Man, it’s windy and cold today! I didn’t bring a light jacket with me today cause the weather was so nice out yesterday. So we decide to head back to the room so that I can grab a light jacket. But not before we stop by the Walgreens that’s on our way to buy a drink for later thirst quenching.
We make it back to the hotel and of course we utilize the secret suite entrance. There are two entrances to the rooms in Encore, the Suite entrance and the Resort Tower entrance. During my last visit, I had no idea the Suite Entrance even existed, so every time, I would walk behind the little café, past the gift shop in order to get to the elevators and then back across to my room. However this time, Bryan discovered the secret Suite Entrance just further down from the Café. See told you he was good @ video games. You need to have a suite card to gain access to the entrance, however every time we walk up, we’d just pull out our wallets to reach for the card and the attendee would just simply open the door welcoming us.
This entrance, had its own everything, it’s own attendee with its own set of doors, it’s own front desk, it’s own bell desk, it’s own concierge, and it’s own exit. Needless to say, we utilized that entrance every time there out, cause it led us to our room much faster.
Anyways, we get back up to the room, drop the drink off, grab my sweater and off we go to the secret exit to haul a taxi. Freemont Experience please! I think the ride cost us a little under $15. Freemont was not that busy that early Monday afternoon, which I guess is a good thing for us ‘cause we were going to casino hop and sign up for their Player’s Cards.
First stop the Fitzgerald! It was rather a long line up, because I guess they had the best signup bonus on Freemont. You got $3 in free slot play, you enter a draw and you get a ‘Get Out of A Bad Hand Card’. The name speaks for itself. You pull out this card when you’re playing blackjack and you have a bad hand, hand it over to the dealer, the dealer takes the card and you take your money back. Max bet of $25. You can only redeem a card once every 24 hours.
So we both lose our $3 slot credit pretty quickly, not hitting a thing, playing max bet on a 3 coin $0.25 machine. Then head on over to a blackjack table, sit down, hand our IDs and players card over to the dealer/pit boss for rating, as soon as that’s done, we each pull out $25 to start the betting. As soon as the money is on the table, the dealer screams over his shoulder to the pit boss, “we’ve got some high rollers over here” he was serious too, this leads the pit boss to come over and watch us play. High rollers? Us? Naw, couldn’t be, I mean only yesterday we were playing $0.25 a hand on video blackjack and now we’ve migrated to $25 a hand at the tables? Uh oh!
So we each win the first hand off the bat and then we are able to play a couple more hands with our initial buy in, meanwhile the dealer is making small talk with us, asks us if we’re stay at the Fitz with them? I tell them no, we’re staying @ Imperial Palace. I didn’t want to tell them that we’re staying @ the Encore and were only here for their freebies. He bought it. After a couple more hands, I’m dealt a 12 and Bryan has a 16, while the dealer is showing a face card, so I play stupid and ask the dealer if now would be a good time to use the card, he says yes, we use it and then bounce. I tell him that this was our first casino stop and we’re gonna go explore the rest of Freemont first.
So we both left that place with some +money in our pockets. Not bad. Not bad @ all. So, on to the next one!
The Four Queens. Here they had a giant slot machine that we could spin, if we hit 4 Queens we got a big prize, I don’t recall what the prize was, but needless to say neither of us hit it. We signed up, we each got a deck of playing cards, then they had the give them $10 they give us $15 in promo chips again, so we did that. This time I took that promo chip and used it on Roulette. I looked @ the screen it was showing black for 5 times now, so I decided to ride it by betting on black, it hit, took my winnings and then bet it on black again, it hit, took the winnings, tried to ride it again, it hit red, I lost. Oh well there goes my chips, at least I got more than my money back. They also had another promo where if you got 10 points they would give you $10 worth of free slot play, at this time Bryan thought that 10 points would be rather difficult since we would likely have to cycle through $100 to get it. Okay straight to the cashier, then onto the next one!
Next up was the Golden Nugget. I’ve seen this place on TV and heard many great things about this place, it doesn’t look that bad. By signing up we once again get to spin a giant slot machine, Bryan was able to capitalize and get $5 worth of free play, while I got nothing, but I think the sign up came with $5 free play anyways, but neither of us was able to turn that into real cash. Oh well, on to the next one!
