Hello!
I recently joined as an LVA member on 3/30/2011 for the 1st time I was pleased to have received my MROs booklet in the mail very quickly within the week after signing up, especially living in a rural area of Pennsylvania.
For Mother's Day week (5/7-5/14), I am taking my 91 year old mom back to Vegas. Our last visit was sometime in the late 80s. To give you an idea of how long it's been, Treasure Island just opened for business and I still have the Silver City refrigerator magnet giveaways. The wife will be unable to join us due to her work-at-home business committments so it will be just mom and i - a chance for us to reflect on Old Vegas and take in New Vegas.
We're staying the first 6 nights in a 2BR timeshare (Summer Bay Resorts on Koval directly behind Harrahs) and using a comp night at Rio for the last night since we're Total Rewards members from frequenting Atlantic City. BTW, the last day of our trip happens to be Friday the 13th - a good day to frequent the casinos!
My day job keeps me quite busy with timeshare exchange company, RCI, as a Senior Business Analyst or as my wife calls me, a computer geek. Of course in reality and in Vegas, I consider myself a rocket scientist, having experience with NASA as a Physicist and research assistant at Langley AFB in Virginia during my younger grad school years. It does not take Rocket Science to understand the house odds of the casino games, and I can legitimately tell u
I do not have to ask what has changed in Vegas in the past 20+ years since we've been there last. In planning for the trip, I did my research and already purchased a Beatles Love ticket on the Circ website (25% off advanced purchase). Friends and family members who have seen the show, call this a must for me. Being a Beatles fanatic, this will be the highlight of the trip.
On the gambling front, I am big on VP and Pai Gai Poker. Both have decent players odds. Mom is into Penny Slots and a Bingo fanatic - many thanks to the Bingo posters in these forums - we plan on hitting most of the Station casinos and South Point during our trip for Bingo and Slots. We may take in the magic show at the Flamingo.
I plan to provide a trip report with our impressions of the changes, the pros, and the cons, and how we fare with the games, the dining and customer service.
Best of luck to all!
Gary from East Stroudsburg, PA
I recently joined as an LVA member on 3/30/2011 for the 1st time I was pleased to have received my MROs booklet in the mail very quickly within the week after signing up, especially living in a rural area of Pennsylvania.
For Mother's Day week (5/7-5/14), I am taking my 91 year old mom back to Vegas. Our last visit was sometime in the late 80s. To give you an idea of how long it's been, Treasure Island just opened for business and I still have the Silver City refrigerator magnet giveaways. The wife will be unable to join us due to her work-at-home business committments so it will be just mom and i - a chance for us to reflect on Old Vegas and take in New Vegas.
We're staying the first 6 nights in a 2BR timeshare (Summer Bay Resorts on Koval directly behind Harrahs) and using a comp night at Rio for the last night since we're Total Rewards members from frequenting Atlantic City. BTW, the last day of our trip happens to be Friday the 13th - a good day to frequent the casinos!
My day job keeps me quite busy with timeshare exchange company, RCI, as a Senior Business Analyst or as my wife calls me, a computer geek. Of course in reality and in Vegas, I consider myself a rocket scientist, having experience with NASA as a Physicist and research assistant at Langley AFB in Virginia during my younger grad school years. It does not take Rocket Science to understand the house odds of the casino games, and I can legitimately tell u
I do not have to ask what has changed in Vegas in the past 20+ years since we've been there last. In planning for the trip, I did my research and already purchased a Beatles Love ticket on the Circ website (25% off advanced purchase). Friends and family members who have seen the show, call this a must for me. Being a Beatles fanatic, this will be the highlight of the trip.
On the gambling front, I am big on VP and Pai Gai Poker. Both have decent players odds. Mom is into Penny Slots and a Bingo fanatic - many thanks to the Bingo posters in these forums - we plan on hitting most of the Station casinos and South Point during our trip for Bingo and Slots. We may take in the magic show at the Flamingo.
I plan to provide a trip report with our impressions of the changes, the pros, and the cons, and how we fare with the games, the dining and customer service.
Best of luck to all!
Gary from East Stroudsburg, PA
