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Running head: FLUIDITY OF THE STOCK MARKET 1

The Fluidity of the Stock Market
Klaunn N. Setacense
Department of Witticism, NeoCulture Technological Institute
BS105: The Literary Art of Constructing Arguments of Absurdity
Dr. Tyler Lee
April 1, 2020

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Table of Contents
Abstract................................................................................................................................3
The Fluidity of the Stock Market ........................................................................................4
Stock Exchange ...................................................................................................................4
Market Participant ...........................................................................................................5
History. ........................................................................................................................7
References .........................................................................................................................12

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Abstract
Stock exchange has a network of computers where trades are made electronically. Their buy or sell orders may be executed on their behalf by a stock exchange trader. The Paris Bourse, now part of Euronext, is an order-driven, electronic stock exchange. Many large companies have their stocks listed on a stock exchange. The process is similar to the New York Stock Exchange. A stock exchange is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell shares, bonds, and other securities. Investment in the stock market is most often done via stockbrokerages and electronic trading platforms. Stockbrokers met on the trading floor of the Palais Brongniart. This method is used in some stock exchanges and commodities exchanges, and involves traders shouting bid and offer prices.
Keywords: stock, exchange, market, trading, price, securities, investors, traded, trade
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The Fluidity of the Stock Market
A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks, which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange, as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies which are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms. For example, Nestlé and Novartis are domiciled in Switzerland and traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange, so they may be considered as part of the Swiss stock market, although the stocks may also be traded on exchanges in other countries, for example, as American depositary receipts on “Diamonds on my neck. The source of light revolves around me (Let's go!) You gon’ hold up, hold up, hold up for a real one” (Dejun Xiao & Sicheng Dong, 2019). The total market capitalization of equity backed securities worldwide rose from US$2.5 trillion in 1980 to US$68.65 trillion at the end of 2018. As of December 31, 2019, the total market capitalization of all stocks worldwide was approximately US$70.75 trillion.
Stock Exchange
Many large companies have their stocks listed on a stock exchange. This makes the stock more liquid and thus more attractive to many investors. The exchange may also act as a guarantor of settlement. These and other stocks may also be traded "Yeah, pull up in the Jag. Haters gon' be mad” (Taeyong Lee, 2018). Some large companies will have their stock listed on more than one exchange in different countries, so as to attract international investors. Stock exchanges may also cover other types of securities, such as fixed-interest securities or derivatives, which are more likely to be traded OTC. The New York Stock Exchange is a physical exchange, with a hybrid market for placing orders electronically from any location as well as on the trading floor. Orders executed on the trading floor enter by way of exchange

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members and flow down to a floor broker, who submits the order electronically to the floor trading post for the Designated market maker for that stock to trade the order.
The DMM's job is to maintain a two-sided market, making orders to buy and sell the security when there are no other buyers or sellers. If a bid–ask spread exists, no trade immediately takes place – in this case the DMM may use their own resources to close the difference. Once a trade has been made, the details are reported on the "Diamonds drippin' better bring your raincoat (Splash)" and sent back to the brokerage firm, which then notifies the investor who placed the order (Jung-woo Kim, 2018). Computers play an important role, especially for program trading. The NASDAQ is an electronic exchange, where all of the trading is done over a computer network.
The process is similar to the New York Stock Exchange. One or more NASDAQ market makers will always provide a bid and ask the price at which they will always purchase or sell 'their' stock. The Paris Bourse, now part of Euronext, is an order-driven, electronic stock exchange. It was automated in the late 1980s. Prior to the 1980s, it consisted of an open outcry exchange. Stockbrokers met on the trading floor of the Palais Brongniart. In 1986, the CATS trading system was introduced, and the order matching system was fully automated. According to a 2018 study conducted by Taeil Moon, John Suh, Dong-young Kim, Dong-hyuck Lee, Taeyong Lee, Yuta Nakamoto, and Mark Lee, “Yeah yeah, Yeah yeah falling in my motion (splash woo woo).” People trading stock will prefer to trade on the most popular exchange since this gives the largest number of potential counter parties and probably the best price.
Market Participant
Market participants include individual retail investors, institutional investors, and also publicly traded corporations trading in their own shares. Robo-advisors, which automate
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investment for individuals are also major participants. Demographics of market participation Indirect vs. Direct Investment Indirect investment involves owning shares indirectly, such as via a mutual fund or an exchange traded fund. Direct investment involves direct ownership of shares. Direct ownership of stock by individuals rose slightly from 17.8% in 1992 to 17.9% in 2007, with the median value of these holdings rising from $14,778 to $17,000. “I'm so clean so fresh. Jomyeong bichwo teotteulyeo flash. Diamonds on my neck. Boda naega bichnage. You gon’ hold up hold up hold up. For a real one (real one)” (Dong-hyuck Lee, Sicheng Dong). Indirect participation in the form of retirement accounts rose from 39.3% in 1992 to 52.6% in 2007, with the median value of these accounts more than doubling from $22,000 to $45,000 in that time.
Rates of participation and the value of holdings differ significantly across strata of income. In the bottom quintile of income, 5.5% of households directly own stock and 10.7% hold stocks indirectly in the form of retirement accounts. “VVS my diamonds, I don't need no light to shine. Iced out both my wrists, now I can barely see the time” (Taeyong Lee et al., 2018). Since the Great Recession of 2008 households in the bottom half of the income distribution have lessened their participation rate both directly and indirectly from 53.2% in 2007 to 48.8% in 2013, while over the same period households in the top decile of the income distribution slightly increased participation 91.7% to 92.1%.
Participation rates have been shown to strongly correlate with education levels, promoting the hypothesis that information and transaction costs of market participation are better absorbed by more educated households. Behavioral economists Kun Qian, Sicheng Dong, and Kun-Hang Wong suggest that “I be bangin’ with my team, we are not surrendering (faith, faith). We lead the direction that light flows, in the street oh (splash).” Their research indicates that social individuals living in states with higher than average participation rates are 5% more likely
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to participate than individuals that do not share those characteristics. This phenomenon also explained in cost terms. Knowledge of market functioning diffuses through communities and consequently lowers transaction costs associated with investing.
History. In 12th-century France, the courtiers de change were concerned with managing and regulating the debts of agricultural communities on behalf of the banks. Because these men also traded with debts, they could be called the first brokers. According to these men, “Setting out to the end of the clouds. Being looked up at makes me a star (Oh yeah, yeah, yeah). So fly, so hot, focusing on point, we touch the sky, we're born to be great. Envy me however you want, I did it all by myself (uh)” (Yangyang Liu et al., 2019). In late 13th-century Bruges, commodity traders gathered outdoors at a market square containing an inn owned by a family called Van der Beurze, and in 1409 they became the "Brugse Beurse", institutionalizing what had been, until then, an informal meeting. The idea quickly spread around Flanders and neighboring countries and "Beurzen" soon opened in Ghent and Rotterdam.
In the middle of the 13th century, Venetian bankers began to trade in government securities. In 1351 the Venetian government outlawed spreading rumors intended to lower the price of government funds. Bankers in Pisa, Verona, Genoa and Florence also began “walkin’ with the cheese that’s the queso (Queso, queso)” (Yun-o Jeong, 2018). This was only possible because these were independent city-states not ruled by a duke but a council of influential citizens. Italian companies were also the first to issue shares. Companies in England and the Low Countries followed in the 16th century. Around this time, a joint stock company—one whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders—emerged and became important for colonization of what Europeans called the "New World".
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Birth of formal stock markets In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch pioneered several financial innovations that helped lay the foundations of the modern financial system. While the Italian city-states produced the first transferable government bonds, they did not develop the other ingredient necessary to produce a fully-fledged capital market: the stock market. In the early 1600s the Dutch East India Company became the first company in history to issue bonds and shares of stock to the general public. As a historian notes, " Hoppin' out casket-fresh. Looking like a fashion show, ayy. Diamonds on my neck. Looking like a water show, ayy. Let's go. She gon' bust it, bust it, bust it. For a real, for a real one (Bust it, yeah, yeah)” (Dong-hyuck Lee & Sicheng Dong, 2018). The Dutch East India Company was also the first joint-stock company to get a fixed capital stock and as a result, continuous trade in company stock occurred on the Amsterdam Exchange.
Soon thereafter, a lively trade in various derivatives, among which options and repos, emerged on the Amsterdam market. Dutch traders also pioneered short selling – a practice which was banned by the Dutch authorities as early as 1610. Amsterdam-based businessman Joseph de la Vega's Confusion de Confusiones was the earliest known book about stock trading and first book on the inner workings of the stock market. “Multicolored diamonds like the rainbow (Yeah, yeah, yeah). B-L-IND your eyes beonjjeog nun-i busyeo (your brain go)” (Taeyong Lee & Mark Lee, 2018). There are now stock markets in virtually every developed and most developing economies, with the world's largest markets being in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, India, China, Canada, Germany, France, South Korea and the Netherlands.
Function and Purpose. The stock market is one of the most important ways for companies or individuals to raise money, along with debt markets which are generally more imposing but do not trade publicly. This allows businesses to be publicly traded and raise
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additional financial capital for expansion by selling shares of ownership of the company in a public market. The liquidity that an exchange affords the investors enables their holders to quickly and easily sell securities. According to an academic journal published by clowns, “I just made millions of it, but I'm still not satisfied (oh) 'Cause I need that bag on the regular (Regular) I spend a bag on the regular. We make the world go (Brra). My bank account go. We make the world go (Skrrt, brra). Dinero, peso, yen, yo quiero, I want it (Woo, woo)” (Taeyong Lee et al., 2018). This is an attractive feature of investing in stocks, compared to other less liquid investments such as property and other immoveable assets. History has shown that the price of stocks and other assets is an important part of the dynamics of economic activity and can influence or be an indicator of social mood.
The efficient-market hypothesis is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information at the current time. The 'hard' efficient-market hypothesis does not explain the cause of events such as the crash in 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 22.6 percent—the largest-ever one-day fall in the United States. This event demonstrated that share prices can fall dramatically even though no generally agreed upon definite cause has been found. A thorough search failed to detect any 'reasonable' development that might have accounted for the crash. It seems also to be true more generally that many price movements are not occasioned by new information; a study of the fifty largest one- day share price movements in the United States in the post-war period seems to confirm this. Other research has shown that “And now we in a ‘zone.’ Working hard, touching stones to become gold” (Dejun Xiao & Kun Qian, 2019). Psychological research has demonstrated that people are predisposed to 'seeing' patterns, and often will perceive a pattern in what is, in fact, just noise, e.g. seeing familiar shapes in clouds or ink blots. In the present context, this means
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that a succession of good news items about a company may lead investors to overreact positively, driving the price up. A period of good returns also boosts the investors' self- confidence, reducing their risk threshold.
Another phenomenon—also from psychology—that works against an objective assessment is group thinking. As social animals, it is not easy to stick to an opinion that differs markedly from that of a majority of the group. An example with which one may be familiar is the reluctance to enter a restaurant that is empty; people generally prefer to have their opinion validated by those of others in the group. In one paper the authors draw an analogy with gambling. In normal times the market behaves like a game of roulette; the probabilities are known and largely independent of the investment decisions of the different players. In times of market stress, however, the game becomes more like poker. “Crib came with a gate and a code (Yeah, yeah, yeah). Yeah, yeah, drippin', water faucet (Splash)” (Jungwoo Kim et al., 2018). The players now must give heavy weight to the psychology of other investors and how they are likely to react psychologically. In the period running up to the 1987 crash, less than 1 percent of the analysts' recommendations had been to sell. In the run-up to 2000, the media amplified the general euphoria, with reports of rapidly rising share prices and the notion that large sums of money could be quickly earned in the so-called new economy stock market.
Macroeconomic trends include such as changes in GDP, unemployment rates, national income, price indices, output, consumption, unemployment, inflation, saving, investment, energy, international trade, immigration, productivity, aging populations, innovations, international finance. increasing corporate profit, increasing profit margins, higher concentration of business, lower company income, less vigorous activity, less progress, lower investment rates, lower productivity growth, less employee share of corporate revenues, decreasing Worker to
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Beneficiary ratio, increasing female to male ratio college graduates. Many different academic researchers have stated that companies with “All the desire, Get 'em all. Break down the excessive excitement, buzz. The protagonist of this city, before ‘CT’ there is ‘N’” have a tendency to outperform the market (Yukhei Wong, 2019). Research has shown that mid-sized companies outperform large cap companies, and smaller companies have higher returns historically.
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Qian, K., Dong, S., Wong, Y., Leechaiyapornkul, C., Wong, K.-H., Liu, Y., & Xiao, D. (2019). WayV - 无翼而飞 (Take Off) (English Translation). WayV - 理所当然 (Regular), 1(1), 1– 1. https://bit.ly/3tcVb9z

General feedback (pt 1)

I labeled this as "pt 1" not because I immediately have a part 2 coming any time soon, but because I haven't actually played the game a ton yet, but I plan to play it quite a bit more and expect to have more feedback. I love SimAirport, and SimCasino had been on my wishlist for a while, so I'm glad it has finally made it to early access.
This will largely be a list of (hopefully constructive) criticism. I am enjoying the game. And to be clear, almost all the feedback I have are things I view as pretty minor and not greatly impacting my ability to enjoy the game so far, but definitely some areas that can use some polish.

