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KarmaDope:
Flight over was "interesting".
I had guessed right when I booked my seat as I had mountains of leg room (which is what I wanted) and the Wi-Fi on the plane worked. Sadly, my trusty laptop decided it wasn"t going to and the HDD kinda went kaput 30 minutes into an 11hr flight. Oh joy. Thankfully there were a few people sat around me who were pretty cool and we ended up chatting for most of the flight.
Got to Vegas and jumped into my shuttle. Expected a town car. Got a stretch limo. Win. Got to the Orleans and spent an hour playing the odd slot machine/video poker machine before crashing at about 10pm Vegas time. Put my US SIM into my phone and it did not work. No mobile and no laptop. Oh ffs.
Woke up the next morning. At 2.15am. FML. Lazed in bed for an hour before deciding to get up and go downstairs to get breakfast and gamble, naturally. Slots and video poker again for about 2hrs before I decided to head to the Strip. Found myself in the Flamingo at 6am playing 2/4 Limit Hold"Em cash. Lasted 3hrs and made a profit before heading back to the Orleans as on a comp and wanted to give them some decent (for me, anyway) play. Ran about $700 through the machines (when I say ran $700 I mean with wins and stuff, so actually spent a lot less) then headed back to the Strip to meet the rest of the APAT contingent. Back to Flamingo for more cash after a hot dog and fries for lunch, won a small amount before heading to Harrahs to meet the degens.
Met the degens and Ger had us all playing 3-card poker. Lost $75. Awesome. This might become a recurring theme. Gave up on that pretty soon and headed to the Quad to watch the NFL game. Waitress was ridiculously hot. Ger, Joe, Matt Bird and I got bored and hit a $10 Pai Gow table. Lost another $25.
TBC...laptop is about to die again after I got it to work, slightly.
KarmaDope:
Will do the report on the flight back, but just took 6th in the $125 at Aria for $700.
KarmaDope:
Proper TR time - x-posted to VMB.
I flew out from Manchester, UK with two plane changes; firstly at London Heathrow and then at Los Angeles. This may seem a bit weird but it was for two reasons. Firstly, I am a sucker for massive legroom. You can give me a chair where I can"t even turn sideways and I won"t care. I just need that legroom. So I did my research and ended up booking seat 33G on the 777-300 from London-LA with American (I will post a pic of the legroom but I"m typing this in work and the pic is at home), so the changes were to get me to London and then get from LA to Vegas. Oh, and as an added bonus, these are the only planes I could find that had power ports in Economy and also Wi-Fi.
The second reason was price. I can"t fly direct from Manchester any more so to fly direct from the UK, I have to travel to London anyway, whether it be by train/car/bus/plane. It was cheaper for me to fly to London than to take any of the aforementioned ways, and the flight to LA then Vegas was cheaper than flying direct from London to Vegas by at least £100 ($160).
The flight from Manchester to London was chilled, which I needed after being up since 4am UK time. We went up, cruised for literally 10 minutes, then went down. Unfortunately when we came in to land the first time, the runway at Heathrow had to be closed for a 5 minute safety check so we had to pretty much take off again. Nobody reacted badly though so we just circled Heathrow and landed 10 minutes late. Quick change of terminal and we were soon boarding the 12pm from London to Los Angeles.
We took off late because of the earlier runway delays but because of the winds, we made most of that time back up in the air. Sadly for me, I managed to pay for wifi and just get settled in before my laptop went kaput at 36000 feet. Awesome. The hard disk broke so it was terminal. Spent most of the flight just dozing and trying to connect to the wifi on my phone, which barely worked, and this soon turned into the longest flight ever. Eventually landed at LAX and had 2hrs to make my Vegas connection. This seemed very simple and I was at the gate with more than enough time to spare. Had booked an aisle seat and got 2 Mexicans next to me, thankfully the dude in the middle wasn"t plus sized and we eventually landed in Vegas at 6.45pm PST.
I"d prebooked a VIP shuttle with Bell Trans and after a slight delay, a limo turned up. Luxury ride to the Orleans and check in went very smoothly. Room miles away from the elevators with a view of the Orleans Arena and Rio/Palms from the window at the end of the corridor. Managed to stay awake until 10pm PST and staggered up to the room having been awake for nearly 27hrs. Was out like a light, hoping that I would sleep 8hrs and get that sleeping pattern sorted straight away...
Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: sharplea on November 28, 2013, 13:48:35 PM ---
Room miles away from the elevators
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I just asked politely for a room near the elevators (Paulie don"t do walking)...and boom, I was sorted.
Downside is, of course, that everyone walks past your door, usually making noise. Fortunately, I"m a heavy sleeper and it"s not an issue for me.
Bell"s VIP shuttle was the bee"s patellas as far as I am concerned. The way to go as a solo traveller to Vegas...if you are in a group then the cost / value ratio goes down.
KarmaDope:
--- Quote from: Paulie_D on November 28, 2013, 14:52:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: sharplea on November 28, 2013, 13:48:35 PM ---
Room miles away from the elevators
--- End quote ---
I just asked politely for a room near the elevators (Paulie don"t do walking)...and boom, I was sorted.
Downside is, of course, that everyone walks past your door, usually making noise. Fortunately, I"m a heavy sleeper and it"s not an issue for me.
Bell"s VIP shuttle was the bee"s patellas as far as I am concerned. The way to go as a solo traveller to Vegas...if you are in a group then the cost / value ratio goes down.
--- End quote ---
I specifically asked for rooms far away from the elevators - for the noise reason but also because it was my first solo trip and I knew that if I was really far away, I couldn"t just nip up and get more $$$ when I suffered a bad beat, I"d have enough time to calm down :)
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