July - August Las Vegas Trip - Day Eight

Tuesday, August 3

My last day downtown and last full day in Las Vegas!  Hopefully it will be a good one!

Kip and I have one last play planned, 2,000 points for her at Binion's.  I had to take my bag to the car, since we were checking out of Golden Gate just afternoon and I didn't think I'd have time to get back from Binion's and take the bag to the car before lunch and heading to Wynn.  I took a last photo of the view from my Golden Gate suite, which is pretty much the same view I always have, although this time it was a floor higher.

It's not the best view, but it sure beats hearing the noise from Fremont Street!

I sent a message to Kip around 8:00 am, telling her I was taking my bag to the car and heading to Binion's to meet her for breakfast.  Around 8:30 am, she said she was heading down.  There was a little bit of a line before, but by the time she arrived, there was no wait.

The same waitress who waited on me during my trip in September waited on me again and recognized me (or maybe she just recognized Jacques D. Monquee) and I told her I remembered her from my prior trips.  Once again, I get the Gambler's Special (maybe one time I'll get steak and eggs). . .

We finish breakfast and head to the machines to start play.  Things are going pretty well, I hit quad sevens, which I didn't think much of until the guy next to me says that I could get a hat for it.  Apparently for their 70's anniversary, Binion's is having some giveaway, one being if you hit quad sevens, you get a hat.  We are in a pretty isolated part of the casino, but it is close to the slot club, so I head over there, and a slot attendant happens to be there.  He takes my card number and soon enough, I have a hat!

Hit quad sevens, get a hat!

It's a pretty nice hat too.  Here are the other promotions they were running:

Too bad I didn't know about this when I did my play in July (although it would have been difficult for me to do this in August without some rescheduling), it did work out for Kip.  She said she wanted to get a hat, and sure enough, not too long after I got mine, she got quad sevens as well!  The guy who told me about the promo was telling another woman on the bank the same thing when she got quad sevens.  I told the guy that he should be getting a commission for this, and he said he got his good karma back, he was waiting for a handpay for the $1 royal he just hit!  That's the kind of karma I needed!

I hit two more stinkin' bonus quads with kickers, and still ended being a $60 loser!

Obviously it could have gone a lot worse.  Kip finished her session up $35, so we put in $16,000 coin-in with a $25 loss, and we were still getting freeplay and cashback.  I hit a 50c quad on my freeplay and Kip redeemed $185 from her $200, and with the cashback, we were up $355 for the session!  Kip also got the t-shirt (which she gave me, and it is nice), and she got the insulated flask, which she kept.

We finished just in time for our 12:00 pm lunch, and we got seated while we waited for the rest of our party to arrive.

I ordered the meatball sub this time, which was pretty good, I really do like the fries though.

Bob and I say our temporary goodbyes as we head to Wynn.  We decide to stop by at Resorts World to check it out.  We were a bit confused as to where to park (we entered from the back side, since Las Vegas Boulevard had heavy traffic around The Strat).  I believe we parked at the Conrad hotel parking and then walked down some stairs that opened onto the ground level, and you couldn't reenter those stairs, so we'd have to figure out how to get back to that garage.

We walked around the property and it looked nice, it also looked pretty large.  We went by the poker room, and there seemed to be a few tables going.  We ended up finding our way back to the parking garage and were happy to discover that we didn't have to pay.

The Resorts World sphere

We got to Wynn around 4:15 pm.  Bob had already checked in, and went to a kiosk to pick up his keys, since there was a bit of a line in the lobby.  However, technology failed us, as the kiosk failed to process Bob's ID and credit card.  It locked up processing and Bob wanted to make sure that his card wasn't going to be charged, so I told him he should go to the lobby and I'll stay at the kiosk and make sure nothing happened.  Eventually, the kiosk reset and I made sure his information wasn't in there.  I went back to the lobby and the line moved quickly.  We were soon in the room for our last night in Las Vegas.

No Strip view tonight. . .

We had a little bit of time to hit the pool before meeting Kip, Cathy, and Jose for dinner at Starboard Tack.  We also discovered that the pool was open until 7:00 pm (I believe the check-in clerk had told us it was open until 6:00 pm).

It was nice, and I found it warmer than Stadium Swim, although I was at this pool at 5:30 pm, not 9:00 am.

Last time chilling poolside!

We needed to hurry if we were going to meet our friends at 7:00 pm, but we lingered a bit longer at the pool, and didn't arrive to Starboard Tack until a little before 8:00 pm.  It was all good, our friends already ordered drinks and appetizers.

I got a cherry blossom drink and tried the fried chicken fried rice, both of which were very good.

We wanted to do some "fun play", and Eureka Casino isn't far away from Starboard Tack (and on the way back to the Strip) so we stopped there.  The five of us kicked in $20 each for a shot on 25c Multistrike.  Our first hand was a winner, and almost a double up.

Nice first hand!

Now, we typically play to a double up, and we could have easily lost trying to get that last $6.25, but we managed to get it in a few more hands.  Doubled up and out I think in around 20 minutes!

We all get to Wynn and try one more group play, on Ultimate X Spin Poker.  It was going okay, but we weren't getting the "quick hit" at nickels, so I bumped to dimes, and we ended up losing.  Ah well, those are the breaks

We said our goodbyes to Rob and Melody on the casino floor.  Kip, Cathy, and Jose went up to the room to pick up a few things that Bob and I weren't going to take on the plane with us and then we bid them farewell.

It was quite the early night, but it was going to be an early morning for our flight out. . .