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07-02-2010 , 02:31 PM

#26

hobbes9324

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ksc1940

flights from chicago to vegas nonstop are really expensive, so i saved myself a few hundred bucks by flying to L.A.

looking back, i should've just gone out and done more stuff on my own. my friend hyped it up so much, and insisted that we were gonna go out and do a lot of fun stuff, but once the weekend arrived he became a freaking zombie.

Huh?

Midway to LV on Southwest MAX is about $500 round trip - more like $360 if you make any sort of effort. It's SW, but you get there. And you don't spend four hours on a crappy dangerous drive.

Pick better friends. End of story. Christ, I'm a cranky 55 years old and I have better trips than you did. And I do sympathize - I had a similar trip with a couple of co-workers in the past - they made Vegas seem like Barstow for three days.

MM MD

Last edited by hobbes9324; 07-02-2010 at 02:36 PM.

07-02-2010 , 02:44 PM

#27

Sandcrab

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ksc1940

looking back, i should've just...

Spoiler:

07-02-2010 , 02:45 PM

#28

EightFoldPath

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ksc1940

flights from chicago to vegas nonstop are really expensive

drive 5 hours across the desert so you can fly nonstop.

07-02-2010 , 04:10 PM

#29

GrilledSteeze

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Originally Posted by EightFoldPath

drive 5 hours across the desert so you can fly nonstop.

I fly direct from Philly and would rather pay a little more for the convenience but I have friends who will take a red-eye to save $50..It's hard enough for me to live cheap in my everyday life but in Vegas gotta treat money like monopoly money..especially if you are only there for a few days. I like to tip well because I feel like it's good Karma. Every roulette win I toss a $5 chip to the croupier..it's how I roll and if my friends are cheap I pay for them then **** their girlfriends...living the dream on the dollar menu isn't easy in Sin City..next time stay at the Aria..and **** some Monte Carlo hoes..

07-02-2010 , 04:47 PM

#30

medonkyou

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GrilledSteeze

more brilliance.

OP: If you didn't have a good time in vegas, it's at least 51% your fault.

07-02-2010 , 04:50 PM

#31

postmaster

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Sounds like your friends are embarrassed of you... are you sure they didn't wait till you fell asleep to go out partying?

07-02-2010 , 08:01 PM

#32

MauiPunter

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Originally Posted by ksc1940

Thanks everyone for the candid responses. One of my friends actually forgot to bring his credit card (don't ask me how that happened). He had cash on him, but i'm sure that affected his willingness to splurge.

These guys have quite active social lives in L.A. So I was really surprised at their behavior this past weekend.

Leave them behind next time. They are duds.

07-02-2010 , 08:48 PM

#33

GrilledSteeze

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MauiPunter

Leave them behind next time. They are duds.

times 2

07-03-2010 , 01:30 AM

#34

ScottieK

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A comped suite, and you guys couldn't come up with the dough to hit a strip club? Or donk some low limit at Venetian or somewhere? Heck, even Nine Fine Irishmen at NY NY or Kahunaville at TI woulda been awesome......or go downtown and hit the low limit blackjack tables? Yeesh....

07-03-2010 , 01:50 AM

#35

rchandra

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tmoney120

+1

you have to have a plan. There is just too much to do in Vegas and it can be overwhelming trying to decide which club, where to gamble, etc. so you have to have some idea what is going down when you get there.

I can't agree more with this - the choices can be paralyzing, if you react that way (not everybody would) it's good to make them in advance.

On my (only) Vegas trip I had that problem, and also the problem of not being able to find things. Reading so many mentions in trip reports / food threads of restaurants that would have been good to visit I think "I was in that hotel/casino -- I didn't see that -- why is it so hard to notice anything other than slots & pits -- next time I have to bring a list of what's where, at least for a few target places"

07-03-2010 , 02:08 AM

#36

JasonInDallas

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07-03-2010 , 05:58 PM

#37

eco74

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Part of this isn't adding up. How are you staying in a comped suite at Mandalay but your buddies are such drips who presumably aren't gambling much?

07-03-2010 , 06:10 PM

#38

The Hands

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This whole thread oozes sadness.

07-04-2010 , 05:25 AM

#39

superkuhl

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Just make sure you and your friends are willing to go completely broke every day you spent in Vegas and you should have a lot of fun.

07-07-2010 , 02:39 AM

#40

Hypersion

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I'm a bit like your friends (life nit) spend 20 hours bidding on priceline to save $10 and stay at the Riveria or El cortez or some other $%^% hole.

But they know once I'm in Vegas and drinking I spend money like it's going out of style. next time find your friend vice, alcohol, women, gambling and exploit it.

07-07-2010 , 11:48 AM

#41

Cactus Jack

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I had a lousy time in Vegas with the worst friends one can imagine.
43 million visitors come to Vegas every year, most for the umpteenth time.
I wanted sympathy on 2+2.

Priceless

07-07-2010 , 12:26 PM

#42

FRGCardinal

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ksc1940

An adventurous part of me is thinking of going there alone next week, although that's unlikely.

FYP

Also, consider driving up to Mitchell in Milwaukee. I'm flying from there, RT, for $253 and long-term parking is only $6 a day; a fraction of O'Hare's long-term lot.

07-07-2010 , 03:31 PM

#43

Caponeny

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damn kind of sad, u should of gotten wasted, hit up a club, the minimum a lounge there are free ones in which you can get drunk at the slots around them and then go in there and have one drink if you are on a budget. Strip club are options, even seemless, and not play some drunk lowstakes poker is a mistake.

07-08-2010 , 01:44 PM

#44

chester cheetah

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vegas has to be the best vacation one can take going solo.

drink, get laid, mild drug use and avoid getting in fights.

vegas in a nutshell for me

07-08-2010 , 04:15 PM

#45

99killed

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play 1/2nl and drink 3-4 beers/hour. good time imo

07-09-2010 , 04:00 AM

#46

DeadMoneyWalking

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OP's trip reminds me of the pros I know, who moved to Vegas to sit inside all day playing online.

07-11-2010 , 09:06 PM

#47

timmer

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I suggest hooking up with a local here and them meet them at your hotel bar for a few cocktails and perhaps a bite to eat . Im sure they will be more than happy to give you the insiders tack on vegas

07-11-2010 , 10:46 PM

#48

goldeneagle

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There's no state income tax in Nevada so maybe that's why. assuming your buds are trying to go legit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking

OP's trip reminds me of the pros I know, who moved to Vegas to sit inside all day playing online.

07-12-2010 , 04:46 PM

#49

Crepuscular

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I've been by myself and loved it. Just go.

07-27-2011 , 02:45 PM

#50

ipaint

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I have had a few encounters from So.Cal seems they are not really interested in the rest of the world as though they've done and seen it all, no big deal but it shows in their attitude as in they have no use for for you.
I've met some great people from there also but a lot of time its this other crowd actually scary people, a bit on the sociopathic side.

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