Well I have been back for a week, but needed to recover from my surgery and now I am ready to post my ';not so exciting trip report';. I had fun, but we don%26#39;t do clubs or expensive eats so its just laid back fun we had!!! I will post as a reply.
VJ and her trip Report
While I hardly ever think of the flight out as part of the Trip Report, mine was a trip of its own. I worked all day and finally it was time to go. I made a quick trip to my house and changed purses (ok I had the wrong purse and it wouldn’t do for Vegas). I drove the 40 minutes to Detroit to find that my plane that was supposed to take off at 720pm was already delayed to 850pm. I go thru security and stop off at the Fox Sports Bar for a beer and smoke and then make my way to gate A28, well not A28 anymore but A66 so I make my way there and a few minutes later its gate A64, ok not to far so go there and later its A66. You get the feeling I had and we end up flying out almost 2 hours late from gate A72 or was it A74?? Heck by this time who cares??? So Northworst lived up to their name. At the gate that was loading a Phoenix flight before ours the Gate Agent continued to berate the Vegas travelers (who were delayed) by telling us to not ask her questions because she was busy with this other flight. She screamed this over the intercom several times. We finally got on the plane and 5 ½ hours YES 5 ½ hours for a 4 ½ hour flight later we arrived in Vegas!!!! We get off the plane and YES a line for the tram. If I wanted to stand in line for a ride I would have went to Cedar Point!!!!! So the line was back to the escalator and we waited for about 40 mins. After that comes the cab line that didn’t move and not enough cabs in sight. Who knew that you needed cabs at an airport when multiple flights come in at the same time???
VJ and her trip Report
Ok so my sister has been calling me and is tired and waiting for me at Harrah’s so she can stay in my room for the night. I finally get to Harrah’s and guess what?? They are out of good rooms and only have the old rooms left. Well the check in person gave me a suite for the night and let me say it was BEAUTIFUL!!! Carnaval Tower, King Bed Suite with living and dining room and sink and fridge and coffee maker and large bathroom that you could fit a Mardi Gras Tower room in!!! I drop my sister off and I go to the bar for Video Poker and drinks. I promptly hit a 4OAK and listen to someone who shouldn’t be gambling trying to tell us why she is. Interesting people you meet at the wee hours!!! Up to bed at 4am for my first full day in the city!!
Up at 730am and we call our friends in the Mardi Gras tower and tell them they have to see our AWFUL room!!! They come up and right away we are all taking pictures and wondering if we can keep it?? I call the front desk and they have a room in the Mardi Gras Tower for me that is renovated, I am excited because I have heard a lot of good things about these rooms. We have time to burn so we take our bags to our friend’s room and make our way to Paris for the breakfast buffet. I have enough point for 4 free buffets and off we go. It is a wonderful buffet with wonderful food, its not just meat and eggs that you get at most places, but has extras such as crepes and Belgian waffles. We leave the buffet and gamble a little bit at Paris (losers), then make our way to Bills (still losers, but the drink service is awesome). At Bills our friend K, who doesn’t drink much had one of the $1 margies and when I went up to get one right after her I was afraid for her. The bartender was not shy about the amount of liquor he poured. I ran to her and told her to eat a hotdog, but she had already had one. Well she didn’t get to tipsy, I hope. From Bills we went to Flamingo. We were not going into Flamingo, but I had a feeling that my Fonzie Machine would be there and we walked in and I see Happy Days/Fonzie Machine. I put my normal $5 in and cannot stop winning. I am spending 40 cents and about 30 minutes later I am over $50 and hit CASH OUT!!! We continue on to Harrah’s to check into our room after this.
Well the much waited for newly renovated room in the Mardi Gras Tower. Let’s just say NO to the ROOM!!! Small and Small and Small!!!! I am not a fan, but it’s free; I don’t have much time and whatever!!! Drop the bags and its time to go downtown. The girls bought the $15 3 day pass and I didn’t have a pass, but we met a nice couple from Windsor on the elevator who had a pass (her husband lost his), so she gave me hers!!! Score for me!!! We take the Deuce downtown and wonder around for a bit. We eat at Mags at 4 Queens and one of the girls picks up our tab (TY and TY ACG for 2/1 meals). We have the ACG coupons for the EL and $10 freeplay and I mention quarter roulette. That’s all it takes and off we go. We stay at the EL for awhile playing roulette and while I don’t win and they do its ok because its still bunches of fun!! We finally walk back to take the Deuce and looking at the line I say “What Recession?” I have never seen a line longer, and FYI do not try to cut or you may get hurt by those who have been waiting for a long time. We truly thought about walking to the downtown transfer station but we just waited our 20 minutes. Back to the strip and everyone’s tired but me. They go up and I just play around at Harrah’s.
Wednesday Morning finds us up early and going to Ellis Island for the early bird steak and eggs special for $4.99. All of our bus passes are still good so no need to pay for the ride. One of the girls pays for this and off we go to visit the Tuscany for the first time. We see that it’s close to Ellis Island and walk there. NICE place with a LARGE selection of machines. We sign up for cards and get our little free play and stay there for a bit just playing around and talking about the fact that if you had to stay a little off strip this doesn’t seem to be a bad place. Very clean and nice people. We walk out front and catch the bus to Terribles and what can I say I have fallen in love with Terribles until this visit. Ticket machines not working, slot machines not taking money or tickets. So a little gambling and a lot of stress later we take off for the 5 minute walk to the Hard Rock for our $10 free play coupon. Well can you say CONSTRUCTION?? Well Hard Rock can. After walking thru the construction site we finally make it!!! We redeem our coupons and off we go to play. No big wins, but we do meet the nicest CW ever and she is bringing us all kinds of tropical drinks and recommending more. This girl will make a lot of money if she treats all of her customers this way. We ask her about the shuttle to the strip and she tells us to ask at the Bell Desk, which we do, but they don’t run it between 3pm and 4pm so we walk back to Terribles and take the Deuce to the strip.
