Hello and welcome to the fabulous Las Vegas travel blog section of my blog!
Here is where I am going to be posting all my Las Vegas trip reports. I literally have hundreds of them. You can look back and watch the city change through my words and pictures. If you want to be kept up to date whenever there is a new post, you can follow me on Facebook or Twitter. If both those things scare you, please feel free to sign up for the email list on the front page and have each and every new post delivered to your mailbox.
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NEW: I have over 100 posts in my drafts and beginning on 9/5/2022 – I vow to put up a new post every day for at least 100 days. If you see a day skipped here, that means I got sick of Vegas trip reports and posted about another location.
Latest posts:
- 2023 Christmas Trip Report Begins Now! (posted 12/23/2023)
- Sam’s Town and Ultimate X (posted 1/24/2024)
- June 2022: Let’s Get This Party Started (posted 4/10/2023)
- That Time a Dude Passed Out at Magnolias (posted 4/10/2023)
- Damn You Treasure Island Wifi (posted 4/10/2023)
- Work, Gamble, Lather, Rinse, Repeat (posted 5/23/2023)
- Another Day, Another “I don’t know what to title these anymore” (posted 5/23/2023)
- Working in a Parking Garage (posted 5/23/2023)
- UNICOW! (posted 5/23/2023)
- Sorry I am Boring (posted 5/23/2023)
- Handpay AND Multiplied Royal! (posted 5/23/2023)
- WOO FUCKING HOO (posted 5/24/2023)
- Las Vegas Extended Version, Let’s Fucking Go! (posted 5/24/2023)
- 2021 Christmas Trip Kick Off! My Longest Trip to Vegas Ever (posted 10/1/2022)
- The One Where I Saw Tape Face (posted 10/2/2022)
- Jennifer Vs. Cheerleading Mom (posted 10/3/2022)
- Renovated Room at Fremont (posted 10/4/2022)
- Live Music Will Be the Death of Me (posted 10/5/2022)
- Another Time a Fire Alarm Went Off in My Room (posted 10/6/2022)
- Buffalo Legends! (posted 10/7/2022)
- Very Boring Day Featuring a Chain Restaurant OH NO (posted 10/8/2022)
- Vacation Starts Today! Buffalo and Spa and Cirque du Soleil! (posted 10/9/2022)
- Goodbye Linq, Hello Wynn (posted 10/10/2022)
- Fruit Plate, Buffalo and Checking Into Resorts World (posted 10/11/2022)
- Hair Spa and Foraging For Food (posted 10/12/2022)
- I Fucking Love Cosmopolitan (posted 10/13/2022)
- A Day of Nice Wins! (posted 10/14/2022)
- MyKonami Free Play Run (posted 10/15/2022)
- Unintentionally Moving Hotels Twice in One Day (posted 10/16/2022)
- Merry Christmas and The $100 Tip (posted 10/17/2022)
- Staying at Sahara For the First Time Since it Was Sahara (posted 10/18/2022)
- Moving Back Downtown (posted 10/19/2022)
- Broken Machines! (posted 10/20/2022)
- Win Some, Lost Some (posted 10/21/2022)
- Another One Where I Just Gamble, Why Do People Like Reading These? (posted 10/22/2022)
- Happy New Year’s Eve! (posted 10/23/2022)
- Happy 2022! (posted 10/24/2022)
- Last Day of a 25 Night Trip to Vegas (posted 10/25/2022)
- Flashback: Staying at Boardwalk Hotel (posted 9/26/2022)
- So Many Things I Miss in Vegas – Treasure Island Skull Sign, I am Looking at You! (posted 9/27/2022)
- Flashback to 2003 Casino Crawl (posted 9/28/2022)
- Scented Slot Machines?! (posted 9/29/2022)
- Las Vegas Flashback – The Finale! (posted 9/30/2022)
- Wynn and Encore Through the Years (posted 9/5/2022)
