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| - My favorite things about the airport?
1. There's a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf near the C gates.
2. It's close to the Strip, but not as close as you think. There are a ton of stop lights that will come between you and and the hotel casino driveway.
What I don't like:
1. When you get dropped off at the airport, it's a total free for all in the departures area and you need to pay extra attention that you don't get hit. I watched, over the course of a week, several near collisions between man vs. car, and it wasn't pretty.
2. For an airport that small, I wish things were built a little closer in. There are only 2 terminals, and one is used WAY more than the other. The gates that serve Terminal 1 are so spread out that you have to take the tram. Ugh.
3. There are *maybe* two de-icers on site, so when it snows (like it did during the week we were there), the airport cannot function and will close. Bummer if you're scheduled to fly. I was not, but two days later, an interesting thing happened. First flight of the day, and the aircraft had been sitting overnight. As a result, there was ice on the wings. We had to park in the sun to melt some ice, and when there wasn't enough sun on one of the wings, what did we do? We repositioned the aircraft to the sunnier side, of course. You can't make this up. We killed an hour and twenty minutes waiting for mother nature to do her thing and melt the ice. Hell, I'da climbed onto the wing and scraped it off with a credit card if I were allowed to.
All in all, ticket lines seem to move quickly when you're checking in, but those screening checkpoints are another thing. The lines were awfully lonnnnnng for those.
4. I also don't like that the majority (a huge majority) of the hotels don't provide a shuttle service to the hotel. You have to take a taxi, which can run you about 15 to 20, depending on where you go.
Viva Las Vegas!!!
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