{"id":10148,"date":"2012-11-30T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2012-11-30T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:13:54","slug":"if-youre-staying-at-a-hilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/if-youre-staying-at-a-hilton\/","title":{"rendered":"If you’re staying at a Hilton …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Here’s a handy guide to using the online Las Vegas<\/strong> guidebooks written by yours truly — sort of a tourist’s extension of S&G<\/em>, available through all Hilton<\/strong>-branded hotels and timeshares. Since these only concentrate on carefully selected highlights of Sin City, there are merely supplemental to the truly comprehensive coverage provided by LasVegasAdvisor.com<\/strong><\/a>, but they can be taken as endorsements, not purely informational tidbits. You start by clicking on the green “Las Vegas” tab in the upper-right corner, which takes you to …<\/p>\n

\"\"… a mix of recommendations (“Around Town”) and current events (“Local News”). Click on “Around Town” and — voila!<\/em> — there is …<\/p>\n

\"\"… the Las Vegas Strip<\/strong>, right at your cyber-feet. Scroll further down and the path forks between …<\/p>\n

\"\"… Downtown and the Strip. Once you’ve chosen between them, various categories (“Dining,” “Nightlife”) present themselves for your inspection:<\/p>\n

\"\"Of course, there’s also “Shopping,” “Arts & Culture,” “Local Scene” and “Only In.” The last of these showcases an attraction unique to Vegas.<\/p>\n

\"\"It’s the same story for the Strip, whose landing page is aptly crowned by Bellagio<\/strong> and its fountains, still unsurpassed as an icon almost 15 years since it opened.<\/p>\n

\"\"The categories are much the same …<\/p>\n

\"\"… although some of the highlighted selections might surprise you, such as Chinatown<\/strong> being the “hot neighborhood.” (CityCenter<\/strong> might be somebody’s idea of a neighborhood but it’s downright frosty by comparison.)<\/p>\n

\"\"As you can see, recommended restaurants, etc., are also listed side-by-side with a handy map interface.<\/p>\n

\"\"Click on the reference point for further details. John Curtas<\/strong> may have proclaimed Bacchanal<\/strong><\/a> at Caesars Palace<\/strong> to be the best buffet in town, but he doesn’t like buffets as a rule and I stand behind my Wicked Spoon<\/strong><\/a> recommendation.<\/p>\n

\"\"Finally! A compelling reason<\/a> to go to Circus Circus<\/strong>, even if you still think clowns are scary motherfuckers.<\/p>\n

\"\"And the “Hot Neighborhood” pages come with their own subdirectories, enabling one to navigate Fremont East<\/strong> like a native.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a handy guide to using the online Las Vegas guidebooks written by yours truly — sort of a tourist’s extension of S&G, available through all Hilton-branded hotels and timeshares. Since these only concentrate on carefully selected highlights of Sin … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,66,18,51,4,7,11,32,8,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10161,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}