Baileys Tours do Vegas!

8th - 11th of April 2012.

Two hours later we were in the centre of Las Vegas, Steve had researched previously what hotels were in the centre and The Flamingo  seemed favorable as it had a tennis court !.  We rang up whilst driving to see if there was any room but they only had smoking rooms left so they recommended Bally's next door. (This actually had 8 tennis courts and we later found out  had an ex pro in charge, who Steve got to know quite well)  By 8-30 we were sat having a meal in the casino, and ended up having a little flutter on the machines before finally going to go to bed about 4am.

Bally's- Las Vegas

As we'd had a really good first night, we decided to say another!(Surprise ,surprise !!) The hotel deal we ended up with was brilliant at $60 per night for a four star hotel right on the strip. It also had live free entertainment nightly and loads of restaurants and fast food outlets for us to choose from. Coupled with that it had excellent tennis facilities and a really large pool complex, so both Steve and I were in no rush to leave. We went through the same decision making process each morning; Should  we stay or should we go?? was the key question ! So in summary the daily format was quite simple until we left on the 12th of April; Get up , go to the pool , rest/sleep , swim , play tennis at 6.00pm and go back to get ready for our evening entertainment ! Poor Steve couldn't cope as he realised that as well as us both loving the shows and the atmosphere of Vegas , I was loving gambling and trying my luck ! (When you add on also that all the drinks you wanted were free, it did lead us to having an even better time than we thought possible.)

Viv outside Ceaser's Palace

Favourite machine, wheel of fortune, but lost!

We left on the 12th of April for Phoenix and really enjoyed the drive down through the mountains and desert areas of Northern Arizona . The 290 miles to Phoenix was covered easily in 5 hours as the roads were great ,but apart from Kingsman and Wickenburg there was no other towns to stay in -worth bearing in mind if anybody fancied doing the same trip at times we felt very isolated.

Steve smiling as he thought we were going leaving1

Steve when he had enough of me gambling