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Saturday morning stay at Caesar's Palace for a week

Started by Twed, September 20, 2018, 04:12:41 PM

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Twed

I don't want to at all

This is not a vacation

I will be surrounded by libertarian nerds

What do I do?


steve98

Work presumably. What kind of work is it? That'll help.

boki


Fambo Number Mive

Don't waste any of your money gambling. Isn't the food meant to be really cheap to get more people in to waste their money gambling? Eat some cheap food. Are you in Las Vegas, on the ship or in Atlantic City? I would have a wander around Las Vegas if you are in Las Vegas.

QDRPHNC

Go to the Neon Museum.
Race dune buggies through the desert.
Go to the Bacchanal Buffet.
Get a tattoo.
Go to Hakkasan at the MGM Grand.
Go and see Penn & Teller at the Rio.
Shoot a big gun.
Go to In'n'Out Burger.

Shoulders?-Stomach!


Zetetic


kittens

Ben stripers and hit the jackpot baby you mad eit vegas here we come!!

Neomod

Got to be The Fireside Lounge innit...

for cocktails with your high class prostitute of choice.

kittens

sincerely, if i went to vegas i would definitely win the jackpot and ben 100 stripers

Twed

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on September 20, 2018, 04:41:16 PM
Don't waste any of your money gambling. Isn't the food meant to be really cheap to get more people in to waste their money gambling? Eat some cheap food. Are you in Las Vegas, on the ship or in Atlantic City? I would have a wander around Las Vegas if you are in Las Vegas.
Literally staying in Caesar's Palace.

It's for this, via work: https://www.sans.org/event/network-security-2018

I won't have a great deal of spare time due to being on a bootcamp course. Which is a good thing, I think. My goal is to enjoy the shiny things, check it off my list and try to find a decent regular meal to get every day instead of going through the exhausting process of trying to make every fucking meal special. I've only got so much energy, and I doubt this will be the last time I have to go to Vegas.

Norton Canes

Get off the strip as much as possible*. Spend the whole time hanging out on Fremont Street, where it still looks enough like glitzy old-fashioned Vegas to make you think you're still in glitzy old-fashioned old Vegas. There's like an artsy kind of district nearby too.

And make sure you visit the Heart Attack Grill! In fact suggest the whole conference adjourns there.


* Though make sure you go to ROCKIN' RICE PUDDING if you love RICE PUDDING

Twed

Quote from: Norton Canes on September 20, 2018, 05:07:08 PM
* Though make sure you go to ROCKIN' RICE PUDDING if you love RICE PUDDING
That sounds amazing.

The Cocteau Twins thought it was alright, so that's something. That might just mean there was lots of heroin there, though.

Neomod

Quote from: Norton Canes on September 20, 2018, 05:07:08 PM
Spend the whole time hanging out on Fremont Street, where it still looks enough like glitzy old-fashioned Vegas to make you think you're still in glitzy old-fashioned old Vegas.

You have to squint a bit as there's a great bleedin' not-very-old-fashioned zip line thing through the centre of it.

Oh and do not have a 99 cent shrimp cocktail at the Golden Gate. The sauce is made with ketchup and horseradish. 'Kin disgusting.

kngen

Quote from: Neomod on September 20, 2018, 05:30:24 PM
Oh and do not have a 99 cent shrimp cocktail at the Golden Gate. The sauce is made with ketchup and horseradish. 'Kin disgusting.

That's just standard 'cocktail sauce', though, isn't it? I don't doubt it's disgusting though.

Twed

It is absolutely foul and always comes with shrimp that was cooked before it was frozen

Neomod

Quote from: kngen on September 20, 2018, 05:50:47 PM
That's just standard 'cocktail sauce', though, isn't it? I don't doubt it's disgusting though.

Yep, it is. Not to my taste at all. I was expecting a good old Marie Rose. Far more subtle.

Rolf Lundgren

They say Las Vegas is America's answer to Blackpool so fill your boots.


Mink

We managed to escape to Hoover dam, also on a Vegas work thing - had to go at 7am and be late.  Mob museum was quite interesting and open till 9.

shiftwork2

Enjoy the general good taste of Las Vegas where America is taken to its logical conclusion.

