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ON A FLT FROM DEN TO LAS; WE CROSSED OVER HANKSVILLE VOR. INSTEAD OF THE FLT PLAN ARR (STAR) TO LAS; WE WERE GIVEN A HDG TO INTERCEPT THE LOC INBOUND TO LAS. WE WERE ON OUR SECOND FLT INTO LAS IN OUR RESPECTIVE CAREERS; SO WE WERE NEW TO THE AREA. AS WE APCHED LAS; WE WERE ASSIGNED NEW HDGS. WE CHKED ON WITH APCH AND; AS EXPECTED; THE FREQ WAS BUSY. WE FLEW OUR HDG AND FLEW PAST THE LOC. AS WE WENT TO QUERY THE CTLR; HE ASKED IF WE SHOULD HAVE INTERCEPTED. WE WERE ASSIGNED A NEW HDG TO INTERCEPT. BEING UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AREA MADE IT DIFFICULT TO JUDGE WHERE AND WHEN TO EXPECT OUR INTERCEPTION TO OCCUR. THE BUSY FREQ ALSO MADE IT DIFFICULT TO QUERY THE CTLR. THERE WAS NO ADF TO HELP US ORIENT; SUCH AS THE OM. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR IS AN FO ON THE B-737-200. SINCE THIS RPT; HE HAS FLOWN INTO LAS SEVERAL TIMES FROM THE E. TRACON AND CTR GIVE SEVERAL HDG CHANGES APCHING LAS BUT NEVER SEEM TO GIVE DIRECTIONS UNTIL CLOSE IN THAT THE HDGS MAY BE FOR THE LOC. THE RPTR IS ACCEPTING OPEN ENDED VECTORS. OF COURSE; THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPERCUSSIONS REGARDING THIS INCIDENT.