OMG. It’s Binion’s. This is where the WSOP started? By signing up for their card, we got a $10 match play. Finally! I’ve been craving for one here! I don’t think we got any slot credit here, but they did have a promo where if we got 10 point then we would be able to swipe our card through their machine which would do a spin and we would have the chance of winning slot credits and various other prizes. We used our $10 match play on blackjack first. I think we both won that hand, so it was a simple hit and run. Then we migrated over to the video blackjack machines to earn our 10 points, starting @ $0.25 a hand, then migrating to $0.50, I eventually stepped it up to $1.00 a hand to get the 10 points in no time. Well, what do you know, I guess I am a high roller! We head on over to the machine to do our swipe, I only manage to win a free drink, alright I guess. Take it to the bar, trade it in for a beer. Not bad. Bryan wins the same thing, trades his slip in for a Rum & Coke. Almost done here, @ Binion’s they currently have a million dollars laying around in a plastic case, that you can take a picture with, so we each go lineup and take our pictures with it. Free souvenir photo, not bad. But, on to the next one!
Club 1906, which is the Golden Gate Casino, haven’t heard much about it, it’s rather a much smaller place than the other’s we’ve been to today, in order to sign up for their player’s card, we have to fill in registration forms. I guess they haven’t upgraded their technology yet. On the form it asks for an anniversary date, I turned to Bryan and asked him what our anniversary date was and he didn’t know either, bah! Once you finish signing up, all you need to do is achieve 10 points for $5 worth of free slot credits once again. Easy enough right? That’s what I thought until I started walking around the whole place, OMG they have nothing here but slot machines, no video poker and no video blackjack machines? How on earth am I going to earn those 10 points then, luckily, we came across a bar top and it had video blackjack on it. Okay here we go. Bam! In no time we achieved our 10 points and got the $5 free slot credit. We exchanged it then we went to go blow it all on slot machines. I don’t know why we do that, work so hard to get that free money, just to go blow it all away on silly slots, why not put it back into the video blackjack machine and bet $5 a hand, you can easily double it up right? Oh well, I guess I’ll do that next time. For now, it’s on to the next one! Oh wait, we’re at the end, there’s no more.
Now what? Remember back @ the 4 Queens we had that 10 point promo again, that we gave up? Let’s go back and achieve that. Done. So we head back, come across that giant slot machine again, lo and behold it’s a different attendant now, so we line up and spin it again, still nothing. Okay no harm done. We plunk ourselves in front of a couple of machines and away we go. Once again we achieve those points in no time. Finally drink service! My beer of choice this trip was MGD, Bryan’s was Heineken. Okay, that’s done. On to the next one.
Hey wait a minute, what’s this? Glitter Gulch? Sound funs, no cover? Go on, I’m listening, 10 girls on a Monday afternoon? I am so there! I wanted to go in and see what the Monday 5M shift looked like, but Bryan was hesitant. Somehow I managed to convince him, I don’t think it took much though, only maybe a couple of “c’mon man, don’t be such a bloody wanker” and he caved. The girl at the door tells us no cover, so no cover, we get in the waitress tells us that it’s a 2 drink minimum, and she seemed pretty persistent about it too. I look around and they have no bloody patrons, only a couple of girls dancing alone on stage with nobody watching. A 2 drink minimum? That’s about $20 a person. Dammit that’s $40 from me; there goes my lap dance money for Bryan. Forget it then, we’re leaving. So we left.
Little did Bryan know that if we successfully got in, he would have gotten a lap dance from one of the girls on the Monday 5PM shift. Lucky bastard!
I don’t get it. You have 0 patrons in there, two people walk in, why force a 2 drink minimum on them? I would have been okay with just a one drink minimum. Maybe next time I’ll try to negotiate and say I’ll do one drink, or just have one drink and then leave, but then again, the waitress did already have 4 glasses in her hand ready to go. So maybe that won’t work.
Okay, let’s get out of here, oh wait, what’s that? Main Street Station? I’ve heard about you! Okay, let’s try going there. Aww no signup bonuses? Okay, let’s go visit your friend El Cortez, sign up there, and then if nothing is good then we’ll grab a cab from there. Nothing is good, so we head on over to the valet and ask Tony to grab us a cab, we sit and wait, time goes by, an X number of people die from smoking, and we wait, we ask Tony again, he said he called, and that usually cabs are here really quickly, we wait some more, we probably waited what seemed like 30 minutes, still no cab, forget it Tony, if you can’t deliver we’re not handing out the goods, ($2 tip). So we decided to walk it back towards the strip, and try to flag a cab along the way, I mean it’s Las Vegas how hard can it be to flag a cab?
