The morning view from our room at Sam's Town.
So, today was moving Downtown to our suite at Plaza, running some errands and doing some casino stops along the way. We had some coffee in the room before heading out for breakfast.
The "plan" was to have breakfast at 8:30 AM, but we rolled into Blueberry Hill on E. Flamingo around 9:15 AM. We weren't really locked into any times, but just had an idea of what we wanted to do today.
I heard about Blueberry Hill from friends, it was on the way to pick up Lola at Wynn, so we decided to try it. It was pretty good. The portions were huge, I didn't finish the pancakes I ordered! Definitely worth another stop.
Bacon, eggs, and pancakes!
We picked up Lola at Wynn and dropped her off at her next casino stay, Aria. Kip and I then headed down to Total Wine to stock up on booze and champagne for in-room mimosas (and apparently pool-side mimosas).
Our meandering path took us to OYO so I could use the LVA MRB $10 slot match play. I believe I had a small profit from this. We then stopped at Mohegan Sun at Virgin Hotel to check it out and for me to get a souvenir chip. There was a coupon to use here, but I decided it wasn't worth the play.
Cactus in the casino.
Next stop was Ellis Island for lunch and couponing. We were still full from breakfast, so lunch turned into a liquid lunch thanks to the three free rounds for two. We also used the slot play and match play coupons. We halved our $10 match plays on roulette. They have the two tables side-by-side, and the one dealer was telling me not to play mine coupon against Kip's. The pit boss was trying to explain to her that we were trying to lock in a $10 profit, unless a zero came up. I said, hey, thanks for mentioning that, now it's going to come up, but fortunately it didn't. I'm still not sure if the dealer understood.
We sat at the bar and had our drinks and played some VP. The bartop VP isn't the best, but we were just killing time while we were drinking. Kip, not usually a beer drinker, had three of the stouts (or maybe they were porters), while I had two and a root beer (since I was driving).
Cheers!
We made a stop at Target across the street for a few more things, and we finally arrived at Plaza around 4:00 PM. They are doing remodeling here, and the registration desk which used to be at the front of the casino is now at the back by the parking garage elevators. This makes it very convenient for the parking garage and South Tower elevators, but not so much for being in the North Tower.
I had a suite, so I wasn't sure if I'd be in the North or South Tower, and fortunately, we were in the South Tower. Also, they are working on the parking garage elevators (which are already notoriously slow), which might have been an issue, except there's a good shortcut. You park on the third level (if you can) and take the entrance into the conference room area. Then you can take a ramp to the hotel elevators. Sweet!
So I check in and my suite is ready, two-bedrooms, since my host suggested I could use the extra space, how nice! I had already stayed in a one-bedroom suite there, and it was pretty much the same, except it had the extra connecting bedroom. What was more convenient was that Kip and I wouldn't have to share a bathroom (which is kind of awkward in those rooms, since although there a door to the tiny bathroom and toilet, there isn't one for the sink area). Plus we had an extra half bath in the living room area. I took a video instead of taking dozens of pictures (and I already had pictures from a few years ago), and we set up our bar.
We are ready to par-tay!
By this time we were hungry, so we grabbed a quick slice of pizza at Pop Up Pizza. We thought the special (two slices and a drink) was a good deal, but we really didn't need the drink. Anyway, pizza good.
Yum!
I wanted (needed) to get my day's Plaza play done, so we went to the new to us Sand Dollar Lounge. It was a nice, quiet (at the time) place. They had a decent selection of beer and drinks, although for comp purposes, you can't get a drink more than $10. Bummer. I did get a nice oatmeal stout. With our generous tipping and (I believe) friendly demeanor, Kip was able to get the bartender to give her a slightly more than $10 drink. I think she had two beers here, and on top of the three she had at Ellis Island, I think this was a Kip record. . .
Oatmeal Stout at The Sand Dollar.
The fortunately have full pay VP at 50c+, so Kip was playing 50c and I was plugging away at dollars for most of the time. She had a small loss and I had a big loss, so that didn't work out so well (and that was including the $175 FP I got for my stay, plus the $10 free play from the LVA MRB). . .
I believe (and Kip will have to confirm) that we walked down to El Cortez to do the boarding pass promotion, which you can only do once a year unless you put in 1,000 points. I thought we were going to get our boarding pass match plays at The D, but I'm pretty sure we did this on Wednesday (even though that was after 24 hours after we landed).
I'm not sure if we played more at Plaza, but I put in 4,867 points, or so. I do recall us getting one more slice of pizza for a snack before going to the room. . .
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