Smid wrote:Maximus wrote:ScoobySu: was interested on your thoughts re: Freemenot Street. I have heard mixed reviews, mostly bad to be honest, and we have decided to not bother visiting Downtown at all. We have limited time in Vegas and Downtown does not sound like somewhere we would like. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
I'd not be taking advice from someone who walked off the bus, turned around, and walked back on the bus...
Fair enough if you visit the place and don't like it, but its a 30 min bus journey and a walk about. To me its much more original vegas than the sanitised malls of the strip. It's got an hourly show, ziplines, multiple stages of live music most nights, real bars, cheap drinks and the type of place you'll get cheap prime rib. Next time I stay half my trip in Main Street Station, with its cheap craft beer, and free buffet included for the price of £28 a night. You'll be paying that in resort fees in other parts of vegas (no resort fee there).
A few years ago a bit of it wasn't very well lit, and people mistakenly and naively thought that they'd get stabbed if they walked like two steps away from the bright bit, but even that isn't even true anymore on the lighting, never mind the total idiocy of that thinking, it's close to a heavily secured area of vegas and you'll more likely be robbed or ripped off outside of Paris or Planet Hollywood...
I'm not sure where you read the bad reviews of it, and in general what would constitute 'bad reviews' of a whole area of town, but you're missing a pretty cool and vital bit of vegas if you dismiss it like that. Most unfairly.
While I mostly agree with what you say - I would still advise caution. Not far past the end of Fremont Street (where the zip wire starts) is not a very nice place and even the local Las Vegas residents avoid it.