chrispy
Tourist
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2006
- Messages
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- Trips to Las Vegas
- 3
Hi, all...hope you don't mind a newcomer posting a trip report. This one will be a doozy...
My lady and I had a flight departure time of 12:45 pm on Saturday. Her sister had agreed to drop us off at the airport...unfortunately, she had to run an errand first before coming back to pick us up to take us to the airport. Long story short, we arrive at the airport, check in our luggage, and I get my boarding pass....BUT MY LADY DOESN'T GET HERS! Yep, oversold the flight, so Southwest is asking for volunteers to take a later flight and get at $200 bonus. No takers. I tell Southwest I'm not getting on the flight without her, so I end up giving my boarding pass to someone else who was waiting for an open seat. Southwest ends up getting us on the next flight, which was scheduled to arrive at 6:30 pm. Not good when you have tickets to Manilow at 7:30! Southwest also gave us both $400 Southwest vouchers for future travel, which was nice of them to do.
I was feeling really bad about the delay, not only because my lady loves Manilow, but also because my brother-in-law and sister were driving from San Diego to Vegas to meet us. Luckily, they got a late start, so they would only beat us to the hotel by an hour or so. I had paid for their room in advance, but was worried that they wouldn't be allowed to check-in unless I was there to present my card info. Thankfully, it wasn't need, and they checked into the Stratosphere without any problems.
Now that our nonstop flight had turned into a flight to Houston, then switching planes to fly to Vegas with a stop in El Paso, I was definitely irritated. Luckily, the flights went off without a hitch, and we landed in Vegas on time. We rushed to the Southwest baggage claim, where our bags were sitting there waiting. How lucky that they got to Vegas before we did?!?
We immediately hop into a cab towards the Strat. Thankfully, the check-in line was short, and we ended up with the only remaining king bed room they had left...on the 21st floor of World tower II. View of the strip! We rushed towards our room...only to find the keys don't open the door! I rush back to the lobby, get another set of keys...failure again! I find a phone near the room, call the front desk, they send security up to let us in. They tried a third set of keys...failure again. They then use a master key to get us into the room. I tell them about the rush to get to the show, they tell us to find security when we return to the hotel so they can let us into our room. We rush to get dressed, meet up with my sis and bro-in-law, and hop into a cab towards the LV Hilton. I gave my sis money and a 2-for-1 buffet coupon (they're young, everything tastes good to them!) and told them we would meet up with them after the show.
Rush over to will call, grab the tickets, get into the line to get in...we made it just in time! Girlfriend LOVED the show, cried practically the whole time. Even I have to admit that it was pretty entertaining and not nearly as painful as I thought it would be. Still, I mainly did this one for my lady...the same lady who had agreed to go to the Ultimate Fighting show that night on my behalf. If I had actually landed tickets for the UFC, she would have missed out on Barry...in retrospect, I'm glad I missed the UFC show so she could have a memorable trip. (She hadn't been to Vegas in 20 years, so everything was practically brand new to her.)
After the show, the four of us hop into a cab towards downtown. Saw the Fremont Street Experience, not much of a show as much as it was a bunch of quick themes thrown together. Still, they enjoyed seeing it. Walked up and down the stretch, gambled a little at the Binion's...lady played some slots and won about $15, bro-in-law and I lost about $25 each playing blackjack.
Lady and I were starving at this point, and we found a tiny casino with some sort of tropical theme selling Nathan's hot dogs and fried oreos and twinkies. I'm a glutton for punishment, so we head inside. Lady and I loved the hot dogs at $1 each, and we split an order of the fried oreos with bro and sis. Were surprised how much we liked them...
By this time, it was past midnight, so we headed back to the Strat for the evening. Security lets us in and tells us to call the front desk so they can get us into a better room. "Make sure to ask for an upgrade if they don't offer it to you", says the security guy. Damn right! Called the front desk, who then tells us that the next day, we are to be upgraded to a Player's Suite next door to our current room. I'm satisfied for now, and the lady and I retire for some needed rest around 1 am.
