Category Archives: Las Vegas

Las Vegas: Birthday Eve Unicow!

Good morning day 7 of this trip!  If you somehow ended up here and want to start at the beginning, you can go HERE.

if you read yesterday’s trip report, you know that I spent the day playing all the same machines I have been playing for years and years and years.  This can make for a boring trip report, and also a boring real life experience, especially when you do not get a million dollar win for your efforts.  I decided that today, I will play only machines I have never played before.

I have absolutely no idea what the name of this machine is:

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Las Vegas Birthday Trip Report: The One Where I Am on Vacation!

Welcome to part 5 of this Las Vegas trip report!  If you are lost and want to start at the beginning, go HERE.

Day 5 in Las Vegas.  More importantly, day OFF in Las Vegas.  No work for me!  I am up at 8:30 and a happy to be free.

I slowly go about getting ready.  I am starving but I am out of reward credits. I don’t want to pay for food so I just get iced coffee to hold me over until I move Downtown today.

I put 5 $100 bills in Buffalo and leave with $500.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: Work is For Jerks

Welcome to day three of this trip report.  If you are lost and want to start at the beginning, go HERE.

Oh what a shitty day.  Woke up at Paris on day 3, somewhat on time for work.

Sunrise:

There needs to be a law about lines for food at 6:00 AM.  If your line has more than 2 people in it at 6:00 AM, you need to open another line.  The line at Cafe Belle Madeleine is so long.  Cafe Americano is open, but their comps redemption is 2-1, so fuck you.

Work work work all day like a jerk.  I hate working from Vegas.

I went out with $300 – did great on Buffalo. I missed taking one photo but have these:

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Las Vegas Birthday Trip: Major Dancing Drums Jackpot!

Birthday trip day 2! If you landed on this page and want to start at the beginning, go HERE.

Somehow actually I woke up at all.  Not as exhausted as I should be.  I forgot to pack face wash, but I am checking into Paris tonight so I can just go to CVS.

I am at New York, New York.  Starbucks opens at 6:00 so I go down around 5:30 to play my way over there.  It was already open but I wanted to play so…

Dancing Drums, MAJOR bonus pick!  Holy crap. $829.69:

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Las Vegas 51st Birthday Trip Report!

Ahhhhhhhh yes.  I am flying to Las Vegas for my birthday.  This was supposed to be a quick long weekend trip.  Then I added some days.  Then some more.  Then spoiler alert: I added even more when I was there.  I think this was a 4 night trip that ended up being 21?  Whoops?

I have a flight at 6:13 AM.  I have so much JetBlue credit that is finally expiring so I had more than enough to overpay for a Mint flight so I did that.   When I booked, rows 2 and 4 were filled.  2 had one open seat late at night on the 30th, so I nabbed it woo hoo, total privacy!

I rarely fly early so here are some photos from the plane that I normally cannot get.

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Through The Years: Wynn and Encore Las Vegas

Ah yes, Wynn.  I am now more seasoned than I was during my first trips.  Back then, everything was new, so I didn’t really have an idea of what was actually new.  There was construction everywhere.  Look at this photo from Bellagio back in 2005.  There’s Wynn going up!

Desert Inn sat on the current site of Wynn.  I don’t recall ever going inside.  I know I must have passed it on my Strip walk on my first trip, but that walk is very hazy.

Desert Inn from my room at Stardust:

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Las Vegas Trip Report: The Only Constant is Every Trip Must End

Yet another “last day I am going home today waaaaaahhhhhhh” day in Las Vegas.

I wake up at Cosmopolitan at 7:00 AM.  I am supposed to go back to Luxor for my massage but I don’t want to.  I don’t.  I don’t want to, can’t make me.  I call and cancel and tell them they can charge it to my room since I have resort credit to cover it.  They seemed to feel bad for me that their policy is to charge for it if you are a no show.  It is fiiiiiiiine, just charge it.  Let me off the phone.  Bye bye.