- 51st Birthday, Part One! (posted 9/6/2022)
- Dancing Drums Major Jackpot! (posted 9/7/2022)
- Work is For Jerks (posted 9/8/2022)
- Spa Day! (posted 9/9/20220)
- The One Where I Am On Vacation (posted 9/10/2022)
- Just Another Downtown Day (posted 9/11/2022)
- Birthday Eve Unicow! (posted 9/12/2022)
- Happy Birthday to Me! (posted 9/13/2022)
- Dead Bug, Live Dog (posted 9/14/2022)
- That Time Someone Else’s Luggage Appeared In My Room (posted 9/15/2022)
- Short and Sweet Day (posted 9/16/2022)
- A Royal Flush and A Lightning Storm! (posted 9/17/2022)
- Almost Hitting a W2G On An $.88 Bet! (posted 9/18/2022)
- The One With a Blurry Photo of Martha Stewart (posted 9/19/2022)
- I Hate You Buffalo Gold (posted 9/20/2022)
- Nothing to Play at Four Queens (posted 9/21/2022)
- Another Short Day! (posted 9/22/2022)
- Blah Blah More Gambling! (posted 9/23/2022)
- The One Where I Can’t Win Anything (posted 9/24/2022)
- Depressing Last Day of This Trip (posted 9/25/2022)
Hotel Room Reviews:
Random Las Vegas Posts:
Las Vegas Trip Reports:
2021
2020
- Las Vegas Covid Information
- That Time I Traveled to Las Vegas During a Pandemic
- That Other Time I Went to Las Vegas During a Pandemic
- Still a Pandemic! Christmas / New Year’s 2020
2019
2018
2017
- Surprise Trip to Las Vegas!
- Secret Trip Continues!
- The Tale of The Lucky Penny!
- From Downtown to Mandalay Bay, to Santa Fe Station
- My Biggest Ever Las Vegas Win. YAY!
- Visiting Strip Casinos and Taking a Million Photos
- You Win Some, You Lose Some, and Then You Fight With a Slot Machine
- Last Day of a Winning Trip!
- Another Surprise Trip? Why Not.
- Moving From New York, New York to Planet Hollywood
- The Sky is Blue But There is a Black Cloud Over My Head
- Depositing Money Around The Las Vegas Valley
- I Love Longhorn Casino
- Goodbye Las Vegas Club, Mermaids and Glitter Gulch
- The One Where Anything Can Happen!
- A Trip to Wild Wild West
- El Cortez Birthday Free Play
- Hello Fremont Street, I Love You
- YAY WINNING LIKE A MOTHER FUCKER
- Final Day of A Winning Trip!
2016
- Christmas Trip Report Starts Now!
- Degenerate Goes Degenerate
- Jennifer Does Bellagio
- That Time I Saw a Rat Walking The Strip (Insert Rat Pack joke here)
- Moving to Downtown Las Vegas!
- Moving Day Again! This Time To Red Rock in Summerlin
- Moving Around Between MyVegas Rewards
- Back to Fremont Street, Where I Belong
- Last Full Day of the Trip WAH
2015 – 2016
- Day One of a Twenty Day Trip Starts Today!
- Did Someone Order Aces?
- Merry Christmas in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada
- The Fantastical Keno Win!
- Degenerate Gambler Emerges
- The Day That Started Before Yesterday Ended
- One Night at Fiesta Henderson
- Three Days in Henderson, Nevada
- Cromwell Stay!
- The Dealt Royals That Were Not Mine
- Mirage Stay Courtesy of MyVegas
- New (for me) Hotel! Guys, Meet Longhorn
- Walmart, laundry and Dennys. Yes, in Las Vegas.
- Last Move of the Trip: Back Downtown to California, aka Home
- Paying Respects to My Beloved Riviera
- Last Full Day Waaaahhhhhhh
- Good Bye Las Vegas
- 37 Hours in Las Vegas, Part One
- 37 Hours in Las Vegas, Part Two
- That Time I Packed 9 Hotels Into An 11 Night Stay
2014
- And Another Christmas Trip to Las Vegas Begins!
