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Getting from Los Angeles to Las Vegas

Every year millions of people travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Located about 228 miles from Los Angeles, Las Vegas is considered to be the entertainment capital of the world offering visitors a wide a variety of gambling activities, shows and many different events for the whole family. Founded in 1905 the city experienced its largest amounts of growth towards the end of the 20th century as this was the first major American city to offer legalized gambling.

Known for its dry desert climate Las Vegas is a city that is filled with lights and entertainment while sitting right in the middle of the dessert. Its close proximity to Los Angeles makes it an ideal spot for many people who live there to have the chance to have a nice short term get away. For the residents of Los Angeles this means that they can be able to travel a short distance to be able to enjoy what this oasis in the desert has to offer. While the distance between the two cities is not that far there are many different options that you have available when traveling between Los Angeles and Las Vegas such as:

By Car

This is one of the most common ways to travel between the two cities, depending on where you live the entire trip could take approximately fours and should connect you to Interstate 15 that will take you in a northeast direction to Las Vegas. In general you can be able to a rent a car from any of the major car rental agencies with a credit card in addition to being at least 25 years old. If you are leaving at a heavy traffic time (which is most of the time in many parts of Los Angeles) then the first 30 miles could take you 90 minutes or even more. So if you left at 4am then you could be in Las Vegas by 8am or maybe 8:30, but if you leave Los Angeles at 4pm, then you might not arrive in Vegas until 10pm or so. In other words, plan your exit time carefully.

By Train

While there once was a train that ran from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, it is a thing of the past. There is no longer a passenger train that runs from state to state. There had once been talk of building a super train between the two major cities, but they are nothing but whispers at this point in time. So be clear that there is no train and no plans to be a train between the cities any time soon.

By Bus

There are two bus lines that offer regular service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Greyhound and Go To Bus. Greyhound usually takes about five to seven hours and it costs approximately $60.00 one way. While Go To Bus leaves once a day from several different commuter locations, the trip takes about five hours and it costs between $30.00 to $88.00 one way or $45.00 to $133.00 round trip.

By Shuttle

Viator offer luxury shuttle service between the two cities to include: movies, snacks, beverages, reclining seat and an on board attendant for just $80.00 each way. These shuttles leave once a day from pick up points in Los Angeles at: downtown, Hollywood, LAX Airport, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills hotels. Form Las Vegas these shuttles have pick up and drop off points at: the Flamingo, Golden Nugget as well as Harrah’s.

By Air

When you are traveling the between the two cities by air the cost is about the same as the other forms of travel, in addition you can arrive at your destination within about an hour and ten minutes. Southwest is generally the cheapest carrier offering discounted air fares between the two cities and they have service to the following airports with in the Greater Los Angeles area: Los Angeles International, Burbank, Orange County or Ontario in addition to Las Vegas. However, the major airlines also fly between the two cities and have various specials from the different Los Angeles airports.

Clearly there are many different options available for traveling between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Some of the different options that you have available when traveling between the two cities include: traveling by car, traveling by plane, traveling by bus and traveling by shuttle. All will allow you to easily be at either destination within a few hours and the cost for traveling to them is not that expensive. This means that you can be able to have any enjoyable trip that everyone will remember while at the same time not having to worry about how much money you are spending to go to either destination.

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Popular Deals for Las Vegas

If you are living or visiting Los Angeles and looking for something do one weekend, Las Vegas makes for an awesome weekend getaway adventure. Obviously if you are visiting Los Angeles, you probably want to stick to seeing the sights there. But if you are simply visiting family in the LA area for the hundredth time, maybe you and the rest of the family could hop over the Vegas strip for a night or two. There are always plenty of great deals going on that make it super cheap to visit, even if just for the weekend.

For more information about Las Vegas, check out our Las Vegas blog.

Getting Cheap Hotel Rooms
Finding a cheap flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is enough to do. Finding a cheap hotel room in Las Vegas can be a little more tricky. There are just so many sites and deals out there that it can be hard to find the best ones. If you are looking for some Vegas hotel discounts and think that they are only limited to the smaller and less popular hotels off the strip, you are sadly mistaken. In fact, it is many of the bigger and more popular hotels right on the strip that have some of the best deals.

