Las Vegas Review-Journal

So you’re planning a trip to Las Vegas, but resorts on the Strip, their poorer cousins downtown or one of the scores of name-brand, cookie-cutter places in scattered commercial zones around the valley are not your cup of tea.

Las Vegas, we didn’t quite make it to 40 million visitors in 2012, but we came close. When all was said and done, 39.7 million people came to the city in 2012, up 2.1 percent from 2011’s final total of 38.9 million visitors, according to the monthly Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority count released Friday. And even though it’s not quite 40 million, 2012 still was a record year for Las Vegas — the previous high was 39.2 million visitors in 2007.

It can be pretty exciting when you get the keys to your new house. For the cloud, today was its day.