For years when I would fly into McCarran International Airport or drive up from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, I would think only about the Strip and its massive casinos — from New York, New York to Caesar’s Palace — I would travel along the famous Las Vegas Boulevard, and not even consider heading north to the oldest parts of Nevada’s 105-year-old city. But it’s not a gamble to choose a hotel north las vegas provides to its customers. Downtown Las Vegas is filled with old school thrills along Fremont street, including a massive five-block canopy of lights, offering nightly images of music and shows, known as the Fremont Street Experience. There’s also a huge building known as Neonopolis , a 300,000 square foot shopping center, which contains three miles of neon lights and a courtyard festooned with neon signage from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The center is at the edge of the Fremont Street Experience; if you don’t have enough neon at Neonopolis, then you may also find more at the Neon Museum. But neon may not be the only reason to find your way to Fremont Street.
In 2010, the Neonopolis is scheduled to become the new home of Star Trek: The Experience, a live action and 3-D motion ride, formerly housed to the south. When the Star Trek: The Experience shut down, fans of Star Trek (and motion rides), bemoaned its fate. But now the talk is that the Experience will reopen on May 8th, 2010, with the Neonopolis as its new home. Once again, Trek fans will make their way into the desert as a means of experiencing what it’s like to go into outer space aboard the Starship Enterprise. For those who aren’t fans of one of the most famous science fiction franchises on the planet (with four live-action spin-off television series and one animated spin-off half hour program, countless books and comic books, and eleven feature films, and counting), there’s plenty of old fashioned things to do and see in Vegas, such as gambling and live entertainment. Whether your head is in the stars or your feet firmly on the ground, north Las Vegas is a great change of pace.
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