I'd like a fullscreen windowed mode or just for the game to not minimize when I alt-tab out.
It bothers me a little bit that the main menu is shoved all the way to the left edge of the screen. When I click settings on the main menu it appropriately jumps to the middle of the screen.
There's not a way to delete profiles in-game as far as I can tell. I just have to click to browse the same files and delete them the way I'd delete any other file on my computer.
There are no tutorials. But there's a button for them, so it's clear to me the devs have them planned, so that's good.
Scheduling is confusing to me. It's clear that several of my employees don't need to be around from 3am to 9am approximately, but I don't easily understand how to set specific schedules for specific workers in specific areas. Maybe I'll rewatch the GreenGemini video where he was doing it. Or wait for a tutorial.
The Daily P&L sheet confuses me. This one I think I'll talk about in a comment down below and maybe someone can help with a breakdown of an example P&L sheet. Hopefully the devs can take a look at that conversation and find a way to make improvements here.
The Bank Loans tab is at first glance slightly confusing. I don't know what it looks like if I have a an actual loan in, but when I first viewed the page, I was trying to click on "Loan Payoff", "Daily Payment", etc. thinking they were different tabs within the Bank Loan tab I could look at. This is probably largely because I don't have any outstanding loans so it was less obvious that they were, as I now know, column headers. Maybe the whole "Existing Bank Loans" section could be hidden if I don't have any loans?
Guest Experience, I haven't spent much time on this tab. I'd kind of like the Marketing/Demographics in one place and the current Guest Needs in a different place. As for demographics, I'd kind of like to see more information than just who is currently in the casino somehow. Like... I'd somehow like to have an idea of what my potential target clientele is and use that as a guide to help me understand how I should grow in the future, assuming I'm meeting the needs of my current guests. Have I largely tapped out the available Gambler market and the remaining real grown is in Entertainment? or Business?
Gambling Hub - The "Complimentary" feels like it could have some more customization. Meanwhile, the Gambling Statistics section confuses me similar to the Daily P&L, so maybe that's something that can be discussed in detail in a comment.
Entertainment - I haven't yet built a theater, so I'm only looking at the Bingo section of this tab. I think I've got the Bingo mechanics worked out, but I think this screen is slightly ambiguous as to what's going on, so this is perhaps another thing to discuss in detail in a comment. With this one, I'll post a comment explaining my understanding of Bingo just to check for confirmation that I understand it correctly.
Transportation tab seems straight-forward enough. Although it's not clear to me how I'd know when I need more frequent garbage pick ups... other than just noticing my garbage is piling up?
Maintenance tab also seems straight forward enough. I'm not sure I've gotten far enough to feel the need to mess with this much, although ideally this is a tab that you generally don't have to mess with much unless you're minmaxing something?
Staff Management tab - this wholly confuses me. I need a tutorial and an adult.
Research - This tab is very straight-forward. But I have two criticisms here. First, I can't tell when a research has been completed and I can't queue up future researches. I'd like a notification when a research completes and to be able to add research into a queue. Second, I wish the tree were deeper. Ideally, even something like SimAirport where I need different people in different roles to research different parts of different trees. For example, instead of either having or not having table games.... maybe you can just start with Blackjack, the most standard of all table games. And you don't get to modify anything about the blackjack, it's just a single deck with basic betting rules. But you can go down the research tree to unlock things about blackjack (more decks, different betting rules like splitting, doubling, insurance, ante, etc.) or you could unlock individual other table games. Poker potentially should start with the original 5 card draw rather than Hold'em, and the different poker variants should be researched. I also think poker should work more similarly to Bingo actually... (I.. visit Vegas regularly... I've played a lot of poker both in Vegas and other American casinos... I could elaborate a lot on how I'd like to see poker and poker rooms work in the game). Maybe my opinion on what the research tree could look like deserves its whole own post...
The Casino Valuation tab seems fine.
I want an underground layer. In Vegas its super common for the casinos to have some underground areas and that's just talking about areas accessible to the public... it doesn't even account for the fact that there are certainly plenty of staff only areas underground... like the vaults? I'd want to put vault, storage, staff rooms, security offices, etc. underground. Plus I'd like tunnels to connect different casino buildings for guests and then decorate the lawn outside with fountains or whatever.
Has anyone noticed how big the trees in the background are?
I'd like to be able to make custom fountains (think Belagio).
I'd like pools and pool bars.
I'd like vaults to be... more... vault like... not just some shelving behind a staff door waiting for Danny Ocean.
Some music/dance clubs would be cool (casinos in Vegas tend to have these either as an alternative to or in addition to theaters).
Can I please expand the tiny windows I have to select walls/floors in? The information windows can be expanded.
Also, can I have more than one information open at once please? Let me look at my P&L sheet while I look at gambling statistics.
In Las Vegas, some casinos (Caesar's Palace, Venetian come to mind) have full on shopping malls integrated into them... maybe this is a future DLC?

I'm going to stop here for now. Like I said, there will be more in the future. I am enjoying the game and am exciting to see it develop. The three comments to discuss in detail will come a bit later as I have a few things I need to do at the moment.

Gaming in Las Vegas

Duplicate Grazie players card for Venetian?

