Anita Martini's Lounge

Anita Martini (aka Michele Dressen) has a blog which I just discovered. Michele is the better half :) of the most excellent Tim and Michele Dressen team who bring you FiveHundyByMidnight- One of the best Vegas podcasts out there despite the fact that Tim and Michele live in Minesoooota.

Anita Martini's Lounge is Michele's blog to occupy her time while not in Vegas but it has many references to Vegas and trip reports from Sin City.

Here's The Link-
Anita Martini's Lounge

Vegas Buzz

Vegas Buzz bills itself-
"Your Place for the Latest Vegas News, Gaming Strategy, Best Deals and Insider Information!"

The categories highlighted are- Casinos, Gaming, Dining, Entertainment,LV Info, and Deals.

Updated with new commentary daily, it's a worthy bookmark.

Here's The Link-
Vegas Buzz

Vegas Links Q&A With Serena Denise From Single Girl In Sin City

Serena was an exotic dancer at Club Paradise across from the Hard Rock until she recently got fired. Now looking for new employment you can follow along and find out where she turns up next. Serena's blog, Single Girl In Sin City is updated regularly and she holds pretty much nothing back in her writing. If you want the real scoop on what it's like to be in her shoes, check it out.

Name or Alias Serena Denise

Website URL to link back to http://singlegirlinsincity.blogspot.com/


Best Hangover Food/Restaurant
Original Pancake House at GVR

Best Romantic Spot For Dinner
It's been a while since I've had a romantic dinner........But from what I remember, Alize at the Palms Casino or Drais

Best Vegas Burger -Money No Object
Sierra Gold at Warms Springs and Stephanie.

Best Vegas Gourmet Burger
Sierra Gold....they have damn good food!

Restaurant In Vegas To Eat Your Last Living Meal
The Melting Pot......MMMMMmmMMMM

Best Value Hotel Room
Any Station Casino

Best Upscale Standard Hotel Room
Venetian

Best Off Strip Day Excursion Or Adventure
Red Rock Canyon

Best On Strip Adventure
Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay

Best Place To Drink And Hold A Conversation
Fontana Bar's outside patio at Bellagio

Best Place To Get Your Groove On
Anywhere in The Hard Rock

Must Visit Vegas Website Not Including Your Own
http://www.thelasvegascourtesan.com/

Best Vegas Strip Joint
Little Darlings (I'm a regular there...I know I of all people should know better LOL)

Best Vegas Show
Love at Mirage.....Love the Beatles and Cirque.

Best Vegas Upscale Shopping
Fashion Show Mall

Best Vegas Value Shopping
Las Vegas Premium Outlets

Most Overrated Restaurant
Stack at Mirage

Biggest Vegas Rip Off
Bottles in the club. People seriously spend $400 or more for a bottle of vodka. I know I'm in the industry but it's insane!

Best Way For A Tourist To Get To Mandalay Bay From The Airport
Take a cab or limo....who needs directions? You can also take a shuttle from the airport. Its cheaper and not many people take them.

Best Way For A Tourist To Get To Wynn From The Airport
See above

Best Vegas Secret That Everyone Should Know About
If a cabbie drops you off at a strip club, you should not have to pay the fare or tip him. He's getting a kickback from the club. Usually $50 minimum for every person he drops there. Everything is Vegas is negotiable.

Thanks for playing along Serena!

VegasLinks Q&A Dave Schwartz From The Die Is Cast

Dave Schwartz is the man behind The Die Is Cast Blog and from his blog-" a writer, historian, and Director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Schwartz’s areas of specialty include the history of gambling, casino surveillance and security, gaming and technology, and related issues."

To say David is qualified to partake in the VegasLinks Q&A is an understatement.

Name or Alias:
Dave Schwartz

Website URL to link back to: http://www.dieiscast.com and http://gaming.unlv.edu

Best Hangover Food/Restaurant: Hash House a Go Go

Best Romantic Spot For Dinner: Chicago Joe's

Best Vegas Burger -Money No Object: Stripburger

Best Vegas Gourmet Burger: Stripburger

Best Value Hotel Room: Today, everywhere's a value Best Upscale Standard Hotel Room: Wynn Best Off Strip Day Excursion Or Adventure: Turtlehead Peak climb at Red Rock

Best On Strip Adventure: I'd say it's catching a shuttle down to Sam's Town to see "Sunset Stampede." Why anyone would want to waste their time looking at the Bellagio fountains when you've got bears, wolves, and shrieking eagles just five miles away is beyond me. Extra props to the wolves laser eyes scaring the poop out of everyone under six. The whole thing is really a meditation on the moral ambiguity of the gaming business.

