January Vegas Trip!
(Part 1)
Hi all, I found this site before my last trip to Vegas and it's been very helpful! I definitely enjoyed reading TR's during that post-Vegas depression spell and the long build up of anticipation to the next trip so I thought I would share my latest trip.
My apologies for my novel of a report for a 3-day trip, I just couldn’t leave some of it out!
A little back story first.
I went to college in the SF Bay area so have been LV several times but have since moved back to the midwest, so Vegas or Lake Tahoe are my usual destinations to meet up with my friends who are all still in California for a weekend. Like I said I've been to vegas several times, including multiple one night stops while driving back and forth to california during breaks, many before I was 21 (not much fun.. both the drive and being in vegas under-21). Also I went shortly after turning 21 while in college and then my first post-college meetup trip with friends last Sept which is where the back story really starts...
Last September I went out to Vegas for an extended weekend with 7 friends and 1 friend of theirs who I had not met before. Trip was a good time, but between certain people not being willing to spend the money for bottles and being "uncomfortable with me covering part of their share" (wtf?), "forgetting to eat today" and fouling out and needing to be taken home, and varying interests between club/gambling time and types of music it wasn't the epic trip a few of us had wanted. So me and my friend after enjoying the best day of the trip (Avicii at EBC) but being alone as everyone else had fouled out, assisted the people who were too drunk, or lost interest decided that our next trip would be just the two of us and our other close friend who could hang and make it that epic trip we wanted.
The planning stages.
Come December text, gChat, and FB messages start circulating about our plans for vegas this year. This group trip quickly evolved into the plans for a 4 trip series spaced throughout 2013. Certain rules were put in place including: not to tell anyone else we were going without them, day-parties and clubs every day/night, and most importantly go HAM. Both of them are big into EDM so who is DJ’ing is always a major part of where we end up going, and I’m fine with that so it works well. We set our target dates for Jan/Feb, May, July/Aug, Oct/Nov. Anyways, obviously this trip report is about the Jan/Feb trip which ended up being scheduled for Thur Jan 24 - Sun Jan 27(last weekend). Now as we lead up to thursday and our departure I asked the guys whether they had mentioned to their housemates that they were going to vegas (both live in different houses, but each with all of our friends, many who were on our previous Sept. trip). They both let their houses know they would be out of town and couldn't do anything that weekend, but up until Wed. night no one else knew we were heading to Vegas. Wed. one guy told his house, the other just never bothered, though they obviously knew pretty quickly from other people.
The epic trip.
Day 1: Thursday
I struggle to make it through my day at work on Thursday, being completely unproductive, but finally 4pm rolls around and I head off to the airport. Our two flights were both supposed to arrive around 7:30, but in separate terminals, so we decided we'd play it by ear on how we'd get to the hotel. If I got in early I'd shuttle over there and we'd take one cab, but I got in late, they got in early, so I ended up just taking my own cab and meeting them at the hotel.
We had booked a room at MGM Grand through mLife for a decent price so I arrived there and find them at the check-in desk with some girl who claimed the system was down and had to enter everything by hand, which she still couldn't manage to do very well, so about 20 minutes later we finally have our keys. Head up, unpack, down for blackjack and drinks, get ready, blah blah blah. We had a B1G1 setup at Haze for that night so we cab over and check in for it, turns out we're the 2nd table in, got there when ed suggested getting there, about 10:45, but obviously we would have been fine later. Oh well, we have plenty to drink with 2 bottles for 3 people. Get 1 goose 1 absolut, have a table downstairs back by the back bar, not the best location, but certainly not bad, debate getting a 2nd bottle to get moved to a better spot but decide we don't need 3 bottles for 3 people. We do some drinking, proofread some business emails for each other before vowing no more work for the weekend. Place starts to fill up, we do some work on the bottles, meet some different girls, do some dancing. At one point, my friend with a girlfriend accidentally sends a text about that he just took shots with 2 girls and where the hell are we to her instead of us, so that puts a damper on his night, he hangs out for a bit but eventually decides he needs to head out and do damage control. My other friend had found some girl, so it ends up us two and her and a few of her friends at the table and we finish off the remaining half of a bottle. Talk my friend out of a bottle since its the end of the night, and we shut the place down. Get back to the hotel about 4:30am and crash.
