Tuesday, January, 28:
Last full day in Las Vegas, and we had a lot to see.
As I recall, I was up a bit early, and we getting things ready to go. Kip woke up a bit later and we worked out what we wanted to do in the morning. Having breakfast was on the top of the list, so I showered and went down to check the progressive while she got ready. No one hit it, it was at $1,265.39, but the straight flush was at $135.58. I gave it a shot and at least hit a quad for $39.50. Kip arrived and we sunk $120 chasing the RF/SF to no avail.
We headed over to California and Market Street Cafe. They have a small breakfast buffet for $7.99, which includes coffee or tea. I find it to be a good value, they have eggs, rice, potatoes, bacon, Portuguese sausage, corned beef hash, ham, biscuits and gravy, fresh fruit, and other selections. Using the LVA 2-1 coupon, the total was $8.66.
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| Market Street Buffet breakfast items. |
We went back to Golden Gate, checked out of the room, took our bags to the car and went back to check the progressive. The Royal Flush still hadn't been hit, it was at $1,281.71 (and the straight flush was $151.98). We took one last shot, saw that someone hit the straight flush while we were playing and I managed to cash out up $60.36 and Kip was up $0.27. We decided to move on, since we had places to go and things to see! Twice during our play (uncarded), we were approached by slot attendants asking us if we wanted cards. The first time, we said we weren't going to play much, and the guy was a bit persistent, and I said we didn't want to open a short play day. He then got it and said that was advantage play, and as he walked away he said, "I never saw you". The second woman was a bit more persistent, but I didn't outright say that we didn't want to track a short play day. We just thanked her for asking.
The first stop was Palace Station for some Chinese New Year chips. I couldn't find anything on the web regarding which casinos had them, so I went to the Chip and Token report from the Nevada Gaming Control Board website and discovered that three casinos had chips approved for Chinese New Year (Palace Station, Cosmopolitan, and Rampart). I stopped at the first table I saw, an open roulette table and asked the dealer for a chip. She said she hadn't heard of them. Odd. While I was verifying my information, I finally decided to go up to the cage and ask. The attendant said, not only do they have one, they have two! Since they were $5, I got both.
Kip saw they had Multi-Strike, so we decided to give it a shot at nickels. We tried Joker Wild-Kings or Better, but that wasn't working, so we switched to Bonus Poker. We did get on a little roll and decided to cash out with a profit of $12.80!
Next stop was Hard Rock, to take one last look since it would be closing at the end of the month. They had a promotion for a free closing t-shirt for 1,000 points, which I was considering, but we didn't have time. It was pretty empty there, but a nice stop.
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| Prince memorabilia |
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| Tom Petty memorabilia |
Our next stop was Ellis Island for some couponing there. Last time Kip and I were there in 2018, it was her first time and she hit a Royal! This time we had no such luck, we lost our free play chasing a $1,500 royal, and didn't hit a quad either. Ah well. . .
Golden Tiki had a happy hour from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, and we wanted to make sure we made one. We got there around 4:45 PM. I ordered the Blue Lagoon, Kip got two Scorpions. We brought the leftover lobster mac and cheese from our dinner a few nights ago, and had in the refrigerator in our room at Golden Gate. We snacked on that with our drinks.
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| Blue Lagoon! |
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| Scorpion! |
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| A free mini Dole whip! |
We wanted to see the Lantern Garden Show at Fashion Show Mall at 6:00 PM, so we hastily left and headed to Wynn to park and walk over to the mall. The show was at the Great Hall, which is just about the furthest part away from the Las Vegas Boulevard side, and apparently we missed it. The security guard said that it was a short two minute show, and the lanterns just went up and down. We might have been disappointed even if we saw it.
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| These lanterns were supposed to dance. |
We walked back to Wynn and I went to check in, since we were close to the registration desk. Self park is close to the elevators, so we got our bags, went to the room, left our bags, and headed to the buffet for another dinner (I booked dinner for tonight early this morning).
We got to the buffet around 7:00 PM, and this time there was quite a line. I anticipated it to be around an hour, and I was pretty close (it was an hour and ten minutes before we were finally seated). The night before, we were seated close to the buffet, but this time we had what the hostess called, "balcony seating", as the table overlooked the exterior hallway. It was kinda neat, it certainly was interesting. The food was pretty much the same, although I did get more desserts than I did last time.
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| Our "balcony" seating! |
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| Our "balcony" seating! |
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| More crab legs! |
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Those chicken & ginger pot stickers, spring roll, BBQ buns,
pork belly with hoison, and mac and cheese. |
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| More ice cream! |
We wanted to see the Lake of Dreams show, and I said that if we did well during the trip, we'd splurge and get cocktails at Parasol Up/Down and watch the show. Since we
did do well, that's what we did. Kip got the Pear-a-sol, and I just got a Woodford. We caught three shows while we were there, the shows were interesting, whimsical, and bizarre, but entertaining. I wonder how many different shows there are. . .
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| Our view of the Lake of Dreams. |
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| A look back at Parasol Up/Down |
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| Kip's Pear-a-sol! |
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| Kip enjoying her drink! |
We still had a few more stops to go, so we left around 11:30 PM, and headed to Bellagio to check out the Conservatory. We missed out on the fountain show, but took in the splendor of the Chinese New Year display at the Conservatory. I've seen quite a few, and this one was among the best, in my opinion.
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| Bellagio Conservatory. |
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| Bellagio Conservatory. |
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| Bellagio Conservatory. |
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| Bellagio Conservatory. |
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| Bellagio Conservatory. |
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| Bellagio Conservatory. |
Our last stop was the MGM Grand, to check out their lobby. Not much in rats (the year of the rat), but lots of pandas. Fortunately, the lobby is close to the self-park, so we were in and out pretty quickly.
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| MGM Lobby |
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| MGM Lobby |
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| MGM Lobby |
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| MGM Lobby |
We got back to Wynn and realized that we didn't look around at the displays at Wynn! We took some time to walk around and take some photos there.
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| Chinese New Year decorations at Wynn |
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| Chinese New Year decorations at Wynn |
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| Chinese New Year decorations at Wynn |
We tried some last shots at some slots, Kip lost at her choices, but I wanted to try Pinball, which I had done well on in the past, and I did well this time as well, getting us a little over our buy-in. We then tried some video poker. They don't have great games, but I wanted to try the Triple Wheel poker. Since we were taking a shot, we played double double bonus. We got a few bonus wheels, but no large wins. We then got dealt three deuces, which got us a wheel spin, but we also had a chance to hit either 400 or 800 credits, but we couldn't fill a four-of-a-kind. We did get 800 on the wheel spin (the second highest), and cashed out for a $20 overall win.
It was probably around 2:00 AM, and we had to get up for our 8:24 AM flight!
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