If you think that the bigger hotels like the Excalibur and Bellagio are out your budget, you should think again. These hotels have some many rooms at so many different price ranges that you are sure to be able to fond something fits within your budget. Whats great about staying at thee larger hotels on the strip is that they have so much to offer right in the hotel. While many of the have shoes and other form of paid entertainment, they usually have a wide variety of free things to see and do as well. Granted they might not be as exciting as the Blue Man Group, but its hard to beat free in Vegas.

If you have ever thought of planning a weekend getaway to Las Vegas, but thought it was out of your budget, I suggest you do a little research. The above links will show you just how cheap a weekend in Vegas can actually be. You might be surprised. I know I was that first time I looked up the cost of going to Vegas for a weekend. The best to plan one of these weekend getaway is either well in advance or at the very last minute. It is these times that allow you to find the best deals on hotels and airfare.

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Los Angeles

How do you handle the Los Angeles airport?

Traveling to a big city can always be a bit frustrating. Every aspect of the process from planning to arrival can be enough to make your head spin. From finding cheap flights to finding cheap hotels; all of it can be very time consuming. You would think that because larger cities are in fact larger, that it would be easy to find a good deal on these sorts of things because there are so many to choose from. Ironically, it is for that exact reason that it is so hard to find deals on things. There are just so many deals out there that it makes it hard to find the best ones.

So, today I would like to get some reader feedback on how they handle one or larger and busier airports in North America, and certainly on the West coast, LAX airport in Los Angeles.

Lets start by talking about finding cheap flights to LAX. What sort of tips do you have for getting the best deals on flights out west? Have you found any airlines to be cheaper or better than others? If so, which ones are they?

The next logical thing most travelers flying out of LAX need to plan for is parking. You would think that finding a good LAX airport parking lot that didn’t cost an arm and a leg would be easy to find as well. But this just goes back to the statement above about how having too many options can be frustrating. What parking lots have you found to be the safest and most affordable?

If you are flying into LAX you probably aren’t worried so much about finding cheap parking, but more so at finding cheap hotels in Los Angeles. There are plenty of hotels here, but even some of the “cheap” ones might be more than you would expect them to be. On the plus side to that, at least many of the cheaper hotels are extremely nice. What is your favorite budget friendly hotel in Los Angeles?

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Croatia

Croatia Beats Andorra 4-0, Moves to 2nd in Group

Croatia didn’t start their first World Cup qualifying round the way they hoped to, but they’re making up for lost ground now. The Croatian national soccer team handily beat Andorra yesterday with a score of 4-0.

The win and accompanying three points mean that the team is now in second place in its group – Croatia is tied with Ukraine on points, but Croatia is ahead of Ukraine on goal differential. England still leads the group with 12 points.

Croatia’s next game isn’t until April – April 1, to be exact – when they’ll play Andorra again, this time in Andorra. Then Croatia meets Ukraine in early June.

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Random Croatia Photo of the Moment

Here’s a random photo from our Boats and Beaches page of our Croatia photos page.

Croatian boat

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Articles Los Angeles

Fires change nothing, everything

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Cooler weather helped the firefighters, but word in the weather world is that the dry, hot winds are going to return in the next few days, meaning that fighting fires in the Southwest may become just as difficult and dangerous as it was five days ago.

The fires will affect the city, and travel to the city, for some time. The fires did not and probably will not threaten many of the popular travel destinations in central Los Angeles, but they represent another shock and drain on resources that normally would have gone to the down and out on skid row or the homeless centers in Inglewood instead of those whose houses were taken and lives were altered by a sudden shift in the winds and monumentally bad luck.

Disasters change the perspective of a city and change the character of a place, even if it’s just temporarily. For some, the fires mean little disruption of daily life at all. The freeways through town were never shut down; Disneyland is still standing. Your trip to Los Angeles will probably not be affected. But for a growing number of residents, the end of the wildfires means that the work begins again. At Los Angeles Logue, our thoughts are with them.

