While many venues on the Las Vegas Strip have themes from foreign countries, there is one hotel & casino that tries to give you a visit to a place which is not exactly inaccessible. The New York New York Las Vegas gives you a chance to see the "City that never sleeps" in the "City that never sleeps."
The bizarre thing as you approach the New York New York Hotel Las Vegas is the skyline, which is a reasonable facsimile of the real thing, though all squished together, with the Statue of Liberty stuck right in front. I have lived both in Vegas and just outside New York --I would say the real New York has more to offer, and it's a little more spread out! At the New York New York Casino Las Vegas, you have all your normal amenities, plus the best roller coaster on the strip which goes around the outside of the hotel, a must-ride if you are staying anywhere on the Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana corner of the Strip.
Room specials start at about $80 a night, so you can get some value at the New York New York . Also at the property, Zumanity , billed as "another side" of the acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil . They also have a genuine Irish Pub on site, for those who like that sort of thing, and the New York New York Resort Las Vegas also boasts a Coney Island-style boardwalk, not dumping you into any water but on the upper floors of the casino.
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