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Las Vegas vacations are a little peculiar in that although the place is obviously constructed on the back of the numerous casinos, it’s effectively a giant theme park with pretty low prices for just about everything.

Las Vegas travel therefore caters for a much wider range of categories of travellers than you might at first expect. There are obviously the gamblers and the high rollers are really well looked after with very luxurious suites available and all the trimmings that you’d expect. However, that infrastructure means that there are untold numbers of travel options available to you with great deals available year-round.

The range of accommodation is vast too. You can stay in some of the most luxurious rooms in the world or you can stay in a campsite. Whatever you choose you can pretty much take it for granted that the price you pay will be a lot less than you do in most other places and the service will be higher.
 

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Not so long ago you saw them everywhere, didn’t you? Nowadays, the funny t-shirt seems almost like a dying breed which is a shame I think.

OK, sometimes funny t shirts were offensive to some, often rude and always with an irrereverant sense of humour. But, hey, isn’t all humour like that? The plain-Jane approach to humour doesn’t work for the most part: by and large, we need something that little bit off-colour to bring a smile.

So why not hunt an appealing one down and make a point of being different from the crowd?

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Car insurance is something of a peculiar product. It’s something that we are legally required to buy and many people if they were given the choice probably wouldn’t bother to buy it at all.

However, we’ve just had a guest who really did need it and the money that he’ll get back from the insurance company will be pretty substantial.

What happened is that his car caught fire as he was driving along the motorway in France yesterday afternoon. That’s not really something that you expect to happen, is it? Anyway, the towing would have been several hundred euro, the transport to his hotel over EUR 100, the hotel another EUR 80 or so and it looks like the repairs will cost well over EUR 1000. Oh, and then there’s the not so insignificant matter that he’ll probably end up having to fly home and then back to collect the car as this is a holiday week and so it probably won’t be repaired for at least another week.

So you can get your money’s worth sometimes!

One thing to watch when you’re buying your car insurance online is that there are a lot of optional extras that can be included in your policy. Obviously most of the time you’ll not need them but if you hit a situation like that above then they are very, very handy to have. For instance, because this is the peak holiday season, he’d have had quite a lot of difficulty to get booked into a hotel himself but it was his insurance company who organised that for him

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