vegas info

Las Vegas facts and fun info:

  • On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
  • Las Vegas has over 120,000 hotel rooms. It would take one person 329 years to sleep in every room.
  • El Rancho (63 rooms) was the first resort built on the Vegas Strip in 1947.
  • Hoover Dam's structural volume surpasses the largest pyramid in Egypt, which took 20 years and 100,000 men to complete. But, the Hoover Dam only took 4 years and 5,000 workers to complete.
  • Gaming in Nevada was legalized in 1869, outlawed in 1910, and reinstated in 1931.

October weather info (keep your fingers crossed):

  • Average high: 82 (record high of 103 in 1978)
  • Average low: 54 (record low of 21 in 1952)
  • Average monthly rainfall: 0.2 inches
  • Las Vegas averages 294 days of sunshine per year (211 clear days, 83 partly cloudy).


House advantage, given common Vegas Strip rules:
  • Craps: 1.4% (drops to .7% with odds bets)
  • Blackjack: 1.5%
  • Roulette: 5.3%
  • Slots: 2% on the few "loose" machines, up to 25%


Some web sites to visit:

Where we are getting married:
the hotel web site (cool pictures)
America's Sweethearts
(a new movie that was filmed at the hotel)

General Las Vegas info:
vegas.com
lasvegas.com
las vegas online
maps of Las Vegas

Gambling tutorials:
casino gaming
going to vegas

...and if you cannot wait to hit the casinos:
online casinos

Buffet info:
las vegas buffet guide


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