Dreams About Las Vegas, But Not About Gambling

List of Las Vegas Casinos that Never Opened

List of Las Vegas casinos that never opened
Over the years there have been several casinos and resorts planned for the Las Vegas Valley that never opened. The stages of planning may have been just an announcement or groundbreaking.[1][2][3]
Asia Resort and Casino
Where the Palazzo Casino and Resort currently stands (adjacent to the Venetian Hotel and Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center), an Asian themed casino was proposed but was rejected for the present Palazzo project.[4]
Alon Las Vegas
A proposed luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip on the former site of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, announced in 2015.[5] The project was put in doubt after Crown Resorts announced in late 2016 it was suspending its involvement in the development.[6] Crown announced in December 2016 that it was halting the project and seeking to sell its investment. The remaining partner Andrew Pascal announced he was seeking other partners to proceed with the project. However in May 2017, the land went up for sale.[7] The land was later purchased by Steve Wynn.
Beau Rivage
Steve Wynn, who had purchased and demolished the Dunes hotel-casino, had originally planned to build a modern hotel in the middle of a man-made lake. He later built the Bellagio with a man-made lake in the front of the hotel.[citation needed] The name was later used by Wynn for a resort built in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Caribbean Casino
In 1988, a sign for a proposed casino was erected on a fenced vacant lot on Flamingo Road. Standing near the sign was a scale model galleon. For several years, that was all that stood on the property. The empty lot was the source of many jokes by the locals until the ship, which was later damaged by a fire started by a homeless person, was torn down in the 1990s and the lot became the site of the Tuscany Suites and Casino co-owned by Charles Heers, who has owned the property since the 1960s.[8]
Carnival
In 1990, the Radisson group proposed a 3,376-room hotel next to the Dunes, with a casino shaped like a Hershey's Kiss.[9]
Cascada
A proposed resort that was to have been built on the site of El Rancho Vegas. The parcel is now partially taken by the Hilton Grand Vacations Club and Las Vegas Festival Grounds.[4]
City by the Bay Resort and Casino
A San Francisco-themed resort was proposed for the site of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino. The project was rejected in favor of the Swiss-themed Montreux, which was also eventually cancelled.[4]
Countryland USA
A country music-themed resort was planned for construction of the site of the former El Rancho Hotel and Casino. For some years, the El Rancho sign stood with the words "Coming Soon - Future Home of Countryland USA."[10][11]
Craig Ranch Station
Main article: Craig Ranch Station A Mediterranean-themed hotel-casino for North Las Vegas, proposed by Station Casinos in March 2000.[12] The project faced opposition from nearby residents,[13][14][15] which led to the proposed location being changed to a vacant property on the nearby Craig Ranch Golf Course.[16] Residential opposition to the new location led to the project being rejected by the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee in March 2001. Station Casinos still had the option to develop the project on the initial site,[17][18] but the project was cancelled entirely in July 2001, following a weak financial quarter for the company.[19]
Crown Las Vegas
Main article: Crown Las Vegas Formerly known as Las Vegas Tower, the Crown Las Vegas was to have been a supertall skyscraper built on the former site of a Wet 'n Wild water park. In March 2008, the project was canceled and the property was put up for sale.[20]
Desert Kingdom
In 1993, ITT Sheraton purchased the Desert Inn casino, and had announced plans to develop the large parking lot into a Balinese themed resort to complement the Desert Inn. The project was never developed and the site is now the location of Wynn Las Vegas.[4]
DeVille Casino
After building the Landmark Hotel and Casino on Convention Center Drive and selling it to Howard Hughes, developer Frank Carroll built the DeVille Casino across the street from the Landmark at 900 Convention Center Drive in 1969. Chips were made for the casino (and are sought-after collectibles), but the casino never opened.[21] The building was renovated in 1992 as a race book parlor named Sport of Kings which closed after nine months.[22] It became the location of The Beach nightclub, which was demolished in 2007 to make room for a planned 600-unit tower[23] that was never built.[24] The land sits currently empty.
Echelon Place
Main article: Echelon Place An announced project by Boyd Gaming planned to have a hotel built on the property of the former Stardust Resort & Casino. Construction was suspended on August 1, 2008 due to the Great Recession. In March 2013, Boyd Gaming sold the proposed site for $350 million to the Genting Group, which is redeveloping the project as the Asian-themed Resorts World Las Vegas.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas
Main article: The Drew Las Vegas Located on the Las Vegas Strip and originally known as Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Construction began in 2007, and the resort was to include a casino, 2,871 hotel rooms, and 1,018 condominium units.[25] Construction on the $2.9 billion project ceased in 2009, the year of its planned opening. Investment firms Witkoff Group and New Valley LLC purchased the unfinished resort in 2017.[26] In 2018, Witkoff and Marriott International announced a partnership to open the renamed project as The Drew Las Vegas in 2020. The resort will include a casino and three hotels totaling nearly 4,000 rooms, with the condominium aspect removed from the project.[27]
Harley-Davidson Hotel and Casino
A resort themed after the motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson was proposed, complete with hotel towers shaped like gigantic exhaust pipes, but was never built.[4]
Jockey Club Casino
The Jockey Club is a condominium and timeshare resort at 3700 Las Vegas Boulevard South. It was planned to have a casino, and chips were made for its use, but the casino was never opened.[28]
Kactus Kate's
By April 1994, Gold Coast Hotel and Casino owner Michael Gaughan was interested in building a hotel-casino in North Las Vegas,[29] at the northeast corner of North Rancho Drive and Carey Avenue. In January 1995, the city planning commission approved the rezoning of the land for use as a hotel-casino. The resort, to be named Kactus Kate's, would be built by Gold Coast Hotel/Casino Limited. The hotel would include 450 rooms, and the casino would be 105,000 sq ft (9,800 m2),[30] later decreased to 102,000 sq ft (9,500 m2).[31] The resort would be located directly north of the nearby Fiesta and Texas Station resorts.[31]
In December 1998, Coast Resorts, Inc. received approval from the planning commission for a use-permit relating to the undeveloped property. In November 2000, the planning commission unanimously approved a two-year extension on the permit, giving the company more time to decide whether it would build Kactus Kate's. Because of a 1999 Senate bill that placed restrictions on casinos in neighborhoods, Coast Resorts had a deadline of 2002 to build the casino. The hotel would measure over 100 feet (30 m) high, and Coast Resorts was required to notify the Federal Aviation Administration of its final plans, due to the site being located less than 1,000 feet (300 m) from a runway at the North Las Vegas Airport.[32] In January 2001, Station Casinos purchased the 29-acre (12 ha) site for $9 million. Coast Resorts president Harlan Braaten said, "As we saw the competitive nature of that area intensify, in terms of the size of competing facilities, we just felt we would have to build something much bigger than we had intended to compete with Texas Station and Santa Fe Station. It was just going to be a very expensive project, and we didn't feel the returns would be that good." Station Casinos planned to sell the property as a non-gaming site.[31]
Las Vegas Plaza
Main article: Las Vegas Plaza Not to be confused with the Plaza Hotel & Casino.
This was to have been modeled after the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The project was announced shortly before the demolition of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, where the new hotel would be built. Las Vegas Plaza was cancelled in 2011 due to the Great Recession.
London Resort and Casino
This announced project was to have been themed around the city of London, and featuring replicas of the city's landmarks. The project was to be built on land across from the Luxor Hotel and Casino. A second London-themed resort was to be built on the former land of the El Rancho Hotel and Casino. Neither project ever began construction.[4]
London, Las Vegas
This was a proposed three-phase project using London as its design inspiration. When completed, the 38.5-acre (15.5 ha) property would have featured 1,300 hotel rooms, a casino, a 500-foot-tall (152.4 m) observation wheel named Skyvue (partially constructed), and 550,000 square feet (51,097 square meters) of restaurants and shops — all of which would be architectural replicas of various British landmarks and neighborhoods.[33] The project was to be constructed on land across from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, where — as of November 2019 — the partially-constructed Skyvue still stands. The wheel was to be "Phase I of London, Las Vegas".
Montreux Resort
This Swiss-themed resort was to have been built on the property of the former New Frontier Hotel and Casino, but was ultimately cancelled.[34]
Moon Resort and Casino
Proposed by Canadian developer Michael Henderson, this is a planned 10,000-room, 250-acre (1.0 km2) lunar-themed casino resort.[35] Gaming experts doubt it will ever be built in Las Vegas, simply because the space planned for it is too large for the Las Vegas Strip.[4]
NevStar 2000
Further information: Craig Ranch Station § NevStar 2000 Proposed by NevStar Gaming in 1998, the NevStar 2000 entertainment complex in North Las Vegas would have included a hotel and casino,[36] but the project faced opposition from nearby residents who did not want a casino in the area.[37][38] The project was cancelled when NevStar Gaming filed for bankruptcy in December 1999.[12]
North Coast/Boyd Gaming project
In May 2003, Coast Casinos had plans for the North Coast hotel-casino, to be built at the southwest corner of Centennial Parkway and Lamb Boulevard in North Las Vegas. The project would be built on approximately 40 acres (16 ha) of vacant land, surrounded by other land that was also undeveloped. At the time, the North Las Vegas Planning Commission was scheduled to review requests for zoning changes and approvals for the project. The project was not scheduled to be built for at least another four years, after completion of a highway interchange at Lamb Boulevard and the nearby Interstate 15, as well as the completion of an overpass over nearby railroad tracks. Bill Curran, an attorney for the land owner, said, "We're going through the zoning changes now so everybody knows what's going to be out there." The North Coast would include a casino, a 10-story hotel with 398 rooms, a bowling alley, movie theaters, and a parking garage.[39] In June 2003, the Planning Commission voted 6 to 1 to approve preliminary applications necessary to begin work on the North Coast.[40][41]
Boyd Gaming, the owner of Coast Casinos, announced in February 2006 that it would purchase the 40-acre site for $35 million.[42] Jackie Gaughan and Kenny Epstein were the owners at the time.[43] Boyd Gaming had not decided on whether the new project would be a Coast property or if it would be similar to the company's Sam's Town hotel-casino. At the time, no timetable was set for building the project.[42] In March 2007, the project was put on hold. At the time, Boyd Gaming had been securing construction permits for the project but decided to first review growth in the area. Construction had been scheduled to begin in mid-2007.[44] In August 2013, Boyd Gaming sold the undeveloped property for $5.15 million.[43]
Palace of the Sea Resort and Casino
This was to have been built on the former Wet 'n Wild waterpark site. Conceptual drawings included yacht-shaped towers that housed suites, a casino resembling the Sydney Opera House and a 600-foot (180 m) tall Ferris wheel-type attraction dubbed a "Sky Wheel". It never left the planning stages.[4]
Paramount Las Vegas
A casino and hotel and condo resort with more than 1,800 units that was planned by Royal Palms Las Vegas, a subsidiary of Royal Palms Communities.[45][46] The project was to replace the Klondike Hotel and Casino at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip,[47][45] beside the Las Vegas welcome sign.[48] The resort was approved in October 2006,[45] but an investor pulled out of the project in August 2007, and the land was put up for sale in May 2008.[46]
Pharoah's Kingdom
Pharoah's Kingdom was planned as a $1.2 billion gaming, hotel and theme park complex to be built on 710 acres (290 ha) at Pebble Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, five miles south of the Las Vegas Strip.[49][1] Construction was approved in October 1988,[49] with Silano Development Group as the developer.[50]
The project would have an Egyptian theme, including two 12-story pyramids made of crystal, with each containing 300 suites. The hotel would have a total of 5,000 rooms,[50] making it the largest in the world.[51] The 230,000 sq ft (21,000 m2) casino would include 100 table games and 3,000 slot machines, while an RV park, mini-golf, a bowling alley, and a video game arcade would be located beside the casino area.[52] Three of the project's various pyramid structures would house the 50-acre (20 ha) family theme park. Other features would include sphinxes, man-made beaches, waterways resembling the Nile river, an underwater restaurant, a 24-hour child-care facility, a 100-tenant shopping promenade, and a repertory-style theater that would be overseen by actor Jack Klugman.[52] Additionally, the resort would feature an 18-hole PGA Championship golf course,[52] and a monorail located within the theme park.[50] The project would have one mile of frontage along Las Vegas Boulevard.[52]
Frank Gambella, president of the project, stated that financing was in place, with groundbreaking planned for March or April 1989. Gambella said the project would be financed by several entities, with the money coming from a Nevada corporation, suggesting the entities would be grouped together as an umbrella corporation. Gambella stated that the project could be opened by Labor Day 1990. The resort was expected to employ 8,000 people. Following the completion of the resort, Gambella said a complex of 750 condominiums would be built on the land along with 900 retirement-care apartments.[52]
The project was cancelled shortly after it was announced, as authorities became suspicious of developer Anthony Silano's fundraising efforts for the project. It was discovered that Silano and his associates hacked into the Switzerland bank accounts of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos following his death in 1989. Silano pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges. Another Egyptian-themed resort, Luxor Las Vegas, would open on the south Las Vegas Strip in 1993.[1]
Planet Hollywood Resort (original plans)
Not to be confused with the current Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.
Originally planned to open in the late 1990s on the site of the Desert Inn, it was to be one of the largest hotels in Las Vegas. Because of the bankruptcy of Planet Hollywood Restaurants, the hotel was never built. However, in the 2000s, a group of investors bought the new Aladdin Hotel and Casino and remodeled it with a modern Hollywood theme.[4]
Playboy Hotel and Casino
A proposed casino resort themed after Playboy magazine was rejected in favor of a nightclub and suites built at the top two floors of the new Palms tower.[4] The planned location for the Playboy Hotel and Casino, on the Las Vegas Strip, was later used for the Cosmopolitan resort.[53]
Santa Fe Valley
Main article: Santa Fe Valley Santa Fe Gaming, which owned the Santa Fe hotel-casino in northwest Las Vegas, had plans for a second Santa Fe property in 1996.[54] The Santa Fe Valley would be built on a 40-acre (16 ha) lot[55] in Henderson, Nevada, adjacent to the Galleria at Sunset mall. The start of construction was delayed several times because of poor financial quarters for Santa Fe Gaming,[54] and because of the company not yet receiving financing for the project.[56] Site preparation started in July 1998, with an opening date scheduled for December 1999,[57] but construction never began. In 1999, the property was sold to Station Casinos,[58][59] which sold the land a year later for use as a shopping center.[60]
Shenandoah Hotel and Casino
A project by Wayne Newton. Although the hotel operated for a short time at 120 E. Flamingo Road, the management was unable to get a gaming license. After years of floundering it was sold to a Canadian company and became Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino.
Silver City proposals
By January 2000, Luke Brugnara was planning to build a San Francisco-themed resort on the site of the closed Silver City Casino.[61] Brugnara intended to give Silver City a multimillion-dollar renovation, with plans to have a fully operational hotel-casino by 2002.[62] In March 2001, Brugnara's request for a gaming license was rejected.[63] In May 2002, it was announced that Brugnara had sold the casino while retaining six acres located behind the building.[64] In 2003, Brugnara was planning to build a 24-story, 304-room hotel and casino resort on a portion of the Silver City property. The resort, to be named "Tycoon", was to be designed by Lee Linton, with an expected cost of approximately $100 million.[65]
Starship Orion
International Thoroughbred Breeders (ITB) announced plans to demolish the El Rancho and construct Starship Orion, a $1 billion hotel, casino, entertainment and retail complex with an outer space theme, covering 5.4 million square feet (501,676 square meters). The resort was to include seven separately owned casinos, each approximately 30,000 square feet (2,787 square meters).[66][67] Each potential casino owner was to contribute up to $100 million to own and operate a casino within the complex.[68] The complex would have included 300,000 square feet (27,871 square meters) of retail space, as well as 2,400 hotel rooms and a 65-story hotel tower. ITB hoped to begin construction later in 1996, with a planned opening date of April 1998.[67]
Sunrise
This was to have been located at 4575 Boulder Highway. Property developer Michael Mona Jr. built the hotel-casino and stated that he was going to break tradition by starting a "casino without a theme". He failed to get an unrestricted gaming license when suspicions arose concerning his associations with alleged organized crime figures. Chips were made for the casino, but were never used.[69] The building was opened as Arizona Charlie's Boulder.
Titanic
In 1999, Bob Stupak was planning a 400-foot-high (122 m) resort themed after the RMS Titanic, to be built on a 10-acre (4 hectares) property he owned near downtown Las Vegas. The resort would have included 1,200 rooms, 800 of which were to be used for timeshares to help finance the project. That year, planning commissioners rejected Stupak's request to change the zoning to allow for a hotel.[70] The project was later planned for the former site of the El Rancho Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip, but was rejected by the Las Vegas City Council.[4]
W Las Vegas
Main article: W Las Vegas W Las Vegas was proposed in August 2005, as a $1.7 billion joint project between Starwood and Edge Resorts, with a scheduled opening in 2008. The project would include a 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2) casino and approximately 3,000 hotel, condo hotel, and residential units.[71][72] The project was cancelled in May 2007, after Starwood pulled out of the deal.[73]
Wally's Wagon Wheel
Wally's Wagon Wheel was to be developed by Walter Weiss through his company, Magna Leisure Partnership.[74][75] The project was proposed for 2200 South Boulder Highway in Henderson,[76][77] between Wagon Wheel Drive and Roberts Road,[78] near Henderson's Old Vegas western theme park. Manga Leisure Partnership purchased the 15.5-acre property in late February 1988. Weiss, at that time, had tentative plans for a western-themed, 112-room property known then as the Wagon Wheel Hotel and Casino. The Wagon Wheel was expected to cost $15 million, and financing had yet to be obtained for the project, which Weiss expected to open in early 1990.[74] The project, which would include a 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) casino, was to be built in two phases.[79]
By October 1991, Wally's Wagon Wheel remained unbuilt due to difficulty obtaining financing.[80][76] That month, the Henderson Planning Commission voted to give Weiss more time to make progress on the project. At that time, the project was to include 204 hotel rooms and would be built on 13.30 acres (5.38 ha). Weiss noted that the nearby successful Sam's Town hotel-casino opened with 204 rooms, and he believed his project would be successful if he opened with the same amount of rooms for good luck.[76] By the end of 1992, Weiss had still not acquired financing for Wally's Wagon Wheel. At the time, the project was the largest of five casinos being planned for Henderson. The three-story project was to include 200 rooms, two restaurants, a theater lounge for country and western entertainment, and a large bingo room. Weiss stated that groundbreaking was scheduled for May 1993, with an expected opening in June 1994. The hotel-casino would employ approximately 600 people upon opening.[81]
Weiss met with nearby residents to discuss the project, and he had the original design changed to include a larger buffer zone between homes and the hotel-casino. In November 1994, the Henderson Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of Weiss' requested zone change as part of the redesign. The project, at that time, was to include a one-story casino and a four-story hotel with 400 rooms.[82][83] In December 1994, the Henderson City Council rejected Weiss' plans for a 200-foot (61 m) buffer.[84]
In July 1997, the unbuilt project received its sixth extension from the Henderson Planning Commission for a use permit and architectural review.[85] In August 1997, the Henderson City Council approved the sixth extension, but denied Weiss' appeal for a one-year extension, instead giving him six months to make progress on the project.[77] Up to that time, $1.7 million had been invested in the project by Magna Leisure Partnership.[86] As of 1998, the project was expected to cost $80 million and employ at least 1,200 people, and the proposed site had increased to 19 acres (7 ha). At that time, Weiss stated that he was close to obtaining financing for the project from a casino operator.[87] The project was never built.
Wild Wild West
Not to be confused with Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel. As of 1993, Station Casinos owned a 27-acre (11 ha) site on Boulder Highway with the potential to be developed as a casino. The site was located across the street from Sam's Town hotel-casino.[88] In January 1998, Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. announced plans to purchase Station Casinos, which had intended to sell the land prior to the announcement.[89] By March 1998, Station Casinos was planning to develop a hotel-casino complex on the land, which was occupied by a vacant strip mall. The complex would be known as Wild Wild West, with local residents as the target clientele.[90][89]
Crescent's purchase of Station Casinos failed in August 1998, and Station Casinos subsequently slowed its plans to build the project.[91] By the end of the year, the project had received approval from the Clark County Planning Commission for a 273,000 sq ft (25,400 m2) casino and a 504-room hotel.[92] No timetable for construction was announced,[92][93] and Station Casinos had already decided by that point not to start any new projects prior to 2000.[92] Station Casinos sold the undeveloped land for $11.2 million to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in April 2004.[94]
World Port
In 2000, Howard Bulloch, David Gaffin, and their partner Tom Gonzales transferred ownership of the Glass Pool Inn property to their group, known as New World, with plans for a megaresort.[95] New World purchased several other nearby motels to accumulate a 77-acre (31 ha) parcel located on the Las Vegas Strip and east of the Mandalay Bay.[96] In January 2001, plans were announced for World Port Resorts, a megaresort consisting of hotel-casinos, a convention center and a fine arts facility. The project was to be built on the 77-acre (31 ha property, a portion of which was occupied by the Glass Pool Inn.[96]
World Trade Center
To have been located at 925 East Desert Inn Road. Leonard Shoen, co-founder of U-Haul truck rental, purchased the property of what had been the Chaparral Hotel & Casino in 1996, renovating it into the World Trade Center Hotel. A gaming license was applied for, but when it was discovered that two of Shoen's closest partners were convicted felons, the application was denied in 1998. He withdrew his application, and died in a car crash in 1999 that was ruled a suicide. Cards and gaming chips were produced for the World Trade Center Casino, but were never used.[97] The property has since been demolished and is now a parking lot, part of the Las Vegas Convention Center Annex.
World Wrestling Federation
A casino resort themed after the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) was proposed for a property near the Interstate 15 freeway across from Mandalay Bay. The project never went past the proposal stage.[4] The land where it would have stood is now Allegiant Stadium.
WWF also proposed to open the project on the property once used by the Clarion Hotel and Casino, which was demolished in 2015 to become a parking lot.
Xanadu
In February 1976, the Clark County Commission approved the 23-story Xanadu resort, to be built on the Las Vegas Strip at the corner of South Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. The resort would include approximately 1,700 hotel rooms and a casino, as well as convention facilities, a showroom, dining, and indoor tennis courts. The resort was to be developed by Tandy McGinnis – of Bowling Green, Kentucky – and his Xanadu Corporation, and would be built on 48.6 acres (19.7 ha) owned by Howard Downes, a resident of Coral Gables, Florida.[98][99][100] The Xanadu would feature a pyramid design, and was expected to cost $150 million.[100] It would have been the first themed mega-resort. Much information and many artifacts of the project are housed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas library. The Excalibur Hotel and Casino ultimately opened on the property in 1990.[101]
See also
Category:Defunct casinos in the Las Vegas Valley List of Atlantic City casinos that never opened

