CITY GUIDE: LAS VEGAS

Michelin-star restaurants, five-star mega-hotels and actual star spotting - the new Vegas has its own unique brand of blinged up luxury

Everything is amplified in Las Vegas - the flashing neon lights, the pulsating nightclubs - even the people. You'll pass more men in cowboy hats and women dripping in sequins here than anywhere else on earth - but then, there's nowhere else on earth that's quite like Vegas. Where else can you go to Gordon Ramsay's for lunch, do dinner with Alain Ducasse and party with Calvin Harris - all before kicking on with a sunrise helicopter ride to one of the seven natural wonders of the world? There's more to the Strip, which dazzles like a man-made mirage in the middle of the Nevada desert, than The Hangover-style debauchery (although hangovers will definitely be had). READ MORE