Day 2: Friday
Somehow I’m up and awake at about 10am after the shades open automatically for some reason. So since I can’t get back to sleep, I shower, and head down to the casino with the intention of playing some poker to make some extra spending money (I pretty much fund a good part of my vegas trips by playing poker back home). As usual for me in MGM, I get lost on my way somewhere, end up grabbing some coffee, breakfast and just playing $5 blackjack since the games I want to play at poker are full and I don’t feel like waiting. A bit later my friends are down by the poker room looking for me so I meet up with them and we start our walk to CVS for alcohol and hangover supplies. My one friend ends up talking to one of the guys promoting his music on the bridge and takes a cd and somehow a small free bag of weed, which me and my other friends proceed to give him crap for the rest of the trip. Not much else happens during the day besides a small bit of gambling in order to get free drinks, and we decide to check out DB’s pong & pool, where we grab some drinks and play some games. Not a bad place to hang out, have some fun, and kill some time from the usual craziness of vegas. We go out for our one actual meal of the trip besides the usual sandwiches and then head back to the room to take some shots and get ready.
We head to XS for Avicii and had pre-sales already but decided to do a 1 bottle table which my buddy setup through a host he had used before (Apparently you can get presales refunded by emailing wantickets after if you get a table instead? definitely good to know for the future). Unfortunately it was raining, which plays a key part in the night. We were in one of the first 2nd floor cabanas right up the stairs from the inside, not a bad spot, the tablespace itself is pretty sick as long as you don’t mind the lack of foot-traffic and either have your own party or bring it back to you. Especially with it raining, the outside by the pool was dead, but it took 20 seconds to get inside so I was fine with it.
(Continued in Part 2...)
Hi all, I found this site before my last trip to Vegas and it's been very helpful! I definitely enjoyed reading TR's during that post-Vegas depression spell and the long build up of anticipation to the next trip so I thought I would share my latest trip.
My apologies for my novel of a report for a 3-day trip, I just couldn’t leave some of it out!
A little back story first.
I went to college in the SF Bay area so have been LV several times but have since moved back to the midwest, so Vegas or Lake Tahoe are my usual destinations to meet up with my friends who are all still in California for a weekend. Like I said I've been to vegas several times, including multiple one night stops while driving back and forth to california during breaks, many before I was 21 (not much fun.. both the drive and being in vegas under-21). Also I went shortly after turning 21 while in college and then my first post-college meetup trip with friends last Sept which is where the back story really starts...
Last September I went out to Vegas for an extended weekend with 7 friends and 1 friend of theirs who I had not met before. Trip was a good time, but between certain people not being willing to spend the money for bottles and being "uncomfortable with me covering part of their share" (wtf?), "forgetting to eat today" and fouling out and needing to be taken home, and varying interests between club/gambling time and types of music it wasn't the epic trip a few of us had wanted. So me and my friend after enjoying the best day of the trip (Avicii at EBC) but being alone as everyone else had fouled out, assisted the people who were too drunk, or lost interest decided that our next trip would be just the two of us and our other close friend who could hang and make it that epic trip we wanted.
The planning stages.
Come December text, gChat, and FB messages start circulating about our plans for vegas this year. This group trip quickly evolved into the plans for a 4 trip series spaced throughout 2013. Certain rules were put in place including: not to tell anyone else we were going without them, day-parties and clubs every day/night, and most importantly go HAM. Both of them are big into EDM so who is DJ’ing is always a major part of where we end up going, and I’m fine with that so it works well. We set our target dates for Jan/Feb, May, July/Aug, Oct/Nov. Anyways, obviously this trip report is about the Jan/Feb trip which ended up being scheduled for Thur Jan 24 - Sun Jan 27(last weekend). Now as we lead up to thursday and our departure I asked the guys whether they had mentioned to their housemates that they were going to vegas (both live in different houses, but each with all of our friends, many who were on our previous Sept. trip). They both let their houses know they would be out of town and couldn't do anything that weekend, but up until Wed. night no one else knew we were heading to Vegas. Wed. one guy told his house, the other just never bothered, though they obviously knew pretty quickly from other people.
