Just got back from Vegas after spending 3 days. My wife and I swore that we will never go back , as it was the tackiest place we had ever been to. I know we may be ridiculed for this, but each his own. Just walk up and down the strip and you will know what i mean. Sure there were some hotels that are nice eg.. Baligio(Sp), but once you get inside they all look the same.Also whats with the people shoving xxx rated ads in your face, and sales people trying to sell timeshares. I can go on and on. I would like to know what are your tackiest places that you have ever been to.

Let me get this straight: You had to go to Las Vegas to figure out that it is tacky? What were you expecting? Of course it is tacky, but most people know as much before they go. It is tacky, cheesy, glaring..... but knowing that it can be a lot of fun.

Las Vegas? Tacky? I'm shocked, absolutely shocked. Next thing you know someone will be saying that Dollywood isn't an educational experience.

Or that Disneyland isn't a sovereign nation. Or that Branson isn't hip.

I know how I'd feel about Las Vegas so have never bothered going. Tackiest place, hands down, I've ever *been* is Gatlinburg!

Vegas is also the tackiest place I've ever been, but I've loved each of the 5 trips I've taken there and can't wait to go back again. Would anyone think plaster reconstructions of classical monuments wouldn't be tacky? As for the XXX ads, just ignore them as you walk by. I don't remember having one shoved "in my face". They were usually offered at waist level. And there seemed to be a lot less of them on my last trip (6 months ago) than on my first trip (6 years ago).

As far as a tacky place that I won't return to, South Beach. Great people watching, yes. But sitting at a cafe watching people costs $15 for two house brand drinks.

Now if you combine Gatlinburg with Dollywood , then you've got yourself one slambang vacation to yodel about.

"Now if you combine Gatlinburg with Dollywood, then you've got yourself one slambang vacation to yodel about. "

Would that be DollyGatlinWoodBurg or GatWoodLinDollyBurg?

I know some people that actually believed Vegas was another family destination, like WDW. Hel-low? Yeah, it's like Disneyworld for adults... if ol' Uncle Walt had a nipple facination.

Vegas is tacky and we embrace it! Hallelluiah! It's a Tack Revival!

Of COURSE Vegas is tacky, but it raises tackiness to an art form. We find it provides a drastic change of environment for a couple of days -- which is about all I can take in one dose. It tends to be cheap and it IS entertaining in certain respects. The whole thing is quite a tribute to certain aspects of the human condition and it is done on such a grand scale that is is truly worth experiencing (not OFTEN, mind you, but still worth experiencing).

There's a big difference between Vegas and Gatlinburg. Vegas is fun TACKY and Gatlinburg is ....hmmmm.....well it's.....it's a.......I'll have to get back to you on this.

You would not believe how tacky it was under the presidents desk in the Oval Office. I mean it could get really gross down there and everything would just stick together. What? Not that kind of tacky? Not sticky tacky? Never mind.

I must agree with Mrs. Oyl ... and unfortunately when Gatlinburg, TN burned down to the ground some years ago, they promptly rebuilt it. The replacement was true to the original. We used to stop on the street for Bear Burgers, as we headed through the town to go up to the ridgeline of the Smoky Mtn. Nat'l Park (there's Newfound Gap at 5,000 feet where the AT crosses, if anyone has hiked there). Gatlinburg also had a rather cheesey ski slope a block off the main drag, where it was cutoff city and pink wooly snow jacket season. One time I was there with my girlfriend and her mom, and it was a threesome the entire time. I just never had any luck in Gatlinburg, so I must join OO's chorus and give it top billing on the alltime tacky list. By comparison, "Dolly"wood stands "in relief" to G., in the true sense of that phrase. Ciao

It must be my Catholic upbringing, but I felt ASHAMED of being a human being while in Vegas. What a waste of water and electricity and money...spending for the sake of .... spending! What are they thinking???

Yuck!
Count me as one of the one who will NOT go back willingly.

Okay, here to stir some trouble.

What I think is tacky is all the manicured golf courses dropped in the middle of pristine wild beauty. Wasting natural resources to water grass in a dessert, strip away lava rocks in Hawaii, etc. I laugh when people ask why I don't turn my western plains ranchland into a golf course.

"Cementaries and golf courses: what a waste of prime real estate."
-- Caddyshack

"Why waste a nice hike or walk with a lousy game of golf?"
--Mark Twain

I am truly offended by the unkind remarks you have made about my neck of the woods.

Mr. L, for your information Gatlinburg has never burned to the ground. Believe me, it's been tried but me and my 52 cousins/half sister & brothers, will never let this glorious city be reduced to smoldering ashes.

You call our ski area cheesy? I'll have you know we now have 8 slopes, and when yer tired of skiing you can walk over to the lodge, put on a velcro suit and hurl yourself against a velcro wall to see if ya stick. no sir--WE do not lack quality Entertainment.

As far as bear burgers, unfortunately, since we can't shoot bears no more in the national park, their a rare delicacy these days.

Furthermore Mr. L, if it's so dang tacky, why do you keep coming back?

anyway, we don't need sickos like you in our lovely city. I can't believe you're braggin about havin a 3some with your girlfriend and her mother. Whacko. Pervert. When will you city people learn it's unhealthy to sleep with any kin closer related than a cousin.

And the there are all those places that have degenerated into Tourist Tacky. Fisherman's Wharf in SF , though it's been tacky for a long time. And unfortunately Key West has become increasingly tacky. Bourbon Street for drunk tank tacky, but when you're loaded who notices. do have to give the award to Gatlinburg though. Sorry Dolly.

Ramz,
You mean to tell me you had no idea what Vegas was about? Where else in this world can you visit England, Egypt, Paris, Italy, the South Seas, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and still have money to stay in a world-class hotel or eat in five-star restaurant? If you want tacky, visit the Wisconsin Dells!

The tackiest place I've been to is Niagara Falls - not the falls themselves, but the outlet malls and how there wasn't a decent place to eat there. At least in Vegas I could get a decent, interesting meal.

So, RMZ, all the casinos look the same once you get inside?!? Even the "Baligio?" It's really too bad that you can't appreciate the unique individuality of the various resorts -- and the BELLAGIO is in a class by itself!! Thank goodness I WON'T be seeing you there anytime in the future!!

Easily Niagra Falls. That is why my kids loved it!