Las Vegas – Alex In Wanderland https://www.alexinwanderland.com Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:05:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Great Escape: Months 98 + 99 + 100 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-98-99-100-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-months-98-99-100-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-months-98-99-100-roundup/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=62845 Roundup
Where we’re at: I’ve wrapped up blogging the third quarter of 2019, of which this is a huge roundup. Summer is always one of the busiest times of the year for someone in the travel industry, and I suppose even in the most disrupted year of my life, that was one constant. Though with my precarious […]
 
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I have to admit — I’ve been somewhat dreading writing this post since October 1st, the day the deadliest mass shooting in American history left the world mourning for and with Las Vegas. That one hit me hard. I’ve always had a major crush on Las Vegas, gone wild for festivals, and had a super soft […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/latest-las-vegas-adventure/feed/ 18 Alex In Wanderland The Great Escape: Month 51 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-51-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-month-51-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-51-roundup/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=38447 From the Caribbean back to the East Coast and out West again — it was a month on the move. I started and ended this month with two big trips, cushioned in the middle by a nice stretch of downtime in which to catch my breath. It was a pretty good balance, and while I had […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-51-roundup/feed/ 30 Stranded at The Strip’s First Boutique Hotel: The Cromwell Las Vegas https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-cromwell-las-vegas-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cromwell-las-vegas-review https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-cromwell-las-vegas-review/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=39178 Las Vegas is a city of superlatives. The biggest this, the most expensive that, the brightest, shiniest, most outlandish whatever. So it comes as no surprise then that the biggest shock on The Strip is actually showing restraint. Enter The Cromwell, the only standalone boutique hotel along the famous stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard. I’ve been […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-cromwell-las-vegas-review/feed/ 36 Stripping on The Strip: A Day of Pole Fitness Followed by a Night With The Real Life Magic Mikes https://www.alexinwanderland.com/stripper-101-and-chippendales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stripper-101-and-chippendales https://www.alexinwanderland.com/stripper-101-and-chippendales/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=39177 “And this spin, ladies, is known as the firepole. Someone grab an extinguisher — because you girls are on fire.” I wasn’t sure what I loved more, our instructor Dani’s well rehearsed banter or the fact that she was conducting our entire class — Viator’s Stripper 101 at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino — in seven-inch […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/stripper-101-and-chippendales/feed/ 57 Falling For Fremont: A Day of Discovering Vegas’s Hip and Historic Downtown https://www.alexinwanderland.com/falling-for-freemont-a-day-of-discovering-las-vegas-downtown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=falling-for-freemont-a-day-of-discovering-las-vegas-downtown https://www.alexinwanderland.com/falling-for-freemont-a-day-of-discovering-las-vegas-downtown/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=38449 “Alex, you have got to come up to East Fremont!” My friend Liz, a passionate Vegas transplant and trusted advisor on all topics, had been telling me this for years. Yet somehow it never quite made its way onto any of my Nevada itineraries. Four trips in and I’ve done my fair share of exploring outside […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/falling-for-freemont-a-day-of-discovering-las-vegas-downtown/feed/ 47 Oops!… I Did It Again: Back in Vegas to Hail the Princess of Pop https://www.alexinwanderland.com/britney-las-vegas-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=britney-las-vegas-review https://www.alexinwanderland.com/britney-las-vegas-review/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=38791 My name is Alexandra Baackes, and I have a confession to make. Seeing the Princess of Pop live in Las Vegas? It was a highlight of my twenty-six years on this planet. And I’m not ashamed. The fact that a preteen in the early 2000’s was obsessed with Britney Spears doesn’t need much of an explanation. […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/britney-las-vegas-review/feed/ 58 From Britney to Burning Man and Beyond: Starting in Sin City https://www.alexinwanderland.com/flamingo-las-vegas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flamingo-las-vegas https://www.alexinwanderland.com/flamingo-las-vegas/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=38792 Long time readers know that the Vegas itch hits about once a year — this past August, just two weeks after returning from Aruba, Sin City called again. Around a year ago, my girl Zoe and our sisters and I were all in New Orleans having a blast, and started dreaming up what our next trip […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/flamingo-las-vegas/feed/ 37 Photo of the Week 219: Las Vegas https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-219-las-vegas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-of-the-week-219-las-vegas https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-219-las-vegas/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35903 Greetings from the great American West! I spent the last week — yes, week — in Las Vegas kicking off what’s going to be an epic trip around this corner of the country. I’d hoped to get this post up yesterday as we drove away from the neon lights of The Strip but turns out much […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/photo-of-the-week-219-las-vegas/feed/ 48 Adventures Off The Strip: Helicoptering Over The Grand Canyon https://www.alexinwanderland.com/adventures-strip-helicoptering-grand-canyon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adventures-strip-helicoptering-grand-canyon https://www.alexinwanderland.com/adventures-strip-helicoptering-grand-canyon/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=28628 Grand Canyon Helicopter Tour
Okay, so you’ve read quite a bit about my trip to Las Vegas with Travel Nevada (not to be confused with my trip to Las Vegas with my girlfriends a month before — I told you, I’m an addict!) I ziplined Boulder Canyon, I visited a winery, I saw a Cirque show, I toured a brothel […]
 
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