Travel 4: All Around the World Same Song

[Slap Shot]

My inlaws live in Arizona and we fly into vegas to visit. I like a bit of gambling, but the wife doesn't so we usually go for 2 days on the tail end of our visit. We have been to many good restaurants there.

2 highlights from last trip:
Din Tai Fung in Aria and Best Friend in Park MGM

Picasso was absolutely excellent in bellagio but that was ~900 dollar meal for both of us...so a special treat.

$900? Good Lord. I thought our priciest meal so far at $400 for two was insane.

[WisconsinWildcard]

I think that's about where we are.

We ate at Craftsteak last night which was really damn good. TBD on where we're going to be eating. Either way, the food this trip has been pretty incredible. Kinda pricey but that's the game

Tonight we're going to see a show. Atomic Saloon. Our friends have seen it and love it. If they're ok seeing it again, it must be good.

My inlaws live in Arizona and we fly into vegas to visit. I like a bit of gambling, but the wife doesn't so we usually go for 2 days on the tail end of our visit. We have been to many good restaurants there.

2 highlights from last trip:
Din Tai Fung in Aria and Best Friend in Park MGM

Picasso was absolutely excellent in bellagio but that was ~900 dollar meal for both of us...so a special treat.

[dxmnkd316]

It's unique. Most people either love it or hate it. On the rare times i get to go to the Strip rather than staying in suburbia with my elderly parents, I have fun. My wife would be fine never going back.

I think that's about where we are.

We ate at Craftsteak last night which was really damn good. TBD on where we're going to be eating. Either way, the food this trip has been pretty incredible. Kinda pricey but that's the game

Tonight we're going to see a show. Atomic Saloon. Our friends have seen it and love it. If they're ok seeing it again, it must be good.

[Slap Shot]

I've been to Vegas at least a dozen times and enjoyed my time there, but unless there's a can't miss event in the future I've got it out of my system.

[unofan]

Vegas is amazing

It's unique. Most people either love it or hate it. On the rare times i get to go to the Strip rather than staying in suburbia with my elderly parents, I have fun. My wife would be fine never going back.

[dxmnkd316]

Vegas is amazing

[dxmnkd316]

I don't know what you've budgeted food & beverage-wise, but unless you head off Strip, which I do recommend if you've got the time, expect to pay a 30-40% markup (even more for ultra-premo liquor & wine) over the norm. Take a short ride over to the Double Down Saloon if you want to drink an Ass Juice in Bourdain's memory and/or just hang out at a really cool punk bar. I often go to the Peppermill for a massive brunch right before I leave town. Don't forget to cash out any vouchers from machine play before you depart.

Have fun!

Would love to. But not sure my wife would.

[RaceBoarder]

Also since you're new:

- DO NOT touch anything in the mini-bar, as they have pressure sensors
- Stop at a CVS/Walgreens to get pop, gatorade, snacks for your room
- Beware of 6:5 Blackjack
- Charge EVERYTHING to your room
- Use a Players Club card at your casino. Call the Casino Host On Duty right before you check out. You may be able to get some odds and ends comped off your bill.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Going to Vegas tomorrow with a couple friends to celebrate our last birthdays in our 30s. It's my first time.

Pray for me (and my wife's patience)

I don't know what you've budgeted food & beverage-wise, but unless you head off Strip, which I do recommend if you've got the time, expect to pay a 30-40% markup (even more for ultra-premo liquor & wine) over the norm. Take a short ride over to the Double Down Saloon if you want to drink an Ass Juice in Bourdain's memory and/or just hang out at a really cool punk bar. I often go to the Peppermill for a massive brunch right before I leave town. Don't forget to cash out any vouchers from machine play before you depart.

Have fun!

[dxmnkd316]

Sounds like the storyline of a Netflix movie. Prayers might help. Who does one pray to for Vegas help? Lady Luck?

Anthony Bourdain?

[burd]

Going to Vegas tomorrow with a couple friends to celebrate our last birthdays in our 30s. It's my first time.


Pray for me (and my wife's patience)

Sounds like the storyline of a Netflix movie. Prayers might help. Who does one pray to for Vegas help? Lady Luck?

[dxmnkd316]

Going to Vegas tomorrow with a couple friends to celebrate our last birthdays in our 30s. It's my first time.


Pray for me (and my wife's patience)

[Kepler]

i thought I remember the twin towers were designed to collapse inwards.

Oh. Well, it worked.

[dxmnkd316]

Although considering the Twin Towers it may just collapse, not actually fall over.

I have to think that the straight up and downness is the gravitational backbone that holds the thing up, and if you lean it too much the whole structure will just unspool itself. It's not a tree -- it doesn't have a lot of lateral stability.

But I am not a materials scientist, I just built a lot of sandcastles.

Reminds me of the only earthquake I have ever been in. I was in a building with enormously wide and tall floor to ceiling windows, and I happened to be looking at one when it hit. It liquified, like the Star Gate; it was a pool at a 90 degree angle from the ground for a moment. And then it solidified again. But it's not as if it would have cracked and fallen in, it would have just showered like water. That's what I think would happen to that tower if it lost its vertical structural integrity -- it would effectively just be a tower of sandy Rice Krispies, and it would pour, not fall.

i thought I remember the twin towers were designed to collapse inwards.

[Kepler]

Looking around the potential radius of that thing, there's really no good option...

Although considering the Twin Towers it may just collapse, not actually fall over.

I have to think that the straight up and downness is the gravitational backbone that holds the thing up, and if you lean it too much the whole structure will just unspool itself. It's not a tree -- it doesn't have a lot of lateral stability.

But I am not a materials scientist, I just built a lot of sandcastles.

Reminds me of the only earthquake I have ever been in. I was in a building with enormously wide and tall floor to ceiling windows, and I happened to be looking at one when it hit. It liquified, like the Star Gate; it was a pool at a 90 degree angle from the ground for a moment. And then it solidified again. But it's not as if it would have cracked and fallen in, it would have just showered like water. That's what I think would happen to that tower if it lost its vertical structural integrity -- it would effectively just be a tower of sandy Rice Krispies, and it would pour, not fall.