Good morning Las Vegas! ANYTHING can happen!
I went down to play and someone is on MY machine god dammit. I used my Cosmo free play in a Dancing Drums machine and won $100.
As the credits were racking up, the interloper exited MY machine YAY.
Good morning Las Vegas.
And fuck the MLife mobile app for doing maintenance when I needed to get into my room after smoking / before work. I had to go to the front desk and get a key.
Played Buffalo – I love early morning wins.
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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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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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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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:
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.
Today is day 8 of this Las Vegas trip report. If you somehow ended up here and want to start at the beginning of this trip report, you can go HERE.
Happy fucking birthday to me! Here is the sunrise from my room at Fremont.
Plans for this morning were to play $100 in Buffalo Keno and then $100 at The D. Well Bullfao Keno is all taken so instead, I just went degenerate and lost my morning budget without doing either.
At least the machines wish me a happy birthday.
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.
Day 10 Las Vegas trip report!
I woke up at Cosmopolitan. At 5:00 AM. View from my balcony:
Was on the world’s longest Starbucks line at 6:00. That’s a thing in Las Vegas in current times, Starbucks lines. They are fucking insane. I stayed at Luxor, where Starbucks opens at 6:00 AM. I moseyed over at 5:59 and the line was incredibly long. Don’t even get me started with the Flamingo Starbucks of death, where the line never ends and goes out the door. These places used to be 24 hours. I fear this is never coming back.
I played my favorite Ultimate X Double Double Bonus video poker game and whoooooahhhhhhhhhhhh yay.
