Have a Bonanza time in Lake Tahoe! (Lake Tahoe)

Member Name: Little Miss

Product:	Lake Tahoe
Date:	30/05/01 (296 review reads)
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Advantages: Scenery, Water sports

Disadvantages: a little tacky

Lake Tahoe is an excellent summer or winter destination. In winter it's a ski resort, I can't comment much on this as I went in summer but I know quite a few people who have been for the skiing and had an excellent time.

For a summer holiday, it's fantastic and should appeal to a wide range of people. Lake Tahoe is right on the state line between Nevada and California, hence the town in split into to two halves, the side full of casino's and the side full of hotels and restaurants. There are a large selections of hotels and motel and you could certainly find decent accommodation at very reasonable prices. As for food we mostly ate in diners, which offered very large portions or all you can eat buffets, again very well priced compared to the UK.

So what is there to do in Lake Tahoe in summer, well of course there is the Casino's they have wide selections of games and machines as you would expect. They also have shows, the singers are mostly of the older genertation when I was there Neil Sedaka was in town, he used to be quite famous I was told.

If your not into Casino's not to worry, being on a Lake there are numerous water sports. I tried parasailing, jet skiing and white water rafting. The white water rafting was actually a half day trip and we were taken out of Lake Tahoe to the river. I would strongly recommend trying this as the scenery is terrific along the river and you can't really get to see it any other way. Also don't be scared about the rafting, when I went there were some children of about 12 with us and it was perfectly safe.

If water sports aren't your thing there is a beach by the lake, although as I remeber it wasn't the largest or nicest beach but we didn't spend much time there as there was plenty of other things to keep us occupied. You can also take a boat trip on the lake on one of those boats with the water wheel on the side. Just like the one one Huc
kelberry Finn! Or there is also a minature glof course.

This area is also very good for walking as the scenery is fantasic. I also recommend taking the cable car up the mountain for some fantastic views. The cable car is actually one of the ski lifts in winter.

Whilst I was there we also went to Ponderosa Ranch for a day trip. This is where Bonanza was filmed (if you can remeber that far back!) Here you can wonder around the town, dress up in costumes and be photographed, take tours of some of the film sets etc. If your interested in filming, cowboys or remember Bonanza then I recommend this if not then I'd probably give it a miss.

One final recommendation take a camera, I'm no expert with a camera but the scenery around here is fantastic and even with my very amateur photography I managed to take some fantastic pictures.

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