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This is Why You Shouldn’t Drive to Vegas Via the Hoover Dam on a Weekend
Don’t get us wrong. We love crossing the Hoover Dam and all. It’s beautiful, spectacular, a testament to man’s ingenuity etc etc (plus we always think of the scene at the beginning of Goldeneye, and we love a good Bond film). As the guy beside us in the video here puts it so eloquently, it’s an “intense dam”. But much as we love it, we wouldn’t want to queue for hours to get over it.
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Things To Know Before You Road Trip It To Vegas
With the latest round of cuts from US Airways on flights to and from Vegas, as well as escalating fare prices from other airlines and ridiculous checked baggage fees (except from Southwest), we can't blame you if you're thinking about road-trippin' it for your next trip to Vegas.
We did the Las Vegas-Los Angeles a few times this summer and we've got a few tips to share with you. While some of these are route specific (sorry, no Hoover Dam stops here), we think you can apply some of these tips regardless of your starting point.
While we were happy to save on airfare (weekend tickets to Vegas were around $150 round-trip; gas was about $75 total), we just happened to choose the worst times to leave Los Angeles on the way out there and to leave Las Vegas coming home.
We left on Thursday at 4:25pm from Santa Monica which is prime traffic time in L.A. but we couldn't skip out of work any earlier. This was also the day that Michael Jackson died and everyone was flooding the Westside to camp out at the UCLA Medical Center. So try to avoid departing on a day that a major pop icon dies in Los Angeles. For instance, when Britney kicks the can in Malibu, put off your trip for another few hours or possibly a day, if her death was "too soon."
