I am back with some more vacation updates and info!! I hope you enjoyed my earlier posts on New York and New Jersey vacation and hopefully you will enjoy my Las Vegas and California vacation posts as well. Just to give you a quick run through of this vacation here is a snippet of what you can expect in the next upcoming posts.
This was again a family vacation and planned in the last week of September from Sept. 23 to 29. We were going to Vegas by car so it was going to be an interesting drive since it was almost 12 hours drive!! We stayed in Vegas for 2 nights and then headed to Los Angeles and spent 3 nights in LA and then headed back to Vegas for 1 day and finally headed back home the following day. Confusing?? Don't worry, I will break it down for you in the next couple of posts. These 7 days included so much fun and exploring and family time as well!!
Day 1:
So, we started our trip on Sept. 23 early morning. You know how you plan to start your trip as early as possible (especially since if you are driving) but then it never works according to schedule :P...well, something like that happened. We had planned to leave at 5 am but instead ended up leaving at 6 am!!! There, we were already hour delayed on our trip. The drive was indeed beautiful with the passage through mountains and canyons and all but the driver would also have to be careful since there are a lot of turns and narrow paths so you have to watch your speed! Unfortunately we had to make our first stop right after we drove 72 miles for a restroom stop at around 7:15 am, and then made the 2nd stop at around 9 am for breakfast and also to fill up gas in the car. After about 30 minutes of stop we kept on going and the next stop was at around noon again for a restroom stop right before we hit the No Services Zone area. We stopped at Green River at exit 164 which has a Phillips 66 gas station which is supposed to be the last exit where you can get gas/food before you can get it again after about 110 miles. So all the people driving to Vegas, keep this exit in mind (or the Green River area) so you can get your car filled up and not worry about running out of it during one of those 110 miles!! There were no services from Green River to Selina but the drive was gorgeous!!
These pictures don't really do justice to the view, but I was too lazy to get my camera out, so just took whatever pics I can with my phone. Besides, I was too busy enjoying the view as well :).
IMP Note: One thing I would like to tell everyone who is planning to drive to Vegas is that make sure you don't drive behind a truck, and if you have to drive behind a truck stay very far from them. We witnessed a lot of torn/burned tires on our way which clearly means that due to heat trucks (and maybe even cars) are having difficulty with tires and they are being torn while driving. From my personal experience...we had a close call with one of the trucks that was in front of us. My brother was driving behind a truck and he moved over to the next lane to over take the truck and the next thing we know is that one of the truck's tires blasted and flew right behind it!!! Thankfully we had shifted lanes by then but it was still scary and it could have caused an accident if we were right behind it. So just be careful driving behind trucks. If possible, stay away from them and overtake them when necessary.
We drove through the No Services Zone area and the first exit that came with gas station, we stopped there to have a nice lunch at around 1:30 pm. After this stop there was one other stop but other than that, it was all the way to Vegas!! We reached Vegas exactly as our GPS projected which was 5:30 pm PST (which means about 12 hours and 30 minutes drive). I had booked Bally's hotel for our stay (much more on that later....) so we got off the Flamingo exit and then it was very close from there (maybe less than a mile) to get to the hotel. Now, Bally's shares a parking lot with Paris hotel which is right next door, so the self parking was going to be really far. Instead Bally's offers free valet parking, so that's what I had decided to use when we came to the hotel. We drove up to their valet parking area, got a ticket from them, and that was it!! We got all of our luggage out of the car, handed the driver our car keys, and then headed inside for registration. It was that quick!!
We went inside the hotel and the first person you get greeted by is the Timeshare agent who tries to get you free show tickets or gambling money in return to attend one of their new hotel presentations. Well, we were there for only 2 days and didn't really have time for it, so we passed the offer. It's funny that they have different agents during different hours of the day so every time you come to the hotel, the agent greets you and takes you to the same desk with offers even after you have denied initially :P.
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| View of Eiffel tower from our room in daytime |
When she was entering our information, I requested if we could get a room with view facing Paris and of Eiffel tower and bellagio fountains, and she said that's what we're getting. I was excited to see the room, so we got our keys and headed to the south tower. Our room was on 11th floor (room 6129) which was not close to elevators at all, so we had to walk quite bit to get to the room at the end of the hallways. When we got to the room at around 6 pm....wow!! What a surprise!! The room was spacious and we actually had really close view of Eiffel tower as well as partial view of the Bellagio fountains. Take a look!
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| View of Bellagio fountains from our room at night |
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| View of Eiffel tower at night from our room |
I think this post is becoming long enough that I better start a new post before it becomes super long and people don't even read the rest of it :P...so see ya in the next post!!
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