Comments on: San Diego Trip Report – Part 1

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:50:32 +0000

Jean,

Thanks so much for continuing to post your wonderful trip reports, I know many of us travel vicariously through you and your fantastic Seven Star comps….$3,000.00 food comps and limo rides, oh my.

Glad you were able to visit Harrah’s Rincon in San Diego. That is our home casino in California, they treat guests well and the new hotel is wonderful. We stayed in the new hotel 2 weeks after you and I must say it was the quietest room we have ever stayed in at Harrah’s, we’ve stayed in the La Jolla and Palomar suites and regular rooms on the Spa & Garden side.

Our room was missing the shower room and we kept hitting our foot on that wood platform that stuck out from the bed, not sure if that was your experience. They are probably working out the initial kinks that come with a building a new hotel.

But, as always I can’t wait to go back.

Upon check-in, I noticed 7*s are given a Harrah’s bag, what is in the bag? What am I as a lowly Platinum level player missing out on…Ha Ha.

By: Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:04:05 +0000

I love San Diego; unfortunately, it’s only a place for rich people, something I am not. There are so many people in California that if you can’t afford high rents/a huge mortgage, you’re crowded out of anyplace desirable. It ain’t cheap to visit, either. That said, it’s worth it, especially in the dead of winter when most of the country is freezing. The play is to stay in Chula Vista or Oceanside–on the fringe, in other words–and zip up and down I-5 to visit the beaches, downtown, Balboa Park, etc. Harrah’s Rincon is MUCH too far away to make staying there practical; it takes at least half an hour just to get to Escondido, which is only someplace you want to go to if you want to see the Wildlife Park. In general, the casinos in San Diego aren’t worth bothering with, especially since there’s so much else to see. Almost all of them are very distant from San Diego itself, usually situated waaaaay out in the backcountry and reached only by a winding, two-lane mountain road.
I’ve been in a couple of “use them or lose them” comp situations before, and I’ve always tried to find some large group that seems to be celebrating someone’s birthday or anniversary, and pick up their entire check. Not only is it fun to do this, but I stick it to the casino, depriving them of four or five hundred bucks. And the server usually gets a huge tip as a consequence 🙂

By: M.LaBranche

M.LaBranche — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 01:58:21 +0000

Thanks for Part one, my friend’s son is retired Navy and loves living in San Diego.
MO