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BizarroAzrael posted:Seems super weird given they can make money off them and there's no risk (to them, I assume dealers generally are drilled to make sure chips are for the correct casino) Could be to obscure security stuff people wouldn't be willing to destroy real chips to find out, like what percentage of chips are tagged with RFID or if there's a way to identify marked chips? Bally's probably uses similar measures in more than one casino. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:It looks like its not open until April 20 (lol) unless I'm misreading something Luckily(?) I am a terrible procrastinator so now I'm gonna go after that.
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My fiance and I are going to Vegas for Memorial Day for the Dead and Company Sphere show on Friday and pro wrestling on Sunday. We're going to be staying in Planet Hollywood, mostly because it is central to everything in the strip and the Miracle Mile seems good to keep costs down. I'm going to gamble a decent amount as well. I'm looking for recommendations on places to eat if you are doing a once in five years Vegas trip. The last time I was there was for a business convention and I stayed in the Aria. Ended up eating at the Mexican restaurant there for dinner, as well as the steak house within the Golden Nugget when I was checking out Fremont Street. I want to make this trip special for her so I'm up for anything within reason. We like to dance so I'm looking for recommendations on promoters to get into clubs. Since we're staying in PH I figure the Cosmo may be the way to go. I'd like to do the Marquee dayclub and nightclub on that Saturday.
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On the opposite end of all the high end food recommendations you're going to get, Earl of Sandwich should be your first answer when you're craving something simple and fast. Super tasty and consistent high quality, and it's not even off property from where you're staying
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PH was definitely chosen for something like Earl of Sandwich. I want to keep food costs low for breakfast and lunch but I'm fine with 100pp for dinner. I'm currently looking at Best Friend, Prime Steakhouse and Mon Ami Gabi. Maybe the Strip House in PH.
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Common suggestion but eat light the night before and hit up the Wynn brunch one one of the days for sure, it has a vegas vibe and I say it feels like a $400 tasting menu when done right
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UnleashedDad posted:PH was definitely chosen for something like Earl of Sandwich. I want to keep food costs low for breakfast and lunch but I'm fine with 100pp for dinner. I'm currently looking at Best Friend, Prime Steakhouse and Mon Ami Gabi. Maybe the Strip House in PH. I was unimpressed with Best Friend but my city has a big korean population. Mon Ami Gabi I had a great meal at. Bardot, too. I'll throw in Red Plate around that price, too. Bazaar meat if you want something wild.
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UnleashedDad posted:PH was definitely chosen for something like Earl of Sandwich. I want to keep food costs low for breakfast and lunch but I'm fine with 100pp for dinner. I'm currently looking at Best Friend, Prime Steakhouse and Mon Ami Gabi. Maybe the Strip House in PH.
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Might be a bit of a schlep from PH but Bagelmania was my favourite breakfast in Vegas besides the Peppercorn
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UnleashedDad posted:PH was definitely chosen for something like Earl of Sandwich. I want to keep food costs low for breakfast and lunch but I'm fine with 100pp for dinner. I'm currently looking at Best Friend, Prime Steakhouse and Mon Ami Gabi. Maybe the Strip House in PH. Strip House can be summed up as "well, it's there." It has always been a me-too restaurant that likely exists so the casino can comp people for steak. I would tell you to look at Beauty & Essex at the Cosmpolitan across the bridge, or Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris next door. To be honest, Paris is overall a good place for food as long as you stay away from The Bedford which is tremendously expensive and not at all worth it. And I am someone who doesn't hate Martha Stewart, but Martha you gotta do better. And as cheap lunches go, Ocean One is probably worth your time. (Still haven't done it after all these years, but it's one of the few values left on the Strip.) Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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My Vegas story. Took my wife there last February for her 40th birthday to see Adele. Turns out she got hypnotised by the slot machines and came back to England and has had a secret online slots addiction for the last year and blown our house deposit, credit cards and taken out loans secretly in my name. Be careful out there kids!
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That's awful to hear. I am so grateful I don't have whatever brain wiring it is that causes people to do that. Sports betting I can get but slots? I don't see the appeal. It probably didn't help that most of the time I had no idea what was going on with some of those crazy involved slots. Kaddish fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Apr 5, 2024 13:24
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Slots are weaponized psychology, be very careful if you decide to pay with the skinner boxes
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Video poker is fun Generic slot machines...yeah I don't get it.
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I like slot machines because on the rare chance I get to visit a casino, the cacophony of "ding ding ding" etc. is fun for a while. Witnessing someone hit a jackpot is great. I'm glad it's mostly other people that pay for that novelty, I guess, but I'll still drop in a few bucks for the hell of it and call it good. DeadFatDuckFat posted:Video poker is fun I do enjoy sitting at a bar drinking comped alcohol and playing some video poker. Again, it's pretty rare though and not big money. A craps table with a good vibe is probably the most fun but all that other stuff going on in the background adds to the novelty of the atmosphere to me since it's not a regular thing.
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Apr 5, 2024 23:03
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I'm in the Casino for everything but gambling. It's all about the bars, clubs, lounges, fancy restaurants and all the wild, crazy beautiful people. 
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Twenty Four posted:I do enjoy sitting at a bar drinking comped alcohol and playing some video poker. Again, it's pretty rare though and not big money. This is one of my buddies and I’s favorite things to do. They always seem to hit a big hand each trip to Vegas, I’ve never won much. But slapping the Skinner box button while being served free booze is very fun.
