My recent Vegas trip

This was an interesting weekend with 150,000 Electronic Daisy Festival folks in town.  The unusual thing was that hotel rooms were full, but the casinos were not crowded for such high hotel room rates.  That's because the festival goers spent most of their time at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Since our group of 14 plays almost entirely blackjack, I can tell you that the minimum table bet at most downtown casinos was $15 with a spattering of $10 tables.  I never gambled at Circa or El Cortez, so I can't tell you what to expect there.  Mask requirements were in full force at all establishments, including at gaming tables.

Our group always gets a large suite so all can gather comfortably to watch football, or to just hang out.  The Penthouse Suite at the Golden Gate was outstanding, but quite expensive at $2750 for three nights including taxes and fees.  The penthouse included two bed rooms, a patio, 2.5 bath rooms, large family room with wet bar, industrial cooler, and three tv's across the same wall.  The Golden Gate suites (Jr Suites) worked out well for the the ten guys not staying in the penthouse, although we did pack three guys in each with a king bed and queen pull out couch.  These ran $720 for the three nights.  We took all rooms costs for our 5 rooms and split it equally for a cost of $402 per guy, if I recall correctly.  The Penthouse turns out to be a bargain for our group as we spend so much time there.  Scott drives in from SoCal and mules our our booze, munchies, coolers, plates, cups, paper towels, etc.  Myself and two buddies picked up about 8 pounds of outstanding sausages and dogs at John Mulls meats on Friday.  Between a hot dog steamer that Scott brought, and the Jensen grill on the penthouse patio, we always had something to eat.  I only bought maybe 8 cocktails while out the entire weekend, as I was usually in the suite or sitting at a blackjack table.

The downtown Freak Show was very evident as usual, but did not seem to be as intense as one year ago.

Our only scheduled dinner out was at Therapy, which is aptly named for our hard drinking group.  It had a great atmosphere and the food was very good.  Service was slow, which I suspect was due to the ongoing shortage of employees.  All in all, it was a great experience.

We did pick up three pies at Pop Up pizza inside of The Plaza for our Friday Night Kickoff party.  The only hastle was they would not take my order over the phone..........even though I offered to pay with a card in advance.  Only in person orders.  Since it was a 5 minute trip from the room, this wasn't a big issue and the pizza was solid.

Several of us had breakfast twice at Second Street Cafe at the Fremont Hotel.  This joint used to be called Second Street Grill, but is now just a breakfast and lunch joint.  Food was great on both occasions, and our 70 plus year old waitress could not have been nicer or better.  I wish I had her name as I'd send the hotel a nice note about her.  Another day, we had a Mexican breakfast at Nacho Daddy.  The food was not particularly hot, but other than that it was outstanding and suprisingly authentic.

Great trip............can't wait for no masks.  Oh, and I lost $125 gambling, which is a good trip.

Thanks for the report

I am happy for you and for your friends that a good time was had for all. Reading that the rooms and table game rates were higher than normal was to be expected since demand was also high - it happens all the time in Vegas during major events. Intelligent, frequent Vegas visitors know this and plan accordingly.

David, how would you have the slightest idea what intelligent people do?

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Another nice conversation interruped by Kevin.

Boiler, you know damn well what Stalker's stupid little comment was about. He's the one who interrupted the conversation. It's a carbon copy of the personal attack he posted, against forum rules, on another thread. (He can only plagiarize or self-plagiarize.)

You paid high prices but you apparently had a great time. That's good to hear.

I booked hotels and and confirmed prices way back in March.  Had I done so a month ago, rooms rates per guy would have been $1000 vs $402.  Once it was anounced that Electric Daisy was rescheduled to our weekend, prices nearly tripled.

It's a supply and demand thing that you've made clear to us that irks you.  I'm all for this, and I do my best to find lower priced rooms.

I booked hotels and and confirmed prices way back in March.  Had I done so a month ago, rooms rates per guy would have been $1000 vs $402.  Once it was anounced that Electric Daisy was rescheduled to our weekend prices nearly tripled.

It's a supply and demand thing that you've made clear to us that irks you.  I'm all for supply and demand moving pricing, and I do my best to find lower priced rooms accordingly.

Tomorrow I have a business flight at 6:00am sharp.  I could have booked a later flight, but I spend my company's money as I do my own.  $109 one way leg vs the 10am flight at $279.

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