Frommer's Las Vegas 2004
Frommer's Las Vegas 2004
Frommer's Las Vegas 2004
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Green<br />
Valley Pkwy.<br />
Olympic<br />
Ave.<br />
Mountain Vista St.<br />
Sunset Rd.<br />
Cactus<br />
Garden Dr.<br />
Sunset<br />
Way<br />
ATTRACTIONS<br />
Ethel Warm M Chocolates Springs Rd. 1<br />
Ron Lee’s World of Clowns 3<br />
Pkwy.<br />
ACCOMMODATIONS<br />
Arizona Charlie's East 5<br />
Boulder Station 4<br />
Fiesta Henderson 6<br />
Sunset Station 2<br />
Windmill<br />
1<br />
Valle Verde<br />
Pkwy.<br />
Russell<br />
Blvd.<br />
Arroy o Grande<br />
<br />
R d.<br />
Ranch Dr.<br />
Whitney<br />
To <strong>Las</strong> <strong>Vegas</strong><br />
515<br />
93<br />
95<br />
Dr.<br />
Galleria<br />
Sunset Rd.<br />
Warm Springs Rd.<br />
Stephanie St.<br />
2<br />
St.<br />
Marks<br />
American Pacific Dr.<br />
0<br />
1 mi<br />
0 1 km<br />
582<br />
Gibson Rd. Gibson<br />
3<br />
Rd.<br />
Henderson<br />
Boulder Hwy<br />
4<br />
Sunset Rd.<br />
5<br />
Warm Springs Rd.<br />
<strong>Las</strong><br />
<strong>Vegas</strong><br />
Arden<br />
15<br />
North<br />
<strong>Las</strong> <strong>Vegas</strong><br />
95<br />
Henderson<br />
146<br />
Boulder<br />
City<br />
15<br />
eo<br />
Pas<br />
146 215<br />
Verde Pkwy.<br />
Gallagher<br />
Crest<br />
Marshmallow<br />
Ln.<br />
Lake Mead Drive<br />
Horizon Ridge Pkwy.<br />
146<br />
6<br />
To Boulder City<br />
& Hoover Dam<br />
<br />
<br />
attempt to lure families with vast quantities of junk food and a lot of hype. They<br />
now vehemently deny that any such notion ever crossed their collective minds,<br />
and, no, they don’t know how that roller coaster got into the parking lot.<br />
To put things simply, <strong>Las</strong> <strong>Vegas</strong> makes money—lots and lots of money—<br />
by promoting gambling, drinking, and sex. These are all fine pursuits if you<br />
happen to be an adult, but if you haven’t reached the magical age of 21, you<br />
really don’t count in this town. In any case, the casinos and even the Strip itself<br />
are simply too stimulating, noisy, and smoky for young kids.<br />
Older progeny may have a tolerance for crowds and the incessant pinging of<br />
the slot machines, but they will be thoroughly annoyed with you when casino<br />
security chastises them if they so much as stop to tie their shoelaces anywhere<br />
near the gaming tables. Since you can’t get from your hotel room to the parking<br />
lot without ambling through a casino, you can’t reasonably expect a teenager<br />
to be in a good mood once you stagger outside. And those amusement parks<br />
and video halls that haven’t yet been purged are very expensive places to park<br />
your kids for an afternoon or evening, assuming they are old enough to be left<br />
unsupervised.<br />
Nevertheless, you may have a perfectly legitimate reason for bringing your<br />
children to <strong>Las</strong> <strong>Vegas</strong> (like Grandma was busy, or you were just stopping off on<br />
your way from somewhere else), so here are some places to take the children<br />
both on and off the Strip.
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