Las Vegas YAY! If you read my trip report from my most recent trip, you read about how I want to VACATION in Las Vegas, and not work. Not even a work / vacation combo, I want to just vacation. The novelty of entending trips by working days around them has died. Being able to have comped dinner without cooking in exchange for waking up at 5:00 AM and getting annoyed that I have to forage for breakfast when nothing is open, no longer seems like a fair exchange.
While getting that last trip report up, I remembered that last year I worked a few days but then had 2 full weeks off after. I went back to read that trip report because I can barely remember being FREEEEEEEEEEEEE and realized that while I typed up most of it, I never posted it. Whoops?
Now that I am ready to post, I did consider waiting until December 2022 to post this and pretend it is being posted in real time in 2022. You would not notice the difference of the years since most of my trips are the same. But I just can’t make myself lie. So here we go, 10 months late.
(Fun fact, while I do indeed check my horoscope daily while in Vegas, I post them here also so I can keep track of the dates of each post in my drafts folder, so I don’t fuck up and post them out of order.)
Ahhhhhhh it is that time of year again! Las Vegas at Christmas! This trip is a 25 night trip, making this I believe the longest trip I have ever taken to Las Vegas, by one day.
It is crazy that last year, I was all booked to spend Christmas in Taiwan and Palau. But then Covid happened. I looked into going this year, Americans still cannot enter. I tried researching a few other places but just got frustrated so why not stick to what I know best? But for real guys, I need to get out of America.
This trip, as with every trip, has morphed and grown over time. So many bookings and rebookings. And not just hotels. Now that flights are pretty much changeable for free, those changed a lot too. I always attempt to make a post detailing all my changes so Vegas addicts who do the same, can watch me be a lunatic. But it even makes my own head spin.
Hotels:
Harrahs
Fremont x 2 (I wish one of these stays was at California but by the time I realized it, California was sold out)
Linq
Wynn
Resorts World – checking in for freebies and not staying
Cosmopolitan
Luxor – checking in for freebies and not staying
Palace Station
Sahara
The D
My budget is a bit higher than normal due to a bonus from work. But I suspect that just means I will lose more money and hate myself more.
This trip started on a Thursday. I flew to Vegas after work, and I smartly took off tomorrow. I arrived at whatever the hell fucking time. My notes about the Uber to JFK airport say “Uber, Jacques Cousteau.” Choose your own adventure on what that means.
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Another day working from my hotel room in Las Vegas. Linq morning room view. I believe this room is considered Strip view because of the postage stamp sized view of Caesars. I really miss the balconies. It would be so great to open the balcony door and inhale the pigeon poop these balconies were always covered in. Okay maybe I see why they removed them. Also I don’t know that I have ever seen a flock of pigeons in Vegas? Yet the balconies were coated in pigeon poop.
