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Las Vegas Flashback: Boardwalk Hotel Stay in 2003

Hello Las Vegas Trip Report people!   Here is an older trip report that I hadn’t posted before.  It is from June of 2003.  I loved going through it and seeing all the things that no longer exist. The hotels.  The trams running 24 hours a day.  Starbucks being open 24 hours a day.  Player card booths being open until 2:00 AM. Basically back when any hour of the day was like any other hour of the day.   Nowadays, if I take a nap, I have to set an alarm to make sure I am awake on time to get my last iced coffee before Starbuck/Dunkin Donuts closes.  I could go get breakfast or dinner in any of the 24 hours in a day because everything was open 24 hours a day!

This little 6 night trip report has me staying at:

Boardwalk
Treasure Island (when it still had a pirate theme going on)
Palace Station
Paris

Part one, here we go:

Today I worked a full day, then took the train to Port Authority, and then a shuttle to JFK airport. The reason I took a shuttle, as opposed to a cab, was that I had plenty of hours to kill. I left work at 4:30 and my flight was at 9:30.

I get to the airport still with too much time to kill. Zzzzzzzzzzzz. It was pouring buckets outside and I thought “Soon I’ll be in the desert!”

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