Third Annual Trip Report (12th September to 26th) Cosmo & Aria

It's 'Vegas Eve' .......bankrolls have been converted, planning completed and trip reports read. It's showtime!!

This will be our third trip report, if you are so inclined you can find the previous two instalments for 2014 and 2015 on another board with the same username.

Why do a report? For us, two reasons; to capture the trip in detail for personal reasons and secondly to pay back all the others who write reports which we love to read in between trips!

About us:
We (myself and the Mrs) live in London and both work in the city both in our 30's - her only just, me significantly more so. We both love Vegas, this is my 5th trip and her 3rd. We were the 'token Brits' at last years meet/craps roll at the Planet Hollywood for those that attended.

What to expect:
Due to the flight time we stay for a couple of weeks at a time - this year the trip is split between a terrace suite at Cosmo (first time staying there on a match of our Mlife offer) and Aria, room TBC depends what we can get comped for the rest of the trip!

Plans
- Cabanna at Cosmo
- Spa trips (for the lady)
- food porn (Carbone, Sterling Bruch and Lotus of Siam booked, the rest we will see what takes our fancy - I imagine Delmonico will also be visited)
- couple of trips Downtown including Franks Tiki Bar and Nacho Daddy
- Boulder City
- Love booked on a MyVegas comp
- Lagasses Stadium for some NFL

And of course lots of gambling, drinking and casino hopping!

The format will be daily updates with pictures, so not completely live, seemed to work well the previous trips.

Hope you enjoy following along!

Cheers, Rubos

 

Day 1: "The journey of a (several) thousand miles begins with one step" Lau Tzu

So it begins, the excitement of Vegas coupled with a near 11h flight and 8h time difference, at the end the reward of Vegas (and US Boarder Control).

It was an early start for us to avoid the London traffic (one of the reasons I no longer bother owning a car) but we were sooner than expected checked in and in the airport lounge with a beer.

Note: just realise my pictures are on my phone so I will have to post these separately.

Great service from Virgin and a slightly different flight path took us right over Greenland with some great views, the pilot mentioned this was due to some high winds/turbulence.

Lucky we had been contemplating the best way to try and beat jet lag (not worried about the trifling subjects of world peace, Brexit or US elections) and it seems to have worked! Slept on the plane, crashed about 10:30 last night and slept till 7am today so almost on Vegas time.

Check in experience at Cosmo was fantastic, great ride from the airport, drink at check in and booked bits we needed for our stay in the little room behind main check in and our own chap taking bags from the car escorting us up to the room (other places they have bought the bags up later).

Room (terrace suite) is great - see the pictures, couldn't ask for more.

The evening was spent with some drinking, video poker and slots, some thoughts and comments below:
- hit a few nice hands but nothing major
- 'won' a few tickets to the daily slot tournament, only got mid 300k's, understand you need million(s) to win
- lost best part of 1k in the high limit slot area and didn't even get a drink (doh)
- best two wins was 4 Aces at 50c Video Poker and a $500 hit for the misses at a Charlie and the Chocolate factory slot
- never had an issue with drink tickets at Chandelier bar Video Poker (in fact we had some extra) however, I was playing 50c or $1 and the misses 25c and the tickets came out at a very similar time despite our play speed being similar.......
- I am sure the misses will post a list of the range of cocktails she had

Had a snack at Chino Pablano - great food, notable was shrimp fried wantons and the Mongolian beef (sorry no pictures we were drunk and hungry)

So, onwards into Day 2, thanks for the post wishing us well and hope you enjoy following along!!

 

Day 1 pictures



Airport lounge





Greenland view





The view from terrace


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