Best Place To Drink And Hold A Conversation: Carousel Bar at Circus Circus

Best Place To Get Your Groove On:

My groove is permanently on.

Must Visit Vegas Website Not Including Your Own:

Vegastripping.com

Best Vegas Strip Joint:

never been to a Vegas Strip Joint, so my opinion doesn't matter

Best Vegas Show:

Love

Best Vegas Upscale Shopping:
Forum Shops
Best Vegas Value Shopping:

Town Square

Most Overrated Restaurant:

Piero's

Biggest Vegas Rip Off:

$25 "non-optional" resort fee at Green Valley Ranch

Best Way For A Tourist To Get To Mandalay Bay From The Airport:

a cab?

Best Way For A Tourist To Get To Wynn From The Airport:

a limo? Beats catching teh 109A to the SSTC and then getting on the Deuce

Best Vegas Secret That Everyone Should Know About:

Reading Room at Mandalay Bay--buy some cool books and support an independent book-seller.
Thanks for your responses- Joey

Las Vegas Beer and Blog

Las Vegas Beer & Blog is a chapter of bloggers who meet regularly over beers to discuss blogging. Sounds like a freaking fantastic idea to me! The Las Vegas chapter meets regularly on Thursday nights at the Freaking Frog across from UNLV at 4700 South Maryland Parkway from 6-8PM.

From the site-
"Las Vegas bloggers meet up at to help each other with their blogs. Good times are had by all.

We meet at the Freakin Frog, a non-smoking bar with free wi-fi, 400+ different beers, and bar food. Happy hour is until 7pm with 2-for-1 on selected beers. Located at 4700 S Maryland Pkwy, across from UNLV.

Join the Beer & Blog Las Vegas flickr photo group."

Here's the link-

Las Vegas Beer & Blog

VegasLinks Q&A With Vegas Rex

Warning- easily offended folks may want to click elsewhere now.

Vegas Rex the man who I'd call pretty much anti-establishment runs his Blog VegasRex.com and although he is portrays himself as laid back his website is Raw and fantastically honest. Rex doesn't sugarcoat things. Things he likes you'll hear about but he doesn't try to pretend that Vegas is all glitz and glamor. He will take you down the back streets of Vegas with some of my favorite footage-his videos of driving around or walking around with minimal editing.

Here's Rex's take in the VegasLinks Q&A-

Best Hangover Food/Restaurant:

Hydrocodone. Watson 10/325's at Walgreens near MGM Grand.

Best Romantic Spot For Dinner:

Trick question. How is she going to eat with my dick in her mouth?

Best Vegas Burger -Money No Object:

In-N-Out Double Double

Best Vegas Gourmet Burger:

In-N-Out Double Double with extra lettuce, extra tomatoes, and ketchup and mustard instead of special sauce.

Restaurant In Vegas To Eat Your Last Living Meal:

Mon Ami Gabi, so your death will be witnessed by thousands of horrified tourists, possibly scarring them for life … or at least requiring a few years of expensive therapy which should, in turn, help stimulate the economy.

Best Value Hotel Room:

Sahara/Strat/IP/Trop … anyplace on The Strip that metrosexual posers pretend to hate.

Best Upscale Standard Hotel Room:

If you're having fun, all rooms are “upscale”.

I've stayed in every hotel on the Vegas Strip at least twice and the rooms I remember most fondly have been on the top floor of the Luxor Pyramid, view rooms at Rio, MGM Jacuzzi Suites, glass-elevator rides to rooms in The Trop, and balcony rooms in the Alexandria Towers at the Sahara. Yes, the Sahara. Fuck you. When you're asleep, Motel 6 and The Bellagio are identical, and nobody should come to Vegas to watch a plasma television in a plush bed.

That being said, if I were a non-gambling quadriplegic with OCD, I guess I would want them to park my ass in a Venetian or Wynn room.

