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Published: January 4th 2005
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Viva Las Vegas
the top of the strip, Bally's to the left at Paris to the right We were up early this morning for our flight Vegas, even more stringant security checks here, shoes off and that, pleased to say we got through with nothing to declare.
Vegas looks bizarre during the day, it's in the middle of no where, snow capped mountains then this city dropped in the middle of the desert.
We got a shuttle to the hotel, it was huge and as soon as you walk through the door you're bowled over by the amount of tables and 'puggy machines', full of old people too, some of them on their last legs I tell thee, not a pretty sight. The hotel was amazing, a wee bit away from the strip but it was class, a huge suite, 70 lane bolwing ally, 14 screen cinema, 7 restaurantes, 6 stand alone bars, 5 cocktail bars, a Starbucks, a Subway sandwich and even a Liqour store all in the hotel and there is a 5,000 seater stadium joined on for the acts, Little Richard was playing while we were there, cheapest tickets were $60 though, no thanks.
I got speaking to some couple in the line for checking in, after they discovered I was Scottish
Fiona
outside the Bellagio and after the usual "Have you seen Braveheart" conversation we moved on to golf, "do you play?", not really I said, "that's amazing I though all Scotchmen played golf, I though you were all great at it too, I'm shocked" he says, I'm only joking I say, I'm really a pro back home, I'm on tour here, ha-ha, but little did I know that they take everything as gospel, no jokes here, "I though you were" he says, "I bet you keep it quiet to avoid loads of stupid questions about putting from jokers like me right?" Yeah, soemthing like that I said and moved away from the conversation.
We stayed in the Oleans Casino, let me tell you a bit about the waitresses here, the walk about in their underwear shouting "cocktails" you then call them over and give them you're drink order and they bring it back, FREE GRATIS, amazing, girls in their underwear bringing me free drinks, I think I've found the prommised land Tony and it's in Vegas Baby!!!
We were tipping them a buck a time and they were always hanging round waiting to get us more, all you had to do was play the machines, we spent a total of about $6 in the slots in our three nights there but managed to get loads of free drink, put a dollar in then just leave it, when you hear "cocktails" start hitting the buttons, genius.
We stayed in our casino tonight and went for an all you can eat buffet for dinner, these Yanks see that as a challenge man, a competition to eat as much as you can, no wonder they're huge. Naturally I had to try a bit of everything but 7 plates later I was done, I'd had Mexican, Italian, Chinese, American, Seafood, Indian and a Salad, genius, Fiona only managed 2 plates and a pudding, I was so dissapointed in her.
Went to an Irish Bar inside the casino for a few drinks, I could see the addiction to machines in Fiona's eyes so we retired to bed, I locked the door and hid the key, I think she's hooked.
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