Day 4
Monday June 15, 2015
We started off this morning with a little time at the pool. We were out early before the sun got too intense to avoid being fried.

Today was moving day so we packed up the few things we had taken out of the luggage and we were on our way.

We had plans today to stop on the Strip at the Cromwell to have lunch at Giada using a $100 diamond celebration dinner voucher that we both get for being diamond level with Caesars Entertainment. I booked a reservation on Open Table for 12:15. It still amazes me that this place used to be the Barbary Coast. I wish it still was the Barbary Coast though.

When we arrived early but we were seated right away. We looked over the menu and I decided on Venetian Panino turkey, gruyère, fontina, whole mustard, peppadew for 18 dollars and Dee chose the sausage and eggplant lasagna.

The meal was tasty and the service was good. I can say that the portions were a bit on the small side and a bit pricey for the amount of food you get. The bill was quite a bit cheaper than I had planned so instead of using the $100 celebration voucher we used points from Dee's account.

When lunch was over we left the Cromwell and headed out to Summerlin to Rampart. We'll be staying here for the next 4 nights on two separate offers at the JW Marriott. Dee got an offer for 2 nights, $30 food and $400 in free play. I got an offer for buy one night at $99 and $80 free play. We don't know why her offer was so nice considering she only had $150 more in action that I did when we played there in December. Normally I wouldn't consider paying $99 for a room night but my hope was after we played I'd be able to get that night comped.

We checked in here which went quickly but the room wasn't ready yet. They were able to combine our reservations. I would still have to go check out and in on Wednesday though but we would keep the same room.

The first thing we did was activate Dee's free play. They only give you half each day so they loaded $200 and we were off to the video poker machines. Today is also 2x points on video poker.

We played dime 10 play video poker. There weren't many dealt winners but we had a good amount of quads including multiple sets of aces and we each got a dealt quad too. I also hit a bunch of straight flushes. While we were playing the hotel called to tell us the room was ready so we were off to the front desk to get the keys.

We were given room 4111. This is a handicap accessible room with 2 queen beds, a nightstand, dresser, 42 inch flat screen TV and has a view of the courtyard and valet area. The bathroom is huge with double vanities, a shower stall, toilet room and whirlpool tub. When I opened a door up in the hallway of the room expecting to see a walk in closet I was shocked to see a second bathroom instead. This bathroom is full accessible with a roll in shower, pedestal sink and toilet with safety bars

Once we got settled into the room we hit the Promenade Cafe. Of all the years coming here I've never eaten here. Dee got fish and chip which weren't very good. It seemed the oil wasn't hot enough and/or the fish wasn't cooked all of the way through. The fries weren't really cooked enough either. I had meatloaf and it was very good.

Back to the casino our of choice was 8/5 bonus 10-play for dimes again. This is a fun game but don't think because it's dimes you can't get killed. During this round of play we did well with many sets of aces and Dee even nailed a royal on line 5. With the swings of 10 play that royal only kept us going though. Once we hit the level of action we wanted we ran Dee's free play through a quarter 9/6 jacks machine. She played $100 and turned it into only $76. I played $100 and got $96 out.

For some fun we took $20 and played a variety of penny games. We ended up losing but got about an hour of play out of it. Between all of the aces, the free play and the royal we still ended up down about $50 on the day.

It was fairly late so we decided to get something to eat at Cafe. Oddly many breakfast items weren't available at this time of day including pancakes and French Toast. I found this very odd. I chose the biscuits and gravy with eggs. It was very good but too much food to eat at this time of night and very rich. Dee chose the meat lovers scramble. She liked it but it too was too much food.

When we were done eating we packed it in for the day.

Total win/loss for the day - $50
Total Comps for the day $447
Room $159
Cash/Free Play $200
Food $88