OK, Crabby - I don't like the place at all. In fact, for me, the Grand Canyon was the only reason I went to Vegas. It's a ****ing ugly place, to my mind.
200 miles away is nothing in US distance. People do more than that in their commute everyday. I thought the only reason people went there other than to visit the Grand Canyon was because they got drunk and decided it would be a good idea to have elvis preside over their marriage to some chick they just meet at a bar in LA. [video=youtube;vXZSmThz27g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZSmThz27g[/video]
Regardless of how far away it is, the flights over the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon are two of the most popular tourist attractions for visitors to Vegas. I had one of the funniest nights of my life in the top floor suite at the Bellagio, we got the suite free and had dinner served by a 70 year old hunchback, it was completely bizarre.
But I said "God help him cos Vegas is hell on earth. Hands down the worst place I have ever been". I wasnt talking about things to do near Vegas. I'm sure the Grand Canyon is amazing but this argument about travelling 200 miles away to do something else whilst staying in Vegas has only confirmed what I said.
Come in number 9, your time is up. Are you a fan of the late, great Hunter S. Thompson, by any chance?
All it's confirmed, is that Vegas is the closest major city to one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The fact that people want to take advantage of being close to go and take a look, hardly proves that there's nothing to do in Vegas.
I've just remembered the names of the guys with the white tigers at the Mirage Hotel. Siegfried and Roy. What a pair of prats!
