Day 10 - Cars, Guns & Celebs

Martin in his karting mask

Another day in Vegas :)


Originally set out to hunt for breakfast, but had lunch instead, see how we roll now?


We were soon on our way to a Karting place, it was pretty decent, 45mph electric karts. The first run was just the two of us and we messed around rather than trying to set decent times. So on the second run we were up against 5 others who we wasted. I think the lack of an oval track confused them. The fastest time for the week was set by The Stig though which we cheered :)

Intent on making the most of our last last day in Vegas, we headed to the Gun Store, Mark took a Glock 21 .45 and Martin had a 9mm Baretta. Martin decided to shoot zombies as he had his anti-zombie t-shirt on. It's worth noting that the guys at the Gun Store have no sense of humour.

Achievement: Fired a gun.


One of our tips to pass on to future visitors of Vegas is when you pick which club you want to go to on the evening, go to the casino in the day and you often pick up some vouchers (sorry, I mean coupons). Having reviewed possible evening clubs, it seemed that Moon could be worth a punt, so we headed to The Palms in order to try and wrangle something. To cut a long story short , after a number of unlikely coincidences we found ourselves talking to Miss October - Playboy (who impressively Mark managed to snub) and also in possession of VIP "access all area" passes to all the venues on site.

Achievement: Spoke to a celeb.


We didn't have time for anything decent to eat, so we dashed to McDonalds for a quick burger (3/10) and then got ready for our last night in town.

The view from Ghost Bar

Soon we were back in The Palms to make the most of the passes. We started with the awesome (a term often overused, but in this case completely valid) exclusive lounge bar - Ghost Bar which is on the top floor of one of the towers. This offered stunning views of Vegas from the 55 story balcony.


A couple of hours later we decided to move on to the clubs which were located in the adjacent tower. When we got to the base of the tower we were disheartened to see the mile long queue to get in. However a quick flash of the VIP wristband and the bouncers opened up a new line for us which avoided all of the chaos, skipping the queue and putting us in our own elevator up to the Playboy Lounge.

Achievement: VIP treatment.


We didn't stay long in the Playboy Lounge, although very nice, it was full of high roller tables where the minimum bet was larger than the total amount that we'd brought out between us! So we headed upstairs to Moon, a penthouse club at the very top of the tower which has a retractable roof, light up dance floor, large terrace area, etc. Carlsberg don't do bars, but if they did...


When the party was slowing down around 4am we decided to walk back to the hotel which was a couple of miles. It was an eventful journey with a pimp-mobile pulling up to proposition us, and then, as we were crossing the freeway on the overpass, a car slid off the road and crashed into a rock causing sparks to fly everywhere. Instinct instantly kicked in and we immediately started recording and then dealt with the less important tasks such as making sure the guy was ok. Another car stopped and called 911 and we were pretty impressed by the sub 3 min response time for a cruiser to turn up, it also preceded the wrong way down the sliproad to access the site of the accident. 30s later another cruiser arrived on the scene.