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A week's all expenses paid holiday in either Las Vegas or the Yorkshire coast. Which would you go for ?

138 replies

TheTecknician · 17/08/2023 11:33

I'll take the Yorkshire coast, any time of year. A small holiday apartment, pub or hotel room in Whitby, Sandsend or Robin Hood's Bay would be awfully grand. I admit I've not been to Las Vegas but, nonetheless, it just doesn't appeal.

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NJMAd · 17/08/2023 13:59

I love Vegas.

Plus can guarantee sunshine.

As long as it was at a good hotel with a nice pool so I could have some downtime.

slavetothekittens · 17/08/2023 14:00

Yorkshire coast for me.

NJMAd · 17/08/2023 14:00

Another who loves Vegas and hasn't ever gambled (beyond some slot machines just to say we have)

So much to see and do and great shows.

fullbloom87 · 17/08/2023 14:01

Vegas I live in the south coast close to all the Dorset beaches and go there almost everyday.

RitzyMcFitzy · 17/08/2023 14:02

I've been to Yorkshire but I've never been to Vegas.

So it would be a no-brainer for me and I'd go for Vegas, even though I suspect it might not be my kind of place.

But I'd rather find out for certain than sit smugly in a parked car in (beautiful) rainy Yorkshire, sipping tea from a flask and saying 'so glad we didn't pick Las Vegas, Norman, and miss out on all this...'.

AngelsWithSilverWings · 17/08/2023 14:04

I'm coming to the end of a nice two week break on The Yorkshire Coast. Currently sitting in a lively tea garden in Bridlington Old Town. I've been to Vegas four times and love it so I would take the Vegas trip if you are offering!

BarbieWorldFantastic · 17/08/2023 14:06

Las Vegas any day!

LubaLuca · 17/08/2023 14:07

Las Vegas. I like to get my money's worth, and I've been to the Yorkshire coast dozens more times than I've been to Las Vegas (only once).

Odd thing to ponder on though. Why those two places? Who has that quandary?

AtomicBlondeRose · 17/08/2023 14:10

@AngelsWithSilverWings I can probably guess where you are, and I had a lovely lunch there a couple of weeks ago. There’s much to enjoy on the Yorkshire coast and I have extensive knowledge of it…but I’d still choose Vegas! It’s like nowhere else on earth.

PPop · 17/08/2023 14:11

Las Vegas 100% we married there last year and honestly whilst I wouldn't want to live there it is one of my favourite places!

GrannyGoggins · 17/08/2023 14:14

I would choose the Yorkshire coast. I've been to Las Vegas and it wasn't my cup of tea. Very chaotic, smell of weed everywhere, noisy etc. Its like Blackpool x 5000 😂

BarbaraofSeville · 17/08/2023 14:17

Very chaotic, smell of weed everywhere, noisy etc

That sounds a lot like Whitby or Scarborough tbf...

JemimaWithTheStripeyTights · 17/08/2023 14:18

Stuck at my desk and the thought of a coastal walk followed by a crab sandwich and a pint of beer in a Yorkshire pub garden has sent me into transports of delight. My idea of heaven,.

Janieforever · 17/08/2023 14:20

BarbaraofSeville · 17/08/2023 14:17

Very chaotic, smell of weed everywhere, noisy etc

That sounds a lot like Whitby or Scarborough tbf...

Could be any major city in the uk 😂

ChippyRach · 17/08/2023 14:21

Las Vegas, I'm unlikely to spend my own money to go there as I don't think I'd like it but I kind of want to go to say I've been and confirmed my suspicions.

Mrsjayy · 17/08/2023 14:21

Janieforever · 17/08/2023 14:20

Could be any major city in the uk 😂

I get random wafts of weed in my street 😃.

longwayoff · 17/08/2023 14:22

Yorkshire please, Las Vegas looks like Hell Unchained. I'm not made for it.

LetMeEnfoldYou · 17/08/2023 14:26

Never been to Vegas so definitely would try that.

Tramping around dismal countryside in Yorkshire feels like a whole week of Sunday afternoons in the 80s to me.

SirChenjins · 17/08/2023 14:47

Apart from shows, casinos and looking at canyons what else is there to do in Las Vegas?

Cyclistmumgrandma · 17/08/2023 14:50

I¡ve done both and would choose the Yorkshire coast.

gogomoto · 17/08/2023 14:59

To be honest with those choices I'd stay home. Been to vegas and have no desire to return (though if the all expenses paid means a rental car and a road trip around the national parks I'm in) and I've done the Yorkshire coast, it's fine but not much to do once you have eaten fish and chips, I don't do self catering on holidays and I'm not sure there's decent hotels

OneCup · 17/08/2023 15:02

Out of all the lovely places in the UK, I'm surprised you picked the Yorkshire coast!
Vegas for me anytime. Rent a car and do all the national parks. In any case it's easy to travel to Yorkshire from the UK so can easily be done independently.

Parky04 · 17/08/2023 15:05

Yorkshire coast as I've never been. Have been to Vegas and hated it. Hot and tacky as fuck!

UsingChangeofName · 17/08/2023 15:44

I'd say we're roughly half and half here.

Are you reading a different thread?
Shame you didn't set it up as a poll, so it could be easily seen.

However, another for Vegas here, if someone else is paying.
I've never been and it is always interesting to go to places you've heard of but never been.

If you'd asked the question if we could do a week in Vegas or a week on Yorkshire coast, BUT only ever go to the one you choose, each year for the rest of your life, I'd have gone Yorkshire, but I'm not turning down a free holiday to somewhere it would be interesting to visit once.

AvocadotoastORahouse · 17/08/2023 16:25

cheezncrackers · 17/08/2023 12:10

Las Vegas - because there is a lot more to Las Vegas than just neon. Red Rock Canyon, Valley of Fire state park, Hoover Dam, go and see Cirque du Soleil, the Sphere, there's an indoor theme park at one of the casinos (Circus Circus maybe?), there's shopping, restaurants, lounge bars, live music. And there is the desert.

Yes I'd go to Las Vegas but probably spend more time in the area around it than in Vegas itself!