{"id":7283,"date":"2011-08-09T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2011-08-09T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:37:19","slug":"thanks-but-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/thanks-but-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks but no thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My birthday coincides with “Free Ride” day on the Desperado<\/strong> at Primm Valley Resorts<\/strong>. From 12:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., on August 16, you can be terrorized to your heart’s content. And terrifying it is: My wife and I tried the Desperado recently and found its whiplash considerably more violent than on our previous visit, in mid-2007. You can write me off as an old fogy if you like but the missus lurves<\/em> her some roller coasters, the scarier the better. But the rattletrap condition of the Desperado really put the fear of God into her and not in a good way. She’s sworn it off permanently.<\/p>\n

Also dampening the spirits of our impromptu Primm<\/strong> visit was that most of the rides and attractions at Buffalo Bill’s<\/strong> were closed for the day … just as they were on our ’07 Memorial Day visit. Of the few that were running, even the log flume was only semi-operational. The shooting-gallery function was out or order. On the bright side, you get a quiet, romantic boat ride through the casino floor instead, if that’s your thing.<\/p>\n

We got a peak into one of the refurnished rooms (courtesy of Fontainebleau<\/strong>) and they do look nicer. Trouble is, the hotel corridors are still dingy, humid and claustrophobic, with carpeting long overdue for replacement. They need to put a little more perfume on that pig. At least, with so little to do at Buffalo Bill’s, it freed us up to drop a bundle at the outlet mall next door. Gaming’s loss was retail’s gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My birthday coincides with “Free Ride” day on the Desperado at Primm Valley Resorts. From 12:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., on August 16, you can be terrorized to your heart’s content. And terrifying it is: My wife and I tried … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,4,59,123,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}