We get off at Ceasers and while K is tired and I try to get her to go towards the room she claims a 2nd wind and wants to go with my sister and M to Ceasers. Not wanting to be the party pooper I go to. Can you say I HATE CEASERS!!! Yes I win in there and I did this trip too, but dang it’s just too big and while MGM is too, at least at MGM I can find a quick exit. Now I have stayed at Ceasers and I know where the exits are, but dang they are not quick ones and in Vegas I like quick exits!!! So we play for a bit and get spotty drink service, I hit the video poker for $200 and really everyone is ready to go. We were going to eat Ellis Island BBQ for dinner but do not feel like making our way there, so we eat Harrah’s buffet for dinner using comps and my sister pays the difference. We get Rhoda for a waitress and I swear she made the pops freshly as she was just that dang slow!!! My sister and M go to the Mirage and TI, K to the room and me I need a Fonzie fix. So off to Flamingo I go and I hit up Fonzie and King of Cash for some cash!!! I make my way to IP for some play and IP is not nice to me, and $40 later I leave the IP looking back and saying “Don’t make me trip advisor you!!!!” “I have been nice to you IP and this is what I get???” So its back to Harrah’s and Fonzie is there too, although I hadn’t seen it, he is there also!!! But OMG he is not nice Fonzie!!! So it’s my last night in Vegas and I just go to the bar and play Video Poker, not thinking about winning but having a good time. I start off with ED as the bartender and I am drinking my Miller Lite, well I up that to Grey Goose and Red Bull and my sister joins me and she’s having her Colorado BullDogs. We meet a few nice people and she is showing her pics of some guy from Starsky and Hutch who was a pimp on the show and now he’s apparently pimping at the Orleans, cuz that’s where they saw him. I can’t remember his characters name, maybe you can? Then she’s showing her pics of the new President with her daughter and her boyfriend when he was here before the election. And now the strange people come out. So some “big time roller” LOL from California comes up. He is about 25 and with two English guys. He is buying our “free” drinks and the bartenders are more then happy to charge him for our “free” drinks!!! One of the English guys pulls me aside and says “Hey we just met him and he is buying our drinks so we are happy!!!” We continue talking to the English guys and they are in town training with the US Military, the sucker umm I mean guy from California is just in town on his own, and might I say trying to make friends!!! If the California guy would have asked us back to his room one more time we might have still said NO!!! At around 3am we call it a night and it’s up to our room to sleep for our last day in Vegas.
Thursday we are up early and wonder where to eat??? Well we eat Harrah’s buffet using points and each pay a little bit (first money I spent on food in Vegas this trip!!!). We check out and since our flight isn’t until 6pm we decide to hit Encore. We go thru the V (ummm did they make the smell worse?? YES)) and on to P heading for the Encore. We walk thru Wynn and umm do you see RED and BUTTERFLIES??? Yep it’s Encore and well all I can say is NOT AGAIN!!! Hardly any good machines and it is just small!!! It seems to me as the casino was an after thought and they just put it in because they needed a casino??? I won’t be going in there unless I am staying there. We decide to walk back via Wynn to TI and Mirage. I love TI and play for a minute but everyone else loves them some Mirage and we end up there playing until about 2pmish. I go back to Harrah’s and play a bit before going to get my bags. I didn’t know if I had all my liquids out so I had to check. We were told we needed to get to the airport 2 hours prior to the flight due to the tram congestion. Well they said 2 hours, but when your flight is delayed it becomes 3 or 4 hours!!!! We finally arrive in Detroit at around 230am, on our original 1am arrival flight, and have to call the car lot shuttle for about the 30 people standing there and I am at home at 430am. I had to get up at 930am for my surgery and I have been recovering most of this week from that.
All in all it was a great and relaxing trip to Vegas. The only issues I had was with Northworst but it was better then flying Spirit. Next time I will pay more to fly my favorite USAir!!!
goor trip report, you said you actually relaxed during this trip?
Sounds like you had fun, more report please.
I hope all is well with your surgery and all. Your flight adventures sure was a pain in the butt. Mine was not as bad. Sorry you didn%26#39;t like Encore. Loved your TR. Get well soon.
vegasjunky4, I hope all went well with your surgery, and you are going to have a full recovery.
I have been in your shoes (years ago, before I made continental my only airline) of, ';let%26#39;s change the gate'; and it wasn%26#39;t fun. After spending a night in a suite at Harrah%26#39;s, ANY room will appear smaller. We have stayed in many suites there, and many of their ';other'; rooms...in the Carnaval Tower, and the Mardi Gras Tower. I feel the property overall is fantastic!
I was sad to hear about the ';Military Guy.'; It seems that the english fellows didn%26#39;t know any better, but you and the bartender did. If he was looking for some company, he was getting ';rolled'; at the same time, by buying ';free'; drinks. Not very nice, IMHO.
The character you are referring to from Starsky and Hutch is, ';Huggy Bear.'; His name is, Antonio Juan Fargas.
Overall, it sounds as if you had a great time. Best wishes once again for a full recovery.
VegasSue
Sounds like an exciting trip to me. Nice trip report.
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