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A First-Time British Guide To Vegas: Part Two

Greetings, fellow British folk. So yesterday we prepared you for the shock of your first time in Vegas, and told you how to feast on the American side of Sin City.

We know you’ll love it here. But we also understand that Vegas is like orange squash - a big bottle of America concentrate. And, during your stay, you may well feel like some dilution before you can drink it again. So here’s where to go for a little taste of the green green grass of home. Or, rather a taste of the UK, as Vegas imagines the UK to be. Let’s go all Vera Lynn.

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A First-Time British Guide To Vegas: Part One

Brits on the Strip are here to stay thanks to the new British Airways service from London and the phenomenally good package deals that they’ve been touting to haul us over the Atlantic.

But if you’re one of them (the first sign of a Brit being that you’ll never call yourself British) and it’s your first time, you might be disappointed.

Coming from London, we feel your pain. We made our first trip to Vegas expecting to see Clooney and the Oceans boys hanging out in the casinos (or at the very least, fit men in dinner jackets), Hunter S Thompson clones gurning along the hotel corridors, and Cameron Diaz tottering out of a wedding chapel. We drove down the Strip looking for an ailing Nicolas Cage or an Elvis lookalike walking to work.

Needless to say, on arrival, we were sorely disappointed. We wanted to hide in our room, read our copy of Valley of the Dolls, listen to Frank Sinatra and weep quietly for our shattered dreams. Luckily for us, we were staying at Planet Hollywood and said room was less than inspiring, so we ventured out. And thus we learned to love Vegas.

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