Twelve million LED lamps light up the “barrel vault canopy” at the Fremont Street Experience. Feel free to add that to your “Crap I Don’t Need to Know” file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAgain, the light show at the Fremont Street Experience is still free, despite the false impression some may get from the new Fremont Street Experience fee forced upon guests of the Golden Nugget, an otherwise perfectly nice hotel. And while not all the parking downtown is free, there’s no need to let Bonehead Ron, whoever he might be, take you to the cleaners.<\/p>\n
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