- The One Where I MyVegas the Hell Out of MyVegas
- Spa Day!
- I Shall Dub Thee “Annoying Day”
- Good Thing I Am Not Gambling Today
- The Case of the Mysterious Package
- The Case of the Mysterious Package is Solved!
- A Win, A Massage, and Three Assholes. Spolier Alert: One is Me
- The Big Surprise Win!
- Merry Christmas Spent in Las Vegas
- The One Where I Curse Out an RTC Employee
- Last Day in Las Vegas Sad Face
2013
- I AM GOING TO LAS VEGAS TODAY!!!
- I Hate Seth MacFarlane
- Ever See a Chick Passed Out at a Slot Machine?
- My First Stay at Post-Fitzgeralds, Now Known as The D (That is a stupid name)
- I Did Nothing on My Itinerary Today
- Hitting Aces Twice in One Day!
- Free Play Day, Featuring Vomitor and Public Urinator
- Walking the Strip Day, Part One
- Strip Walk Continued, With a Stop to See Zarkana
- Last Day, Plus Bonus Rambling Content
2010
- The Time There Were Only 28 People On My Flight to Las Vegas
- Going Degenerate at the Gold Coast to Try and Hit Sapphire Tier Level at Boyd
- My First Visit to Cosmopolitan and A Fun Game of “Is It Heroin or Is It Spam?”
- A Day Spent Degenerate Gambling Downtown in the Rain
- Binions Shows Me Some (De)Gener(ate)osity
- Turning Free Play Into a $200 Keno Win!
- The One Where I Demand a Pox on Radio Shack
- The One Where I Drop My Bus Pass in the Toilet
- That Time My Hotel Room Was Completely Flooded
- Why Do I Keep Winning Decks of Cards?
- Moving Day! Binions to the Orleans
- Eights into Sixes into Eights into Sixes
- ROYAL FLUSH
- Cash Back and Free Play Day!
- Hitting Aces Twice in One Day!
- A Day Spent WINNING!
- Degenerate Gambling Mixed in With Pretty Pictures of the Bellagio Conservatory Decorated for Christmas
- $590.25 Aces With Kicker Progressive Win!
- Last Day of An Epic Trip and Returning Home to A Post-Blizzard Mess
April 2009
- The One Where I Purposely Choose a Crappy Room Because I Am an Idiot
- Video Poker With a Wheel Showdown
- The One Where I Hit a $626 Progressive Jackpot
- The One With the Bed With a Mirror on the Ceiling
- The Day of the Three Progressive Slot Machine Wins
- Degenerate Gambler GO!
- I LOVE TELEVISION
- The One Where Danny Gans Died
- The One Where I Pull Myself Away From the Downtown Slot Machines
- The One Where I Whine A Lot
- Last Day
July 2009
- The Time My Flight to Las Vegas Was Cancelled
- Leaving (and returning to) Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada
- My Only Full Day in Las Vegas This Trip
- Seated Next to the World’s Smelliest Man on My Flight Home
January 2008
- Las Vegas by way of Atlantic City
- ATM Rule: Do Not Go to The ATM
- I Am Serious: DO NOT GO TO THE ATM
- Last Day of a Trip Where I Did Nothing But Gamble
- Back When the Imperial Palace Was Still the Imperial Palace
- Day One of Twenty One – YES! TWENTY ONE!
- That Time I Went to Get Breakfast and Ended up Gambling Until Dinner
- The One With the Picture of the Frontier Sign Being Dismantled
- Rainy Day in Las Vegas
- My Room View of the El Cortez Cabana Suites Being Built
- The One With the Record Breaking Snow Fall
- Invaders From the Planet Moolah
- The One Where I Watch Two Movies
- The One Where I Unknowingly Walk Around Downtown With Ripped Pants
- The One Where The Closet Was Smaller Than My Suitcase
- The One With Opening Night at Encore
- The Day I Was A Degenerate Winner
- The One Where I Offend Poodle Owners
- The One Where Everything Went Wrong
- The One Where I Won Money!
