We took the RV to Vegas and stayed right on the strip! The RV Park at Circus Circus was our home while we attended CES2023 (Consumer Electronics Show). Circus Circus provided an extremely convenient location adjacent to the Circus Circus Casino and within walking distance to the LVCC (Las Vegas Convention Center).
CES is “the most influential tech event in the world.” This year it hosted over 3200 vendors with over 2.2 million square ft of space and was attended by 115,000 tech industry attendees.
RV Park at Circus Circus
The drive over the Las Vegas from our current spot in Palm Springs was about 4 1/2 hr drive. We rolled into town on I-15 and the RV Park at Circus Circus was only a few blocks off the interstate. The park is gated and has some quirky hours so make sure you have your access information with you when you arrive so that you can access the gate. We arrived during business hours so all we needed to do was to pick up the phone next to the gate and the person that answered gave us an access code for entry.
The parking area is completely paved and well-marked. This is definitely a big-rig friendly place with sites up to 80ft. Amenities include a laundry room, bath house, children’s play area, pet run, and a pool. Nothing is fancy but everything is adequate and functional. The best part of this stay is it’s location. It is right beside the Circus Circus casino, and within a 10-minute walk to the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall. The Las Vegas Loop (Elon Musk’s “Tesla tunnels”), the Monorail, and “The Deuce” (double-decker bus) stop is all located within a couple blocks so access to anywhere on the strip is extremely easy.
CES
CES is always an amazing show. We absolutely love walking around the exhibits and seeing all the new technology along with prototypes of things being developed. This year had a notably large presence of autonomous vehicles. Everything from automobiles to larger, futuristic “people movers.” Even John Deere and Catepiller were there showing off their existing farm and industrial equipment that is already in production. Caterpillar had an area where you could remotely operate several pieces of very large equipment that was physically hundreds of miles away. The video feedback from those sites was fun to watch as attendees tried their hand as a remote operator.
In addition, we saw tons of other new tech. There were LOTS of TV’s: 8K, microLED, QLED, OLED, ULED, laser, and super-thin flexible screens were all being demonstrated. Robots were making coffee and delivering it; artificial intelligence (AI) was being demonstrated everywhere, and in almost any form you can imagine; virtual reality (VR) googles for the meta verse and augmented reality (AR) glasses for every-day wear in the “real life” were being experienced by attendees. There is literally so much at the show that, not only can I not possibly mention it all here, we couldn’t even see it all in 4 days of walking around the show.
Indy Autonomous Challenge
On Saturday, we attended the final laps of the Indy Autonous Challenge race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Here, we saw fully-autonomous cars racing at speeds up to almost 200 mph! As the name implies, there were no drivers, neither in the cars, nor remotely controlling them. The teams only provided race parameter input and monitored the vehicle’s systems via remote computers in the pits. This was pretty amazing to watch!
NV state sticker
This was our first visit to NV with the RV and we did stay long enough to meet our self-imposed requirement to earn a new state sticker. This brings us to 11 states in which we have stayed in our RV for 3 or more nights.
Click on the video image below to watch now.
Circus Circus RV Park | RV’ing Vegas For CES //S3E1
Links and Resources
The RV Park at Circus Circus
https://www.circuscircus.com/hotels/rv-park/
This is an all-paved lot with full-hookups and basic amenities located on the Las Vegas Strip. It’s convenient proximity to the Vegas Strip makes it a very notable RV destination.
“The Duece” (double-decker bus)
https://www.lasvegashowto.com/las-vegas-deuce
The Las Vegas Duece is a San Fansico-style double-decker bus service ran by the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC). A 24-hr pass is only $8 and allows you to hop-on and hop-off anywhere along the strip, or ride the entire route for a low-cost site-seeing tour. It runs 24 hours / day with a frequency of 15-20 minutes.
The LVCC Loop (Elon Musk’s “Teslas in Tunnels” by The Boring Company)
https://www.lvcva.com/loop/
The LVCC (Las Vegas Convention Center) Loop is the underground tunnel that utilizes Teslas to move convention center attendees around the LVCC campus. A typical 25-min walk front the West Hall to the North/Central Hall is cut down to a 2-min ride with this service. The brain child of Elon Musk, the LVCC loop was built by Elon’s, The Boring Company which claims the “Loop is an all-electric, zero-emissions, high-speed underground transportation system.” If you are in Vegas, definitely check this out.
CES
https://www.ces.tech/
CES “is the most influential tech event in the world.” The show is held annually in Las Vegas for tech industry attendees. CES is where innovation and technology are showcased and is attended by over 3000 exhibitors and over 100,000 attendees.
Indy Autonomous Challenge
https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/
The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) is comprised of university teams from around the globe. Its purpose is “to advance technology that can speed the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles and deployments of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) to increase safety and performance.”