We'll Always Have The Flamingo: 33 Dry Nights Along The Las Vegas Strip
The biggest draw of hotels, though, is the people you meet in them. In the past three years, by virtue of having no fixed abode (and very little shame), I've partied with Hollywood actresses and Icelandic reality show stars; I've talked my way into toga parties with eight hundred bedsheet-clad female hairdressing students (and then been invited to
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the sand and the road-side bombs. And this also despite the fact that my plan to choose my accommodation by price – starting with the cheapest hotel and following the deals until I've stayed along the entire strip – means that the start of my month-long trip was always going to be something of a crapshoot.
Paul Carr • We'll Always Have The Flamingo: 33 Dry Nights Along The Las Vegas Strip
Even my insistence that the trip is "for work" has fallen mainly on deaf ears, except in the case of my friend Kate, who snarkily enquired if that meant I was planning on becoming a prostitute.
Paul Carr • We'll Always Have The Flamingo: 33 Dry Nights Along The Las Vegas Strip
I was all geared up, then, to write the third in a series of anti-Strip diatribes, bemoaning how tacky and overpriced the whole sorry street is – and how all the people who visit it are drunk and bloated and loud. This despite the fact that voluntarily coming to Vegas and complaining about the commercialism and the drunks is like voluntarily going
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