- The One Where I Accidentally Assault Someone In An Elevator
- The One Where Jackie Gaughan Was Seated Next to Me at Robertas
- The Time There Was a Ball Gag in My Las Vegas Hotel Room
- The Day Where Even Seeing a Bomb Threat Was Boring
- New Year’s Eve on the Las Vegas Strip
- Final Day of a TWENTY ONE Day Trip to Las Vegas
2007
- The Time My Commute to the Airport Was Longer Than My Flight to Las Vegas
- Pressing My Luck in Las Vegas
- The Day I Ate McDonalds Twice. Subtitled: Suck It
- Yay! Screaming Kid of My Flight from Las Vegas
2008
2005
- Mentally Murdering a Friend For Jinxing my Flight
- My First Time Playing Video Poker!
- The Day a Degenerate Gambler is Born
- Sweet Las Vegas Suite
- Forfeiting Seeing One of My Favorite Bands in Las Vegas
- Staying at the Now Defunct Lady Luck Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
- My First Visit to Wynn!
- Casino Crawl Day
- The Time I Scored a $300 Suite for $30
- Last Day of My Trip
2003
- That One Where That Jerk Stole My Megabucks
- The One Where We Almost Saw a Fight
- Checking Into The Plaza
- Side Trip to Laughlin
- The Night Celine Dion Opened at Caesars!
- The Time We Saw Danny Gans
- Moving From Barbary Coast (RIP) to Frontier (see also: RIP)
- Staying at The Frontier
- Staying at The Westward Ho!
2002
- The One Where the MTA Tries to Start My Trip Off on a Bad Note
- The One Where We Ate at Denny’s
- The One Where I Hate the Flamingo
- Hello! Welcome to Full of Sheep! Play max credits
- The One Where I Accidentally Smash My Head Into a Slot Machine
- Last Day
Works in Progress:
Absolutely LOVE your TR!!
Aw, thanks Kristin!!
I can’t tell you just how much fun I am having re-living your trips!! I am also learning new words like “check-in-ling” and phrases like “eleventy billion!” This is almost as much fun as being there!
Thank you!
Thanks Shannon! Both for the kind words AND for singling out the two phrases that I stole from other people. 🙂
I am glad you like the reports! I am working on getting some more up this weekend.
I’m enjoying reading your old TR, thank you for sharing them.
I’m so glad that Bonnie posted a link to your blog on LasVegas4ever.
Thanks! When I win a million dollars, I am going to hire Bonnie as my publicist 🙂
Congrats on the AWESOME win at the Orleans, $942 WOW, nice Xmas gift from the Keno Gods.
Are you going back to China, didn’t you just go there in 2014?
Will you be going back to Macau again as well?
I am indeed going back to China! Unfortunately not to Macau. I have two layovers in Hong Kong but I am scared that if I go to Macau I will get sucked into a slot machine and miss my flight back home.
Hi Jennifer:
I’ve stayed at Rio and loved the Parade in the Sky. Too bad it no longer exists. Also, I love their casino.
I always lose in their casino, which is unfortunate because I really love that place. I even like the feel of the casino, despite always losing.
do you have any older trip reports posted on other sites maybe? I would like to read pre-2002 stuff if at all possible.
No, I don’t. I took only two trips before 2002 and I did not write trip reports for either of them.
Hi Jennifer, are you still traveling to Las Vegas? I love following your trip reports. We are heading there on Saturday after a 1.5 year absence, and can’t wait!
Hi Jim!
I have three Vegas trip reports half finished and I go again in May. So hell yeah I am still going!
1.5 years is a long time, I hope this trip makes up for it
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I can’t believe I just found this site. Love your report and I too live in Brooklyn only an 8 minute Citibike ride away from Flatbush Avenue I mean Atlantic Avenue =)
Keep the reports going!!
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