kitson
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just a few highlights from a four day, three night trip to attend the clothing trade shows, and throw in a little fun between the business of buying next falls merchandise.
sunday morning is a great time to arrive in las vegas, no cab lines at just before 9 am.
had reservations at luxor tower, with an early checkin requested, if available. when we attempted checkin, there were no rooms available, and they would not assign us a room, our rez was for one king bed. as it turned out, when we finally got back to the luxor at 8 pm that night, all the rooms were booked, and we wound up with 2 queens. no biggie, but a little disappointed that that was not handled better. we had a rate of 79 for two nights, and the third night free. we were in the east tower, just a little confusing finding our way to the room that night, after drinks and dinner with a bottle of wine, but navigating the luxor got easier as the trip went on. room was ok, view out across the north entrance and over toward the excalibur. best part of the room was the large glass shower! room was clean, housekeeping good when we returned each night. will stay at the luxor again, price being right.
after checking the bags with the bellhop after failing to checkin , we cabbed it over to the venetian, the venue for one of our trade shows, arriving about 11 am. since we had been up since 2:20 las vegas time, decided breakfast at bouchon would be in order. we have had breakfast there a couple other times, but earlier in the day, and at 11 on sunday they were busy, and the waiters were not able to give the service that one would expect for a 50 dollar breakfast for two. still, food was good, the pastries and bread are wonderful, and the white sausage as good as i remembered. the bargain of the place is the coffee. at 3.50, it is less than starbucks, unlimited fills of french press made coffee, some sort of dark roast, and the refills on beverages did not suffer from the busyness of the place.
went to the trade show and did our thing, about 3 we were tired, had done a good amount of business, but just did not have the energy to go walk the aisles looking for new vendors, so we went to the palazzo! wanted to look around, great building and impressive area between the venetian and palazzo, sent some pics of the waterfall. played a little video poker, went looking for a paigow table, finally found two, both 50 dollar minimum tables. did not play. looked in the high limit room, it was very active in there, many asian players, chinese new year was being celebrated, and the palazzo must have attracted a lot of players. drink service while playing vp was good, asked for a makers mark at the first machine and that was no problem. however, i found out i cant even drink good bourbon straight anymore, so at the next machine had the cocktail waitress bring me some mixer. that was a good drink.
back to our 5 oclock reservation at delmonico. 5 is the only time that i can ever get a reservation there from opentable.com, and the desk there at delmonico will always defer seating us until later if we ask. this time, though, we were just tired, wanted to eat and get back and check in, so dined at 5. great service and food as always, i had lobster bisque and then the bone in ribeye, i know wife had fish of some type and am sorry i cant even remember her appetizer. we were also served an amuse bouche, some sort of crab salad on a wonton, very tasty. we ordered the same wine we usually have, and the head waiter then tried to upsell us. sometimes the information that a place keeps on you, (his was the fourth trip in a row that we had eaten there,) can be used the wrong way. i declined and got what we wanted, but didnt like the upsell. all in all, it is probably time to try something different next trip, we were wowed the first couple of times, and with that comes expectation, and they did not top those expectations the last two times there. i will still recommend delmonico to someone who has not eaten there, it is still very good.
back to the luxor, in the room by 8:30, quality time in the shower, and absolutely no desire to go gamble, 19 hours up had been enough.
next day was the meet with hoya and dane and coaster kikky. to be continued...
sunday morning is a great time to arrive in las vegas, no cab lines at just before 9 am.
had reservations at luxor tower, with an early checkin requested, if available. when we attempted checkin, there were no rooms available, and they would not assign us a room, our rez was for one king bed. as it turned out, when we finally got back to the luxor at 8 pm that night, all the rooms were booked, and we wound up with 2 queens. no biggie, but a little disappointed that that was not handled better. we had a rate of 79 for two nights, and the third night free. we were in the east tower, just a little confusing finding our way to the room that night, after drinks and dinner with a bottle of wine, but navigating the luxor got easier as the trip went on. room was ok, view out across the north entrance and over toward the excalibur. best part of the room was the large glass shower! room was clean, housekeeping good when we returned each night. will stay at the luxor again, price being right.
after checking the bags with the bellhop after failing to checkin , we cabbed it over to the venetian, the venue for one of our trade shows, arriving about 11 am. since we had been up since 2:20 las vegas time, decided breakfast at bouchon would be in order. we have had breakfast there a couple other times, but earlier in the day, and at 11 on sunday they were busy, and the waiters were not able to give the service that one would expect for a 50 dollar breakfast for two. still, food was good, the pastries and bread are wonderful, and the white sausage as good as i remembered. the bargain of the place is the coffee. at 3.50, it is less than starbucks, unlimited fills of french press made coffee, some sort of dark roast, and the refills on beverages did not suffer from the busyness of the place.
went to the trade show and did our thing, about 3 we were tired, had done a good amount of business, but just did not have the energy to go walk the aisles looking for new vendors, so we went to the palazzo! wanted to look around, great building and impressive area between the venetian and palazzo, sent some pics of the waterfall. played a little video poker, went looking for a paigow table, finally found two, both 50 dollar minimum tables. did not play. looked in the high limit room, it was very active in there, many asian players, chinese new year was being celebrated, and the palazzo must have attracted a lot of players. drink service while playing vp was good, asked for a makers mark at the first machine and that was no problem. however, i found out i cant even drink good bourbon straight anymore, so at the next machine had the cocktail waitress bring me some mixer. that was a good drink.
back to our 5 oclock reservation at delmonico. 5 is the only time that i can ever get a reservation there from opentable.com, and the desk there at delmonico will always defer seating us until later if we ask. this time, though, we were just tired, wanted to eat and get back and check in, so dined at 5. great service and food as always, i had lobster bisque and then the bone in ribeye, i know wife had fish of some type and am sorry i cant even remember her appetizer. we were also served an amuse bouche, some sort of crab salad on a wonton, very tasty. we ordered the same wine we usually have, and the head waiter then tried to upsell us. sometimes the information that a place keeps on you, (his was the fourth trip in a row that we had eaten there,) can be used the wrong way. i declined and got what we wanted, but didnt like the upsell. all in all, it is probably time to try something different next trip, we were wowed the first couple of times, and with that comes expectation, and they did not top those expectations the last two times there. i will still recommend delmonico to someone who has not eaten there, it is still very good.
back to the luxor, in the room by 8:30, quality time in the shower, and absolutely no desire to go gamble, 19 hours up had been enough.
next day was the meet with hoya and dane and coaster kikky. to be continued...