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Las Vegas Trip Report: Leaving Plaza YAY

Day four of my losing Las Vegas trip report.  Yeargh.

I am up at 8:00 AM.  I shower and finish packing.  I am gung ho to move hotels.  I don’t want to be at The Plaza anymore, I definitely do not ever again want to be inside the casino.  I don’t have change for housekeeping so I leave a $20 because I do not want to go downstairs to break a bill.

I attempt to leave through the South exit as I had yesterday and today it is locked.  So I now need to walk alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way through the casino unnecessarily.

I cash out my Golden Gate TITO on my walk.  And ahhhhhhhhh I am at Fremont.  My favorite hotel in all of Las Vegas, which I know is crazy but I love it so much here, I love it so much, I LOVE YOU FREMONT.

I got room 626.

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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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Las Vegas: That Time Someone Vomited Outside My Hotel Room

Las Vegas trip report day 2.  Or maybe day 1.5.  I could not sleep at all in my room at Plaza.  It simply would not cool down.  No I did not call the front desk.

I am up at 4:30 AM and kill some time before the Dunkin Donuts at Fremont opens at 5:30.  There is rain in the forecast for today.

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Here We Go Again Las Vegas!

Once again it takes me 76 years to put up a trip report!

This trip was originally going to be 3 days in March.  Then a week.  Then JetBlue cancelled Mint flights from NYC.  Then Delta’s flights went sky high.  So I said fuck it and went to Atlantic City.

Then somehow I ended up booking a Vegas trip.  I don’t really remember what was going through my head when booking.  I know that at many points during Covid, I decided to bank my vacation so I can use it to go to new (to me) countries when it is over.  And then somehow ended up booking a week in a half in Vegas.  Not even working, just vacationing.

Oops?

I am flying to Vegas on JetBlue Mint.  I am downstairs in my lobby at 6:30 AM waiting for my Uber. There is a strange man in my lobby at 6:30 AM who scared the fucking lights out of me when I opened the main door and saw him standing there.  There are only 4 apartments in my building so it is extremely uncommon to see strangers, let alone strangers at 6:30 AM.  I may or may not have screamed a bit.  He was just as shocked to see me.  He was dropping off something for one of my neighbors (at 6:30 AM?) and she also got a bit stunned when SHE opened the main door and saw ME standing on the other side of it.  Fun times in my lobby.

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Farewell Las Vegas! I Will Be Back Soon!

Last day of this Las Vegas trip report WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I start my day at California hotel in beautiful Downtown Las Vegas  I had set my alarm for 4:00 AM but it turns out I set it for 4:00 PM instead of AM because I am a fucking asshole. I did wake up at 6:00 AM though and am out at 6:41 AM.

Love the cotton candy sunrise!

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Las Vegas Strip Crawl

Day 18 of this Las Vegas trip report sees me up at 8:00 at California Hotel. I do not go out until 10:30 because I am a slave to restaurant reservations and that was the first open spot Market Street Café had for breakfast after I had showered. Should have called earlier. I just cannot get into the groove of this reservation thing.

In the café, I am seated less than 6 feet away from what would have been a flip flop wearing Fred Flinstone. Except he didn’t have his Flinstone feet in the flip flops so they were just out there in the wide open.

I had Eggs Benedict, which were good.

After eating, I lost $100 on quarter Double Double Bonus video poker. Then I lost $100 on Ultimate X Bonus Streak video poker. Then I went over to Circa where holy shit!  Not only did I get 15 Buffalo heads for the second time in my life, it was the second time on this trip!
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Las Vegas: Luxor Super Suite Times Pay

Las Vegas day 17 of this monstrous trip report!

I am up at 9:30 at California.  I am woken up by the phone ringing. I am checking into Luxor today and Luxor’s spa is calling me to let me know that I can get an earlier appointment than what I have scheduled. I can’t really change it though since I am checking in just to get my $100 resort credit and $50 free play. I need to have a room to charge the spa to my room, so I can use the credit.

I went to get breakfast at Binions, using an app reward. I have to say it, by this point in the trip, and for the first time in my life, I am sick of breakfast here. The hash browns taste like movie popcorn butter. I’ve never noticed that before and I don’t like it.

While I was eating, I got a notification that my Luxor room was ready. So I went back to my room at California to change my spa appointment and then headed to Luxor.

I checked in and got a one bedroom suite. These are wasted on me because non smoking so I won’t stay here.  Probably shouldn’t have messed the bed up before photos + I normally don’t mess the bed up.  Lots of people do this.   You know, so that housekeeping doesn’t report you didn’t stay.  I don’t think they actually do this / anyone would care.  So why I messed this bed up at all, nevermind before taking photos, is a mystery.

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Las Vegas: From Cosmopolitan to California Hotel

Day 16 of Las Vegas trip report continues as I am up at 8:00 AM at Cosmopolitan.  I am pretty bummed I missed sitting outside on my balcony as the sun rises.  Oh well, maybe next time.

I grab some Starbucks and get to playing.  My favorite Ultimate X video poker machine is back up. I turn a $100 bill into $160.  I want to keep playing but I have to go back up to the room to get ready to check out.

I pack and get ready to go.  On my way out of Cosmopolitan, I stop at my Ultimate X machine on my way out.  I am dealt Aces!

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Las Vegas: Buffalo Slots and Double Double Bonus Video Poker

Las Vegas day 15!  Waking up at Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.  How much do I love my balcony?

I am up at 10:00 and out at 11:00.  I try some Buffalo.  I am going degenerate. I cannot stop.  I cannot get any bonus, I will not stop until I get the bonus.  I move between machines, putting a $100 bill into three of them with nothing.  I have lost today’s budget.  I still don’t stop.

I try a new machine and thank you Buffalo gods for saving me.

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Vegas Blog: Gorgeous Cosmopolitan Balcony Fountain View Room

If I keep adding “Vegas blog” to all my titles, maybe I will start ranking in Google as a Las Vegas blog!  Good morning Las Vegas day fourteen!  I am awake at Bellagio.  I apparently wrote “I HATE MYSELF” in my notes.   YAY.

I am awake at 7:30, which kind of sucks because I wanted to see the fountains as the sun was rising.  But I have now missed that.   Even with sleeping with the drapes open.  Oh well.

Here is a photo from last night:

I also have a video of the fountains.   Yes, there is a channel that plays the music in the room.  No, it was not working during my stay.

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