Back from Vegas

[Amateur]

So I took last week and went to Las Vegas. Hot as hell out there.

Stayed at the MGM Grand, but I didn't like it!! There was no coffeemaker in my room!! Isn't that against the consitution or something??? So I had to trudge down to Starbucks first thing every morning just for my morning wakeup. Was not a happy camper.

Went around to some places to see things like at Bellagio and Caesar's but didn't go to any shows. Bought some tacky Vegas souvenirs and came home, lighter in the pockets this time.

[Simmo!]

There was no coffeemaker in my room...I had to trudge down to Starbucks first thing every morning just for my morning wakeup.

Call me cynical, but you think Starbucks & MGM might have made the decision to remove coffee-makers around the time the recession hit?

[Amateur]

Call me cynical, but you think Starbucks & MGM might have made the decision to remove coffee-makers around the time the recession hit?

Considering I've been to other gambling spots this year, (Tunica, Biloxi, Lake Charles) with a number of competing casinos available, they had coffeemakers in the rooms, and Starbucks franchises in the casinos, I had (ass)umed it was a standard feature to guests.

I've been to many, many casinos and never have I seen a room w/o a coffeemaker!! I still go to Starbucks for coffee, so it's not like Starbucks will go out of business! In fact, I saw 3 separate Starbucks in the casino and the mall inside the MGM Grand. In fact, I think I must have spent more money eating the whole time I was there, than I did on gambling and entertainment!

The food at the buffet tasted ok, but the selection was not so good as in the Harrah's run casinos, although the prices were the same. I wouund up making my way to the Paris and Caesar's buffets around dinnertime, and skipped over Monte Carlo/Bellagio etc for eating purposes.

My unsophisticated taste prefer the Paula Dean cooking at the Harrah's in Tunica anyway, rather than the Emeril's or Wolfgang Puck food available at MGM Grand.

[jarvi]

I stayed in The Signature apartments at the MGM Grand for a couple of weeks earlier this year. I passed four Starbucks even before I had left the building. That's the three in the MGM plus one in The Signature lobby area.

Most expensive Starbucks I have been to was in New York New York Casino. What costs me $2.20 here in Hawaii and $2.00 in Venice, California was $3.50 or similar in the casino.

I think there might be just as many Wolfgang Puck venues as Starbucks too. Talk about spreading the brand very thin. He's stuck his name on every second restaurant in just about every casino.

[baldidiot]

I stayed in The Signature apartments at the MGM Grand for a couple of weeks earlier this year. .

The Signature is awesome - I can definitely recommend it!

[mojo]

I did something right somehow and keep getting comp rooms in Vegas.

Who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth. LOL

Wynn is offering us a room. I'm told to let him know which place. Encore or Wynn? I've never been at this hotel before. What do you think?

[vinism]

I did something right somehow and keep getting comp rooms in Vegas.

Who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth. LOL

Wynn is offering us a room. I'm told to let him know which place. Encore or Wynn? I've never been at this hotel before. What do you think?

Both Encore and Wynn have gorgeous rooms. But Encore is the newer property, and the rooms are supposed to even better than the Wynn's. I'd go with Encore.

[mojo]

Both Encore and Wynn have gorgeous rooms. But Encore is the newer property, and the rooms are supposed to even better than the Wynn's. I'd go with Encore.

Thanks Vin. Reading around, Encore is the place to stay so we'll go with that. Not sure it really matters to much. I asked our host he he said for first time visitors he always recommends Wynn because it's more in the heart of things. But reviews have guests loving Encore.

Tip: Mr. Wynn recommends leaving the stroller home.