kosher wrote on 12 Jul 2010 07:25:
I am working on a trip to Southwestern Utah, not to far from Las Vegas. My initial inclination was to stay in Las Vegas overnight where I can catch a minyan and for Mincha-Maariv and shachris and it would be a somewhat "kosher" environment. My second thought is that Las Vegas is known as "Sin City" and that does not sound like somewhere that I want to be.
Does anyone have experience and can give an opinion on this dilema?
In case anyone is following...
I went to Las Vegas. The airport and the surounding area ("The Strip") are pretty bad. But all airports are pretty bad, once you get outside the the airport area it is not much worse than any big city. The two shuls I davened in were very nice. The selection of kosher food at the local supermarket was good enough to make me almost hyperventilate from excitement (after a week on the road...) All in all, it seemed worthwhile.