Las Vegas thread and MSE guide 2009

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  • skint_manc
    skint_manc Posts: 344 Forumite
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    Fabulous TR Funkyfin, we are going to Yosemite on our trip too - Looks great, cant wait to go :)

    Thanks for the photos all, all excellent!
  • luci
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    That West Wing room is as tiny as the one we passed. Far, far smaller than a Grand Tower room and no way I would consider staying in one.
  • funkyfin2000
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    Skint - Are you staying at Blue Butterfly! If not, WHY NOT!! :D
  • tingtong
    tingtong Posts: 580 Forumite
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    Regarding uploading photos to Flickr, if you want to speed things up a bit there's an easy way of resizing groups of photos by using the Windows XP Powertoy Image Resizer.

    All you do is get your group of photos, highlight them all and click 'Resize'. You then choose what size you want them (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768) and it does them all together. As an example, I've just resized 3 pictures which were over 3mb each and they are now less than 100kb each (800x600).

    Hope it helps out, you can download it here (direct from Microsoft):

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
  • skint_manc
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    funkyfin2000 wrote: »
    Skint - Are you staying at Blue Butterfly! If not, WHY NOT!! :D

    Unfortunately not :( no choice with accomodation this trip, will keep it in mind for any trips in the future though as it looks fabulous.
  • dontone
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    DaveyGee wrote: »
    Valley of fire or red rock canyon? Was thinking of hiring a car and heading out to either 1 of these places, has anyone done this and what 1 do they recommend?

    Cheers

    We have done the Valley Of Fire more than once and it is great to get away from the Vegas hustle and bustle and just see a natural wonder. There are many different parts to it and it's just a case of wandering around then getting in the car to drive down to the next bit.
    What I would advise though, is to take a hat & shades and plenty of water. There is a visitors centre/sovenior place there as well with information that's alright.
    If you go, then try and find a place later on called "Cottonwood Cove" just to look at the houseboats and the harbour, it's such a peaceful place with lovely blue water.
    Also if you carry on, you sort of come full circle back to Vegas but end up arriving at a place called Primm, which has a few casinos but a decent shopping outlet.
    I'm sorry I can't tell you which highways/roads to take because we found the Cove & Primm by accident as we got lost :D but you should be able to get directions from the visitors centre at Valley or one of those handy nevada maps.
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  • stoneman
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    dontone wrote: »
    We have done the Valley Of Fire more than once and it is great to get away from the Vegas hustle and bustle and just see a natural wonder. There are many different parts to it and it's just a case of wandering around then getting in the car to drive down to the next bit.
    What I would advise though, is to take a hat & shades and plenty of water. There is a visitors centre/sovenior place there as well with information that's alright.
    If you go, then try and find a place later on called "Cottonwood Cove" just to look at the houseboats and the harbour, it's such a peaceful place with lovely blue water.
    Also if you carry on, you sort of come full circle back to Vegas but end up arriving at a place called Primm, which has a few casinos but a decent shopping outlet.
    I'm sorry I can't tell you which highways/roads to take because we found the Cove & Primm by accident as we got lost :D but you should be able to get directions from the visitors centre at Valley or one of those handy nevada maps.
    HTH :cool:
    Thats confused me. I thought VOF was an hour to the Northeast of Vegas and stays east of the I15. Primm is about an hour West of Vegas, how do you end up there?:confused:
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  • dontone
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    stoneman wrote: »
    Thats confused me. I thought VOF was an hour to the Northeast of Vegas and stays east of the I15. Primm is about an hour West of Vegas, how do you end up there?:confused:


    We got lost!!! :D When we went NE to VOF, Nevada had the worst rainfall in 10 years (this was in 2006) and completely flooded some of the main highways and WASHED some of the roads away :eek: so we ended up looking at Petrographs at one part of the Valley and taking the completely wrong diversion and ended up on a very long straight(ish) road, eventually turning up at Cottonwood Cove :eek:. Then we just ended up going the same way and did a circle ending up west in Primm.
    If you thought you were confused imagine being in that car with us!!! lol :D
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  • wdyw
    wdyw Posts: 962 Forumite
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    dontone wrote: »
    We got lost!!! :D When we went NE to VOF, Nevada had the worst rainfall in 10 years (this was in 2006) and completely flooded some of the main highways and WASHED some of the roads away :eek: so we ended up looking at Petrographs at one part of the Valley and taking the completely wrong diversion and ended up on a very long straight(ish) road, eventually turning up at Cottonwood Cove :eek:. Then we just ended up going the same way and did a circle ending up west in Primm.
    If you thought you were confused imagine being in that car with us!!! lol :D


    Lol - that was some worng turn Cottonwood Cove is about 100miles south of Valley of fire!
    Anyway, Red Rock Canyon is a stones thorw from the trip (figuratively speaking). It has a few decent trails to hike and a decent casino on its doorstep, but nothing special. VOF is quite a drive away, but worth it, especially if you want to safe a few $$ and drive on up to Mesquite for the weekend rates.
  • DaveyGee_2
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    wdyw wrote: »
    Lol - that was some worng turn Cottonwood Cove is about 100miles south of Valley of fire!

    Haha, thats like taking a wrong turn in Scotland and ending up in England!
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