The heat is on--cancel those reservations

I remember that, too, when we bought our house in Henderson...we spent 40 grand on a very nice swimming pool/hot tub combination. We wound up basically never using the pool, because it was like a bathtub. The water didn't cool down, even at night--not with the inherent heat-retention properties of water and an ambient air temperature that never dropped below 90, even at 4 am.

That's just one of the features of Vegas summers. Another is that ANY outside task has to be started and finished by 6 in the morning. Also, playing outside...sports, walking, etc,...is functionally impossible. And allow me to mention the "car furnace" effect, where you literally cannot drive your car until it sits with all the doors and windows open and the interior cools down to "only" 120 degrees. Ever burn your hand on a seat belt buckle? Good times!

And as the driver pointed out, unlike some other places with extreme seasons, there isn't any compensating nice season. Winter in Vegas is actual winter. Yeah, you're not shoveling your way out from snowdrifts, but it does get cold and windy and such. Spring BTW really sucks, because of the high winds and dust storms. Feh!

Vegas is busy in the summer because 1) school is out, don't have to find a babysitter, just bring the urchins along (grrr), 2) several Fed holidays that tie in a Monday to extend the weekend, 3) vacationing in Vegas isn't living in Vegas, no pool duties for the visitor; etc. etc.  JMHO.

Candy

Glad I booked Mandalay Bay for my early September trip. I can roam around three casinos without ever having to set a foot outside if I want. I'll save my outdoor adventures until after the sun goes down.  I am a vampire when I am in Vegas anyway.

In the summer, many places are absolutely glorious--mountain national parks, beachy places that are too cold the rest of the year, Seattle and Portland, pretty much all of Canada (especially Banff and Jasper), Alaska, etc. etc. IMHO it's a crime to spend summer vacation time in one of the worst places on the planet to be in summer. If my parents had taken me to Vegas during summer vacation, I would have filed for divorce. (But then, they took me to Miami, so I had no choice but to feed them to an alligator.)

The trouble with traveling/vacationing over three-day weekends is that everybody and his dog has the same idea. Overcrowding, sky-high prices--I can't think of ANY vacation destination where the experience is enhanced by the presence of huge, slavering, baying crowds, and Vegas is one place where that makes it exponentially worse. Unless you LIKE traffic.

Vacationing is supposed to be a time of leisure. But a trip to Vegas in summer leaves you worn out, frazzled, annoyed, frustrated, and broke. I don't see why anyone would want to experience it.

          Just how many times and ways will you display your hatred for Las Vegas? 

Just how many times and in how many ways, and with atrocious grammar and spelling, will you express your hatred for black people, brown people, Asian people, gay people, transgender people, people who don't worship the Orange Turd, and anybody, anywhere, under any circumstances, who expresses a thought you disagree with?

But...my apologies for not answering your question. My answer is: AS MANY TIMES AND IN AS MANY WAYS AS I MOTHERFUCKING WANT TO.

Now grab today's paper and go take a nice long Trump. Make ya feel less all plugged up.

  Once again, you have proven my point. You are truly sick - get some mental health help.

Since the David Miller definition of mental illness is "disagrees with David Miller"...

Oh, Kevin, my post is merely a combo of fact and tongue-in cheek.  That's all.  Some adults have to drag their kids along if they want to gamble, hence school being out is their time to do so.   The long weekend holidays, I generally avoid them too, but many don't.  The original posting was more about the disadvantage of living in Vegas including the onerous pool maintenance.  No scrubbing, disinfecting, cleaning up after the partiers if ya are just a visitor.   Personally, I'm over the pool and most shows, lousy famous eateries, etc., so the heat barely touches me anymore, though I enjoy coming in more pleasant weather.  I guess I sound too serious.

Candy

If someone has kids and they gamble, that's child abuse. If someone deliberately goes to Vegas in the height of summer, that's self-abuse. But they're stuffing the hotels in a feeding frenzy, clawing at each other for the privilege of playing $25 6:5 blackjack and paying $59 resort fees (plus tax). So what do I know? Maybe Vegas has some unique mystical magical allure that I'm oblivious to.

All I know is, if I want to set fire to my money, I can do so in my back yard, using my charcoal grill, and at least cook some burgers with it or something. Why travel one of the most miserably hot places in the US to do it?

Now, as far as having someone else clean the pool...true, but my backyard pool isn't being used by a hundred screaming kids and their pot-smoking parents. And the beer is a lot cheaper!

For those who feel burdened by their kids (that would be anybody who has kids), you can get a really good price for them on EBay. You can ensure the sale by throwing in free shipping--after all, how much is a Greyhound bus ticket? I don't recommend the cheaper alternative of nailing them into a crate.