Audrieu
09-27-2009, 11:38 PM
Day 1- flights, video walls and people not listening to me
The morning started at 3am. Time to get up showered and moving. 4am three of us meet up in work fuel up the car and garb random snacks for the car and head out to and pick up the fourth. Then the 6 hour drive to SFO beings.
After a bit of a drive around trying to get to long term parking we finally get to check in and head for lunch, G, L and I all decide to start the trip off right with a Crown and Coke with a beer chaser. The flights all go smooth, a fairly quickly since we can watch ESPN the whole flight – I like virgin America.
We land in las grab our baggage and head for a taxi, which for the first time this year in my visits we actually have to queue for. About 15minutes later we are headed to the palms.
We got to check in and all of us get except G get bumped over to the fantasy tower. G gets a palms tower room and it wont be ready for a while. So we decide to throw our stuff into the rooms and hit up MNF in the center bar. Service by the bar staff was terrible, one of her friends was in and all she was doing was talking with her, even good tips didn’t speed of the drinks. In the end G gets his room we all head back upstairs to get changed for the nights activies.
About 30 minutes later I am back in the center bar with J have another couple when G and L arrive down. G heads over to the concierge to try to get tickets to peepshow that night and I head off to play some $5 which all eat my money.
I have a $50 gc for Hawaiian tropic so we figure heading there will probably be best to watch the raider game. We get in and the over the space of the night (well 1 ½ hours) we get about 6 rounds in and dinner. During this time the L gets to talk to the manager who he vaguely knows and mentions he know someone (me) that could fix there video wall issue that they are having during MNF. So I head off spend about 7 minutes fixing the video and they are good to go. Our bill comes out $170, which isn’t bad the original amount was $460 and the manager knock the rest off since we fixed up the screen.
At 8.30 we head off to Peepshow inside we have great seats straight in front of the stage, a plus point is that they do bottle service here (well they bring you a bottle and mix your first drink) so that gets to more Crown and Coke.
Once the show is over we are heading down the stairs and someone gives us money off bands for Prive. Talking with everyone I am like lets not waist our time L isn’t getting in with track shoes (at least they were black) and a Raider Polo, everyone else was nah we can do if they give us these bands, they wouldn’t have given them to us if not. So off to Prive we go and guess what no we are not getting in. At least they were good enough to very quickly come out and point that out. The rest of the crew is bent out of shape with this and try to complain, but about 10 minutes later we are in cab back to the palms. L got to get changed and we head for ghostbar, which is really quiet. We have a couple there and then head for playboy and have a few more, some where in this typing on my phone ceased to be ok. Turns out I started do shots at Palms bars, I am thankful my room was close, no wheelchair or escorts just very quickly time to go to bed.
So more to come…
The morning started at 3am. Time to get up showered and moving. 4am three of us meet up in work fuel up the car and garb random snacks for the car and head out to and pick up the fourth. Then the 6 hour drive to SFO beings.
After a bit of a drive around trying to get to long term parking we finally get to check in and head for lunch, G, L and I all decide to start the trip off right with a Crown and Coke with a beer chaser. The flights all go smooth, a fairly quickly since we can watch ESPN the whole flight – I like virgin America.
We land in las grab our baggage and head for a taxi, which for the first time this year in my visits we actually have to queue for. About 15minutes later we are headed to the palms.
We got to check in and all of us get except G get bumped over to the fantasy tower. G gets a palms tower room and it wont be ready for a while. So we decide to throw our stuff into the rooms and hit up MNF in the center bar. Service by the bar staff was terrible, one of her friends was in and all she was doing was talking with her, even good tips didn’t speed of the drinks. In the end G gets his room we all head back upstairs to get changed for the nights activies.
About 30 minutes later I am back in the center bar with J have another couple when G and L arrive down. G heads over to the concierge to try to get tickets to peepshow that night and I head off to play some $5 which all eat my money.
I have a $50 gc for Hawaiian tropic so we figure heading there will probably be best to watch the raider game. We get in and the over the space of the night (well 1 ½ hours) we get about 6 rounds in and dinner. During this time the L gets to talk to the manager who he vaguely knows and mentions he know someone (me) that could fix there video wall issue that they are having during MNF. So I head off spend about 7 minutes fixing the video and they are good to go. Our bill comes out $170, which isn’t bad the original amount was $460 and the manager knock the rest off since we fixed up the screen.
At 8.30 we head off to Peepshow inside we have great seats straight in front of the stage, a plus point is that they do bottle service here (well they bring you a bottle and mix your first drink) so that gets to more Crown and Coke.
Once the show is over we are heading down the stairs and someone gives us money off bands for Prive. Talking with everyone I am like lets not waist our time L isn’t getting in with track shoes (at least they were black) and a Raider Polo, everyone else was nah we can do if they give us these bands, they wouldn’t have given them to us if not. So off to Prive we go and guess what no we are not getting in. At least they were good enough to very quickly come out and point that out. The rest of the crew is bent out of shape with this and try to complain, but about 10 minutes later we are in cab back to the palms. L got to get changed and we head for ghostbar, which is really quiet. We have a couple there and then head for playboy and have a few more, some where in this typing on my phone ceased to be ok. Turns out I started do shots at Palms bars, I am thankful my room was close, no wheelchair or escorts just very quickly time to go to bed.
So more to come…