So we walk for about half an hour then all of a sudden Bryan starts laughing. What? What is it? He spots Olympic Garden, another strip club? In Las Vegas? Who could have guessed! We stand there for a good 2 minutes arguing about where we should go in or not. He wants to go back to the room to drop off all the stuff we got from Freemont first, I tell him if we do that, we’re gonna have to cab it back, which is just more money and time. Neither of which we got. So in the end he caves, willingly, so easy!
We get in, show our IDs, the girl asks us how we got here, uhhh we walked. Okay, no cover then! Perfect! It’s Monday night football! Whoo! One side of the room where all the screens are is where everybody is sitting and watching, the other side where the stage is, the area is dead. Okay we choose the dead side. We sit and just relax for about 10 minutes; we’re tired from all the walking we did. Two girls approach us, asks us to go for dances with them, we easily oblige! The only funny thing that happened here was that Bryan once again got another shitty lap dance, he said the girl just sat there, barely moved and that she thought he was thirty! HA!
Okay, at least we can now easily get a cab. Can you believe that there were no available cabs headed back to the strip? We saw cabs but they all had passengers in them. How do people from Freemont get back to the Strip. Bus?
So now we’re back @ the hotel and after exposing Bryan to all the Video Blackjack and showing him that earning comp points is a very easy thing to do. So I sit him down @ a $1 video blackjack machine and tell him to start earning us dinner! For new member sign ups @ the Wynncore, just earn 150 points and you’ll have enough for a free buffet. I of course feed a hundred dollar bill into the machine as well and join him. I also need to earn between 750 and 1,000 points for my free buffet. He starts off by playing $1 a hand, then moves on to $2 a hand. I think I’m playing $5 a hand at this point, and I double my money in no time and cash out. Then I just sit there for awhile and watch him play.
Shortly after sitting there for awhile, I realize that we should once again divide and conquer. I tell him that I’m going to head on up to the room and shower, and that he was doing a good job and that he should keep up the good work. After I shower, I head on back to the front desk to ask them about the M Resort. I told them that I heard a rumor that there was a complimentary shuttle that would take us there and back and wondered if they knew anything about it. The girl at the front desk, Victoria was a cute Asian girl, she didn’t have all the info but knew some stuff, like there was an outlet mall nearby and that they had a really good buffet there, that served really good seafood, you know typical girl stuff. She didn’t know when the busses left and arrived, so she directed me to speak to the concierge.
He made some quick phone calls and found the info for me, but if you go, you have to spend a good couple hours there, otherwise you’d have to cab it back. I also told him that I was going to go pick up Le Reve tickets and he offered to print them for me. After he printed them he thought it was weird that the tickets were free, so he started to do some digging, and then noticed that my room was free too. Uh-oh. So he made some quick phone calls to try and clear some things up. In my mind I was like “mind your business that’s all, mind your business; don’t worry about how I got comped. You’re gonna mess everything up” In the end he said okay, now I understand. But I was just hoping that he didn’t mess anything up and I wouldn’t see a bill for $1,000 @ the end of my stay.
As he’s printing the tickets for me Bryan comes strolling in through the Suite Entrance with a big smile on his face, he tells me that he was up to $400 at one time, easily earned the 150 points and next thing he knew, he was close to 500 points. So he strived for that. Now he gets another dinner for free. Perfect. I guess I don’t have to work that hard then. So he heads up to go shower and change, after that we make our way to the buffet.
When we get to the cashier, he compliments the cashier lady on the super fast inputting computer skills; I think he was hitting on her?
Dinner was great, I tried the salmon, the prime rib, the dumplings, the shrimp, the snow crabs, the desert, the coffee. Coffee was needed because after dinner we were going to see Le Reve. And I don’t care how entertaining a show is, once you sit down for more than 15 minutes, your body starts to get used to it and you begin to fall asleep and enter a Le Reve state. Ha! Get it?
