Las Vegas

[JoeT]

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I'm watching this thread. My wife's 40th is in January and thinking a Vegas surprise party

[sniper7]

Stay at Caesars Palace. It was built for Julius Caesar and is by far the nicest place around.

[rfizzle]

Stay at Caesars Palace. It was built for Julius Caesar and is by far the nicest place around.

And I hear they have good pager reception

[patrick0685]

leaving in the AM

[rfizzle]

leaving in the AM

So what did you end up booking?

[rfizzle]

Since the OP bumped the thread, and I think this thread is a pretty good place for info on Vegas, I'll tell you about my recent trip.

My wife and I went a couple of weeks ago, we stayed at the Flamingo. Which as I've said before is great since it's a cheaper option, and still has a great (right in the middle) location. The "deluxe" rooms are a typical hotel room, not bad and in decent shape. The "Go" rooms are updated in a cool retro kind of style with bigger LCD tv's, refrigerator, tv in the bathroom but they run a little bit extra a night.

We met some friends out there who drove from San Diego. Which reminds me if you ever drive to Vegas (10-11 hours form Denver) Valet is great, it's free, just tip $2-5 easiest way to park at most casinos. A few the valet is in the parking garage so it's not worth it, but most it's right up front and they are quick.

We rented a cabana one day: Cabana was $300 for the whole day, it was 105 that day so having a fan, LCD tv, and refrigerator was almost necessary. We also got two frozen drinks in 20oz souvenir cups included, the personal assistance of Jack & Natia and endless bottles of water. We ate lunch and had some other drinks through out the day and the four of us racked up a $100 (with tip) food/drink bill.

Cabana:



While at the cabana Jack the cabana boy gave us some show tickets for Vinnie Favorito: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRUJ4c9Nf9w, which that video is basically the first 2 minutes of the act, pretty funny. He basically pics on the audience, got a little uncomfortable when he kept picking on "the blacks" but not bad for a free show (tickets are $11 normally and include a drink too).

Other than eating out a few more times, like at Hash House A Go Go:

(Yeah that's bacon waffles with fried chicken)


We just hung out, enjoyed the sights and heat.

Leaving Vegas (I waited till we hit the 10,000ft mark and ok to use electronics):

Looking at that picture you can see why the Stratosphere sucks since it's like a mile away from everything else.

It's funny only a couple days home and some friends already asked us about going in September....

[patrick0685]

So what did you end up booking?

Caesars Palace

[rfizzle]

Caesars Palace

Nice! high roller

[patrick0685]

Nice! high roller

Gatta try to impress the wife so we can go more

[Mtn.man]

Going to the Wynn this time, even get a freebie 9 hole game on their course.