Jumping on the Bandwagon with a Trip Report
in [Las Vegas]
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From: Corey on 17 Jun 2010 20:11 To: RWH Re: Jumping on the Bandwagon with a Trip Report By: RWH to alt.vacation.las-vegas on Thu Jun 17 2010 01:15 pm > A brief description of a �Not-so-Lost except for all my money� > week(end) in Las Vegas: > After a full day of labors up in Ely and after a couple of long delays > due to lane closures on 318, I managed to made it to the convention > center around 6:30 for the Infocomm opening festivities last > Tuesday. > I had three free nights at the Fremont (and one at $48), plus two $10 > food coupons, so most of my time was spent downtown. I had one of the > unusual �end� rooms on the 6th floor (where the window in on the > �wrong� wall). The Fremont continues to provide very adequate rooms > and I�m finding that the only inconvenience in staying downtown is the > daily motoring down to the convention center. A daily stop for some > free Wi-Fi at MSS is getting to be part of the downtown routine. > The attendance for Infocomm was estimated to be something over 32,000� > an easy crowd to navigate compared to NAB and CES. A good chunk of > time each day was spent at the Convention Center, which was good as > all my time spent in the casinos turned out to be losing > propositions. I wound up with lots of points on the B-Connected > card, plus a little play at Casino Royale, Four Queens, Venetian, the > Hilton, and Binion�s to show for all of the lost dough. > I was getting tired of driving back and forth from downtown to the > strip, so I bought a 24 hour bus pass and rode the Deuce to the south > strip Thursday night and to the mid strip Friday afternoon. (Taking > the new ACE bus back on Friday, which does indeed make for a speedy > trip through the new Arts District.) I also made a stop at the used > CD/Record place on Sahara, which is also getting to be part of the > routine on the Vegas trips. The weather went from hot to not so hot, > but it was comfortable compared to the 45 degrees up in Ely when I > stopped to buy gas on Saturday. > Eating consisted of the breakfast buffet at the Fremont twice (average > at best, but OK for free), one breakfast buffet at the Main Street > Station (paid for with points), a run to Denny�s one evening (I found > it hard to believe that the Denny�s by the MGM was closed for cleaning > on an early Thursday night), and a stop by Aliente Station for the > buffet Saturday morning on the way out of town (a very good buffet at > a cheap price, but obviously a long way to go even if you have a car). > A few miscellaneous observations: They�ve painted over the signs on > the wall by Echelon Place, so people that don�t know the history will > just think it�s a mysterious abandoned construction site; It looked > like more of the blue wall panels on Fontainebleau were missing than > in April- the more you look at that place, the more that seems that > needs to be done before it is anywhere near finished; Sheldon Adelson > was on the Huckabee show on Fox a couple weeks ago, giving the > impression that everything was okey dokey for him financially, but I > see there�s still no progress on that half built structure at the > Venetian; Things were hoppin� downtown every night- and some minor > signs of progress at the Lady Luck are a good sign for hopeuflly an > upturn in business. Downtown continues to work out well for me�I > don�t mind the �low roller� rooms at the Fremont (free is good), it�s > easy getting in and out of town when coming from northern Nevada via > 15, and for most of the time I can find free and relatively convenient > parking in the general area of the Convention Center. > And, I avoided running into any dangerous internet lunatics. wow, you could have stayed at harrahs for around 40.00 a night.
From: Skipfromla on 18 Jun 2010 15:36 On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:04:01 -0400, Walt <none(a)none.void> wrote: >In article ><bdaf309b-94ac-437e-bbd5-954840bcea05(a)s4g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, > RWH <rwhannu(a)aol.com> wrote: > >> I had three free nights at the Fremont (and one at $48), plus two $10 >> food coupons, so most of my time was spent downtown. > >Haven't stayed at the Fremont, but I have at the Cal, MSS, 4Q, Fitz and ElCo, >and they are all fine for a solo traveler who isn't a snootybuckets. And of >course the GN is the class of downtown. Vegas Club rooms should be avoided >unless nothing else is available. > >Thanks for the report. > > --- Walt I'll 2nd that, Walt. I stayed at the Las Vegas Club for Lost Weekends in '08 and '09 for free and even the newer tower wasn't very nice. I could have stayed there last week for free but it's not even worth staying there at that price. For this Lost Weekend, I stayed at the Golden Gate. Like you say, not for snootybuckets but it's inexpensive ($19 a night), clean, comfortable, has the largest and best shrimp cocktails in the entire valley, although the price went up from 99 cents to $2. The staff is friendly and responsive. The rooms are small and I had to turn sideways to get into the bathroom but other than that, I was happy with the place. Just make sure you get an inner room so the noise on Fremont and Main doesn't keep you up. Plus, the Golden Gate has bikini dancers who rotate between dancing on platforms in the BJ pit and dealing blackjack. A nice touch but rather distracting. The Bay City Diner turned into DuPars, a Los Angeles staple for 70 years. It was very, very good and their pancakes are great. The only negative I have for the place is it has the absolutely worst coffee makers in the rooms. Skip
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