Overall, I thought that the show was superbly done. At times, I found myself wondering how they can hold their breath for such a long period of time, how they jump off such high platforms and not land on each other. Even I found myself struggling to stay awake at certain times.
Of all the Cirque shows that I’ve seen in Vegas, I would rank the following from most enjoyed to least enjoyed: Le Reve, KA, Zumanity, & Mystere.
Now that the show is done, it’s almost time for the Strip Club! Another one? Yes, another one! But before we go, we need to make some quick coin for it first! What other promising way than, Video Blackjack! So we each got back to our respective machines and slip in a hundo each, bam! Bryan starts off with $2 a credit at one credit. I start off with $1 a credit but at 5 credits. I need to make up some lost time talking to Victoria, I think that by playing at this 2.5X rate, I’ll have caught up to Bryan in no time. Sneeky guy. I look over and he’s playing $2 a credit @ 4 credits, that’s $8 a hand. Baller! The guy @ the Fitz was right, we were high rollers. Oh well, slow and steady wins the race then. I hit my mark of $200 and I cash out, I watch Bryan play for a bit, till he’s done, then we head on back up to the room and I phone treasures and ask them to send over a limo once again.
Same thing, take care of the driver and he’ll take care of the rest. It’s a short trip once again. Tip the driver $15 this time. They waive us in, no cover, no drink minimum. We find a seat by the stage. I order a drink, Bryan stalls on the drink, says that they said no drink minimum. They said, no you need to buy a drink, he says he’ll order one later. I go up to the bar, hand him $20 in exchange for a rubber band full of one’s! Yes! Tonight is going to be a good one!
Today was a special day, it was exactly one month since I had my birthday and it is exactly one month till its Bryan’s birthday. Of course in Vegas it’s everyone’s birthday. However, I decided to make that night about him. Of course I didn’t tell him till much later.
We sat by the side stage and the girls there did 2 song sets, and every time a new girl would come on, I’d wait till the second song, then make eye contact with her. As she would slowly make her way towards us, I would take out the dollar bill, fold it in half and place it in front of Bryan, by that time it would already be too late for him to refuse. Some of the girls would perform tricks, some of the others would just simply ask him to slip it in, while others simply motor-boated him.
After about 3 or 4 girls he finally caught on to what I was doing and began refusing it, by quickly pulling down the dollar bill, however sometimes he would be too late and wouldn’t be able to pull it down in time, and the girl would still wander on over. Even though his verbal expressions was saying no, as soon as she walked on over, his mouth would hang low, giving him that droopy dog expression and he would slide his beer to the side to make room for her.
There was this one girl who was pretty tall, she walked on over to us and must have seen that Bryan had two dollars in his hand, while I had a dollar in mine. She turns to us and says “where is the love?” Then demanded that Bryan give her a dollar: give me a dollar. Since that worked so effectively, she demanded another one from him: Give me another. Then turned to me and said: Now, you, give me a dollar. To which I did. She just took the bills and left, what a waste!
I don’t remember when, but at one point I started telling the girls that it was Bryan’s birthday. One of them turned to him and said: It’s your birthday? To which he denied, then she called him a liar, and wished him a happy birthday! You lucky dog!
To try and make up for the regret that happened @ Rhino’s, I bought him a dance from the best looking Asian girl around, sorry, I tried!
While he was inside getting his grove on, two guys showed up and sat by the stage as well, it didn’t look like they knew each other, since they were sitting at opposite sides of the stage. It looked like these guys had quite a bit of ones on them. One guy reminded me of the guy from Borat, the other guy was just a typical larger sized guy. The Borat guy would raise his hand in the air, open it and let about 6 – 8 dollar bills fall out of his hand. I thought for sure that would have gotten their attention, but they just chose to ignore it. Weird. So I decided to try an experiment. I took out a dollar bill and placed it in front of me, and she came over. Interesting….
Later on the Borat character went to sit with the other dude, iono, maybe he wasn’t feeling the love and decided to settle? He tried his tactic over there as well, dropping several dollar bills, but this girl who was a different girl ignored him as well. So I tried my tactic again and place the dollar bill in front of Bryan and it worked again. Huh!
Anyways, after I used up my last dollar bill, we decided to leave ‘cause Bryan was beginning to look like a Zombie and based on my performance @ the shooting range, there was no way I would be able to effectively destroy him with a firearm.
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