Sunday, December 1, 2013 – Day Six of Eight
[This is part seven of a ten part trip report. To start at the beginning, go here.]
This morning I woke up with my alarm at 9:00. Figures that I am finally actually sleeping on a day I have to be up to check out.
Today is Free Play Day I will be using all the free play I have saved up and I will win a bazillion dollars with it.
Saturday, November 30, 2013 – Day Five of Eight
[This is part six of a ten part trip report. To start at the beginning, go here.]
This morning I am up at Fitzgeralds 5:30 am. I don’t mean to be but my brain knows there are slot machines below me.
I don’t go out until 8:00. I head to Fremont to use the free brunch buffet comp I have from using the American Casino Guide coupon. It would normally be $20.04 if paying with cash.
This is the one breakfast I have ever had in Vegas where the coffee shows up at a drinkable temperature, rather than too hot. I drank a LOT of coffee. Then when I left, I obviously went to the Dunkin Donuts inside Fremont and got a large iced coffee.
Friday, November 29, 2013 – Day Four of Eight
[This is part five of a ten part trip report. To start at the beginning, go here.]
I slept so terribly last night. I kept having really bad dreams. I finally gave up and got out of bed at 6:37 am, and was out the door at 7:30.
First stop: The D Grill, located inside Fitzgeralds. Yes, I am still refusing the name change. I had a $5 coupon from checking in and used my comps to cover the rest. I still have a $25 dining voucher here but it’s a one time use thing that is too much for breakfast so I am holding onto it for dinner one night.
Thursday, November 28, 2013 – Day Three of Eight, Part Two
[This is part four of a ten part trip report. To start at the beginning, go here.]
This is my first stay at Fitzgeralds since they did a name change. The new owners would like us to call it “The D”. Yeah well I would like them to pick a name that is not stupid, and to also bring back the neon rainbow and pot of gold outside. So it looks like neither of us are getting what we want. Fitzgeralds it is!
Thursday, November 28, 2013 – Day Three of Eight, Part One of Two
[This is part three of a ten part trip report. To start at the beginning, go here]
This morning I am up at 5:30 am at Aria, ON PURPOSE. I plan to go to the Bellagio and get some pictures of the conservatory before everyone else is awake.
I leave my room at 7:00 and stop at Starbucks for a Green Tea Frappucino. I love these things so much. They are something I don’t allow myself when I am home because indulging as much as I would like to, would cost me the same amount annually as a round trip flight to Asia. Stuff like that is so crazy. So if you are reading this with any Starbucks item near you, and you have ever said to me “I wish I could afford to travel”, please take a moment to stop to add one plus one. It really does equal two.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 – Day Two of Eight
[This is part one of a ten part trip report. To start from the beginning, go here]
I am up at 8:00 am at Aria. I tried to go back to sleep but it was just not going to happen. I took my time getting ready and left my room at 10:30. First stop, Starbucks. The barista tried talking to me and I could not make out any words he was saying. I finally had to tell him “You and I cannot speak until I have had caffeine.”
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 – Day One of Eight
Today is Las Vegas day! I woke up and went to the bathroom, passing the microwave and noticed it was only a few minutes before my alarm was going to go off. So I shut it off blindly and went about getting ready for work, dyeing (dying? I never know how to spell that) my grey roots, getting ready for VEGAS. When I was all done, I turned on the television and only then realized that I was a full hour early. The clock I had looked at was my microwave clock which I never changed when we changed the clocks back. Son of a bitch.
Spent most of the day at work until I just got really bored and decided to leave early without telling anyone. I am a model employee after all. Good thing too because security at JFK was in-fucking-sane. If I had stayed at work, I would have been really screwed. As it was, I got through with just 10 minutes to spare.
Hello, my name is Jennifer and I am a degenerate gambler.
I have been to Las Vegas a bazillion times. Because of this, I often have friends ask me for help when they are planning a trip. You would think that I would be good with giving Las Vegas advice. But I am not. I actually feel mental anguish when I am asked. Why is that, you ask? Because I am a degenerate and degenerates do not know how to simply book a flight and hotel and go.
I was going to take you through a typical trip planning. But I was having great difficulty breaking down how I typically plan a trip. It is way too detailed, even for me. So then I decided to stick to JUST how I booked this one specific trip that I am leaving for TODAY. I figured it cut it down a bit since it is only an eight day trip, rather than 21 nights.
But as I got into typing that out, it was still way more detail than any non-degenerate gambler would want to read. So now I will attempt to just talk about my completed plans.
In honor of the Downtown Grand in Las Vegas opening TODAY, I thought I would post the trip report from when I had a stay here back in June of 2005, when it was known as Lady Luck. This hotel/casino was closed back in 2006, for what was supposed to be less than a year, for renovations. At this time frame, everything in Las Vegas that was closed temporarily or imploded to build new, came to a screeching halt as the economy crashed. Vegas lovers sat back and collectively cried at how depressed we were to watch our favorite places go away for no good reason.
Now, here we are in 2013 and while the property has been open for close to two weeks, the official grand opening is TODAY. I cannot wait to see it in just two weeks.
But for now, let’s take a trip back in time, shall we?
Westward Ho we go!
This morning, the alarm goes off at the exact nano second of the beginning of Billy Squier’s “Lonely is the Night.” Yes! This is a great way to start the day!!!
We get dressed and run out the door for our last day. Our first stop is the Riviera buffet. Saying it is not good would be an understatement. It is not as horrible as the Frontier buffet. But this is only because the Riviera had slightly edible donuts, whereas the Frontier had a grand total of zero edible items.