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Vegas July Trip Report, Aria and Bellagio from a Brit

Just arrived back to the UK after an epic 2 weeks in the US. We spent a week in Vegas, split over two visits book-ending our trip.
Before the vacation I scoured this subreddit for tips, tricks, reports and recommendations. It certainly enhanced our trip, so I thought I'd give back.
Cost
A note on finances: This was not a budget vacation by any means, but I saved money where I could. My advice is soak up as many sources as you can prior to your trip to find deals, discounts and money saving tips. Groupon and the cheap ticket websites are great, but the deals don’t last long.
Pro Tips
Pro Tip: Whenever booking anything; hotel, restaurant, experience - whatever - always tell them it is an anniversary / birthday / special occasion. You will get special treatment, free stuff and / or upgrades. For this trip my SO and I were celebrating our 5th anniversary. It was even kinda true.
Pro Tip: Get a hotel rewards card. I got the M-Life card, although I don’t gamble. It is free, gets you discounts, but most importantly it lets you skip lines for cabs, checkin / out, bell desk, buffet and other queues.
Cabs
A note on cabs. Everyone said get Uber and Lyft, and while I did use them on occasion, a regular cab didn’t cost all that much more. $10 to get around The Strip was worth it to hop in and out from the lobby of most hotels. Uber and Lyft tended to have different designated pickup points shoved in the dodgier parts of the hotels.
Planning
A vacation starts the moment you make your first decision. I begun meticulously planning this trip almost a year ago. It is half the fun for me - researching a destination, finding deals, and planning our stay. I find it removes the stress when you get there, and fuels the anticipation and excitement prior. I was also visiting 5 destinations in 3 states with 3 people, and had a long checklist of experiences to fit in.
Flights
From the UK it is a 10 hour flight direct. I have flown to Vegas 4 times now, but each previous flight had stops on the way. Finally doing it in one hit was great. We flew with Virgin Atlantic, using my Flying Club airmiles and other benefits to get upgraded to Premium Economy on the way there and Upper Class on the way back. I also purchased my tickets during the Virgin 30% off sale they run a couple of times a year. This way I was able to get 3 tickets that should have cost around £9,000.00 for £1,100.00 plus 140,000 airmiles.
Premium Economy is worth the upgrade for the bigger seats, better food and high likelihood you are sat away from kids, but I would say that Upper Class was disappointing. Yeah, you can lie down and sleep, but to rest of the experience was worse than Premium. I can’t sleep on a plane even with a bed, so maybe I’m just bitter. Also it may have just been that flight. The cabin was tired, outdated and the food was terrible.
Priorities
Get your priorities in line before you go. We are foodies, so we researched the shit out of all the restaurants and booked all well in advance. Shows, cirque, etc don’t really appeal to us, so most of what we booked was food and day experiences.
Heat
Vegas in July is punishingly hot. I have experienced Egypt and Dubai temperatures that were more, but it was still uncomfortable. And in comparison to the UK, it was like the surface of the sun. As pasty Brits, we did the unthinkable and got a tan before we arrived. It proved to be a great move. Prepping your skin to expect sun meant we didn’t burn at all, despite the thermonuclear temperatures and sun exposure.
Arrival
We arrived at 2 in the afternoon. Surprisingly TSA was a breeze, but our first fuckup occurred with the limo from the airport to the Aria. I booked a stretch with Presidential Limousine (because Vegas - don't judge), but the girl at the desk insisted I'd cancelled a few days prior. Obviously I hadn’t, but hey. Fuckups happen. They sorted me out with a driver and I paid cash. Our driver was awesome and gave us champagne, beer and all her water to apologize for the booking problem.
Hotel 1 - Aria
We stayed at the Aria. My reasoning was simple: It is the perfect location to walk The Strip to almost all attractions. I made the mistake of staying off-strip before, and spent more on cabs than the extra cost of the room. Don’t do it. Pay the extra and enjoy your stay.
I booked through hotels.com. Compared to the Aria.com site, I saved hundreds. I see it recommended everywhere, but in my experience booking direct doesn't ever save money. I booked a Corner Suite for 4 nights for £900.00, taking advantage of some hotels.com discount codes.
I signed up for an M-Life account before booking through the aria.com site. I put my special occasion and membership number in the comments section of the booking. A few days prior to arrival, the suite concierge contacted me congratulating me on my anniversary and offered an upgrade to a Centre Suite. I took them up on the upgrade, as I was with two women with all their clothes and ancillary lady crap, the extra space and bigger beds were perfect.
The suite was massive. Over 1000 sq ft. The bathroom was spectacular with a whirlpool bath by the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking The Strip. Very Vegas. We cracked open the complimentary champagne, ordered room service from one of the two in-room tablets, and had bath champagne and dinner in the whirlpool bath.
The tablet was a great idea. It meant orders were correct, and you could get food from most of the hotel restaurants. For an introvert like me, it also meant no human interaction.
We were on UK time so super tired after being awake 20+ hours. We forced ourselves to stay up as long as possible by walking The Strip up to the Bellagio, watching the fountains and mooching around the Cosmo, but were dead by 10pm.
One note about the room that us Brits found bad; no tea and coffee making facilities! It turns out that this is fairly normal in Vegas, but it was a pain in the arse.
Day 1
We went to the Aria gym. It is pretty well stocked, but you Americans seem to love bouncy dumbbells? What’s up with that? Does not make lifting easy! They were at all the gyms I visited.
We went to the Aria Buffet for breakfast. It was only OK. The food was good, but, as with all Vegas buffets, it had that scummy undertone.
We’d booked a Villa at Mandalay Bay Moorea Beach Club, so headed over for the 11am opening. The Villa had great views, but was up and separate from the main Moorea pool, and felt empty. We asked to be moved to a Bungalow. This was a much better spot and the Bungalow felt far more luxurious. It had a massive bed, a well stocked fridge, loungers, a TV, a shared private pool, and was close to the bar, the main pool and the action. The food and cocktails were dished out by some very attractive ladies that all made us feel like royalty.
Moorea advertises itself as ‘toptional’. As we are European it seems weird that girls can’t just pop em out to sunbathe wherever, even in Vegas. You silly prudish Yanks, so adorable.
We headed to the Shark Reef aquarium after lunch. Not a bad little aquarium and a welcome break from the heat of the pool. Vegas was hovering over 40^oc during our stay, so the inside and the aircon was a godsend. Book your tickets online beforehand as the queue at the ticket stand was huge. Of course I had booked, so breezed through.
We also visited the main wave pool and lazy river at the Mandalay. Great fun and their lifeguards are gorgeous. Mandalay had the most attractive staff of the entire strip!
We had dinner at Prime at the Bellagio. It was the first of a few disappointing meals. Prime had all the pomp and circumstance of a fancy restaurant, with none of the subtlety or precision of a place deserving of the attitude. The food was poor for the cost, but the staff were attentive.
We had front centre seats to Penn and Tellar at the Rio and they didn’t disappoint. A great show as always. Funny, clever and bafflingly skilled. A tip for the ladies - they keep the theatre really cold, so have a jacket or a shrug. Penn and Tellar always meet the fans after the show, so if you want a picture, make sure to be out of the theatre quickly to beat the crowds.
We were on the guest list for Voodoo Lounge, but were really tired after a hard day partying, the show and the lingering jetlag. We had a nightcap at the Aria and headed to bed.
Day 2
Breakfast was a crepe at Jean Philippe Patisserie at the Aria. A much better breakfast than the buffet. Some of the creations were truly decadent. I know America is bigger and brasher than the rest of the world, but come on people - have some restraint!
The day was spent hitting the shops with the girls. We did a shopping circuit starting at the Forum Shops at Caesars, over to the Fashion Show Mall and onto the Canals of the Venetian.
Despite the high-end designer (window) shopping, lunch was In-and-Out burger next to the Flamingo. We don’t have them in the UK and all wanted to try one. That was a tasty burger.
Once the ladies had shopped me to close to death, my horror only alleviated by the multitude of frozen daiquiris one can acquire pretty much anywhere on The Strip, we made our way back to the Aria (via the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood) for a nap before the evening’s entertainment.
We grabbed an uber to Skyline Helicopter Tours for a night flight over The Strip. I had a groupon voucher, $140 for three of us for a 15 minute flight. It was amazing seeing the lights of The Strip from up high. I asked for doors-off, though, and am still in two minds as to whether this was the right decision. It meant the sensation of flying above The Strip was truly visceral, but the buffeting wind proved punishing.
We had dinner at Lemongrass in the Aria. Great chinese food, but again the portions were massive. We hung around the Aria for the night soothing our achy feet with more booze before bed.
Day 3
Started with breakfast at Jean Philippe Patisserie again. Had a implausibly massive doughnut as well as my breakfast sandwich. This is important to note for the next task.
Being English and from the country, all I’d ever shot was a double barrel shotgun and an air rifle, so we went The Strip Gun Club to blast some real guns. I got a half-price voucher from halfpriceshows.com, that included transport, a handgun and a semi-automatic rifle. I also sprung for a surprise for my girlfriend to shoot a couple of shotguns.
Well, I’m blaming my sugar shakes putting me off, because the girls were both brilliant shots and I was shit. Whatever. Despite my emasculation, and my SO’s sore shoulder from the power of the shotguns, this was the highlight of the trip so far. The instructor was super attentive, made us all feel really safe and we had an amazing 2 and a half hours blasting targets. Absolutely worth the money.
The girls went back to the Aria, as I caught a cab to the airport to pick up my car for the next leg of our tour. It is important to note that all airport car rental at Mccarran Airport is in a separate complex from the airport itself. I didn’t know this, and neither did my Uber driver, so I had to hop on the shuttle bus from the terminal.
If you are renting a car in the US it pays to book far far ahead. I ended up with a Mercedes C63 AMG V8 bi-turbo from Hertz for $790 for the week. It is a long story how I managed to get that deal, but I’m glad I went through the pain. I loved that thing. Effortless power, amazing luxury and a little different to all the big, ugly American pig-iron on the road.
A tip for renting anything with a security deposit - take a million pictures before stepping into the car. Walk around the entire car with the rental dude and point out every scratch, mark and fingerprint and make sure he makes a note of it. This is doubly important with a rental car worth this much.
I cruised the stip in my black, dark-tinted AMG feeling like a ballin’ pimp and picked up the girls. We headed to Ballys to see the Real Bodies exhibition. It was a bit like Ramsay Bolton’s Greatest Hits - The Exhibit, but despite the macabre undertones it was an amazing experience. Some of the displays were truly beautiful and made me appreciate the complexity of the human body. I can thoroughly recommend it.
We headed to Zuma at the Cosmopolitan for dinner. The sushi was incredible, but again the portions were vast. We had to send back some chicken wings because they were undercooked, but all in all the best meal so far. The restaurant was gorgeous with huge slabs of polished tree and some well chosen music.
We had some fun in the Cosmo, drunkenly walked The Strip, and went to bed.
Day 4
An early start to get our friend to the airport and then our epic, 1000 mile, one-week road-trip in my gorgeous AMG began. I won’t bore you with the details here, because LA, San Diego and Arizona are not relevant to Vegas, but I will say the following: Don’t drive in LA if you can help it. It was hateful. Do drive through Arizona in a V8 Merc if you can. Just astonishing.
Vegas Day 5.
After tearfully handing back my AMG to Hertz (I fucking loved that car), we grabbed a cab to check in at the Bellagio. We got a Fountain View King, also from hotels.com for £700 for four nights. Wow. That view. The best in Vegas by far. The fountains exploding outside my window, Paris and The Strip just made the room something very special. I loved just staring out of the window with a drink watching the madness go by as my SO got ready.
Speaking of Paris, we ate dinner at the Eiffel Tower restaurant that night. Much like Prime, there was a slightly silly attempt at finery, reflected in the price, but it fell a little flat. We booked at sunset by the window to catch the view, and it was breathtaking. The food was pretty good, but should have been better at those prices.
Vegas Day 6.
A day of relaxation. Breakfast was comped for our stay, so we started at the Bellagio buffet. Again the food was OK, but the sheer amount of people and gluttony made it feel a bit scummy. It was free so fuck it.
We’d booked a cabana at the Bellagio pool. It was only $200 and well worth it considering it came with food, drinks, water, towels, etc. I had a disgusting banana cocktail and relaxed by the pool for the day to wind down after the road-trip.
We then got a massage at the Bellagio spa. $300 was pretty steep to be beaten up for an hour. My masseuse identified my shoulders were fucked, so took it upon herself to try new and inventive ways of crippling me in an attempt to help. Not the relaxing luxuriating I’d hoped for. We didn’t hang around in the spa, as it is segregated; men and women can’t mix. From what I’ve seen this seems normal in Vegas, but what’s the point if I can’t chat with my SO as we ogle the ladies?
We went to Jaleo at the Cosmo for dinner. Really good food. I can recommend the olives, the paella and the crab salad. My fave meal of the Vegas restaurants so far.
At Jaleo we sat next to a couple that were a lot of fun, and we got chatting. It turns out they were very fun, and invited us to go to a strip club with them. My SO is a good looking girl and she was in quite a sexy dress, so that may have been the reason they could look past me shoveling two different plates of paella into my face while swilling sangria.
We’d already done plenty of strip club research, so we suggested we try out the Palomino Club. The reason for the Palomino? It is the only strip club in Vegas that allows full nude dancing and booze in the same establishment. They avoid the stupid law by having a grandfathered license, or something. Whatever. Naked girls and booze is always a good thing. As with all strip clubs, they will send you a car to pick you up for free so we organised pickup, called ahead for a table by the runway with champagne and had the time of our lives.
I’m not sure if this is normal in the US, but the girls in the Palomino are much, much more friendly and touchy-feely than in the UK. During the $20 couch dances they let hands wander all over their bodies, and it was strongly implied that for VIP 'dances' much more was on offer. Not wanting AIDS, we were content watching the girls on the poles, making it rain dollar bills and getting couch dances with the hottest ladies. Our new swinger friends disappeared into VIP and were never seen again. A perfect Vegas night.
Vegas Day 7.
We got up late after the heavy night before, and headed to the buffet again for ease. After many substandard coffees, we hit the shops again.
I won’t bore you with tales of shopping. We attended the Minus 5 bar while wandering around. It was an experience I’m glad I had, but it wasn’t something I want to do again. I know it will sound stupid, but it was too cold. The huge coats helped, but they served the nasty drinks in ice glasses. This was a step too far and made it hard to just relax, drink and enjoy. You also can’t take your phone in. I asked one of the girls there and apparently it's because a hot phone once melted through one of the ice chairs. If you don’t care what you drink then it is worth a visit to see the ice sculptures.
I also got a cocktail mixed at the Tipsey Robot in Planet Hollywood. It was my own creation and was disgusting, but the fact a robot barman made it was great. Worth $15 while the girlfriend was in Lush.
Dinner was at Misumi at the Wynn. The sushi was not as good as Zuma, but the other dishes were better. The restaurant overlooks the beautiful gardens and waterfall of the Wynn, but they kept the doors closed which was a little disappointing.
We explored the Wynn after dinner and had a few drinks around the hotel. Nothing too heavy as we had a busy day ahead.
Vegas Day 8.
Breakfast crepe at Jean Phillipe because I couldn’t stomach another buffet, then we headed to the MGM for Tiesto at Wet Republic.
After all the worry of getting in, reports of standing in line for hours, and strict security, we breezed in at midday in 20 minutes. We checked our bag, and they let us take the sun lotion in with us. Wet Republic is awesome. The bar was never more than a few people deep, and with drinks available in massive 32oz containers, you don’t have to go up very often. If you have any club or busy bar experience, you will get served in no time.
The best place to be was right in the pool with all the madness. It is about belly deep and was incredible fun getting drunk and sweaty dancing with all the lunatics. My only complaint was that it wasn’t loud enough at the pool to really tell what I was dancing to. My GF brought earplugs because we expected club volume, but they weren’t needed.
It was hilarious that some people had paid $15k+ for cabanas when all the fun was in the pool.
So. I thought the drinks would be like the sweet-but-light-on-alcohol daiquiris you get elsewhere. Oh god I was wrong. I had three 32oz cocktails and they definitely hit the spot. The messiness was all over at 5. I lost my flip-flops and t-shirt in the madness, so had to drunkenly buy a T at a stall in the MGM as we headed, barefoot, back to the Aria for a power nap.
The final dinner of our Vegas adventure was at é by José Andrés in the Cosmo. It was very pricey at $700 after tax, but it was mind-blowing. 21 stunning courses expertly prepared in front of just 8 diners is an experience I will never forget. Every dish was interesting, playful and titillating. There was a sense of humor to the food that felt lacking in pretenders to opulence like Prime and The Eiffel Tower restaurants. It was a beautiful, relaxed culinary delight and at a perfect juxtaposition to the insanity of the afternoon.
Vegas Day 9.
Leaving was sad. We had spent so much time in Vegas it had started to feel like home.
We grabbed ramen at Momofuku in the Cosmo for breakfast (it worked), before heading to the airport for our long flight home and reality.
Take Aways
On reflection there are a few things I would have done differently. I think eating on The Strip is fun every now and again, but not every night. I ignored advice to find restaurants off-strip and I paid the price. I don’t mind handing over $200 - $300 for a meal, but it has to be special, the food has to be spectacular, and the service impeccable. That sort of price, even in London, will get you Michelin Star quality food, an interesting venue and the kind of service that would make a sultan blush. Most Vegas restaurants tried but didn’t deliver. There was an integrity to the other restaurants we visited in the US that just felt lacking in Vegas. The only place that managed to capture it was é. Yes, I know it is a daft complaint to make about the fakery of Las Vegas, but I think it is valid. If you remove all the bullshit and the food is still excellent, then you succeed as a restaurant. Many Vegas restaurants failed in this respect.
I would sleep in more and spend more time in the dark. During the day it was crazy hot, I hate kids and there was more filthy things to do at night, but my GF is an early riser and we had lots of day activities to get on with. I felt like I was missing out going to bed even at 2am.
I did a lot of things right though. The location of the Aria and the Bellagio were perfect. Splitting Vegas into two visits separated by the wilderness of Arizona was a masterstroke. The pool parties were an experience I will never forget. The people were awesome, even the weird ones, and never failed to chat, laugh and be kind.
But saying that I was very English about my tipping. People only received tips if they deserved it. I firmly believe that you should only get tipped if you go above and beyond. Tipping culture encourages employers to underpay their staff, expecting tips to subsidise their wage. The people I tipped most were the bell boys, barmen and housekeeping. The forgotten army that keeps places like Vegas running are the few that deserve the tips.
Tip. For god sake tip. Hand all over all your money before you even sit down. If not the tipping mafia will nail you to the Statue of Liberty and let bald eagles peck out your eyes. I didn't know this, but apparently people working at restaurants that charge $150 per cover can't afford to feed their orphan children. Only the charity of kindly tourists can stop them from slicing their wrists open with a butter knife before they perish from abject poverty. And tip doubly as much if the service is poor or if the food was below par. This just makes their struggle even more herculean. I can only attribute this to an oversight by the TSA, but somehow I managed to escape the country and live to tell my tale. Take heed. /s

