Las Vegas trip report day two!

I am awake at California hotel at 9:00 am. This is not on purpose as I had planned to sleep forever.  But ya know…Vegas.

I shower and get dressed.  Call down to the Market Street Cafe for reservations and am told they can take me in 5 minutes. Excellent.

The sun looks bizarre today:
I order a cheese omelet and it comes with ham.  I didn’t order or want ham.  But I am so anxious to be here and get started that I say nothing.

Charged the food to my room to use the dining credit that came with my offer, so it is “free” anyway.

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After sleeping through the grand opening of Circa last night, I wake up at Ballys Las Vegas, and I am officially on vacation!  Oh how good it feels to not have to log on and work.  There is a whole neon city out there waiting for me and I cannot wait to grace it with my presence.

It is 8:25 am and the first thing I do is get coffee.  Wow this line is long when you are not down here at 4:00 am.

I don’t really want to gamble here because I am moving Downtown today and I would rather gamble there.  But I feel obligated to somewhat earn my keep so gamble I do!  I lost $200 and called it a day and waved good bye using only my middle finger.

I checked into Fremont and got room 740 and this time I took photos!  I also took video but I hate my voice so I have to learn to deal with that before I post.  While we are waiting:

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Las Vegas Travel Blog: Yes, I Packed 9 Hotels Into an 11 Night Stay

Ah the life of Las Vegas travel blogging. While posting my most recent Las Vegas trip report, I mentioned I had planned to link to past photos I have taken of the rooms at Fremont.  But it seems I didn’t have any posted?  I found it impossible to believe I have never taken room photos of the rooms at Fremont.  I went to my poor, old PC to see what was left on there and found 23 Las Vegas Trip reports I never put up.

Did somebody mention Las Vegas trip reports?

I always joke that I am such a creature of habit that I could probably post an old trip report as current and just not mention the year and no one would even realize.  Boy was I wrong.  Reading this was so weird.  I was on the cusp of morphing from degenerate slot player to degenerate video poker player.  I was much more of a low roller and apparently my biggest lifetime hit was a whopping $300.  I also used to love cabs and paying for meals.  Who knew?

And back we go to 2005…

Well I’m back from 11 nights in Vegas and I wish I weren’t!

I stayed at nine hotels this trip:

Stratosphere
Golden Nugget
Luxor
The Hotel (before it was Delano)
Monte Carlo (before it was Park MGM)
Westin
Circus Circus
Plaza
Fremont

As I am posting this on my blog in 2020, let me just say that I used to move hotels pretty much every night in an attempt to stay in every hotel.  I loved doing this. I still love doing this and move hotels often. Anything longer than three nights in the same room seems boring to me.

It is okay if you don’t like moving hotels during a trip. You don’t have to. But since I like it, I do it.

Overall, this was a great trip. I am a very low roller. My daily budget was $175 and every day with the exception of one day, I hit for at least $100.  Being that this was 50% of my entire day’s bankroll, I felt rich!  I didn’t come home with any of my winnings mind you, but it was really nice to have that extra playing money.  It was also nice waking up in the morning with a bit of extra cash to play with.  So, I’ve decided that it is time to up my daily budget to $200/day and I will start that on my next trip.

I hit four Royal Flushes on this trip!  But none of them were “real”.
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