Vegas Oct 2024

Same as last time, about to erase my note and double checked. Had not posted here yet. And so for looks back here is my Trip Advisor Trip Report from our 2024 October trip. 2024 October SUNDAY- Arrived early at 9am on United flight from Chicago. We have a Giverny petite suite room reserved from Mr. Juice's host but know it's way too early to check in when we arrived at Paris at 9:45. Drop bags with bell hop and hop on slots. We get into our room around 1pm and it's lovely, only complaint is the TV that pops up from a credenza doesn't rotate so you can't watch it from the living room area but oh well. Our view this trip was s/w of the Paris X so just looking east to the mountains, no sphere. We are both Diamond plus this year so we have 8 drinks on our cards instead of four and make the mistake the first day of getting strong choices (french martinis for me and old fashions for Mr Juice). On slots we stick to rum & diets and beer. We have Linner? (Lunch/dinner) at Cafe Americana in Paris around 3. And due to cocktails; forget to have another meal before stumbling to bed. No big wins, just a few little ones that make us feel we can slap $200 each on a $10 Miss stud table that goes quickly. But a fun first night. Monday- Awake early as usual on first day but a little dragging due to liver not used to mass consumptions of booze, we head over to Cosmo with a coffee, then Bellagio conservatory. Beautiful as always.

A cocktail waitress brings me a water that brings me back to life and finally my stomach rumbles from 17 hours without food. We move on to CP for the only real plan for the day; Brasserie B by Bobby Flay for brunch with my Diamond celebration meal. I have the Croque Madame with gruyere cheese, a fried egg and bacumel sauce and it's heaven. As are the potato chips with Roquefort cheese sauce we share. We slot around and then uber to Sam's Town as a 'new to me' try this year. Was not particularly impressed. I laughed at the animatronic animals in the waterfall area. The lush area is nice but then they make it fake and cheesy. Reminding me of my youth in a Chucky Cheese. Where's a wack-a-mole to make the nostalgia complete? We uber back after just 2 hours. Have a quick dinner around 4 at Cafe Hollywood in PH. Sadly we ran thru our daily budget early and decided to take out extra but happy we did as that evening in Paris we had our biggest slot wins. I won $700 on what? I don't even remember. Ghangis khan perhaps? Thanks cocktails for the brain fog. Then Mr Juice won $600 on a Buffalo Strike. Flush with cash we decided to hit a table again. Again no luck and there goes $400 of our winnings. But we head to bed with the 'extra' we took out so we're happy we're actually not worse for wear. Tuesday we catch an Uber bright & early to Resorts World slotting a little with just a doughnut as we have lunch plans. Holding our own here we then check out Fountain Bleu for the first time. Pretty and a nice addition. We're sad we're a few days too late for tier match. Lose a hundred and head to Encore. We enjoy some morning cocktails while playing around Wynncore again with no notable wins but not really losing. As it's now 11am so we venture over to Venetian to tier match and our lunch plans. But sadly as we walk to Delmonico there is a sign that they are closed for a private event. As the place is crawling with conventioners we are not surprised. But sad as I had lobster bisque memories crashing down trying to now switch modes of where eat in the walk back. We ended up eating Bobby's Burgers at Harrah's. Then grabbed a frozen Baileys at O'Sheas and played Miss Stud for $5 right out in Linq. An afternoon nap was required if we were going to make our energy & money last for the implosion of the Trop at 230am. 3-4 hrs nap set us up for the night. Dinner slice of Pizza in NYNY late night at 11pm? We played there & MGM Grand waiting for 2am. We thought we had found a decent spot by the Brooklyn bridge but when we left MGM to go back to it, we were informed cops had cleared that area and we had 15 mins to walk out of cleared zone so either MGM parking garage or corner outside Eataly. We decided we didn't want to hoof it all the way to the garage so we were fairly close to the front line of blocked area at Eataly but sadly the MGM ad screen was in the way of most of the building. The fireworks and drone show was cool though.