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Gucci Loafers posted:I'm in the Casino for everything but gambling. It's all about the bars, clubs, lounges, fancy restaurants and all the wild, crazy beautiful people. The people watching is amazing. Cosmo and venetian are my favorite spots for it. Oh and the line for drais at Cromwell.
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The alley/walkway to the ferris wheel is a good place for people watching. I think it's called something to do with the Aria? Where Ramsey's Fish + Chips is located. The busty BDSM ladies with the paddles stand at the entrance.
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Kaddish posted:The alley/walkway to the ferris wheel is a good place for people watching. I think it's called something to do with the Aria? Where Ramsey's Fish + Chips is located. Linq Promenade, between Linq and Flamingo.
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I really like the table near the now dunkin doughnuts in the linq for people watching. Bonus tall boy high life deal at the little shop as well
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Gucci Loafers posted:I'm in the Casino for everything but gambling. It's all about the bars, clubs, lounges, fancy restaurants and all the wild, crazy beautiful people. watching the crazies is the absolute biggest thing i miss about working in the casinos proper
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G-Mawwwwwww posted:The people watching is amazing. Cosmo and venetian are my favorite spots for it. Oh and the line for drais at Cromwell. when i worked at the flamingo sportsbook we would often get the djs/rappers that were having events that evening pop in during the daytime to bet because the cromwell book was usually closed or not taking their action (they were/are low limit)
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G-Mawwwwwww posted:The people watching is amazing. Cosmo and venetian are my favorite spots for it. Oh and the line for drais at Cromwell. Earlier this year I was hanging around the The Chandelier Bar in the Cosmo but I've struck out of luck trying to met colorful people. Drai's and Cromwell are a great place plus there is a bar directly next to the main entrance. It's small but nice, clean and central to the strip. My next goal is try out all the lounges in the Venetian and Palazzo. 
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Gucci Loafers posted:Earlier this year I was hanging around the The Chandelier Bar in the Cosmo but I've struck out of luck trying to met colorful people. Drai's and Cromwell are a great place plus there is a bar directly next to the main entrance. It's small but nice, clean and central to the strip.
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The Cosmo bar was where I got to the quintessentially Vegas thing of having 2 hot hookers offer me a fun time together and flashing my wedding ring and saying “sorry ladies”. Then we got back and she bankrupted me lol
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smellmycheese posted:The Cosmo bar was where I got to the quintessentially Vegas thing of having 2 hot hookers offer me a fun time together and flashing my wedding ring and saying “sorry ladies”. Then we got back and she bankrupted me lol I’ll never forget being approached on the floor of Bally’s at 4:00 AM, she caresses my sweater and says “I love your sweater, is it cashmere?” And without really thinking I said “I don’t know, my wife got it for me,” and she did the loony toons thing where she vanishes and you can see her whispy outline where she used to be
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smellmycheese posted:The Cosmo bar was where I got to the quintessentially Vegas thing of having 2 hot hookers offer me a fun time together and flashing my wedding ring and saying “sorry ladies”. Then we got back and she bankrupted me lol So you've brought it up a couple times and now I'm curious. Are you going to stay together? She getting counseling? How did the reveal happen? How many quid we talking?
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Kaddish posted:So you've brought it up a couple times and now I'm curious. Are you going to stay together? She getting counseling? We went to Vegas last Feb to celebrate our birthdays and did a bunch of cool stuff , including renewing our vows with Elvis. When we got back her love of the Vegas slots turned into a year long online fruit machine addiction which she kept hidden from me while blowing our house deposit, credit cards and taking out loans secretly in my name. She confessed to me when I got back from a business trip about 4 weeks ago. All in all about £100k
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smellmycheese posted:We went to Vegas last Feb to celebrate our birthdays and did a bunch of cool stuff , including renewing our vows with Elvis. When we got back her love of the Vegas slots turned into a year long online fruit machine addiction which she kept hidden from me while blowing our house deposit, credit cards and taking out loans secretly in my name. She confessed to me when I got back from a business trip about 4 weeks ago. All in all about £100k fuuuuuuuck sorry mate
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looking to book starting end of next week. I haven't done this since pre pandy like i've been to it last year but let others handle it idk if there's a new meta for hotels other than the old meta of "lose lots of money gambling" we're going to convention center but doesn't matter where we are, stripish is nice if pos
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I'd give the sahara a shot, it's normally a really nice deal if you like the (visually) darker type of casinos with a good amount of class, and even more importantly having a monorail stop on property is a great way to cut down on cab fare. Close to the convention center you could also get a room at fontainebleau if you want to stay in an upscale hospital/mall that leased a little bit of their floorspace to slots and game tables
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eh nice is kinda lost on us. Cheap and a place to crash and store swag is all we need also has anyone had luck waiving resort fees
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If you sign up for casino rewards, gamble at the casino or do something related there are always random discounts available.
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Alan Smithee posted:we're going to convention center but doesn't matter where we are, stripish is nice if pos Virgin, Palace Station.
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you should try the riviera or silver city, debbie reynolds hotel aint too expensive either. if you wanna still be close but maybe on the strip the stardust aint bad but it can be pricy. just dont stay at the new frontier or el rancho, those places are dumps.
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They knocked the Riv down a couple of years ago. 
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Midjack posted:They knocked the Riv down a couple of years ago. All those casinos listed are gone.
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The Stardust famously destroyed in Con Air
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jabro posted:All those casinos listed are gone.  I remember the riv best and someone tried to recommend it at work yesterday but yes, frontier and stardust should have also been obvious.
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