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Las Vegas NV: Marriage In A Carriage?


Cinderella never had it so convenient. As Jay Leno would ask, “How fat are we becoming now?” In the same theme, are visitors to Las Vegas getting lazier all the time?

First, there are the infamous Vegas buffets, for plate-stuffing diners who are too porky to eat just one dish full. Recently, a chauffeur service began offering a drunkmobile called Hangover Heaven, that roams the Vegas strip providing rides for boozing tourists who needed help finding their hotels.

There are also the famed Vegas wedding chapels, for couples who can’t wait until they can go back to their home towns and get hitched the old-fashioned way. More recently, for really impatient couples, the wedding chapels started offering drive-through hitching lanes.

Now, according to an ABC TV report, there’s a new service for even more impatiently eager couples, called the LVWW, Las Vegas Wedding Wagon. It’s a large van that also wanders around Sin City, complete with an on-board, licensed wedding hitcher. For $99 each, the good reverend will perform ceremonies and furnish all the official papers.

Couples can elect nearby sites for the nuptials. It could happen near a Las Vegas Boulevard sidewalk, at the shores of Lake Mead, on the roadway over Hoover Dam or just about anywhere else the loving schmoozers choose to exchange marriage vows.

If you’ll be in Las Vegas with your sweetie and feel that primeval urge to merge on the road, and need information about the Wedding Wagon, go to lasvegasweddingwagon.com
Happiest Prices On Earth: Disney Parks Tix Costs Rise Again PDF Print E-mail


As springtime nears and families make their plans to visit the world’s most popular amusement parks, they can expect to be greeted by higher fees. This is getting to be an annual, in-your-face happening, and this year is no exception.

Of course, it isn’t just Disney that does it. Inflation, primarily because of the greedy oil and housing racketeers, has been strangling our economy for each of the past three decades. And Disney must do it to compete in today’s business and entertainment worlds. It all brings back memories of when your travel4seniors.com editor first took his kids to Walt Disney World when it opened in the early 1970s. Adult daily admission was $3.50 and $1 for kids. Rides were each 25¢. Hotel rooms were $25, snacks were $1 and a typical dinner was $5. Our family of four could spend three days at WDW for a total of about $300, plus airfare. Today, pumped by the new increases, the average three-day stay costs at least ten times as much, $3,000

Is there any way to cut the rising costs? When ready to make plans, consult frequently with your hometown travel agent and keep in online touch with WDW ads. When making your schedule, first be aware that prices of everything in the park go way up during heavy visit times, such as spring break, weekends and holidays.

Consider off-season package deals that include air, hotel and park attendance. You’ll still have to pay much more than it cost in 1972, but at least you’ll be able to chip away at the grossly-inflated prices.
 
 
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