PIP Vegas: slumming it vs. getting fancy

[agnes]

This past weekend was our Vegas trip.

Friday and Saturday night we stayed at Hooters. Only $99 for 2 nights. Would have been $89 but I wanted a pool view to see if our group was at the pool. When we checked in, they gave us a "city view" room because no pool views were available.... it was overlooking the trash bins. Nice. One friend reserved a 2 bed (because they had 5 people in the room) but the hotel said they didn't have any of those available either.

Location actually wasn't bad next to The Tropicana and across from MGM. It also wasn't as dirty as I thought it would be. But still pretty dirty.

 

This glass sat out the entire time we were there.

When we got into the room I went to lay on the bed and one pillow was visibly dirty and one had what looked to be a pube. Yes a PUBE. I called the front desk. They said they'd send up a supervisor. 2 people promplty came up with clean pillows. But no supervisor. The carpet had weird orange stains. I wore flip flops even in the shower because it was stained or flat out dirty. Couldn't decide which.

They made the bed all weird too. Instead of a fitted sheet, they used a flat sheet that wasn't long enough to cover the whole bed. And they had a blanket sandwiched inbetween 2 sheets.

There was also a bloody bandaid in the hall from Saturday morning til we checked out on Sunday. Yummy.

One of our friends had a "pool-side bungalow", neither pool side nor a bungalow. Her laptop and a couple other things were stolen from her room. It was only on the second floor and I don't think she locked the door to the balcony. So someone could have easily climbed up or it was hotel staff that stole the stuff.

 

Security was laughable.

 

(might be NSFW)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday night, the whole group went to down town for dinner together. We got an Excursion limo that seats 30 and crammed over 40 people in it.

It was like watching one of those clown cars with a never-ending amount of clowns.

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Sunday night, we stayed at The Cosmopolitan. $140 + tax and resort fee

Waiting in line to check in was quite entertaining. This was the front desk:

The pillars turned into naked people. Naked man in a box!

The front-desk lady was awesome. She upgraded our room automatically. Our view was amazing on the 45th floor. My ears were popping every time we used the elevator.

However, H didn't get the full experience since he's afraid of heights. He freaked out when I went onto the balcony. He got better as the night went on and actually stood next to the window. That's a pretty big accomplishment.

We only got the chance to eat at 2 of the restaurants recommended here.  

 

Mon Ami Gabi for brunch. Arrived half an hour after breakfast ended, but the waitress was kind enough to let us still order breakfast.  It was DELICIOUS.

 

(flaky blueberry waffles)

("skinny pancakes" aka crepes with caramelized pineapple)
 

And Holstein's for dinner.  I'm still dreaming about the onion rings. 

 

 

Overall we did good gambling.  Normally I lose (I'm a loser) and H wins.  This time it switched.  Now I know why people like to gamble. We came home with money!  That's a win in itself. We only spent half our budget. 

 

And I just want to add in this dancing cat speaker.  A friend brought just because it's awesome.

 

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Looks like you had a good time! The past 2 times, we've stayed at Vdara and had basically the same view as you at The Cosmopolitan.

Did you go to the Wicked Spoon at all?

Any other highlights?

DH loves the show at M&M World and we could park ourselves at Margaritaville or its casino basically our whole trip.

[agnes]

Mar 20, 2013 20:07:17 GMT -5 @mrsspunky said:

Looks like you had a good time! The past 2 times, we've stayed at Vdara and had basically the same view as you at The Cosmopolitan.

Did you go to the Wicked Spoon at all?

Any other highlights?

DH loves the show at M&M World and we could park ourselves at Margaritaville or its casino basically our whole trip.

We almost had Wicked Spoon, but I don't remember why we didn't.  I was kind of looking forward to it.  

My favorite slots are Plinko, The Hangover, Wheel of fortune (the one with 3 wheels ontop), and U-Spin.  I won at least $100 on each.  

The Tropicana Beach Cafe ain't half bad.  It was prefect weather to sit out on their patio.  Got to watch a wedding. 

We also went outlet shopping.  H picked me out a cute dress I'll prolly post in a OOT later this week. 

[agnes]

Oh and this happened too...

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I love this review. Glad you had a great time.

Wheel of Fortune slots are my FAVORITE.

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Oh, and the naked man window check-in thing reminds me... you didn't go to Bond at the Cosmo for drinks by any chance, did you? They have these go-go dancers with themed props in boxes overlooking the Strip, and when we were there one of them was, like, a handywoman go-go dancer. She was pretending to wash windows with a window washer thing, and then she'd put on goggles and pretend to use a drill, and she had a bike pump and tire... Hands down the highlight of my 2012. Maybe of my life.

And I felt really bad for the girl who only got to be a French maid.

[agnes]

Oh another funny highlight: I posted the "naked man in a box" picture on FB. My very religious Grandma commented, "Agnes, are you going crazy?" Lololol

[agnes]

Mar 20, 2013 21:18:37 GMT -5 v said:

Oh, and the naked man window check-in thing reminds me... you didn't go to Bond at the Cosmo for drinks by any chance, did you? They have these go-go dancers with themed props in boxes overlooking the Strip, and when we were there one of them was, like, a handywoman go-go dancer. She was pretending to wash windows with a window washer thing, and then she'd put on goggles and pretend to use a drill, and she had a bike pump and tire... Hands down the highlight of my 2012. Maybe of my life.

And I felt really bad for the girl who only got to be a French maid.

we walked by but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary for the dancers. I did notice that the dancers at The D were a little thicker in the waste. I would have thought with all the dancing they'd have like abs of steel. This makes me think I won't get abs by Zumba.

[ellipses84]

Looks like you had a great time!

[aspentosh]

Thanks for the recap. I think we're heading to Vegas next year with a bunch of friends and the Cosmopolitan looks great.

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Thanks for the reviews. My mom, sister and I are planning a Vegas trip for May.

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Glad you had fun! The weather was perfect for you.

Don't say we didn't warn you about Hooters though! I wouldn't recommend that place to my worst enemy.

ETA:  Love the picture of the security guard hard at work!! That's classic.

[agnes]

Mar 21, 2013 7:28:25 GMT -5 vegas said:

Glad you had fun! The weather was perfect for you.

Don't say we didn't warn you about Hooters though! I wouldn't recommend that place to my worst enemy.

ETA:  Love the picture of the security guard hard at work!! That's classic.

The weather was perfect!  It was great swimming and walking around weather.  However, the pool with the waterfall at Hooters is set to a brisk 55.  55 effing degrees!  So stupid.

There was a family in the jacuzzi with us one night, the mom bet the 7 year old daughter a dollar to jump in it.  The mom was like, "It's okay, we're Canadian."