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Day 15
Saturday August 20, 2005
Dining:
On my way to the airport I made one last stop at Jack in the Box for a quick lunch and to get something to take on the plane with me.
Gaming:
After I checked out of the Hard Rock I still had a few hours left before I had to head to the airport. I decided I’d hit the Cannery one last time on the VISA card promotion. I started off with my normal 8/5 bonus triple play machines. I was not hitting any quads and the dealt winners were far and few. I finally managed to hit a few quads but they were too late. I was down $200. I made the switch to DDB even though the pay table is awful. I dropped $100 in quick order. Being that I was up quite a bit I tried one last shot with 5 play DDB hoping I might hit a bonus quad or aces to bring the loss up to a reasonable amount. I didn’t hit either but on a 3 card hold I popped a royal flush for the first time since December of last year and almost 120,000 hands. After the hand pay I was playing off the rest of my credits when I was dealt quad 7’s for another 1250 coins. Too bad it wasn’t a bonus quad or something with a kicker! I cashed out of the machine only down $86 (excluding the royal).
After gathering my gift cards and some cash back I headed out of the Cannery taking advantage of a promo and winning a nice chunk of cash. Now this is how a promo is supposed to work! From here it was on to the airport and time to wrap up another trip.
Flight:
After dropping off the rental car I arrived at the airport for my flight home. Check in was quick and painless today. Security had a short line and moved quickly except for a few tools that don’t know they need to empty their pockets. Today I’m on flight 216 departing at 3:57pm and flying non-stop to Newark arriving at 11:47pm. The flight home was bumpy at times as we were flying around a lot of storms. I did get to catch some really cool lightning storms at various points along the way. Baggage claim was quick tonight and I had both my bags in near record time. After getting my bags I was on my way to the monorail and Avis.
Trip home from airport:
My ride home tonight is in a rental car from Avis. This time I booked a Premium car for $39 and oddly at the time I booked this car it was $12 cheaper than a full sized car. I was given a Buick LeSabre with 3300 miles on it. I was a little pissed off at the fact this car was supposed to come with XM Satellite Radio and it wasn’t activated. The roads were pretty empty being it was a late Saturday night and I pulled into my driveway at 2am and another trip came to an end.
The next day when I went to return the car to my local Avis I told the girl at the counter that the XM didn’t work. She printed out my final receipt and said she took $25 off for the radio not working and my final price was $59. I told her it sounded a little high especially after the adjustment. She looked and had me at a rate of $92 per day. I don’t think so! I showed her my confirmation and she made the adjustments but couldn’t take the $25 off because my rate was way too law and the computer wouldn’t allow it. Instead, she gave me a $25 off coupon for a future rental.
Total win/loss for the day: $950
Total comps for the day: $70
Final Thoughts
- This was the most I’ve ever paid for airfare in all of my trips to Las Vegas
- Even with higher fuel prices America West still has the lowest fares out of Newark
- I still love the Cannery for promotions
- The Cannery is still my personal ATM
- My Cadillac rode really nice and it’s going to be tough getting back in my car
- Traffic on the strip was insane
- Laughlin becomes a ghost town after 11pm
- There are still some great games and food deals in Laughlin
- Laughlin is a nice change of pace but not for more than 2-3 days
- I like the smaller size of Fiesta Henderson
- Crapsfest was yet another disappointment at the table
- GVR is a really nice hotel
- The rooms at the Hard Rock are pretty nice but not fancy
- The pool scene at the Hard Rock is insane
- The Avis employees at my local airport are very good
- Craps treated me pretty good this trip despite a 6 day losing streak
- The weather although hot was much cooler than normal this time of year
- This was the first trip in years I didn’t make it downtown
- The Hilton Steak House wasn’t the same without Mark the Waiter there
- The Cannery continues to have great promos that I like to play
- I played almost 40,000 hands of video poker and hit 1 royal
- This was my first royal since December 2004 and 113,000 hands
- This win brings my Las Vegas record to 17-10-1
- My next trip will be a split trip from December 12-15 & 24-30 with a cruise inbetween
Eff Yous
- Eff you to the parents that allowed their kids to run, hop, skip and jump around a crowded airport terminal
- Eff you to Newark security for being in total chaos
- Eff you to the Cannery for making the card of the day Sunday – Thursday
- Eff you to the Rio valet for taking 20 minutes to take my car 3 different nights
- Eff you to people that walk 3 wide in walkways so no one can get by them
- Eff you to Little Buddha at the Palms for their prices
- Eff you to Rio housekeeping for calling my room at 11am asking if I wanted service
- Eff you to the whoever thought it was a good idea to do construction on Flamingo Rd during the day instead of overnight
- Eff you to the fat guy at Orleans that was practically sitting on my lap at the Othello slot
- Eff you to Rio valet (which is normally very good)
- Eff you to parents that let their kids run through casinos
- Eff you to people that think it’s ok to allow their kids at an adult only pool
- Eff you to Harrah*s Laughlin security for only checking room keys 4pm-midnight and providing a false sense of security by even bothering
- Eff you to Edgewater and Colorado Belle for having an abundance of 6-5 blackjack and an even bigger eff you to those playing
- Eff you to fuel prices
- Eff you to Rampart for postponing the VISA card promotion because it was going to be too busy
- Eff you to the dice at Crapsfest
- Eff you to the air conditioner at Fiesta Henderson for kicking on 20 seconds after it shut off
- Eff you to the dice for 5 straight days
- Eff you to whoever made a Café charge to my room at GVR
- Eff you to the guy at Sam’s town that called everyone a mother fucker when they 7’d out
- Eff you to the don’t player that cheered when there was a 7 out at the Hard Rock
- Eff you to the Hard Rock for charging a $5 per day resort fee
- Eff you to the Hard Rock for charging this resort fee to comped players
- Eff you to Avis of Newark for screwing up my rate
- Eff you to Avis for not having the XM Radio activated in my rental
- Eff you to the guy on the plane next to me that took off his shoes and his feet stunk
- Eff you to the silent farter that needed his system cleaned out
Total win/loss for the trip: $4050
Total comps for the trip: $2734 <-- A little inflated due to Rio and Hard Rock having high room rates on a few of my nights
Questions and comments can be posted or e-mailed to me at stungazed@yahoo.com
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