Post #451713 by ThreeTikis on Mon, May 4, 2009 6:11 PM

On 2009-05-02 12:48, FrankieGillette wrote:
Vegas for the most part hasn't been cool in years. Once the strip became this grotesque urbanized mall full of steroid sized Euro trash casino-hotel towers,
the strip was done. All the cool places started disappearing,the land was bought up by lowlifes like Wynn & other corporations. Quickly beauties like the La Concha, The Sands, Desert Inn (was there every a more beautiful hotel in Vegas? doubtful) were destroyed. Luckily a scene is starting to develop downtown, meanwhile the M Resort is the best looking new hotel in Vegas since the Desert Inn went away. The real creativity will be way off the strip in the future, as someone will finally decide to build hotel casinos which compliment the desert environment again, instead of these faux Disney like designs built for mass market mooches.

Hey Frankie G, when I first read your post I was Pi$$ed, (I always get angry when someone bashes L.V.) but after I thought about it for awhile, I had to admit you do have some valid points. Sure, Vegas may not be as cool as it used to be there is still a lot of fun here to be had. And as for those old places you mentioned (D.I. La Concha, Sands), if you every visited them in the later years you would see in what sad shape they were in. Depressing. Something had to be done. I'm not sure what replaced them is appropriate but Vegas has to evolve to survive and of course not everyone will like the outcome. The M Resort is a great new addition.

Anyway, there is still a lot of fun stuff to do and see here and John-O has some really great tips. Although I miss the old Las Vegas, I do think there is plenty of coolness here, but it's a little different than it used to be.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.