Hi Gang:
Hedy and I are into Day Two of the second leg of our 12-day Las Vegas Odyssey but we decided to cut short our stay at Bellagio and head on down to South Point one day early, making it a five-night stay there to end our trip.
The reasons are:
1) We are not terribly impressed with the Bellagio;
2) Our experiment at Wynn went horribly wrong.
It all started Tuesday when we checked into Bellagio. Our room had a great view of the strip and the Bellagio water fountains but it was small compared to our Augustus Tower room at Caesars and it was too dark for our taste. We played a little at "The B" and actually won a few bucks before we ventured up to Wynn to meet a host we had contacted recently. She was very nice and had our player cards all set for us. She also set up our credit line, so we were all set to go. Our plan was to play enough at Wynn to establish ourselves there for future trips, especially if the remaining 9/6 JOB at Caesars disappears. We played a lot of 9/6 dollars, some 9/7/5 DB and even got on the "good machines" for a fairly long period of time ... but we got killed! The $1000 profit we had picked up at Caesars went south and we lost another $1000 of our own money.
We also found out that the minimum requirements for a room comp or limited RFB were well beyond what we normally play, so we qualified for our four free buffets and decided to ditch the experiment. We returned to Bellagio, ate in the buffet there and thought it was just so-so. We actually liked the Harrah's buffet better and thought it didn't come close to the buffet at Wynn.
That's when we decided to go to South Point a day early since we weren't going to play at Wynn anymore.
We also went up to Red Rock Tuesday night to see our friend's new group, the Deja Vu Dance Band, and while we were there we dropped another grand playing "good games." So, our once $1000 profit was now a $2000 deficit.
This morning we had a wonderful breakfast at the Bellagio Cafe and walked over to Caesars to play. Our VP hole doubled before Hedy hit a royal playing triple-line DB near the garage entrance and I later hit quad treys and quad aces playing $1 9/6 DB. So, we were back to our $2000 deficit and ready to tackle the machines at SP. We then walked back to Wynn to eat in their buffet and play through some cashback we earned on Tuesday.
Right now we're sitting in the Diamond Lounge at Caesars getting ready to go back to Bellagio to see "O" tonight and tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. a limo from SP will pick us up and whisk us south to begin the third leg of our journey. We love the fact that we are big fish in a little pond at SP (limos, suites, RFB) so this should be an enjoyable end to our trip. Let's hope our luck turns around.
Regards,
CoachVee (Tom V) & Hedy
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