Las Vegas Kids : No Children But Visitors

Las Vegas is no place for children. I have argued this case in many books. By no means am I attacking Vegas with this case as a criticism. Children need to learn to budget. Children need to learn the importance of time, money, and the casinos spend billions of dollars to attract tourist, but not visitors that don’t gamble on the casino floor. In fact, I am often embarrassed when my child walks across the casino floor to look at the MGM lions den. The lion cubs are cute. Sure the lion cubs are placed by the poker tables to attract families to enter the MGM off the main street. When my kid screams, I feel the gamblers looking at me. The card players are concentrating on Aces, Kings, and Queens. Thousands of dollars are at stake and my son is excited about seeing lion clubs play with giant plastic balls, so he screams as if an adult has stepped hard on his feet. Now if one card player out of the hundreds of card players playing against the dealers, if one of these card players lost $25,000.00 because my son decided to shriek with excitement, I would feel guilty. Playing blackjack is a serious business. Horse races are a serious business. My son shouldn’t be playing with toy trains in a corporate boardroom. Nor should he be playing with toy trains in a poker competition.

Now if you want to retire, seniors will find that Las Vegas caters to seniors with bingo parlors. My wife and I used to go to a weekend buffet. The restaurant had so many extra tables that they turned half of the restaurant into a bingo parlor. Gamers interested in eating, stepped into the next room to fill a plate full of prime rib, garlic mashed potatoes, and about 24 various fruit pies from cherry to rhubarb combined with dozens of large strawberries. The pie makers bake the pies personally and deliver the toasted crusts on a large cake dish. Assisted Living drivers drop off passengers and pick them up throughout the day. The university has classes for seniors less than a minute down the street from the Assisted Living center I toured for my mother and aunts.

My aunts are retiring. I have family members related to my mother that I haven’t seen in twenty years. Many of my relatives were raising families in North Carolina, Alabama, and Michigan, while I was teaching in Eastern Europe. When my relatives found out I lived in Las Vegas, they came to visit each month. If you are retired and you enjoy visitors, know this, relatives can’t ignored Las Vegas, Nevada. The advertising is everywhere: Travel Channels on TV, films like Oceans Eleven, Hangover, and cooking challenges on the Foods Channel. Las Vegas spends more money on marketing than any city seeking tourists in the United States of America.