The 4Runner's Last Ride - Las Vegas

Sunday, June 7 to Friday, June 12, 2026

It takes just under three hours to get to Las Vegas from Seligman so we slept in before hitting the road.  We got on Interstate 40 and drove back west to Kingman where we got off on US93 toward Las Vegas.

We got to Las Vegas around two and checked into Harrah’s Las Vegas where we usually stay.  To our surprise, our room was ready, and an even bigger surprise was we had gotten a small suite on 61^st floor overlooking The Strip.  I think this may have been the best room we have ever had in Las Vegas.

I’m not going to go into any real detail on our stay in Las Vegas, but I’ll mention a few things.  First off, we had a nice view from our room of Caesar’s Palace and the old Mirage Hotel.  The Mirage was sold a few years ago to Hard Rock International and they have closed the hotel and casino and, although they are keeping the old Mirage Hotel tower, they are building their signature guitar shaped tower, and we had view of the construction.  Although it was hard to see any real progress as it is a massive project, it was interesting to watch.

The Guitar Tower of the Hard Rock hotel under construction.

We also had a view of Caesar's Palace and the Linq Hotel from our room

Also, the news has been full of stories about Las Vegas being in trouble because not as many people are visiting.  The hotels are offering more casino free play and resort credit to come there, but it still was quite busy, so I don’t think any hotels are going to go broke very soon.

We ate a lot of good food while we were here but stuck mostly to the places we had been to before.  We had another very good dinner at Ramsay’s Kitchen at Harrah’s, an excellent dinner at Chayo Mexican Kitchen on the Linq Promenade, a not as good as usual pizza (recommended by the waiter) at the Flour & Barley Brick Oven Pizza also on the Linq Promenade, a really good burger at Gordon Ramsay Burger at the Flamingo, and of course, a hot fudge sundae at Ghirardelli’s Ice Cream and Chocolate Shop on the Linq Promenade.

The gambling was mixed and while we had a good time and didn’t lose all of our gambling money, we were a long way from coming home with a profit.  All in all, we had a very good time in Las Vegas made even better by getting everything comped so it cost us almost nothing.

The lights of Caesar's Palace and the Linq.

The Forum Shops in the foreground and the Rio Hotel off in the distance.