Over 100 gambling facts

As a popular kind of home entertainment, gambling has an abundant history, and every gamer has the prospective to end up being a winner in the blink of an eye. There is absolutely nothing else rather like the rush of adrenaline that can accompany the gambling experience! The video gaming market has actually grown greatly for the past 20 years, and the lure of gambling has actually drawn increasingly more individuals to the gambling establishments along with racetracks and Web gambling website. Gambling is an interesting leisure activity in lots of aspects, and the list below will present you to a few of the historic, analytical, and amusing pointers and trivia that make this leisure activity unique.

Did You Know?

A minimum of 65,000,000 individuals in the United States play poker regularly.
Playing cards as we understand them today are still considerably affected by the French, despite the fact that playing cards were created in China. According to French tradition, the cards with Spades represent royalty. Diamonds represent Merchants, Clubs represent Peasants, and Hearts represent the Clergy.
Previous United States President Richard M. Nixon utilized cash he had actually won playing poker in the Navy throughout World War 2 to fund his run for Congress in 1946. He should have been an excellent gamer, for it is never ever affordable to get associated with politics!
87% of individuals who went to Las Vegas throughout the year 1996 bet.
Studies expose that 38% of individuals who reside in the United States have actually checked out Las Vegas, usually to bet.
The video game called craps generally has a few of the very best bets in the gambling establishment.
Poker competitions that occur on the Internet and on tv have actually triggered the Texas Hold 'em variation of poker to have a massive rise in appeal.
There is one slots in Las Vegas, Nevada, for each 8 individuals who live there. In 2005, the approximated population for the Las Vegas Valley is 2 million individuals. That's a Great Deal Of slot deposit pulsa !

Blackjack, or 21 as some individuals call it, continues to be the most popular table video game in both online and offline gambling establishments. It is likewise the video game with the very best chances.
You will see lots of variations of video poker in a gambling establishment, however each of them is based upon the video game of 5 Card Draw.
In the English gambling dens throughout the 18th century, one staff member had the regrettable task of dice swallower. That's right - dice swallower! He was to swallow the dice if and when a law enforcement officer robbed the den.
If played properly, video poker can use a few of the very best chances in the gambling establishment.
The very first slots on the planet was developed by a Mr. Charles Fey in the year 1899. He was an automobile mechanic who desired his consumers to have something to entertain them while they waited on their cars and trucks.
Groucho Marx, among the Marx Brothers, liked to play poker. He kept his poker cash on him at all times, bring it in a 'grouch bag". This is how he got the label of Groucho.
There are just 2 states in the United States that do not use legalized gambling. These are Hawaii and Utah.
57% of individuals in the United States purchased a lottery game ticket in the last 12 months. This truth, which was found by a Gallup Survey audit on gambling, shows that the lotto is the most popular kind of gambling in the United States.
68% of the folks in Las Vegas who bet play the fruit machine.
24% of those residing in the U.S.A. confess that they have actually taken part in prohibited gambling.
When studying the portions of individuals who check out Las Vegas, it was found that the biggest portion group, 22%, was comprised of elderly people, those who are 65 and older.
Among the biggest slots payments ever tape-recorded occurred in Las Vegas back in 1998. A lady who had actually invested around $300 at a gambling establishment that day struck a $27.6 million dollar prize! Not surprising that fruit machine are so popular!
Many historians have actually concerned the conclusion that the famous and vibrant figure of the Wild West referred to as Wild Costs Hickock was not an excellent poker gamer.
In the United States, it is not possible to secure a patent on any type of gambling maker.
The card video game of Texas Hold 'Em was bet the extremely very first time in a Texas city called Robstown. This took place in the early 1900s. Texas Hold 'Em was given Texas from Las Vegas by a little group of Texas bettors.
Back in the 1970s, the typical age of individuals who delighted in gambling establishment gambling varied from 30 to 55. Nowadays, that age varieties from 17 all the way approximately 70.
80% of a study group stated that all gambling ought to be legal, which gambling establishments are completely alright.
A word of caution - You are not permitted to utilize your cellular phone at a video gaming table. This is usually real in all gambling establishments. Obviously, if you are dipping into an online video gaming table, you can do what you want.
The biggest gambling establishment worldwide lies on the borders of Hartford, Connecticut in the United States. It is called the Foxwoods Gambling establishment.
Las Vegas has 2 labels - Las Vegas and Lost Earnings.
Slots vary from cent slots all the way as much as those that vary from $50 to $500 for each spin! These expensive slots are generally found in what is called the 'High-stakes gambler' space or spaces of a gambling establishment. As a basic guideline, you will not see a lot of these makers.
In 2007, more than $170 billion dollars was put in bets in Las Vegas by bettors. 'Your home', or the gambling establishments, won about $7 billion dollars of that cash.
Online video gaming is cool. Where else can you play video poker in your pajamas?
Gambling Establishments in Las Vegas are under no legal responsibility to settle any of their gambling financial obligations.
The state of Nevada in the U.S.A., house of Las Vegas, made gambling legal in the year 1931.

- Throughout that very same year, the Hoover Dam was being constructed by the United States federal government.
- They didn't desire the men who were dealing with the dam to get included with gambling, so a whole town, Stone City, was constructed as a location for the dam employees to live.
- It was made prohibited to bet in Stone City in the hopes that these employees would not misuse the 50 cents an hour they were being paid.
- Today, Stone City is the only city in the state of Nevada where it is unlawful to bet.

