Arrived Las Vegas

A smooth trip to Los Angeles with rather less sleep than hoped despite a good seat. Then some anxieties getting out of LA – a plane held up with some apparent technical issues and then a very noisy undercarriage – we wondered if we would actually reach the start of the runway. But we did, and here we are. The first surprise was an impression of fewer pokies at the Las Vegas airport. But I’m sure the rest of the city makes up for that. 

MGM Grand, our home for the next 9 days. Walk through the gaming floors on the way to our room-tower, and from there to anywhere else we might want to go. Not as much cigarette smoke as I remembered, but still some designated smoking gaming areas. I didn’t actually leave the premises this afternoon – needed a sleep instead. 

There are 3 room-towers. Ours has 20 floors with around 200 room on each. Long corridors radiating from the lifts hub. 

Checked out the pools. More than one. 

Walk past these on the way to the rehearsal rooms – 700m from the room-tower lobby to there.  Then I made a foray out to the main drag (the current hotel formal entry is on the side road) and what were probably the original entry features.  Several photo opportunities – not clear to me if people were paying to have their photo taken with the girls by the staircase and the characters outside.