Live All Over the Strip Dec 17-22

Way to early to really start the TR, so details will be forthcoming, but I saw this and had to share the shoe porn with my friends on the board! @VegasChic @VegasChic Sis @crystal @BFF @Hoofy7 @DirtyShirley @VegasMonkey

 

Ok, I guess a week out isn't too soon for details, won't have much time this week to post anyway. Travel party will be me, my wife, my daughter, and her boyfriend, getting to Vegas Sat afternoon, leaving Thursday morning with reasonable noonish departures on both ends. This is a little more structured for us than usual, my daughter has several things she'd like to do and we've got more shifting around of hotels because she wants to stay at different places. Also, we want to check out the decorations at Wynn and Bellagio, so we'll spend a lot of time on the move.

Wife and I will stay at HGVC timeshare behind Flamingo Sat-Mon nights, "kids" are at MGM Sat/Sun and Caesars Mon, then we all move to Cosmo Tues and Wed. All the rooms are on my comps and had to burn up the timeshare points before the end of the year.

I'll start packing my single carry on sometime this week with mostly flannel shirts (looks like it's gonna be cold), dockers, and Merrill's for shoes. Sorry, @crystal, no pics.

Sat we'll hit either Javier's or Lemongrass for dinner, then the youngsters want to hit Hakkasan. Wife and I will probably stay center strip after dinner and gamble at Aria and Bellagio.

Sun we're thinking about Morimoto for dinner and then Carrot Top Sun night.

Monday is a CET day. Thinking about seeing Fat Elvis, dinner at Martorano’s (never tried it), and either Napoleon's or Harrah's piano bar...something else my daughter wants to do, I hope they have karaoke so I can post videos of her singing on her Facebook page for all her friends to enjoy!

Tuesday we're going to do lunch at Jaleo and we have a fire pit (cabana) reserved at the Cosmo ice rink in the evening. Really looking forward to the ice rink, looks like a fun holiday thing to do and a nice menu of holiday cocktails!

Only thing on the agenda for Wednesday is dinner at Wicked Spoon.

Drinking and gambling throughout, of course! As usual, I'll post pics and commentary as we go.

 

I actually just changed to a Friday night departure...lands at 11:15pm, but I'm pretty sure we'll get out!

Now kids are staying MGM Fri/Sat, Caesars Sun/Mon...guess we'll do Morimoto on Sat.

 

Good morning Vegas!!


Changed flight from this am to late flight last night to get out before the freezing rain hit the local area, glad I did. Traffic was miserable as usual, strong headwinds gave us about a 400 mph ground speed and we didn't land until midnight, but get made it!

Got the kids into MGM and to got our room at HGVC Flamingo about 1:30am. By body was telling me it was 4:30, so I crashed. Wife goes to gamble, but about 3am she wakes me up. She lost her phone, ugh

Find my phone says it's still in Flamingo so we head over to look for it and I put the lost phone message with my number on it. Quick scan of where she was doesn't find it. High limit room is dead so I go talk to pit boss and describe phone. He calls it in and about 10 mins later security calls me and says they have it. 1st big win of trip!!!

I know Flamingo doesn't have the best rep, but all the staff I dealt with were great. Professional and they all seemed genuinely interested in helping.

Hope that's a good omen!

 

Bright cold morning on the strip...dead too. Off to Bellagio!

 

Because it's good for you...and it's 3pm in Ireland



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It is the most important meal of the day!



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Oh no! The 8/5 BP triple spin poker at Bellagio is gone!! Damn you PGP!!!


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