Day 20
Wednesday July 1, 2015
Happy Canada Day to my Canadian Readers
Today saw us starting off with sleeping in. Once we were up at at 'em we went over to the Gold Coast to check in. I had booked a 3 night stay here that overlaps with the stay at the Rio. I used a mail offer for 2 nights, $10 per day in food and $15 per day in free play and had a host pick up the 3rd night. I figured since we would be doing most of our play here it would be nice to have a place to take breaks. We would also be able to use the pool here which we like because it's smaller and quieter than the pool at the Rio.

Checking in was quick like it usually is here and we were all set with room 731. This is an accessible room with 2 double beds. It has a dresser, work desk, nightstand and a 32” flat screen TV. It has a view of Palms. The bathroom is basic with a roll in shower, and sink. The view out the shower window is of the strip.

We hit the casino after getting into the room. We played the triple/five plays here. I started off doing well hitting quad aces after being down instantly. It was good to get back to even and then a bunch of smaller hits got me ahead. Dee wasn't as lucky and lost a little bit.

We took a short break and then went to lunch at the Noodle Exchange. Dee had the Lo Mein lunch special and I had the Aloha Noodle Soup. Everything was good here but the service was it's typical slow self.

We were back at the machines again riding the roller coaster. Dee lost a bill quickly but then hovered nicely on her second bill. She even came back with quad aces and a few bonus quads. It was me that was feeding in bills this time. For one of my hail Mary attempts I switched to the super volatile triple double bonus. 3 times I was dealt trip aces but couldn't pull the 4th. Then on a 2 card hold I finally hit quad aces and missed the kicker by one card with a 5 instead of the 4. this was an $800 difference but I was happy to hit the kickerless aces.

We cashed out with about a $400 loss for the day. My next stop was to hit the slot club and have them add my $15 in free play. I also had the LVA coupon for play $10 get $10, at $10 match play from a fun book I got at check in and a free gift for earning 200 points. The gift was a lame car window shade. Next it was off to the penny machines to run it through. This was probably one of the worst runs on slots we've had this trip. Just running the $25 through the machines once and we only cashed out $6 and change.

The final stop before we left was the roulette wheel to use the match play. I played my normal black and red came up. This took us to 2 and 6 on match plays.

We came back over to the Rio and made dinner plans for the Voodoo Steakhouse with the cousins. I made a 7:15pm reservation through Open Table and then we took a break in the room for a while until it was time to go.

I have never been up here and it was really cool riding up the glass elevator to the top of the tower. The place is a bit high but you're paying for the views. I ordered a 20oz bone in rib eye. Dee got a seafood pasta. When the food came out everything was good except one of the cousins had to send her filet mignon back. She ordered it medium rare and it came out medium well and was all dried out. There was no issue sending it back and they brought her a nicer filet. The menu here is also a la carte and sides are all $10. I think that's a bit much. Wine was also pretty pricey and there were 2 glasses ordered at $18 a pop. Overall it was a good meal and the bill was $300. Me and Dee used our $100 diamond celebration vouchers and then charged the balance to the room to use up some of the $200 room credit we had.

For dessert tonight we chose to leave Voodoo and went to the All American Grill. After seeing the prices for desserts here we should have just stayed up on the roof. Me and Dee got chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream. The cousins got an apple crumble pie with vanilla ice cream. These were $10 each and we also charged these to the room.

The cousins headed up to their room and me and Dee hit the VP machines for a short session. We don't play much here so bought in for $200 each on dollar machines. I hit quad deuces for $200 but Dee busted out. I cashed out and we were even so bought in again for $100 each. Dee busted out first with no quads and she ended with 4 to a royal 4 different times. I got a little more action than she did this time around but no more quads. We dropped $200 here and pulled the plug on gaming here.

We made a quick stop at the cage to get Dee's free play only to be told to go to Total Rewards. So we went to Total Rewards only to end up with a voucher to take back to the cage. I said fuck it, we'll get it tomorrow because I'm not going back over there to get the reel rewards vouchers.

We got back to the room around 11pm, watched some TV and went to bed.

Total win/loss for the day - $600
Total Comps for the day $598
Rooms $212
Cash/Free Play $25
Food $347
Other $14