More to come...
-- Chrispy
My lady and I had a flight departure time of 12:45 pm on Saturday. Her sister had agreed to drop us off at the airport...unfortunately, she had to run an errand first before coming back to pick us up to take us to the airport. Long story short, we arrive at the airport, check in our luggage, and I get my boarding pass....BUT MY LADY DOESN'T GET HERS! Yep, oversold the flight, so Southwest is asking for volunteers to take a later flight and get at $200 bonus. No takers. I tell Southwest I'm not getting on the flight without her, so I end up giving my boarding pass to someone else who was waiting for an open seat. Southwest ends up getting us on the next flight, which was scheduled to arrive at 6:30 pm. Not good when you have tickets to Manilow at 7:30! Southwest also gave us both $400 Southwest vouchers for future travel, which was nice of them to do.
I was feeling really bad about the delay, not only because my lady loves Manilow, but also because my brother-in-law and sister were driving from San Diego to Vegas to meet us. Luckily, they got a late start, so they would only beat us to the hotel by an hour or so. I had paid for their room in advance, but was worried that they wouldn't be allowed to check-in unless I was there to present my card info. Thankfully, it wasn't need, and they checked into the Stratosphere without any problems.
Now that our nonstop flight had turned into a flight to Houston, then switching planes to fly to Vegas with a stop in El Paso, I was definitely irritated. Luckily, the flights went off without a hitch, and we landed in Vegas on time. We rushed to the Southwest baggage claim, where our bags were sitting there waiting. How lucky that they got to Vegas before we did?!?
We immediately hop into a cab towards the Strat. Thankfully, the check-in line was short, and we ended up with the only remaining king bed room they had left...on the 21st floor of World tower II. View of the strip! We rushed towards our room...only to find the keys don't open the door! I rush back to the lobby, get another set of keys...failure again! I find a phone near the room, call the front desk, they send security up to let us in. They tried a third set of keys...failure again. They then use a master key to get us into the room. I tell them about the rush to get to the show, they tell us to find security when we return to the hotel so they can let us into our room. We rush to get dressed, meet up with my sis and bro-in-law, and hop into a cab towards the LV Hilton. I gave my sis money and a 2-for-1 buffet coupon (they're young, everything tastes good to them!) and told them we would meet up with them after the show.
Rush over to will call, grab the tickets, get into the line to get in...we made it just in time! Girlfriend LOVED the show, cried practically the whole time. Even I have to admit that it was pretty entertaining and not nearly as painful as I thought it would be. Still, I mainly did this one for my lady...the same lady who had agreed to go to the Ultimate Fighting show that night on my behalf. If I had actually landed tickets for the UFC, she would have missed out on Barry...in retrospect, I'm glad I missed the UFC show so she could have a memorable trip. (She hadn't been to Vegas in 20 years, so everything was practically brand new to her.)
After the show, the four of us hop into a cab towards downtown. Saw the Fremont Street Experience, not much of a show as much as it was a bunch of quick themes thrown together. Still, they enjoyed seeing it. Walked up and down the stretch, gambled a little at the Binion's...lady played some slots and won about $15, bro-in-law and I lost about $25 each playing blackjack.
Lady and I were starving at this point, and we found a tiny casino with some sort of tropical theme selling Nathan's hot dogs and fried oreos and twinkies. I'm a glutton for punishment, so we head inside. Lady and I loved the hot dogs at $1 each, and we split an order of the fried oreos with bro and sis. Were surprised how much we liked them...
By this time, it was past midnight, so we headed back to the Strat for the evening. Security lets us in and tells us to call the front desk so they can get us into a better room. "Make sure to ask for an upgrade if they don't offer it to you", says the security guy. Damn right! Called the front desk, who then tells us that the next day, we are to be upgraded to a Player's Suite next door to our current room. I'm satisfied for now, and the lady and I retire for some needed rest around 1 am.
More to come...
-- Chrispy