Best Off Strip Day Excursion Or Adventure:

Sydney. It's only thirteen hours each way by air, which means that you have a complete hour to discover all that Australia has to offer, yet still be back in Vegas in time for checkout.

Best On Strip Adventure:

Simultaneously being blown by a miniature Madonna impersonator, while getting a prostate massage from a stripper dressed as a nurse, while while giving a reach-around to a rhesus monkey … all while play $5 Jacks-or-Better at the Venetian.

Best Place To Drink And Hold A Conversation:

As far away from me as possible.

Best Place To Get Your Groove On:

Carnival Court when I have a video camera. Preferably to a song by Captain and Tennille.

Must Visit Vegas Website Not Including Your Own:

There are other Las Vegas websites? What kind of pathetic loser would make a Las Vegas Website?

Best Vegas Strip Joint:

The Hard Rock Pool.

Best Vegas Show:

The Annual Steve Wynn Whore-Choking Extravaganza.

Best Vegas Upscale Shopping:

The 99 Cent Store on Flamingo Ave.

Best Vegas Value Shopping:

The 98 Cent Store on Cheyenne Ave.

Most Overrated Restaurant:

Any restaurant who's food has ever been described as “amazing”.

Extra-terrestrial encounters are amazing. Nuclear explosions are amazing. Landing an airplane intact in the Hudson River without injuries is amazing.

Food is not amazing. Ever.

Biggest Vegas Rip Off:

Anything with the word “fee” or “surcharge”.

Best Way For A Tourist To Get To Mandalay Bay From The Airport:

Commandeer a sightseeing helicopter with an AK-47, and demand that the pilot fly you to Bolivia. When the pilot tells you that he does not have enough fuel to make it to Bolivia, shove the gun in his mouth and yell “Look motherfucker, you're going to fly this thing to Bolivia or die trying!”

When the pilot turns the helicopter southeast, he will pass over McCarran airport.

Once over your airline's terminal, grab your carry-on and remove the homemade parachute that you fashioned out of two queen-sized bed sheets from your Mandalay Bay room. Throw the pilot a $20 bill, drop the gun and say “sorry about all of this” … then, while holding opposite ends of the massive sheets, jump out of the helicopter and gently glide down to your gate.

It works every time.

Best Way For A Tourist To Get To Wynn From The Airport:

Hold on to Steve Wynn's cape as he flies you there Superman-style.

Best Vegas Secret That Everyone Should Know About:

Pretending to be an undercover cop means the happy ending is free.

Thanks Rex. I think :)

Single Girl In Sin City

Single Girl In Sin City is a blog from Serena, an exotic dancer who works at Club Paradise across from the Hard Rock. Now before any of you degenerate Vegas freaks thinks I'm going out of my way stalking Vegas Strippers on the internet, I found Serena's blog from the comment she left in the Chuckmonster's Q&A segment in the post just below this one, LOL.

Serena talks about stripper names, happenings at work, and a bunch of other Vegas goodness.

From her blog-
"I am a 28 year old single girl living in Las Vegas, NV. I have lived in Las Vegas for 18 years. After cocktailing for years and getting layed off I decided to give dancing a try. I currently work at Club Paradise across from the Hard Rock. I hope to share my experiences with you as well as review everything this wonderful city has to offer."

Here's the link-
Single Girl In Sin City

My Real Vegas

From the site-
"There is no substitute for Las Vegas. I was married here 14+ years ago and we've been loving it ever since. Use MyRealVegas.com to get the information you need - Las Vegas visitor information from locals."



There is also a corresponding blog which locals contribute to.

Here is the link-
My Real Vegas

Fine Homes Las Vegas

Fine Homes Las Vegas is not what you might think by it's title.

Sure there is Las Vegas Real Estate news provided by Vegas Bill but it also has on the street Vegas pictures, videos and scenes from current Vegas events. Many Vegas websites are done from people that have a real love of Vegas (like this one) but may not be on the scene. Vegas Bill provides stuff from the place we all love so much first hand.

Here's the link-
FineHomesLasVegas Blog

Stripped Blog

Stripped is a blog written by a Las Vegas Dancer on Las Vegas Weekly. It gets a little racy, just like we like it!

Here's The Link-
Stripped