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Solo Trip 9/19-25 GN, TI

Discussion in 'Vegas Trip Reports' started by codingkw, Oct 2, 2012.

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  1. Dewey089

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    I think making this same decision after having this happen so often ended the biggest frustration I had in Vegas planning. I now announce when I am going solo and offer to help anyone find rooms they might like, but I rarely share mine.
    I can then book what I want as the deals emerge, change dates if I want, do what I want.
    If people do join me, I tell them that I am not a good gambling companion because I may not want to leave a good poker table at a certain time, or I may want to leave one earlier than I can predict. So even the "meet for food" kind of plans are kept somewhat fluid. I best like going at the same time as some of my poker buddies who are independent as well about itinerary.
    The only disadvantage I find in going solo is that I can't use many of the 2 for 1 coupons to the buffets or shows. Luckily WildBill came the year I had free tickets from the American Casino posting contest to two shows.
    I am never bored or lonely. I go for 23 days at a time, and that gives a huge window for folks to meet me there if they decide they want to. Last trip my son surprised me, getting a chance to go at the last minute.
    The live limit poker (limit is the one where people from all over the world talk and tell stories and banter, ) does add the sense of community that one might find in a neighborhood bar, and I've met people at the tables who I see again and again.
    My wife would rather I go for a shorter time, but she is fine about it. We do all other traveling together. She does not like Vegas very much, does not gamble beyond an hour or two at the nickle slots, and does not like it if I say I am rolling in at about midnight, but stay for some fish to pay me off until s/he is out of funds at 2 AM.
    I am thrilled to be on my own with fluid plans.
    I sleep when I want, sometimes in the middle of the day, waking at midnight refreshed and ready to meet the tired ones and the drunken ones at the poker table or play the better video poker machines that are have been filled during the day and early evening.

    I do have relatives to visit there who are not very organized, but I manage that now in a less frustrating way than I once did. The days/nights they pick as free, I free up unless I have tickets to something, and if they don't get it together to pick any, I just don't see them that trip. Sometimes I give them a window for visits. Last trip one had a memorial service one day and her sister got married the next. Some at the first were not on speaking terms with those at the second.
    I managed both.
    There too I did just what you said. I picked my times for travel and said that if the ceremonies fit in my times, I would certainly love to attend, but if they did not, well... we could have our own personal ceremony/celebration when I was in town.
    My picking of dates was the catalyst for their planning these events.
    That trip I shared my room with my nephew from Buffalo (brother to the dead niece and to the marrying one) who decided at the last minute that he could manage to come for the weekend, and so he could participate as well in both events, especially since I was picking up the rental car fees and the hotel fees for those few days and all he really had to worry about was his air and a bit on the food so it fit his frugal budget.
    “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau
     
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  2. Mel777

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    Great TR! That is funny regarding the ketchup at C&C's. They did that to my mom when we were there in September. Every server in the place was running around bringing every ketchup bottle they could find and setting at our table. Yelling and screaming the whole time. Crazy, but hilarious. This was my first trip to Vegas and first meal in Vegas experience. I was hooked from that moment! lol.
     
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