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Originally posted by Trepidation_Mom
I was taken to Vegas as a kid. I think I was 6 or 7. It sucked. We stayed at Circus Circus and it still sucked. No matter how much (ostensible) kid-stuff there is, parents in Vegas will still want to go off and drink, gamble and take in a lewd show (in my parents' case, front row seats for Liberace) and generally don't want the kids wandering the hotels unattended, so either the kids are stuck in a room with pay per view and maybe a hotel sitter, or the parents end up doing boring kid stuff with the kids, in which case you might as well go to Chuck E Cheese.

This was back in the mid '70s, of course, when Vegas was still ... well, Vegas. I haven't been back in a while, so past performance does not ensure blah blah blah.

At least if you take them on a cruise you can actually abandon them to do their own thing secure in the knowledge that a pedophile kidnapper can't actually get them off the boat, and you can usually tag them with those nifty "house arrest" ankle bands that let you pinpoint your sprogs' location at all times. Parent's I've spoken to seem to LOOOVE kiddie cruises, and claim you can basically get on the boat, set them loose and pretend you don't have kids for a few days while you drink by the pool, secure in the knowledge that, somewhere out there, they are semi-supervised and have access to food and a bed but not alcohol, porn or your credit cards.

eta: We did do the grand canyon, as well. It was pretty cool, but would have been cooler had my parents let us take the mule ride down into the canyon. (I think their slogan, "we've never lost a mule yet," is no longer true, but at the time my parents took it to heart.) Still: it was cooler than Vegas. Even cooler was the final leg of that trip, however, which was to visit my mom's college friend in San Diego, which involved a trip to the zoo and to Tijuana. Tijuana was crowded, dirty, loud, smelly, and generally a BLAST.

Grand Canyon is defintely worth the trip. Stay on teh rim if you can. Getting off the asphalt probably too much to ask w a 4 YO.

I went to Vegas about 2 years ago and my kid had a blast at the MGM kid's club while my SO and I went out. There was plenty for him to do.

Nevertheless, in the past 2 years kid-friendly stuff has been noticeably scaled down.