Originally Posted by DesertCat
so I drive up Las Vegas Blvd yesterday, and pull into the first entrance at Cosmopolitan, and valet. i ask if they can wash my car after the long drive,nope. No one offers to help us with our bags, we take them up to the main level and find ourselves in the casino, no lobby or map to be seen. after an interminable walk we find the front desk.
the $20 trick gets a suite overlooking the Bellagio fountains, with a deck and soaking tub. but no wifi, and both ATT and Verizon have weak Internet connections, so we are nearly marooned, netless. it has a really cool TV system you can click icons with your remote use to get info about your room, settings, the hotel, pools, activities, etc, which is great as I want to learn craps and teach my wife. it doesn't do that and downloading a YouTube video takes forever.
we go to some steak place called something like SK, and they direct us to the bar to sit without offering us the choice of sitting in the dining room. my wife likes grape vodka, they only have 4 flavored vodkas, no grape. We will later find that every bar in the Cosmopolitan appears to have the same 4 flavored vodkas. We have a mediocre $220 dinner drowned out by loud dance music.
Despite the lack of direction aids, we find our way to the Aria. They were only running 200, 400, 1000 mix games, and I can't play higher than 60 this trip. still we have a good time until we try to find our way back. The Aria valet directs us to some stairs near the drive-up.
We find ourselves at a garage entrance to the Cosmo, but no pedestrian crossing, we would have to cross a streetback to Aria, hoping their parking entrance has pedestrian crossings we can cross back to Cosmo. instead we walk into the garage, wherever quickly our sidewalk disappears. so we are forced to cross four lanes of traffic to a narrow sidewalk on the other side, but we make it and are finally safe. at least until we get close to the casino entrance, where the Cosmo has placed a barrier on the sidewalk to prevent people from walking out this way, which forces us to dodge traffic once more.
We go to the bar with a live band, but they aren't playing yet, and the place is empty. so It only takes ten minutes for a waitress to come over and read their short selection of flavored vodkas. and ten minutes more for delivery.
so we gamble, and have a good time, though I do t know how to crap so I can find a $15 table which I think is appropriate for my wife to learn at. I position her by the box person, tell them we dont know how to play, and then to get help and go play $25 blackjack. When we finished I ask my wife what she learned, and her reply was just to bet the pass line, they yelled at her if she tried to anything else.
more coming...