I decided to walk through the casino to get to Starbucks rather than through the 3894873 mile walkway from the Chelsea Tower.  I played along the way, losing money.

Armed with coffee, I head back to MY Ultimate X video poker machine.  What a run I had.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: I Hate the Chelsea Tower at Cosmopolitan

Good morning Las Fucking Vegas!

I wake up at Treasure Island at 9:45.  I am out at 10:45.  I am not staying here tonight but since I am burning them, I booked the comp for tonight so I did not have to check out until I felt like it.

Reservations at all restaurants are still needed in Vegas during this trip.  I was able to score one for 12:45 at The Pantry at Mirage.  I cannot wait until the days of going to eat when you are hungry are back.   I hate having to keep track of time for meals.

I stopped at Starbucks, and then went to my Ultimate X video poker machine.  Lost 2 $100 bills before hitting this:
Also hit this:
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Las Vegas Trip Report: Traveling Around Sahara

Day three of this Las Vegas trip report begins in my warm room at the Plaza.  I cannot wait to leave this shitty hotel tomorrow.

Today I am getting the hell away from Downtown.  I am out at around 9:00.   One huge plus of being in the South Tower is that the exit to the Uber pick up is right here.  Spoiler alert, when I need to leave with luggage tomorrow, the exit will be locked.

I take an Uber to The Egg and I.   I have always wanted to come here for breakfast and finally after 2 decades of this place being on my itinerary, here I am!

There was a bit of a wait to be seated, maybe 20 minutes?  Not bad if you have a car.  But I don’t.  There wasn’t much shade so I just kept walking and looking in store windows to kill time.

The food here was good.  Not great.  Not “paid for an Uber” kind of worth it.   But still very good.  Way too many potatoes though.  I feel like you can see how salty they were.  Also you keep that ketchup AWAY FROM ME.

After eating, I took the bus to Palace Station.

I start with Starbucks and get going on Buffalo.  First I lose $20.  But then I move machines and win $20.  Holy shit, I have won something!   Keep going.  I win $40!  I win $80!  I lose $120.  Shit.

On the way out I lose another $100 in Double Double Bonus Supertimes Pay.  Oh well.

I get back on the bus and head to Sahara.  I hate how far the entrance is from the bus stop.
I get a new card and have $10 free play and some dining credit I did not use.  Probably should have seen if it was usable at Starbucks.

The casino is all a mess because they are doing construction.  The casino also seems really small compared to what I remember.  Not sure if this is actually the case or if parts of it were behind a construction wall.

I sit down at Buffalo Gold and fuck it, let’s go all out.  YES!

Oh god bless you Buffalo Gold at Sahara!

I played a lot around Sahara.  I moved up a level on their player’s card but did not collect my new card.  I tried a new (to me) Monopoly game and won $60.  Then just kept going on old school Buffalo Deluxe, one game at a dollar a hand.  This blessedly kept me busy for over an hour.  YAY look at me, I am finally PLAYING.

I had wanted to go to Stratosphere next but I have a pounding headache and it is now hot outside so I take the bus Downtown, transferring to something that stops near The D, which I don’t recall, but I have this photo.

Golden Gate, I have $15 free play.  I play some game I had never heard of before called Wild Chuco. I won $100 on the Lightening Link feature.  Woo hoo!   I also hit this:
I accidentally left Golden Gate without cashing out my TITO.  I was walking around the casino and an exit door I didn’t really notice opened with my motion and I just kept walking.  It was a weird experience.  If it was a movie, it would have been a door opening to a new dimension.  In real life, my new dimension was Plaza.

Fucking FUCK this place.  I lost another $200 on Buffalo.

Head to the room to chill a bit before going back out tonight.   This room is the worst.  It just sucks any last bit of luck out of me.  Notice how the further I traveled away from it, the more I won?

I decide I am done playing until I switch hotels tomorrow.  I went back out to grab dinner at Saginaws at Circa to go and ate dinner in my shitty, crappy room.  I packed so I can get the fuck out of here tomorrow with the quickness.

Good night Plaza, I hate you.

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