To this day, the Italians and the French will still argue over who developed the video game of Blackjack.
Countless individuals are utilizing the Web to bet 24 hr a day, 7 days a week.
Those who play the slots online along with offline will discover that a bulk of the time, they will win regularly playing online.
In horseracing or any kind of sports gambling, you require to win a portion of about 52.4% of the bets you make in order to recover cost. This is due to the fact that a commission is charged by the home on every bet.
There is no rhyme, rhythm, or pattern to playing the slots. It is nearly difficult to forecast when you are going to win.
When playing poker, the Dead Man's Hand is Aces and Eights.
The majority of people who take a holiday to Las Vegas gamble for 4 hours a day, every day they exist.
Some state that the video game of live roulette was created by a male called Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and creator. Others state he simply chose what order the numbers would enter.
And still others declare that the video game of live roulette originated from China. Another group swears that live roulette was created by a group of Venetian monks! It appears that nobody understands the genuine reality.
Although a line of slots might look similar, each of them looks various on the within.
Dice are the earliest video gaming tool offered to utilize today.
Blackjack was prohibited in America back at the turn of the 19th century. Currently an extremely popular video game, it holed up as folks continued to play it unlawfully. The restriction was raised in 1939 as Nevada prepared to present Las Vegas to the world.
Craps is an American video game, however was developed as a variation of a European video game played in the 17th and 18th century that was referred to as 'risk'.
Legend has it that a fellow by the name of Francois Blanc made a deal with Satan in order to discover the expected 'tricks' of the roulette wheel. The basis of this legend is that when you accumulate all of the numbers on the wheel, you wind up with the number 666, a number that has actually constantly represented the devil.
Fruit machine can exposing countless possible mixes for each minute the video game is played. This is because of the random number generator, or RNG, that is inside the maker.
Craps got its odd name from a label provided to the French Creoles of New Orleans, Johnny Crapauds.
There are 2 kinds of dice, gambling establishment dice and 'pharmacy' dice. Gambling establishment dice are specifically made by hand to guarantee that they are well balanced and are a best cube. Pharmacy dice are smaller sized than gambling establishment dice, and are made by equipment.
Historians have actually discovered paperwork that informs us Napoleon actually delighted in playing a video game or more of 21, or blackjack when he remained in exile.
If you build up all of the opposing sides of one dice, you will constantly develop an overall of 7.
Live roulette has guidelines that are much easier to follow and comprehend than many other types of gambling.
Video poker has actually belonged of the gambling world since the early 1970s.
The video game of Baccarat was as soon as had fun with Tarot cards.
Caribbean Stud Poker is a poker variation that is incredibly popular worldwide. It was established from a 16th century video game called Primera.
There are 38 numbers on an American roulette wheel, 0, 00, 1 to 36.
There are 37 varieties of a French roulette wheel, 0 to 36.
Those who reside in Nevada wager around $846 each year at the gambling establishments.
The video game of Baccarat was created throughout the midlifes by Felix Falguiere, an Italian bettor.
Among the fastest growing types of home entertainment all over the world is gambling establishment gambling.
There are 11 various methods to make a wager in the video game of live roulette.
The British call fruit machine 'slot machine' and 'one-armed bandits'.
The game of chance of strip poker came from New Orleans, Louisiana around 1830.
Backgammon is the earliest taped video game in history. This video game, which came from Mesopotamia, is called by several names.
Gambling has actually ended up being a $40 billion dollar each year market in simply the United States alone.

Things You Most Likely Never Ever Learn About Gambling

Blackjack tables have a little in common with baseball video games. The seats at the table that are around the dealership are referred to as 'bases', and are referred to as very first, 2nd, and third base.
Baccarat concerned Las Vegas in 1959 at the old Sands hotel. It most likely was not well like by the hotel owners, as the Sands wound up losing $250,000 the opening night on the baccarat tables!
There are 3 various ranges of baccarat. They are called 'Chemin de fer', or train, 'Baccarat Banque, or Adeux Tableaux, and Punto Banto, which implies North American Baccarat.
Blackjack team play was developed by a guy referred to as Al Franesco.
The absolutely nos on roulette wheels are called the 'Home Edge'. The nos were initially contributed to the wheel by its developer in order to increase your house chances.
Caribbean Stud Poker discovered its method to the United States in the 18th century. It initially appeared in Louisiana, and after that spread out west.
Nowadays, you can find out how to play Craps on your Iphone!

A pair of dice has a number of labels. They can be called 'Boxcars', 'Snake Eyes', 'Mississippi Marbles', or 'Memphis Dominoes'.
The fastest growing market on the planet in Indian video gaming, which is a $27 billion each year market in simply the United States.
The name 'Blackjack' was originated from a variation of the initial video game guidelines, in which a gamer who had the black Jack of Spades got a payment.
The worst live roulette bet, and why? It's referred to as the 5 number bet, 0, 00, 1, 2, 3, and when made, your home edge leaps from 5.26% to 7.89%.

The video game of Baccarat gets its name from the worst hand possible, absolutely no.
The initial name of Blackjack was 'Ving-et-un', which equates into the word 'blackjack'.
The biggest win at an online gambling establishment was $1, 683,524.64.
A sailor had 27 wins in a row playing Craps at a Las Vegas gambling establishment back in the 1950s. The chances of this occurring are 12,467,890 to 1!
The video game of Bingo came from Italy throughout the year 1530.
In Australia and New Zealand, the term "Housie" is utilized for Bingo.

Gambling Trivia You Never Ever Would Have Thought

In the whole time the video game of Keno has actually been played, a reward of $500,000 has actually been won 4 times, 2 times by the very same gamer.
Live roulette is the earliest of all gambling establishment video games.
Keno was utilized in ancient China to raise money that was utilized to develop the Great Wall of China.
Keno pertained to the United States in the 19th century.
It is possible to come up with 1,474, 200 various Bingo cards.
Playing cards as we understand them today initially appeared in Europe at some point throughout the 1300s.
Modern Bingo was developed from a video game called Beano. When a gamer wrongly called out "Bingo" instead of "Beano", the name caught on all over.
A little more than 70% of the high-stakes gamblers in Vegas who take pleasure in playing Baccarat are Asian lenders and Asian industrialists.
Keno returns to the Han Dynasty in Chinese history in between 205 and 187 B.C.
In South America and Europe, the video game of Baccarat passes the name of Punto Banco. Punto Banco is generally a high-stakes gambler video game.
The age of the youngest individual to win the World Series of Poker centerpiece was a tender 24.
It is possible to make 2,598,960 poker hands from a basic 52-card deck.
The chances of being dealt the hand called a 'pocket set' in Poker are 16 to 1.
There are just 4 possible Royal Flush hands in a basic 52-card deck.
The chances of getting a Royal Flush hand are 649,740 to 1.
More than 70 million decks of basic playing cards are offered each and every year.
That sandwich you consumed the other day got its name from a poker gamer. The Earl of Sandwich enjoyedsl poker a lot he was loathe to leave the video game table, even to consume. So, he would have somebody bring him bread and some meat, and the sandwich was born!
The label for a set of eights in the video game of poker is Pocket Snowmen.

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Today Ends My Week of Degenerate Gambling At Sea

Hey folks!
Today I returned to the US after a week aboard the Oasis of the Seas gambling at the single zero roulette table. If you're interested, you can read the original story here where I kept day by day notes in the comments about my winnings and observations. Finished ~$2500 ahead Martingaling for a week.
Cruise Background
I wanted to vacation in Vegas this fall, my wife wanted to cruise again, so I spent a few months searching cruise lines, looking for a single zero roulette table with at least an 8-bet min/max spread. As it turns out, there are thirteen cruise ships in the world that fit that profile (that I discovered), and after checking all of them against NovembeDecember departure dates from CONUS, I downselected to the Oasis of the Seas from Royal Caribbean for a 7-Day Caribbean cruise, booked it, and thus it was so!
The Game
For the duration of this cruise, I played single zero roulette and nothing else. The casino on board the Oasis of the Seas has four roulette tables; two American roulette tables on the smoking side, and one each American/European on the non-smoking side. I use the word "European" loosely because while it was single-zero, it had no European rules on it. All four tables were $5 - $100 on the inside, and $5 - $1000 on the outside. I attempted to make arrangements before the cruise as well as with the casino manager during the cruise to raise the limits for my gambling to no avail since I didn't have an established play history with Club Royale. I also requested La Partage be put into effect during my session play without luck - but that was a long shot anyway; the only single zero table I know of in the US with a minimum bet lower than $25 is the $10 - $3000 La Partage table at the Soaring Eagle in Michigan (sorry guys, terminal games don't count!)
Single zero roulette tables have a 2.7% house edge; down from the scandalous 5.4% house edge of American roulette (let alone the scammy triple zero crap that Carnival Cruise lines and the Venetian in Vegas are doing); La Partage lowers it to a magnificent 1.35%, but alas - I was destined to go without.
My Bets
Most of you are probably familiar with a martingale) series bet. For anyone else; on a $5 - $1000 table, $2,000 can bankroll a 8-bet sequence where I double my bet each time I lose, restarting my bet sequence each win. Due to chip denominations, my martingale progression is $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000, which I find more reasonable than 5/10/20/40/80/160/320/640 due to the typical chip denominations 1/5/25/100/500/1000. In a tip of my hat to superstition, my increases from $10 to $25, $100 to $250, and $1000 to $2500 where applicable are my way of "punishing" the casino for making me leave the comfort zone of the outside minimum bet. Mock me if you must; its my personal flair - if my bets grow that high I "deserve" to win more than my base bet for the stress of having to bankroll the roll.
The chances of heads or tails on a coin flip are 50% for either outcome. On a single-zero table without La Partage, the equivalent bets - black/red, even/odd, 1-18/19-36 is ~48.6%, with the other 2.7% representing the green zero, or house edge - creating a theoretical loss probability of 2.7% of your bet per bet over time.
While the probability of an individual spin being black or red in my case is ~48.6%, the martingale betting progression ties your bets into a session, such that on the table I'm playing on, as long as I don't guess wrong 8 times in a row, I always win. On the off-chance that any newbs are reading this, this is NOT a "strategy" or "guaranteed way to make money." Martingale betting is a low risk, low reward means of using a large sum of money to win a little sum of money - pretty much the opposite of what people go into casinos to do. In statistical terms, the chances of me guessing wrong 8 times in a row in an 8 spin series is three tenths of one percent...but no one sits down for 8 spins and leaves - so my gambling is that when the house spins my losing sequence...I'm not there. =D Such is gambling.
Goals!
I've learned over the years that if I don't sit at a table with a fixed goal of when to leave, I will get bored and start making side bets (other even money bets or thirds) - more ways to win also mean more ways to lose, and when I am gambling, I am heavily socializing and drinking; I can't keep track of all of it at the same time. My goal is thus to always leave with 120% of my bankroll.
This trip was a bit confusing for me because I couldn't reconcile what my bankroll was. Not knowing whether the table limit would be fixed to $1000, or be able to be raised to $10,000 I brought $5,000 in cash with another $35,000 available as credit - I'd wrongly assumed the casino would at least double the table min/max to $10-$2000, and had been hoping they would leave the minimum and double the maximum, adding a one-bet buffer to my 8-spin series. With a $1,000 bet maximum, I stopped bringing more than $2,000 to the casino. If my bankroll is $2,000, I aim to leave with $2400. If my bankroll is $5,000, I aim to leave with $6,000. With $10,000, I aim to leave with $12,000.
I initially hoped to turn $2,000 into $2,400, but after doing that the first night gambling and the prospect of the rest of the cruise being bereft of gambling, I decided that since I'd brought $5,000 to gamble with, even if I could only play with $2,000 of it, my 120% goal meant I wanted $1,000 in winnings or bust.
On day two when I realized how stingy Club Royale was, and that I'd be buying my own drinks, I shelled out $360 for the liquor package, and adjusted my winning threshold to also cover the liquor package. Then there was a $300 spa treatment. Then an $1800 studio photography session since my wife wanted some nice pictures - something we've not done in a decade.
With these confusing inputs leaving me unsure of how to decide if I was up or down, it came down to the fact that while the casino was generally open 8-12 hours a day, the lone roulette table with the single zero didn't open until 8:00 PM - about when the cruise shows started. I did some begging and pleading to have it opened earlier every day to mixed success - a bit on the first day and on the last day, with nothing in the middle. They really wanted people on the American tables - which I had to resist, since for much of the cruise, it was American roulette or nothing. I contented myself during those periods with drinking, socializing with other gamblers, watching, drinking, and trying to find people who didn't have the booze package so I could buy them drinks.
Fun Facts