Wednesday- we decide with dinner reservations that our other meal today should be breakfast as we tend to only eat twice a day in Vegas. Something small. So I suggest Nosh at Horseshoe near the poker room. What a mistake. Two egg, sausage & cheese english muffins that are worse than a microwaved jimmy dean sandwich a coffee & pop came to $67 after tip. The biggest win of the trip came today when hubs asked if I wanted one of our free drinks from Le Center bar but I said I wanted a Lemon Drop in a real glass with sugar rim instead of a to go cup so why don't we play some video poker there? Soon after our drinks arrive, he hits 4 aces with a 4 kicker for a grand. Nice! Few hand later he gets another 4 aces no kicker for $200. Woohoo! He's very happy I wanted that lemon drop. We pack an overnight bag (as we're double booked) and headover to see if we can check into Cosmo at 1pm for our first ever stay here. I request a fountain view but they're unavailable. I ask for Boulevard tower but forget to ask strip view so we end up facing the Bellagio spa tower. The room is OK. I find the living room dark but we like the light control near the bed and ability to smoke on the balcony. The Japanese soaking tub is just awkward for someone who loves bathes. It's more for two people to sit on the little seats then for one to stretch out for a relaxing soak. Oh well, thankfully my Paris room has a nice soaking tub. We slot thru Cosmo, Bellagio & Caesar's before our dinner reservations at Amalfi for Mr Juice's $100 Diamond celebration. It's our 4th visit but we tried a new appetizer this time - blue crab & eggplant meatballs. Delish! Just wish there were 4 instead of 3. I had lobster cavatelli which is a new addition to the menu since last year. Hubs had red snapper with calabrian red pepper pesto. We share mushroom polenta. Then I made the mistake of us both ordering tiramisu. Should have only ordered one to share. He made it thru his barely and I could only finish half.

Thursday- In the morning I went to the desk as my free play & RC had not been added at check in. Used some RC at starbucks. Used free play with no success but did win $200 on a dancing drums power trio and MrJ won $200 on Tarzan. Checked out on the TV and back over to Paris. And year two of 'parade of clones' is commencing as all the 21/22 yr olds who bought a fall break pkg are staying there. Thousands of girls in bikinis & mesh cover ups and alpaca hair cut bro's in their swim shorts & cuban white linen button ups. We had many a laughs at their overheard conversations. Ah to be young again! (Although my dad would've never given me his credit card for a trip to Vegas!) Since our plans for lunch at Delmonico earlier in the week had been thwarted, I checked open table and there were spots so I suggested we leave the thousands of youngins crowding the walk ways behind and have lunch. Pre Fixe menu $50pp of Lobster Bisque, I had a pasta dish, Juice had the hot honey chicken & waffles. And for dessert I had trio of sorbet while J had Banana cream pie. We walk back & score another frozen Baileys but avoid the pull of the table. Day 5 of drinking & extra walking was hitting me so I head to the room late afternoon for a 90 min nap. Evening gamble at Bellagio slots then over to CP for Mr Juice's birthday present- tix to see Garth Brooks. It's been 27 yrs since we last saw him but both really loved this show. All his hits, funny stories and a few classics of other artists. Plus one was Trisha Yearwood for a duet and a song of hers. I will say drink prices inside Colosseum was nuts! We should have both got a $16 beer if we had known that my rum & coke and his Jack & ginger would cost $77!! 😳 but they put about 3 shots in each, so there's that. I only made it to midnight with a "dinner' of peanut butter crackers from the sundries shop heading back to the room as Mr Juice stayed down to enjoy two hours solo for the last night.

Friday- we've never done 6 days before together in Vegas, only 4 or 5 and I am ready for home. I would say we'll never do this long again, but as our plan for next June is 4 days with nephew for his 21st then a few days on our own it appears this might have been a glimpse at what's to come. We get a morning breakfast at Americano. Then stick to just PH, Cosmo & Paris before we head to the airport at 2pm. Mr juice stayed almost even all day and I only lost half the days budget so we headed home with more than the "extra" we took out on night two. So definitely not a winning trip, but able to put the extra back into savings and immediately pay off the credit card charges when we got home. Bill after back end comps was mostly just tips and maybe a little extra. Plus about $150 in ubers & taxis. Overall a wonderful trip with many laughs and memories- just not any great big wins (except for the few semi-big mentioned), no handpays or table wins. No upcoming travel plans except for next June's trip for the promise made YEARS ago for the 21s B day trip for the nephew where his parents may or may not join in. But as Mr J made Diamond by Thursday but not plus and I am still not Diamond we may visit our locals for a afternoon 5x multiplier or weekend here and there. Hope all of you with upcoming 2024 trips have fun & luck!