Arizona/Utah National Park Road Trip

Trip Duration: 7 days/6 nights

Hotel:

• DAYS INN CAMP VERDE ARIZONA
  1640 West Highway 260
  I-17 Exit 287, Next to Denny's
  Camp Verde, AZ 86322 US
• Red Feather Lodge
  300 Arizona 64  
  Tusayan, AZ 86023
• Courtyard Marriott
  600 Clubhouse Drive,
  Page, Arizona 86040
• BEST WESTERN PLUS
  Bryce Canyon Grand Hotel
  30 N 100 E
  Bryce Canyon City, Utah 84764
• Wynn Las Vegas
  3131 Las Vegas Blvd.
  South Las Vegas, NV, 89109

All of the hotels other than Wynn are okay hotels for 1 night trip.
For Wynn, we stayed on the 21st floor facing the strip. The view is amazing! Displays in the lobby floor are gorgeous! However, at night you can hear train noise and police siren from down the strip. Also, for some reason this casino smells smoke the most. Bed is too soft for me. Will not stay here again but will always stop by for a visit whenever I'm in Vegas.

Things to do:

• Heard Museum

Entrance to Heard Museum

• Sedona downtown
• Chapel of the Holy Cross

View of the Chapel from below

• Red Rock Crossing
• Grand Canyon South Rim
• We didn't actually see anything @ Grand Canyon when we went because they had fogs all day that day!
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  Antelope Canyon - guided tour only

Inside Antelope Canyon

• Horseshoe Bend

View of Horsehoe Bend

• Bryce Canyon
• Zion
• Zarkana Cirque du Soleil show
• Show is short, only 1.5hr. Good performance, stage is amazing! One of the prettiest cirque stages! Bought tickets from tix4tonight booth and got a free upgrade when we redeemed at box office. Check website and book early, they have student discount and online purchase discount. Worth the $$$!

Foods:

Since we move a lot, we pretty much just eat whatever restaurant we saw during lunch and dinner time. Other than the buffet and Max Brenner in Las Vegas, no restaurant stands out in this trip. Most of the places we went to are in small cities, so there are not many local restaurants to choose from.

• Max Brenner(Inside The Forum Shops @ Caesar Palace)
• Yummy foods and desserts! Everytime I go to Vegas, I always try to stop by Max Brenner to sip on their iced chocolate drinks! It's hot most of the time in Vegas, so iced drinks are always a good treat!

Foods and drinks @ Max Brenner

• Caesar Palace's Bacchanal Buffet
• This is my new favorite buffet in Vegas, replacing Wynn. Lunch is low $30s, more expensive than most buffet, but they have more selections. Oysters, sushi, prime rib, brisket, mexican, pasta, chinese, pho, ramen, udon, dim sum to name some. Desserts are very good too! Crepes, lava cake, bread pudding, cupcakes, creme brule and many more! If you like buffet, you must try Bacchanal!

Photos

Itinerary:

http://goo.gl/maps/Hx97g

Day 1

Flying to Phoenix airport

Pick up rental car

Heard Museum: http://heard.org/visit/mainlocation.html

Montezuma Castle: http://www.nps.gov/moca/planyourvisit/hours.htm

Overnight @ Camp Verde

Day 2
Sedona downtown

Chapel of the Holy Cross: http://www.chapeloftheholycross.com/
Red Rock Crossing

http://www.sedonaverdevalley.org/attractionshighlights/redrockcrossing.html

Overnight @ Grand Canyon South Rim

Day 3

Grand Canyon South Rim

Overnight @ Page, AZ(Antelope Canyon)

Day 4

Antelope Canyon

Horseshoe Bend

Overnight @ Bryce Canyon

Day 5

Bryce Canyon

Zion

Overnight @ Las Vegas

Day 6

Las Vegas
Watch show(on this trip we opt to Zarkana Cirque du Soleil show @ Aria)

Overnight @ Las Vegas

Day 7
Drop off rental car

Flying back home