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Las Vegas Trip Report: The Finale

Good last morning Las Vegas!  Today is day 18 and it is also my last day of this trip.   This trip has been so unusual for me.  I wasn’t supposed to be here.  I didn’t LOVE being here.  I hated working from here.  My time not working was sort of a let down, specifically not having a marshmallow bed at Vdara.  I only had a Bellagio fountain view one time.  I am kind of ready to go home for the first time in my life.  The only dread I feel about going home is having to unpack all the stuff in my apartment I packed for the kitchen renovation.

As soon as I wake up, the texts start from JetBlue.  Flight delay. Flight not delayed.  Flight delayed again!  Whoops, no it isn’t.  Yes it is.  This is getting annoying.  When I originally booked my flights, I then was myself and rebooked a million times.  I settled on flying home on January 1 in the afternoon but realized that this was a terrible idea to get home late and start January 2 working in my apartment, with the bulk of the apartment packed in boxes that are filling the apartment.  So I tried to change it back to fly home on the 30th and now prices are skyhigh.  But there is a flight with a layover in Boston – Mint seat for $709.  Yes please.  So now I am on that flight, with the nonstop delay texts.

I tried to change the flight to make it stop but they tried to charge me. So no.

I got dressed and went to the buffet at Cosmopolitan. I am still fucking thirsty from Wynn other other day.

After, I sit down to play Ultimate X.  Is this my last time playing?  It might be?   Some dude was playing the one next to MY machine but he is also playing on my machine.  I didn’t realize this until I came around the corner to ask if he was playing MY machine and saw that not only is he, he just hit a dealt full house on ten play quarters.   He cashes out and lets me have it.  I asked him if he wanted his multipliers and he did not because it is too expensive to play one hand.   He also told me he left multipliers on other games on this machine if I want to find them.  So  now I have no choice but to bet $25 to get his multipliers, which sucks because these machines will only let you play max bet.  You cannot bet just 5 coins a hand to get the multipiers.  Each bet is $25.  And next thing you know, I am playing ten play quarters no no no no NO you cannot even afford this on nickels stop it.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: Sheep and Aces

Good morning Las Vegas. I woke up too late to shower or eat so I ate a Kind bar and…didn’t shower.  What am I too late for?  A tour!  Specifically, THIS one.

Got picked up at 9:00 on the dot and headed off on today’s tour. I am the sole person who signed up for this tour so I am thrilled they did not cancel on me.  I want to see the big horned sheep.  I attempted to see the big horn sheep last year but the tour I was on did not stop at the park. The driver said they aren’t out in winter. So why advertise it as part of the tour you jerk.

This year though, my driver assures me we are stopping.

This tour was a bit expensive for what it is but it seems new as it wasn’t an option last year when I spent 6 weeks between Vegas and Arizona and took a million tours that I should probably post about.

We started at Seven Magic Mountains.

Then to Hemenway Park, where there were no sheep.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: Have I Mentioned I Love Free Play?

Las Vegas is fucking expensive.  i know, breaking news right?

My Instagram feed tells me that Fever now has Las Vegas events.  Fever is an app that I use constantly in New York City to book cool stuff.

(When I get home, I’ll finish a post i started about finding cheap things to do in New York City.)

But it kind of blew my mind to see how much more expensive the same things are in Las Vegas than in NYC.  Candlelight concerts.   These are forever happening in NYC. At home, they are under $40.  Here they are $50.

Aria has a “Museum of Illusions” for $50.  There’s a million of these places back home where I can get tickets for under $30.

I am not sure why I woke up whining about prices in Las Vegas.  Maybe because Instagram is showing me overpriced stuff while I am online at Starbucks.

I have plans today.  Too many plans.  I slept 11 hours last night, it felt great.  Let’s fucking GO!

I got a text to check out of California via their mobile check out and it worked! I wonder if mobile check in now works too?

Out to smoke before getting dressed. Being in the silver elevator tower at Luxor makes it easy to actually go outside vs the casino and there’s benches in the smoking area. Much better than losing $100 smoking in the casino.

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Las Vegas: Damn You Treasure Island Wifi

Las Vegas trip report day 4!

I woke up just before 8:00 and showered and finished packing.  My plans this morning are:

Play $100 at Four Queens
Collect my free play from the June promotion and my cash back
Go to The D and play $100 on Dancing Drums

How did it go?

Well I lost $100 in the Four Queens.  Collected my $31 cash back and $120 free play.   Lost the $120 on dollar video poker.  Had to try one last time.

Cashed out my freeplay and found a penny on heads. Into the bra you go.

Over to The D where I was on my third hundred dollar bill when thanksfully, this saved me.
I cashed out and got another penny to put in my bra.  Grabbed a McMuffin from McDonalds and went back to the room.

I am checking into to Treasure Island today for 3 nights.  I had to pay $60 for the third night, which is fine by me.  Makes it easier with working.  Also note, I am double booked for three nights at Mirage as well.  That comes with $60 free play and $100 resort credit, which will cover my meals.  I would have booked just Mirage, but when working from Vegas, I really like having a smoking room so I am not vanishing during work to head down to the casino to smoke while working.  I feel like that is crossing an extremely degenerate line.

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Las Vegas Trip Report: Buffalo Legends!

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Barely woke up at Fremont today.  I am the most exhausted I have been this entire trip and I have been completely exhausted this entire trip.  I am moving hotels tonight, to Linq, so I will finally be able to sleep wtthout the Fremont Street bands keeping me up.

I did a mobile order for Dunkin Donuts.  This is my new favorite thing.  Don’t go wait on the line, just go and grab your stuff YAY.

The fire alarm went off in my hotel room during work again.  YAY.  I just flat out ignored it this time.

After work, I made a beeline to Dunkin Donuts and then over to California to beat this fucking Buffalo Legends machine.  Holy shit.  I was there for hours.  I could not stop.  I got some nice bonuses but refused to cash out until I got the Legends progressive bonus.  I kept telling myself to fucking STOP IT.  You are going to finally get it and only win $20.  But I was on a fucking mission.

Here is what the bonus looks like:

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Las Vegas Blog: Renovated Room at Fremont Hotel

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I woke up just before 7:00 AM at Harrahs and showered, got dressed and went out for Starbucks. Fuck this fucking line, it is impossible to even consider getting on it.  I walked through the casino to the other Starbucks. There is a gaggle of teenagers in front of me, because of course.  This is always the sign of death because they will 100% all order Frappucinos, which will take forever.

Finally I get my coffee 25 minutes later.  I sit down at a Buffalo Link.  No idea why since I am a loser and should not be playing this game.  But here we are.

I put in 80 to start.  And here come the bonuses.

Cashed out with $500.  Put another $60 in just for fun and cash out with $0.

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Las Vegas: No I Am Not Working Today

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Good morning Las Vegas!  I wake up at Harrahs at 10:30 and feel all panicked that I am incredibly late for work. I grab my laptop, I am sweating, oh fuck I am going to get fired. OH FUCK I took today off.  YAY.  I am not fired AND I am free from work!

Morning room view:

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Las Vegas: My Longest Trip Ever Begins Today!

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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