Over 6 days of gambling, averaging 4 hours per day, I hit the $1,000 table maximum bet twice. Both were heart-attack inducing. The first was at 0100 on day 5, I was the last gambler at the table, $1,000 on red didn't screw me, and I took it as a sign to go to bed. The second happened on Day 6; since a $2,000 loss would have left me break even at that point, I took a short break, stretched my legs, and came back.
In the same period, I hit the $250 bet mark in my progression 4 times (resetting from $250 back to $5), and the $500 bet limit zero times. $100 and below bets were too numerous to count.
Total winnings were probably closer to $2800, but I tip freely when its free money.
Despite my "follow the house" betting method of deciding to bet red or black (which capitalizes on streaks), and I never choose which to bet on, there was one dealer would occasionally call a color, and she was only wrong once. I started switching bets when she'd call a color because it was spooky. If I asked her, most of the time she'd say, "I don't know" - but out of 20-30 "calls" over a week that I saw her spinning for me, she missed one.
If I had the balls to play numbers or neighbor bets, I'd have made tens of thousands; I don't believe in ball control; not on modern wheels, but one dealer put out four 28s in 8 spins, three of them in a row, 7 of the others were neighbor bet winners, and he just kept doing it. He's been a casino dealer 44 years...and kept telling people what number to bet on, and no one would listen to him. God, I wish I had.
I learned to play craps as a backup in case the single zero table was closed, but the craps tables were $5 - $300 with 1x odds, shifting to 3-4-5x with $50 minimum bets. I need to ease into craps, and didn't want to have to track different odds systems, nor did I want to play on a $300 limit table - all my practicing on craps was with 3-4-5x odds on a $5 - $2,000 table, and I have a tendency to double down on everything in every game. And in life too; Losing a 5/15 bet makes me put $20 on the pass line. It gets expensive quickly, so I'm not playing craps with less than $5k, $10k to be comfortable, and I need at least a $2k table.
Actually, all the games were a bit ...less competitive. 6:5 blackjack, 1x craps odds, no Euro rules on the Euro table, crappy slots payouts - I get it; I really do. Captive audience, no need to compete with other casinos. Once they're on board, you've got 'em for a week; they're gonna gamble or they're not.
Club Royale has terrible comps compared to Casinos at Sea with NCL. It takes 2500 points with Club Royale to earn comped drinks while gambling. Not only did Club Royale not buy my drinks this cruise, at the rate of my point earnings, it will take me 4 more cruises gambling at the same rate to earn free drinks. That's right; $10,000+ to get free drinks. I did however come away with an amazing $100 off my next cruise voucher.
Assuming total winnings of $2,800 (before tips), being right 48.6% of the time, I gambled through ~1200 roulette spins in a week.

Anyway; it was a blast - but I'll probably go to Vegas for my next vacation instead of cruising. I want to gamble during the day, and go to shows in the evening, not wander around during the day, then have to decide whether I want to gamble or watch shows in the evening.
edit And here's a picture of me at my remote office aboard the cruise ship in case anyone was wondering what your mean old /gambling moderator ShelixAnakasian looks like.

A week of degenerate gambling on the Oasis of the Seas comes to a close!

Hey folks!
Today I returned to the US after a week aboard the Oasis of the Seas gambling at the single zero roulette table. If you're interested, you can read the original story here where I kept day by day notes in the comments about my winnings and observations. Finished ~$2500 ahead Martingaling for a week.
I called out 14 crew members that I thought were exceptional; 11 of them in the casino - the crew were amazing everywhere. The ship itself is probably due a refit. Elevator buttons broken, chairs broken, everything looking a little run down and scuffed. I won't dig into the ports because everyone in here probably knows their way around the Caribbean by now. =D
Cruise Background
I wanted to vacation in Vegas this fall, my wife wanted to cruise again, so I spent a few months searching cruise lines, looking for a single zero roulette table with at least an 8-bet min/max spread. As it turns out, there are thirteen cruise ships in the world that fit that profile (that I discovered), and after checking all of them against NovembeDecember departure dates from CONUS, I downselected to the Oasis of the Seas from Royal Caribbean for a 7-Day Caribbean cruise, booked it, and thus it was so!
The Game
For the duration of this cruise, I played single zero roulette and nothing else. The casino on board the Oasis of the Seas has four roulette tables; two American roulette tables on the smoking side, and one each American/European on the non-smoking side. I use the word "European" loosely because while it was single-zero, it had no European rules on it. All four tables were $5 - $100 on the inside, and $5 - $1000 on the outside. I attempted to make arrangements before the cruise as well as with the casino manager during the cruise to raise the limits for my gambling to no avail since I didn't have an established play history with Club Royale. I also requested La Partage be put into effect during my session play without luck - but that was a long shot anyway; the only single zero table I know of in the US with a minimum bet lower than $25 is the $10 - $3000 La Partage table at the Soaring Eagle in Michigan (sorry guys, terminal games don't count!)
Single zero roulette tables have a 2.7% house edge; down from the scandalous 5.4% house edge of American roulette (let alone the scammy triple zero crap that Carnival Cruise lines and the Venetian in Vegas are doing); La Partage lowers it to a magnificent 1.35%, but alas - I was destined to go without.
My Bets
Most of you are probably familiar with a martingale) series bet. For anyone else; on a $5 - $1000 table, $2,000 can bankroll a 8-bet sequence where I double my bet each time I lose, restarting my bet sequence each win. Due to chip denominations, my martingale progression is $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000, which I find more reasonable than 5/10/20/40/80/160/320/640 due to the typical chip denominations 1/5/25/100/500/1000. In a tip of my hat to superstition, my increases from $10 to $25, $100 to $250, and $1000 to $2500 where applicable are my way of "punishing" the casino for making me leave the comfort zone of the outside minimum bet. Mock me if you must; its my personal flair - if my bets grow that high I "deserve" to win more than my base bet for the stress of having to bankroll the roll.
The chances of heads or tails on a coin flip are 50% for either outcome. On a single-zero table without La Partage, the equivalent bets - black/red, even/odd, 1-18/19-36 is ~48.6%, with the other 2.7% representing the green zero, or house edge - creating a theoretical loss probability of 2.7% of your bet per bet over time.
While the probability of an individual spin being black or red in my case is ~48.6%, the martingale betting progression ties your bets into a session, such that on the table I'm playing on, as long as I don't guess wrong 8 times in a row, I always win. On the off-chance that any newbs are reading this, this is NOT a "strategy" or "guaranteed way to make money." Martingale betting is a low risk, low reward means of using a large sum of money to win a little sum of money - pretty much the opposite of what people go into casinos to do. In statistical terms, the chances of me guessing wrong 8 times in a row in an 8 spin series is three tenths of one percent...but no one sits down for 8 spins and leaves - so my gambling is that when the house spins my losing sequence...I'm not there. =D Such is gambling.
Goals!
I've learned over the years that if I don't sit at a table with a fixed goal of when to leave, I will get bored and start making side bets (other even money bets or thirds) - more ways to win also mean more ways to lose, and when I am gambling, I am heavily socializing and drinking; I can't keep track of all of it at the same time. My goal is thus to always leave with 120% of my bankroll.
This trip was a bit confusing for me because I couldn't reconcile what my bankroll was. Not knowing whether the table limit would be fixed to $1000, or be able to be raised to $10,000 I brought $5,000 in cash with another $35,000 available as credit - I'd wrongly assumed the casino would at least double the table min/max to $10-$2000, and had been hoping they would leave the minimum and double the maximum, adding a one-bet buffer to my 8-spin series. With a $1,000 bet maximum, I stopped bringing more than $2,000 to the casino. If my bankroll is $2,000, I aim to leave with $2400. If my bankroll is $5,000, I aim to leave with $6,000. With $10,000, I aim to leave with $12,000.
I initially hoped to turn $2,000 into $2,400, but after doing that the first night gambling and the prospect of the rest of the cruise being bereft of gambling, I decided that since I'd brought $5,000 to gamble with, even if I could only play with $2,000 of it, my 120% goal meant I wanted $1,000 in winnings or bust.
On day two when I realized how stingy Club Royale was, and that I'd be buying my own drinks, I shelled out $360 for the liquor package, and adjusted my winning threshold to also cover the liquor package. Then there was a $300 spa treatment. Then an $1800 studio photography session since my wife wanted some nice pictures - something we've not done in a decade.
With these confusing inputs leaving me unsure of how to decide if I was up or down, it came down to the fact that while the casino was generally open 8-12 hours a day, the lone roulette table with the single zero didn't open until 8:00 PM - about when the cruise shows started. I did some begging and pleading to have it opened earlier every day to mixed success - a bit on the first day and on the last day, with nothing in the middle. They really wanted people on the American tables - which I had to resist, since for much of the cruise, it was American roulette or nothing. I contented myself during those periods with drinking, socializing with other gamblers, watching, drinking, and trying to find people who didn't have the booze package so I could buy them drinks.
Fun Facts

Over 6 days of gambling, averaging 4 hours per day, I hit the $1,000 table maximum bet twice. Both were heart-attack inducing. The first was at 0100 on day 5, I was the last gambler at the table, $1,000 on red didn't screw me, and I took it as a sign to go to bed. The second happened on Day 6; since a $2,000 loss would have left me break even at that point, I took a short break, stretched my legs, and came back.
In the same period, I hit the $250 bet mark in my progression 4 times (resetting from $250 back to $5), and the $500 bet limit zero times. $100 and below bets were too numerous to count.
Total winnings were probably closer to $2800, but I tip freely when its free money.
Despite my "follow the house" betting method of deciding to bet red or black (which capitalizes on streaks), and I never choose which to bet on, there was one dealer would occasionally call a color, and she was only wrong once. I started switching bets when she'd call a color because it was spooky. If I asked her, most of the time she'd say, "I don't know" - but out of 20-30 "calls" over a week that I saw her spinning for me, she missed one.
If I had the balls to play numbers or neighbor bets, I'd have made tens of thousands; I don't believe in ball control; not on modern wheels, but one dealer put out four 28s in 8 spins, three of them in a row, 7 of the others were neighbor bet winners, and he just kept doing it. He's been a casino dealer 44 years...and kept telling people what number to bet on, and no one would listen to him. God, I wish I had.
I learned to play craps as a backup in case the single zero table was closed, but the craps tables were $5 - $300 with 1x odds, shifting to 3-4-5x with $50 minimum bets. I need to ease into craps, and didn't want to have to track different odds systems, nor did I want to play on a $300 limit table - all my practicing on craps was with 3-4-5x odds on a $5 - $2,000 table, and I have a tendency to double down on everything in every game. And in life too; Losing a 5/15 bet makes me put $20 on the pass line. It gets expensive quickly, so I'm not playing craps with less than $5k, $10k to be comfortable, and I need at least a $2k table.
Actually, all the games were a bit ...less competitive. 6:5 blackjack, 1x craps odds, no Euro rules on the Euro table, crappy slots payouts - I get it; I really do. Captive audience, no need to compete with other casinos. Once they're on board, you've got 'em for a week; they're gonna gamble or they're not.
Club Royale has terrible comps compared to Casinos at Sea with NCL. It takes 2500 points with Club Royale to earn comped drinks while gambling. Not only did Club Royale not buy my drinks this cruise, at the rate of my point earnings, it will take me 4 more cruises gambling at the same rate to earn free drinks. That's right; $10,000+ to get free drinks. I did however come away with an amazing $100 off my next cruise voucher.
Assuming total winnings of $2,800 (before tips), being right 48.6% of the time, I gambled through ~1200 roulette spins in a week.

Anyway; it was a blast - but I'll probably go to Vegas for my next vacation instead of cruising. I want to gamble during the day, and go to shows in the evening, not wander around during the day, then have to decide whether I want to gamble or watch shows in the evening.
And here's a picture of me at my remote office aboard the cruise ship in case anyone was wondering what your mean old /gambling moderator ShelixAnakasian looks like.

