Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas

I love Las Vegas, and in particular I love downtown Las Vegas. Not for me the huge mega resort hotels which litter the Strip – along with the half built projects and empty lots awaiting development due to the recession. I much prefer the old part of town where the hotels are smaller, the streets aren’t a mile a block and the lights are just as bright. The problem with downtown Vegas is that as the Strip grew and prospered, people deserted downtown for that area instead. You won’t find any big name shows in downtown and the hotels here don’t have themes or huge shopping malls to pull the ... more

INTRODUCTION On our recent trip around Arizona, Utah and Nevada we, unfortunately, had to make a stopover of several nights in Las Vegas. Being proper "country" people and generally avoiding cities wherever possible, Las Vegas is our idea of a nightmare, but to coincide with surprising my mum there for her 60th birthday we had no choice in the destination and so resigned ourselves to 4 nights and days of intense heat, crowds, noise and oppulence. I won't go into our general Las Vegas experience as this is a review of the Fremont Street Experience rather than the city itself. I know many people ... more

The Fremont Street Experience was one of my favourite things about Las Vegas. I love Las Vegas, I love the lights, the brashness and the newness of the place that comes in massive proportions. But Fremont Street is old style Las Vegas – how it used to be before modern money took over – and it has one great attraction in the light experience that was created in 1999. So What Is It? The Fremont Street experience is essentially a sound and light show that takes place above the street every night on the hour, every hour from sunset until midnight. As I said, the Experience was built in 1999 in a ... more