The epic trip.
Day 1: Thursday
I struggle to make it through my day at work on Thursday, being completely unproductive, but finally 4pm rolls around and I head off to the airport. Our two flights were both supposed to arrive around 7:30, but in separate terminals, so we decided we'd play it by ear on how we'd get to the hotel. If I got in early I'd shuttle over there and we'd take one cab, but I got in late, they got in early, so I ended up just taking my own cab and meeting them at the hotel.
We had booked a room at MGM Grand through mLife for a decent price so I arrived there and find them at the check-in desk with some girl who claimed the system was down and had to enter everything by hand, which she still couldn't manage to do very well, so about 20 minutes later we finally have our keys. Head up, unpack, down for blackjack and drinks, get ready, blah blah blah. We had a B1G1 setup at Haze for that night so we cab over and check in for it, turns out we're the 2nd table in, got there when ed suggested getting there, about 10:45, but obviously we would have been fine later. Oh well, we have plenty to drink with 2 bottles for 3 people. Get 1 goose 1 absolut, have a table downstairs back by the back bar, not the best location, but certainly not bad, debate getting a 2nd bottle to get moved to a better spot but decide we don't need 3 bottles for 3 people. We do some drinking, proofread some business emails for each other before vowing no more work for the weekend. Place starts to fill up, we do some work on the bottles, meet some different girls, do some dancing. At one point, my friend with a girlfriend accidentally sends a text about that he just took shots with 2 girls and where the hell are we to her instead of us, so that puts a damper on his night, he hangs out for a bit but eventually decides he needs to head out and do damage control. My other friend had found some girl, so it ends up us two and her and a few of her friends at the table and we finish off the remaining half of a bottle. Talk my friend out of a bottle since its the end of the night, and we shut the place down. Get back to the hotel about 4:30am and crash.
Day 2: Friday
Somehow I’m up and awake at about 10am after the shades open automatically for some reason. So since I can’t get back to sleep, I shower, and head down to the casino with the intention of playing some poker to make some extra spending money (I pretty much fund a good part of my vegas trips by playing poker back home). As usual for me in MGM, I get lost on my way somewhere, end up grabbing some coffee, breakfast and just playing $5 blackjack since the games I want to play at poker are full and I don’t feel like waiting. A bit later my friends are down by the poker room looking for me so I meet up with them and we start our walk to CVS for alcohol and hangover supplies. My one friend ends up talking to one of the guys promoting his music on the bridge and takes a cd and somehow a small free bag of weed, which me and my other friends proceed to give him crap for the rest of the trip. Not much else happens during the day besides a small bit of gambling in order to get free drinks, and we decide to check out DB’s pong & pool, where we grab some drinks and play some games. Not a bad place to hang out, have some fun, and kill some time from the usual craziness of vegas. We go out for our one actual meal of the trip besides the usual sandwiches and then head back to the room to take some shots and get ready.
We head to XS for Avicii and had pre-sales already but decided to do a 1 bottle table which my buddy setup through a host he had used before (Apparently you can get presales refunded by emailing wantickets after if you get a table instead? definitely good to know for the future). Unfortunately it was raining, which plays a key part in the night. We were in one of the first 2nd floor cabanas right up the stairs from the inside, not a bad spot, the tablespace itself is pretty sick as long as you don’t mind the lack of foot-traffic and either have your own party or bring it back to you. Especially with it raining, the outside by the pool was dead, but it took 20 seconds to get inside so I was fine with it.
(Continued in Part 2...)
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