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Statistics belie plane truth in Croatia

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Statistics tell us that flying is one of the safest modes of travel. Your chances of being killed in a plane hover around 1 in 11 million. The chances of being killed in a car are about 1 in 5,000. Maybe now we know why the disparity is so great.

On October 13th, as Tereza Batur, 21, was driving her Volkswagon Passat near Sinj, Croatia, a plane swooped out of the sky and struck the moving car. Reports differ as to whether the plane landed on top of the car or struck it from the side, but either way, we have a clear case of a pilot trying to boost the statistical safety advantage that planes enjoy over cars.

Actually, the Supercab plane was thrown off its route by high winds and ended up trying to land on the two lane road in lieu of the runway. Batur and her companion were unhurt and the pilot suffered minor head injuries. The accident destroyed both the plane and the car.

From the International Herald Tribune.

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Reasons you should be in Croatia right now

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The Zagreb Film Festival runs all this week, October 21-27, featuring the best films of 2007 from Russia, Serbia, New Zealand, Israel, and of course, Croatia.

Like Cannes and Sundance, the festival features primarily art films and cerebral comedies, unlike Cannes and Sundance, the festival’s mascot is a Superman clone with pink briefs and cape.

The film festival takes place every October at the Student Centre in downtown Zagreb, this year with 11 feature films, 15 short films and 12 to 14 documentaries. Audience voters decide the Audience VIP award to one film and a jury of Croatian filmmakers decide the winners of the “Golden Pram” award, which comes with a cash prize, in each category.

Get there before Autumn Leaves

Autumn in Croatia got some good press recently attracted some attention now that Jelenje, on the interior of Croatia is attracting visitors with its colorful fall foliage and beautiful scenery. The region has become popular enough that the first travel guide for the region was published this year and a heritage museum highlighting the regions’ unique history and culture.

Upcoming books on the region include a specialized guidebook for cyclists and literature on the area’s extensive hiking and mountain climbing opportunities. The most popular outdoor recreation in the region is highlighted, including the Rjecina River and the mountain house on Hahlic.

As the seasonal travel that dominates Croatia’s summer spreads out to the rest of the year, Jelenje could become a prime fall destination for travelers from around the world. Autumn airfares are the best deals and if the weather cooperates, you can still spend a few days of your vacation in the sun on one of Croatia’s beaches or islands.

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Croatia Camping

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Croatia has been called “Europe’s number one camping destination,” but what motivates people to forego the comforts of home during their warm weather vacation?

To understand the appeal of camping in Croatia, you have to know something about the pleasure that can come from self-sufficiency; or at least, the illusion of self-sufficiency.

Croatia’s campgrounds are not outback shanties or wilderness survival huts. For the most part they are recreation centers with tetherball, tennis, beaches, barbecues and swimming. But it still feels like you’re honing your survival skills when you sleep outside, cook for yourself and live off the land in between trips to the campground grocery store.

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Street collapses in downtown Zagreb

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The bottom came out from under a house on Krupska street in downtown Zagreb recently, leaving nine people homeless, and forcing 61 to evacuate, but causing no casualties.

Excavation for the construction of an underground parking garage caused the collapse. Croatian news source Javno reports that the city company ran out of money during the project and left the garage incomplete.

Several days ago tenants noticed water running under the building and felt tremors, and alerted the city. They said technicians arrived to shut off the water but didn’t look into the cause of the problem.

Police are currently warning passerby away from the area because of the possibility of cranes used in the construction collapsing into the 17 meter deep hole.

Tremors from the construction began at 2 am and the houses were evacuated at noon. Shortly after the evacuation was completed, the house collapsed into the hole.

Zagreb mayor Milan Bandic arrived on the scene shortly after the collapse and was confronted by angry tenants who claimed they had already reported feeling tremors to the mayor and city but that they did nothing. Evacuated tenants will be placed in a hostel until they can make other arrangements, Bandic instructed tenants to take only what they could carry and not to loiter in the street.

Photo from www.javno.com