18 Oct Viva Downtown Las Vegas
Las Vegas is the place you go to party. To get up to all sorts of debauchery, safe in the knowledge that what happens there, stays there, as the saying goes. A recent ad campaign from the Las Vegas Tourism Authority plays into this, with the sort of statement your Hyde side would whisper in your ear as you abandon all senses and sensibility: ‘you know why you come here’.
Or so the preconceptions go. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a fake Eiffel Tower, but seeing a whole different side to ‘Sin City’ was a pleasant surprise. One you can come home and tell your friends (and mum) about, without having to hold back any details. Children aside, I might be the only person out of the 25 million annual visitors to have gone to Vegas and not gambled. And you know what, I loved it and can’t wait to go back. This is the type of Vegas where you can walk through a hidden door, enter a lift and end up in a tiny bar with a maximum capacity of 23. Where delicious cocktail creations are beautifully pulled together by an equally intriguing beardy bartender, and drunk in speakeasy-like surroundings against a bluesy soundtrack.
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