One of the lads out of Bros (not Ken) has reinvented himself as a crooner at Caesar's so looks like you'll have to leave your hotel for entertainment.  I'd hire a car and drive across the desert to the Grand Canyon, or there are bus trips if you prefer.  I don't know a week is way too long, the sheer wtf got me through a couple of days but then nausea set in on day four.  Like others have said [edit: actually, you did] you must be there on some business or other.

Noodle Lizard

Vegas is fun until you get used to it.  A week is a LONG time, but there's plenty of fun stuff to do.  Some has already been suggested, but here are my recommendations.

Gambling is fun, especially table games where you build a sort of team with other people against the house (craps, blackjack etc.).  Go in with a set amount you're prepared to lose and consider it admission for the time spent playing.  Bet small and keep any winnings.  $100 can last you hours, plus you get free drinks!  Wouldn't gamble in Caesar's though, Harrah's across the street has lower-stakes tables and a slightly less cunty clientele.  Get the m-life rewards card from pretty much any casino and use it whenever you gamble.  You get points quick and they'll comp you for shows, nice rooms etc.

Plenty of shows to see if that's your kind of thing.  Absinthe is a hit with most people, Blue Man Group, Penn and Teller, all that kind of stuff.  Then there's all the tacky stuff in the hotels, but some of that is kind of fun to see once.  The animatronic Gods show in Caesar's, the volcano outside the Mirage, the pirate ship battle outside Treasure Island.  Bellagio fountains obvz. 

Then there's Downtown Vegas/Fremont Street, which is more like the 70s Vegas you see in films.  It's a little grimier and more desperate, but better for gambling and fun to wander around.  It's got a good mob museum.  You can do this zip lining thing across the entire strip, which I never did because I'd shit myself, but I imagine some people would like.

You can also go out into the desert for stuff like quadbiking and shooting (you don't have to like guns, but shooting big fuck-off Dirty Harry handguns is a blast).  Or get a fairly cheap helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon, or just over the Strip.

If you like horror or haunted houses, you'll be there just in time for Freakling Bros Trilogy of Terror, which are legitimately some of the best haunted houses in the world, and it's only around $30 for all three!  Gates of Hell, especially, is pretty exhilarating if you're okay with the actors touching you.  Read up on it online.

I'm bored of Vegas and kind of dread it every time I go.  But anyone saying you can't have a good time there is wrong.

Twed

All of that sounds great, but my entire day is going to be taken up with course stuff and then ancillary work stuff on top of that. I fear it's going to be an extremely frustrating experience, as all I'm going to want is a convenient place to eat my meals. I don't really have time for entertainment.

Are there shops in Vegas? Just need a shop really. What I need from Vegas next week is for it to supply me with the benefits of a small parochial UK town. This is definitely a realistic expectation.

Are there shops?

Twed


QDRPHNC

Yes, there's a big mall called Fashion Show just north of Caesar's on the strip.

When I say just north, I mean like two Las Vegas blocks, which should take you about 20 minutes to walk.

Also, all the casinos have shops. Caesar's Palace has a shitload.

Twed

Do they resemble a metro M&S at all?

No worries anyway, I've just clocked a CVS five minutes away. As long as I have an option for food where I don't have to wait to be seated I'm all set. Or if things go south I'll just buy a bunch of omeprazole and see if it's possible to OD on it.

thraxx


Bollocks to Caesar's Palace. Go to Whale's Palace instead.

Icehaven

As I understand it whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas so there doesn't seem much point in doing a course there.

Blue Jam

Swap places with me.

Seriously, I am totally going to Vegas for my 40th. I don't even like gambling, I just want to experience how mad it is and then get the fuck out after three days before it drives me crackers.

You're already at Caesar's, so go to this place. It'll be shit but fuck it, I'm curious:

https://www.caesars.com/caesars-palace/restaurants/gordon-ramsay-pub-and-grill

Go there and report back. I need to know if Gordo is there and if he gets his bum out.

Twed

You know what Blue Jam, that is a fine idea. I could really go for some good fish and chips - although Gordon Ramsay might be the UK's worst representative in the US for that. Look at this fiasco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit9l5jtbws