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posted: 6/10/2008 at 5:59 PM |
Ah, Vegas. The glitz, the glamour, the pure sleaze…truly a home away from home for any Beautiful Person.
My entourage consisted of my pregnant sister, our pregnant friend, and their two husbands. Our tricked out ride was a rented beige Town and Country minivan. Our only set weekend plan? High tea at the Ritz Carlton in Henderson. Yup, it was shaping up to be one very lame weekend.
Things started looking up on arrival. I tipped the front desk guy to get us room upgrades. I got myself the first of many, many alcoholic beverages. And as any cougar worth the olives in her double martini would do, I amused myself endlessly by flirting with anything younger than me with a y chromosome.
Couple of tips for anyone going out to Vegas this summer:
1) Tourist traffic is light this year. You can get free show tickets by talking up the box office staff a couple minutes before show time. They’ve got plenty of extras.
2) Avoid the Planet Hollywood Hotel (formerly the Aladdin) like the plague. They have not worked the kinks out yet. The new décor is a Kelly Wearstler-inspired nightmare, and the hotel soundtrack must be the result of a private joke among the hotel staff. Really, was my stay at their hotel enhanced in any possible way by What is Love and Madonna’s greatest hits?
3) Eat breakfast at least one day at the tiny but fabulous 16-table Payard’s at Caesar’s Palace. Order a basket of pastries for your table. Slip into a happy, carb-induced coma.
4) Hotels still comp breakfast buffets like crazy. You just have to give them an excuse. Complaints about minor (but legitimate) housekeeping issues work well for this.
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 6:03 PM |
| Quote from Dragon76 on 6/10/2008 at 5:59 PM: My entourage consisted of my pregnant sister, our pregnant friend, and their two husbands. Our tricked out ride was a rented beige Town and Country minivan.
I know it's family and whatnot, but DUDE. That is not how you roll in Vegas. If this was the swamp Casa would be photoshopping an appropriate pic right now.
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 6:56 PM |
| Quote from Dragon76 on 6/10/2008 at 6:04 PM: One of my friends keeps threatening to elope this summer in Vegas. I need a re-do.
Yes, I think you DESERVE a re-do! Hard to party with an entourage like that!
DH and I went for a 3-day Vegas getaway two years ago (no kids!!!) and had a great time. We stayed at the Flamingo and enjoyed it thoroughly. Penguins and flamingos in the garden behind the hotel, and a fabulous pool. We gambled a total of 75 cents, so they didn't make much off of us!
The only thing I didn't like was the SMOKE, everywhere we went. I didn't know that that many people still smoked! All public places in Maine are smoke-free now, so I wasn't used to it. I finally had to take out my contacts because they were killing me. |
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 7:08 PM |
I'm somehow not surprised that Planet Hollywood sucked. I also thought Hard Rock was pretty lame. My DW and I stayed at New York New York the last time we were there. Decent.
Quote from Dragon76 on 6/10/2008 at 5:59 PM:I got myself the first of many, many alcoholic beverages. And as any cougar worth the olives in her double martini would do, I amused myself endlessly by flirting with anything younger than me with a y chromosome.
Dude, you're 31. That's not cougar territory. BTW, good choice of drink.
Did you follow the Half Your Age Plus Seven Rule in your flirting?
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 7:13 PM |
| Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 6/10/2008 at 7:08 PM: I'm somehow not surprised that Planet Hollywood sucked.
The rooms were all themed, kinda like the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. My sister and her husband stayed in the Speed room. Our friends stayed in the Silverado room. And I got the best of all - 8 Seconds. What's that you say? You don't remember 8 seconds? Think Luke Perry as a struggling rodeo cowboy. Really.
I did check out the Star Trek suite. It had a coffee table/display case with Tribbles in it.
Never again.
Excellent chart, BTW.
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 7:19 PM |
| Quote from Teresadfp on 6/10/2008 at 6:56 PM: We stayed at the Flamingo and enjoyed it thoroughly. Penguins and flamingos in the garden behind the hotel, and a fabulous pool. We gambled a total of 75 cents, so they didn't make much off of us!
The only thing I didn't like was the SMOKE, everywhere we went. I didn't know that that many people still smoked! All public places in Maine are smoke-free now, so I wasn't used to it. I finally had to take out my contacts because they were killing me.
I'm really fond of the Flamingo. 
The smoke is always a shock out there for me too. My lungs are still detoxing. |
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 7:32 PM
modified: 6/10/2008 at 7:33 PM |
Quote from Dragon76 on 6/10/2008 at 7:19 PM:I'm really fond of the Flamingo.
If memory serves me right (and it rarely does in Vegas), my sister god married at the Flamingo.
Quote from Dragon76 on 6/10/2008 at 7:19 PM:The smoke is always a shock out there for me too. My lungs are still detoxing.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing how horrible the smoke is. But unless there's a national law against it (and although I hate smoking, I wouldn't approve of that much government intervention), I don't ever see Vega$ going smoke-free in the casinos. I gave up on wearing contacts there. Being hammered and broke at 2am was bad enough, but the hurting eyes always finished me off.
Dragon, did you play the tables at all?
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 7:40 PM |
| Quote from Dragon76 on 6/10/2008 at 7:35 PM: No. Never learned how to play poker, even though my ex-fiancee played all the friggin' time. Blackjack is only fun if you're with a bunch of your friends (IMO). Craps confuses me.
My brother-in-law won close to $1000 though at a poker tournament on Saturday.
The last time I was in Vegas was before this whole poker craze really took off. So I've never played in a casino. I play Blackjack, which is fun with friends as long as you don't have a friend playing third base stupidly. Because then they stop being a friend. Craps is a blast, but tricky. I used to practice like crazy playing video craps just so I wouldn't make a fucktard out of myself once I got to the casino.
$1000 is pretty impressive. My best ever gambling feat (in Reno) involved about 5 hours worth of counting cards to get myself out of a $250 hole in blackjack. Once 8am hit and I got back to even, I went back to the room and crashed. Good times. |
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 8:56 PM |
| The Texas Hold 'em game where you play against the dealer's hand is awesome. Great odds. That's pretty much all I played in Vegas last summer. |
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posted: 6/10/2008 at 11:00 PM
modified: 6/10/2008 at 11:01 PM |
| Quote from jEfFgObLuE on 6/10/2008 at 7:08 PM: I'm somehow not surprised that Planet Hollywood sucked.
Yuck! I stayed at the Aladdin/Planet Hollywood TWICE last summer, neither time by choice (Starwood's a client and I was there for work). The whole place was still decorated in the Aladdin style theme with random Hollywood crap strewn about haphazardly. It was so bizarre to have a sand-colored room with Egyptian style furniture and pyramid wall paper borders, with huge photographs of Back to the Future and Godfather plastered on the wall. My friend's room had lingerie (including a naughty little g string) worn by Madonna in some glass shrine hanging on the wall. My room had this f'ed up picture of they murder scene from Psycho in the bathroom - "Hello...not what I want to see when I'm showering." It was weird.
Dragon, I think we both deserve a do-over. I'll join you next time and we'll stay at Ceasar's or the Bellagio or the Wynn.
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