Golden Nugget

Hello all!!! Just returned home after 4 nights at the Nugget. I paid the extra for VIP check-in on a Saturday afternoon, and after a 5 hour drive, it was nice to just walk into the VIP check-in room and not have to wait. VIP check-in also reserves the room you want.......such as king, non smoking. Apparantly what you want in a room is not always guaranteed upon reservation......pay the extra $25 for that guarantee) And they advertise no resort fees. Sounds like those "hidden fees"are there for the taking.

I signed up for a Landry's Card and showed it at check-in. I also had reserved room from an email special I had recieved from GN the week before. The VIP checkling informed us that to recieve the free upgrade from Landry"s, one has to have made a reservation THROUGH the Landry's card.. She so nicely pointed out the number on the card. (can anyone see mini-micro printing?) So in other words, she told us, that we could either have the regular price Landry's upgrade (of which there were none anyway on the evening) or stay at the "E Blast" rates we recived in the email. Not both. I was a little disappointed but heck...we are in Vegas...finally. Despite getting those looks from Hubby, as he thought paying for VIP check-in was unecessary. Believe me, it sure was on that day.

Another perk from the VIP checkin was that we recieved the special coupon book and a VIP line pass to the cafe and the buffett. She also told me that if we had booked through Landry's for the upgrade, we would not be able to recieve said coupon book. On the paperwork I recieved with my card did not specifically state that one must reserve through Landry's. (probably in the small print on the Landry select club website) Who knows? Well, I felt that I had been misinformed, but at that point we were tired, hot, wrinkled and hungry. You know how you feel when you finally get here. It did not make that much difference anyway.

We recieved a room in the Carson Tower. 4th floor. View of a wall. Which makes no difference to us as we are not ones to linger and lounge in a room. The bed was a Serta sleeper and sooooo very comfortable. The room is always well appointed and it was quiet. The whole hallway and floor was quiet. Very nice. The only noise one heard from the hallway was muffled talking on occasion. The walk was really not so bad. They have opened that whole area between the pool area and the Carson Towers. It used to be this unending hallway with time share people that attatcked you like sharks. It is now a big open, well lighted space and the time share folks are there but we were not assaulted at all. It could have been the look on Hubby's face.....it warded off all who approached.

Of course with your new Landry's select card, you have $25 on it for dinner. We enjoyed a great happy hour at the new Chart House there at the Rush Tower. It was delish and not horribly filling as we needed energy for venturing and zip lining!!! All in all, the whole GN experience was great. We had a wonderful time quaffing many many brews at the pool and going down the slide numerous times.!!!!