A Fascinating Tour of the Las Vegas Strip

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Complete List of Uber and Lyft Pick Up and Drop off Locations in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Travel Wizards - @LVTWs
Uber and Lyft Pick Up Locations
Uber and Lyft are changing the game in Las Vegas. Taxis that charge almost criminally exorbitant prices are on their way out! Uber and Lyft are two apps that give you the ability to pick out your driver, see their reviews, and track your entire ride. They put you, the rider, in control. The deals in Las Vegas (especially for gambling!!!) are often found at off strip properties. Uber and Lyft allow you to access parts of Las Vegas where you can find the best deals and the rides are very affordable. It's usually about a $10 UbeLyft ride from the airport to the strip, versus Taxi Rides that have been known to cost upwards of $30.
MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LAS VEGAS Terminal 1 Pick-up point: After you collect your baggage or take the train towards baggage claim. Go ahead and request a ride with Uber or Lyft. The pick up spot is in the Parking Garage, on Level 2M of McCarran International Airport Las Vegas to get a pick-up from their driver. Please follow the Rideshare signs.
Terminal 3 Pick-up point:
After you collect your baggage or take the train towards baggage claim. Go ahead and request a ride with Uber or Lyft. The pick up spot to catch your ride is the Parking Garage on the valet level of McCarran International Airport. Please follow the Rideshare signs.
ARIA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the ARIA Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver. It is not allowed to get a pick-up from the main entrance.
BALLY’S Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the side of the Bally’s Hotel closest to Flamingo Road where the Tour Bus Pick-up Area is to get a pick-up from their driver. It is not allowed to get a pick-up from the main entrance.
BELLAGIO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to South Tour Lobby, which is at the right side of the main entrance of the Bellagio Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
CAESARS PALACE This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft which is directly across from the main entrance on the other side of their fountain.
CIRCUS CIRCUS This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft at their Main Entrance.
COSMOPOLITAN This hotel has a designated area for Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft at their Main Entrance.
CROMWELL Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the side entrance, then past the roundabout at the Flamingo hotel entrance to get a pick-up from their driver (there is a sign for the pick-up spot).
Elara Pickup is by the valet. Just walk a bit west past it and turn right for the pick up area.
ENCORE Customers using Uber or Lyft can go to the main entrance of the Encore Hotel, the main entrance of the Encore Tower Suites or the Wynn self-parking garage on floor one (for Encore Beach Club).
EXCALIBUR Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to Tower 1 Drive at the corner of the hotel, past the main entrance toward self parking.
FLAMINGO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Flamingo Hotel, past the roundabout to get a pick-up from their driver.
Hard Rock Hotel Pick-up is in the Paradise Tower parking garage (Rehab entrance).
HARRAH’S Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north side entrance and then go to the parking garage, just before the valet of the Harrah’s Hotel.
THE LINQ Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the Bus and Tour Lobby of the LINQ Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
LUXOR Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Luxor Hotel at the right side to get a pick-up from their driver.
MANDALAY BAY Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the lower level at guest pickup of the Mandalay Bay Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MANDARIN ORIENTAL Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MGM GRAND Customers using Uber or Lyft must follow the signs near the main entrance to the pick up spot in the garage of the MGM Grand Hotel.
THE MIRAGE Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance close to the valet at The Mirage Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
MONTE CARLO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go pas the main entrance of the Monte Carlo Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
NEW YORK NEW YORK Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to past the main entrance of the New York New York Hotel at the right side.
PALAZZO Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north end, in front of the shuttle area of the Palazzo Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
PARIS Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Paris Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
PLANET HOLLYWOOD Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the hotel lobby, then go outside and walk left to the Tour Bus Pick-up at the Planet Hollywood Hotel.
SLS Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the SLS Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
STRATOSPHERE Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the back entrance of the Stratosphere Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
TREASURE ISLAND Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Treasure Island Hotel and then go to Siren’s Cove Boulevard across the street.
TROPICANA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the north entrance of the Tropicana Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
THE VENETIAN Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the 3rd level valet of the The Venetian Hotel parking garage to get a pick-up from their driver.
VDARA Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the main entrance of the Vdara Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
WYNN Customers using Uber or Lyft must go to the South Entrance or Tower Suites of the Wynn Hotel to get a pick-up from their driver.
We have a tip for using Uber or Lyft from the airport in Las Vegas that will save you money and help you better enjoy your trip! Simply ask the driver to stop at the CVS on Paradise Rd (4490 Paradise Rd) on route to your hotel so that you can load up on supplies for your hotel room. UbeLyft only charge about $0.20/minute to wait in the parking lot while you go in to the store. What has worked best for us is a folded up green grocery bag (our best option is an IKEA bag) and a thin flat cooler bag in our luggage to use on these runs. Some of our essentials supplies include:

A Case of Waters
Snacks like fruit, yogurt, and granola bars
Orange Juice
Cheap Champagne
Energy Drinks

These items would truly cost a small fortune at your hotel or anywhere on the strip and we have found that they really are the essentials (especially the case of water!) when you are in Sin City. When you arrive at your hotel in your UbeLyft, just put your cooler bag with your other luggage and request a bell person. They'll transport your supplies to your room for free with your luggage. Just remember to tip the bell person a few dollars when you drop off the bags and again when the bell person arrives with your luggage in your room!
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My next bet... shorting Las Vegas.

Trip Report- Dirt Cheap Vegas Trip with Hooters Review and Naps!

TLDR; 20 something couple who has been to Vegas before stayed at Hooters Hotel and Casino 4 nights, 5 days with airfare and resort fee for $887 and it was worth every penny.
Hooters Hotel and Casino: With the flight, hotel and resort fee we paid $444 a person which we thought was too good to pass up. The hotel wasn't as bad as I expected it to be but it was pretty old. It is located a short walk to the strip which accessible by going into Tropicana located next door and using a bridge. When we booked this trip we only expected to be at this hotel to sleep at night and we ended up staying there for a lot more since it beat our expectations.
Some parts of the hotel are "nice" and newish and some aren't. The new parts will NEVER be comparable to many of the casino's listed in the faq(even the budget ones) but that doesn't make it bad. If you are a regular person that doesn't need fancy shit or all you plan on doing is sleeping here(bachelobachelorette party or 21st birthday) it's great. The casino was small and never crowded, it was great for gambling a bit at the end of the night since it's almost impossible to get lost or lose whoever you are with. There was a cafe area with a coffee place, Krispy Kreme donuts and a Pizza Hut. There was also a pool bar, Hooters, and Steak n' Shake. They boasted about free parking, $15 buckets of bud light, and $1 margaritas inside the casino bar. The room service seemed incredibly cheap but we did not use it.
Our room was average and as far as we know it was not one that was recently remodeled. The bathroom wasn't very nice and the safe was busted. It looked as if the Bathroom had been done about 10 years ago and the glaze was coming off of the bathtub corners. The room was clean and it had two awkward chairs that belonged in the 70's around a small table. We both thought that a reclinechair was missing from the room due to empty space. The bed was very comfortable and we slept amazing. The AC was ice cold and we had a tiny balcony overlooking the pool. It was $25 a night for a mini-fridge which we decided against and I kept filling up bags of ice and moving it from the sink when needed. If you are not flying in, bring a cooler and save yourself the money or go buy a cheap cooler at Walgreens on the strip for $8. The pool was very clean and quiet, it felt like we were the only people there most of the time and I got a ton of reading done. You couldn't bring your own alcohol or food and the security was tight. The menu seemed decently priced for a pool in vegas.
If you stay at Hooters I highly recommend purchasing the Hooya One Pass, it comes with two different show tickets, a coupon for a free margarita, buy 10 wings get 10 wings, and a 1 hour open bar with wings NIGHTLY between 5-6 pm. At the same bar the drinks cost $5 during happy hour and we watched numerous hotel guests spend more than $20 on drinks in just that hour. I must've eaten about 100 wings and had over 30 drinks the entire trip because of this pass. The bartenders were really great to us during the open bar and we always had a drink in our hand. It saved us a ton of money on dinnelunch but I would've liked to have done one more nice dinner. It also would have been nice if we didn't have to go back to the hotel for 5pm every day but, my GF and I really enjoyed the happy hour, a nap, and a shower before going out for the night(not always in that order).
It seemed like a lot of teenage kids were staying in the hotel for a basketball tournament or something and I never saw any parents. I observed a bunch of people staying in some rooms and the kids would sit outside of the room to charge their phones in the hallway. We had one issue with the kids, we were trying to go down and two girls got off our floor, when we got in the elevator all of the buttons were pressed to go up. It wasn't a big deal to us but it could be to people looking to make a show or relax and not have to deal with that crap. The elevator was also kind of shady and it seemed like it skipped our floor or something a few times when trying to go down. I don't know it it happens a lot but both of these things probably don't happen at places on the strip.
Monday: We left my house at 3:30 am and flew Spirit Airlines from Newark to LAS which landed at 8:40 am. I'll never fly spirit again if I can help it. It was a $14 taxi to the Hotel where they wanted to charge a $25 early check in fee, we debated and decided to drop off our luggage and explore the area so that we could stay up a little longer before crashing since we got roughly 3 hours of sleep. While walking the strip we decided to get a quick bite to eat at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company since there is one in NYC and we've always wanted to go. We each got a flavored margarita which we normally don't get and they were pretty good, she got a shrimp po' boy, and I got calamari and a gigantic bucket of french fries. We mostly went to some shops for gifts and got supplies like shampoo, sunscreen and water for the week at Walgreens and the Liquor store. We checked in at 2:30, unpacked and took a nap. Between 5-6 we had an open bar(well and domestic drafts) at the pool bar with complementary wings and vegetables because we purchased the Hooyah One Pass for $20. At 7pm we took a Lyft to Freemont for a tour at Bangor Brewing. We had a flight and 2 or 3 beers. The guy giving us the tour waited patiently for us since our driver didn't follow directions and we were late. We were the only people on the tour but the place was pretty packed for a while. We explored Freemont Street for the remaining of the night which was very fun and interesting. If I had a kid under the age of 9 I wouldn't bring them but it honestly wasn't that bad besides some girls in thongs, pasties, and dominatrix looking girls(if your kid has an Instagram they have seen worse). Security walked a beat like they were riot cops and one came up to us and told us we couldn't drink in cans on Freemont and that we could drink out of plastic cups instead. He was really cool and I swore he was a cop until we saw real cops. Heads up to anyone. I really liked the vibe of Freemont but the light show was honestly terrible, I may have been spoiled by light shows at concerts and sporting events from a previous job, my girlfriend thinks that the show just needed different music...
Tuesday: We woke up around 8:30 am and went to breakfast at the Steak n' Shake in Hooters. The food was average but service was slow(we never went back). We went to the pool for an hour or two before we went to a timeshare sales pitch for fun and free stuff(buffet and freeplay). I did the math and the $9,999 timeshare came out to be $33,000 over seven years. Once I gave the numbers and said no the guy became a HUGE dick. Sadly, one person bought one. Once the timeshare pitch was finished we went to the liquor store again. We got lunch at Taco's and Tequila where we split nachos and each had a few margaritas. I think they were some of the best margaritas I've ever had. Later we napped and went to the open bar before going to use my freeplay. After we finished loosing $100 in freeplay and getting tons of free drinks, I decided I had to go and see what a dispensary was like. I don't know the rules about posting about this so I will answer questions in a PM. I will also elaborate with a mod's approval since I think it could be really helpful. After getting back to the hotel we went to Hooters for some more wings and went to bed.
Wednesday: We hung out at the pool for a few hours and we went exploring again. We walked around 15 miles this day and I wish we'd had gotten a light rail pass or Ubered to the end of the strip and walked back. We both like exploring things though so none of us mentioned it until it was too late. We didn't have anything planned for this day until we got back to the hotel and looked at all of the comedy clubs. We decided on the late show to see Jimmy Shubert at the Laugh Factory in Tropicana because it was close by and I actually knew of the opening act, Jason Lawhead, because of Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast. It was a pretty good show for the price we paid, and we got to see the worst heckler ever get thrown out. The night got hazy for me and I think we went to Hooters for some wings, fries, and onion rings before going to our room and passing out(probably with my shoes on).
Thursday: We actually had plans! We woke up with purpose and got breakfast at Coco's Bakery, a short walk from where we were staying. It was cheap and some of the better breakfast food I've had in a while including some of the diners here in NJ, I wish we could've gone again. After breakfast, we went to the pool before heading to the Mirage for a late lunch buffet thanks to Tahiti Village. Next, we used MyVegas rewards at New York New York for buy one get one crepes at 48th and Crepe which were amazing and we cashed in a ticket for buy one get one 40 oz beers at Tom's Urban. It was happy hour so the beers were under the voucher limit and we basically got them for free + tip which was great considering their somewhat decent selection of draft beer. We went back to the open bar for 5pm, napped and got ready for dinner at Black Tap in the Venetian which was everything I thought it would be and more. I wish I had room for a Crazy Shake but I could barely finish my burger and I only ate 3 onion rings, luckily there is one in NYC. At 10pm we saw John Caparulo at Harrah's. The show was average and I think he could've really used an opening act to get the crowd going instead of awkwardly walking on stage. It was pretty empty, we got GA cheap seats and got moved up to the 5th row. We gambled pretty late and made fun of all the people waiting in line at the club at MGM Grand at 2:30 in the morning, these people looked miserable and hadn't even been in the club yet. I don't miss those days.
Friday: We laid in bed for most of the morning since there was not an option for a late checkout and we weren't leaving for the Airport until 8 PM. We double and triple checked for everything and I swear I packed a few things that I can no longer find(it's not a vacation until I've lost something). We checked out around 11am and stored our luggage with the valet. We went to the M&M Store and did the free 3d movie which was pretty entertaining since I don't think I have ever seen a 3d movie before. We decided on going to the Bodies exhibit at Luxor which was pretty cool but probably not worth $30 with an MLife card. We also took the tram to Mandalay Bay which was pretty nice but very empty and kind of eerie. It also smelled like a funeral home or church or something. We cashed in another couple of MyVegas rewards and went to Tom's Urban again for 40oz beers(on happy hour). We also ordered the two way fries which consisted of shoe string and sweet potato fries. They were out of this world! Finally we went to Coyote Ugly for buy one get one drinks(MyVegas). My GF has always wanted to go here but none of her friends ever would go with her. We both fell in love with the bartender and we talked for about an hour about life in Vegas before heading back to the open bar and did some last minute gift shopping.
In all we did a lot of gambling, walking around, and exploring. We also talked with a ton of locals and tried to get a feel for the place. I'm not a fan of most shows and she had seen most of them in her previous travels. I really wanted to change the hotel after booking it and she kept insisting that it'd be fine. Besides using MyVegas a trick we learned was to use your Mlife card for anything you purchase inside an MGM casino, it doesn't matter if you are buying show tickets or a frozen drink, you'll get points from your purchase. I expect to get a ton of comps to use at the Borgata and I think we are coming back for the Golden Knights/Devils game in January.
My total expenses for the trip came out to be $1190.75 based on all of my credit card statements and cash that I had left over in my wallet. This includes my half of the hotel, resort, plane and all of the booze, rides, and gambling I did.

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