soccerboy9
02-27-2005, 03:38 AM
ok well this is my first trip report so here goes...
first off this trip report is basically pointless but it's 1 in the morining and i cant really fall asleep.
my club soccer team was in a tournament in las vegas over presidents day weekeend. i flew out of ohare at on friday morning, the flight was uneventful, met someone who graduated from my high school. didnt catch how old she was but she was definently older than me (im a hs senior). had a change over in cincinnati, very boring 45 minutes. cincinnati has a decent airport but nothing special. i get to vegas at around one or so. this is where it gets interesting...kinda
apparently our team is staying staying at the golden palm hotel and casino. now this place is a complete dump and you should never stay there, never. i was supposed to get a shuttle from the airport from the golden palm, well it was about 2 hrs late. i go back inside McCarren and get lost. find my way out again and venture out into the cold and rainy weather to find the shuttle guy sleeping!!! i tap on the glass and ask "did i wake you?" he looks and me and kinda laughs.
so i get there and chill a little in the hotel, we got a grand total of 12 channels and at 9 pm i could pick up WGN news in Chicago.
one plus to this place was the cafe that they had. you could get ham, eggs, and hashbrown for 1.99 great deal, well except u had to buy a drink which really cost more than the meal, but for around 5 bucks i cant get a better deal. the food was good.
right now we will back track a couple of hours to around 5:30. my coach and i went to Alladin and he bought me the buffet, well it was glorious, words really cant describe it. it was 24 bucks but i must have eatin triple that in food. the buffet didnt open till 6 so for a half an hour i walked around alladin while he played holdem.
back to the hotel for sleep.
next day, played some soccer, got hurt, and thats all the soccer news. we found out that people in our hotel were doing lines of cocaine, i guess this is normal for this type of place?? had the buffet from alladin again, and the 1.99 ham and eggs again too. later that night the adults went out and we didnt have a key to get back into our room so we tried to sweet talk to front desk lady. she said know because we didnt have any id with us. she did finally concede and said that she would get security to take us up there and we could show him some id. well security was a very intimidating man who was about 5 ft 6 and 120 lbs. we got in the one elevator (side story about the elevator to come) and we were just chit chatting. on the way to the room he told us that we couldnt have any hookers, strippers, and no drugs. but, if we did decide to bring strippers up than their was a cute black chick in the lobby but we should do a package check on her before we let her up. i told him that was securities job. got in the room and chilled there the rest of the night.
now for the elevator story... this is another reason why the hotel sucked. i get there and they have 2 elevators one of which does not work. i ask someone where the stairs are and they tell me that they are locked for the "safety" of the guests...WTF!!
sunday, more soccer still hurt so it hasnt been a good tournament. after the last game me and some of the guys walk the strip. we first stop at the wendys, dollar menu is 1.39 ridiculous. walk into a bunch of casinos and i buy one dollar chips from alladin, ballys, and new york new york. new york new york was really a really great place had a good time in there. met some other guys from the team and went to harrah's where one guy was staying and took the shuttle to the rio where another buddy was staying. rio was sweet wish i couldve stayed there. guys dad buys us beer and we have a decent time. rented the movie team america, i thought it sucked everyone else laughed, idk about that one. on the way out of the hotle (130am) we are stopped by some police, apparently their is a 10 pm curfew for under 18s and he threatned to give us a ticket but never did.
monday we had alladins buffet again and then we were off to the air port. spent about 6 hrs there half of that alone cause i was flying out at 655 pm. met a coach that i knew (who was piss drunk) talked to him for a while. really just walked around and ate food. 655 comes around and i take off and head back to chicago.....
well that was it um sorry if i made u feel dumber for having read this but like i said earlier its around 1 am and i cant sleep.
first off this trip report is basically pointless but it's 1 in the morining and i cant really fall asleep.
my club soccer team was in a tournament in las vegas over presidents day weekeend. i flew out of ohare at on friday morning, the flight was uneventful, met someone who graduated from my high school. didnt catch how old she was but she was definently older than me (im a hs senior). had a change over in cincinnati, very boring 45 minutes. cincinnati has a decent airport but nothing special. i get to vegas at around one or so. this is where it gets interesting...kinda
apparently our team is staying staying at the golden palm hotel and casino. now this place is a complete dump and you should never stay there, never. i was supposed to get a shuttle from the airport from the golden palm, well it was about 2 hrs late. i go back inside McCarren and get lost. find my way out again and venture out into the cold and rainy weather to find the shuttle guy sleeping!!! i tap on the glass and ask "did i wake you?" he looks and me and kinda laughs.
so i get there and chill a little in the hotel, we got a grand total of 12 channels and at 9 pm i could pick up WGN news in Chicago.
one plus to this place was the cafe that they had. you could get ham, eggs, and hashbrown for 1.99 great deal, well except u had to buy a drink which really cost more than the meal, but for around 5 bucks i cant get a better deal. the food was good.
right now we will back track a couple of hours to around 5:30. my coach and i went to Alladin and he bought me the buffet, well it was glorious, words really cant describe it. it was 24 bucks but i must have eatin triple that in food. the buffet didnt open till 6 so for a half an hour i walked around alladin while he played holdem.
back to the hotel for sleep.
next day, played some soccer, got hurt, and thats all the soccer news. we found out that people in our hotel were doing lines of cocaine, i guess this is normal for this type of place?? had the buffet from alladin again, and the 1.99 ham and eggs again too. later that night the adults went out and we didnt have a key to get back into our room so we tried to sweet talk to front desk lady. she said know because we didnt have any id with us. she did finally concede and said that she would get security to take us up there and we could show him some id. well security was a very intimidating man who was about 5 ft 6 and 120 lbs. we got in the one elevator (side story about the elevator to come) and we were just chit chatting. on the way to the room he told us that we couldnt have any hookers, strippers, and no drugs. but, if we did decide to bring strippers up than their was a cute black chick in the lobby but we should do a package check on her before we let her up. i told him that was securities job. got in the room and chilled there the rest of the night.
now for the elevator story... this is another reason why the hotel sucked. i get there and they have 2 elevators one of which does not work. i ask someone where the stairs are and they tell me that they are locked for the "safety" of the guests...WTF!!
sunday, more soccer still hurt so it hasnt been a good tournament. after the last game me and some of the guys walk the strip. we first stop at the wendys, dollar menu is 1.39 ridiculous. walk into a bunch of casinos and i buy one dollar chips from alladin, ballys, and new york new york. new york new york was really a really great place had a good time in there. met some other guys from the team and went to harrah's where one guy was staying and took the shuttle to the rio where another buddy was staying. rio was sweet wish i couldve stayed there. guys dad buys us beer and we have a decent time. rented the movie team america, i thought it sucked everyone else laughed, idk about that one. on the way out of the hotle (130am) we are stopped by some police, apparently their is a 10 pm curfew for under 18s and he threatned to give us a ticket but never did.
monday we had alladins buffet again and then we were off to the air port. spent about 6 hrs there half of that alone cause i was flying out at 655 pm. met a coach that i knew (who was piss drunk) talked to him for a while. really just walked around and ate food. 655 comes around and i take off and head back to chicago.....
well that was it um sorry if i made u feel dumber for having read this but like i said earlier its around 1 am and i cant sleep.