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Las Vegas Nevada known to be a variety of different names. Some of the more popular ways to describe the city are terms such as: “Sin city,” or “The city that never sleeps”. This city is full of light and entertainment for people of all ages. It however seems to attract more people of the legal gabling age. Las Vegas is known mainly for all of its casinos, however there is much more to see and experience.
Stepping off the airplane into the Las Vegas airport there are songs coming from dozens of slot machines. The air is filled with the smell of cigarettes and cigars. Lights are flashing from every direction, having just entered a city of extravagance. Walking through the airport there are dozens of posters with a wide variety of different entertainment and shows you can enjoy in the city. The first step outside of the airport there are a line of sparkling limousines ready to travel to any destination.
The drive to the strip is fairly boring flat land, the dry desert air, the lack of green trees and grass and the warm sun, and of course the palm trees on every corner. When getting close to what is highly known as “the strip” there are dozen of overwhelmingly extravagant hotels and casinos. Each hotel a block long is size and having their own attractions. The lights are everywhere and the city blocks are huge with amazing sights and extraordinary detail.
One of the more popular areas on “The Strip” is commonly known as the “four Corners”. It is called the four corners mainly because there are four common hotels with a skywalk leading to each one. Making them all very accessible to the each other. The four hotels are the: MGM, The New York, New York hotel, The Tropicana and the Excalibur, Each hotel having a very unique setting and atmosphere.
The New York, New York hotel is designed to look like a smaller version of New York City. From the out side, towering buildings and of course the statue of liberty standing tall. A bright red roller coaster roaring through and around all the buildings is truly a sight to see. Entering this hotel and casino there are many shops and stores that are built to look like the sights of downtown New York City. There are bells and whistles coming from the casino floor and the smell of cigarettes is all too familiar. Above all the singing slot machines, there are hundreds of people laughing and cheering. The carpeting is almost as if from an old seventies hotel with drastic designs going in every direction. To the left a elaborate front desk counter with people in their sparking uniforms ready to help sign each guests. Straight ahead are two sets of giant escalators leading to more shops and the skywalks leading to the other casinos. On the way to the escalators there is a quaint dueling piano bar with two gorgeous grand pianos in the middle of the area facing each other. Illuminating out sounds you would normally only hear coming from an old western movie. Each one of them moving their fingers so fast it seems as if smoke will soon seen coming from their finger tips. The crowd inside, cheering with entertainment, enjoying the outstanding sounds that both of the whaling pianos are making.
Traveling up the escalators and out the two double doors that lead to the outside skywalks. The night’s sky lighting up all the extraordinary and extravagant lights from as far as you can see. There is warmth in the night air, and dozens of people walking to and from the other hotels.
The first hotel from across the skywalk is the MGM hotel and casino. The huge T.V. screen glowing with an array of different colors displaying the night’s entertainment show. Walking toward the casino the screen gets bigger and bigger till you realize its true entirety. As you enter this beautiful hotel there is a considerably large golden statue of a very detailed lion perching on a pillar towering above you. From every direction there are illuminating lights that are flashing almost as if its drawing attention to every part of the hotel.
To the left and the right there are two giant staircases leading