Food and Looting In Las Vegas
We had a bit more a lie in this morning and again got the 2pm shuttle bus to New York New York hotel on the Strip and went across to Excalibur to book for the medieval banquet dinner.
We then went back to NYNY to get the trolley bus up to the far end of the Strip. We thought we’d try the trolley bus as it would go along the Strip as opposed to behind the hotels like the monorail had. This turned out to be a VERY bad decision as the bus went into the driveway of every hotel. After 40 minutes we’d been to Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Tropicana and MGM Grand…which is right across the road from NYNY! We’d invested lots of time on the dam trolley bus now and so decided to stick with it, which was another bad decision as it just made us more and more angry that we were having to change our plans and maybe not do some hotels just because of this shitty little bus. We wanted to go to the Stratosphere hotel, the tallest in Vegas and do the Big Shot ride at the top of the tower, but the final straw for the trolley came when, with Stratosphere in sight, the driver turned off the Strip and headed round the back of a hotel and then back down the Strip. It was 5pm and we hadn’t done anything.
Abandoning Stratosphere, we walked to Circus Circus and cheered ourselves up with an icecream and a free circus show featuring a clown, acrobats and a magician. After the show we tried the funfair games in the casino and won a monkey by bashing chickens into cooking pots. I’ve just read that back and realised it sounds like animal abuse, but these were rubber chickens and the pots were not on a stove.
Walking back along the Strip we stopped at Treasure Island hotel to watch the mock pirate battle, another free show. This was amazing as there were fireworks and explosions going off and they actually sank one of the pirate ships. After the battle we had to march quickly past Caesars Palace and Bellagios hotels to get the Excalibur for the banquet. We caught the fountain show in the lake outside Bellagios. This is yet another free show and features hundreds of fountains set to music with the glamorous hotel as a backdrop.
The Tournament of Kings banquet is held under the Excalibur casino and has an arena the size of a football pitch surrounded by tiered benches where we ate our dinner with our fingers. We were sitting in the King of France’s section. There were 8 Kings and Emperors from around Europe and we cheered when our monarch battled at jousting, sword fighting and horse racing. The serving wenches sang and some acrobats performed for us, but the dinner was interrupted by the evil Mordor who slayed King Arthur and was then slain himself by Arthur’s son Christopher.
After the dinner show we walked to Monte Carlo casino and won $30 at blackjack, so in the end we had a good day.
We then went back to NYNY to get the trolley bus up to the far end of the Strip. We thought we’d try the trolley bus as it would go along the Strip as opposed to behind the hotels like the monorail had. This turned out to be a VERY bad decision as the bus went into the driveway of every hotel. After 40 minutes we’d been to Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Tropicana and MGM Grand…which is right across the road from NYNY! We’d invested lots of time on the dam trolley bus now and so decided to stick with it, which was another bad decision as it just made us more and more angry that we were having to change our plans and maybe not do some hotels just because of this shitty little bus. We wanted to go to the Stratosphere hotel, the tallest in Vegas and do the Big Shot ride at the top of the tower, but the final straw for the trolley came when, with Stratosphere in sight, the driver turned off the Strip and headed round the back of a hotel and then back down the Strip. It was 5pm and we hadn’t done anything.
Abandoning Stratosphere, we walked to Circus Circus and cheered ourselves up with an icecream and a free circus show featuring a clown, acrobats and a magician. After the show we tried the funfair games in the casino and won a monkey by bashing chickens into cooking pots. I’ve just read that back and realised it sounds like animal abuse, but these were rubber chickens and the pots were not on a stove.
Walking back along the Strip we stopped at Treasure Island hotel to watch the mock pirate battle, another free show. This was amazing as there were fireworks and explosions going off and they actually sank one of the pirate ships. After the battle we had to march quickly past Caesars Palace and Bellagios hotels to get the Excalibur for the banquet. We caught the fountain show in the lake outside Bellagios. This is yet another free show and features hundreds of fountains set to music with the glamorous hotel as a backdrop.
The Tournament of Kings banquet is held under the Excalibur casino and has an arena the size of a football pitch surrounded by tiered benches where we ate our dinner with our fingers. We were sitting in the King of France’s section. There were 8 Kings and Emperors from around Europe and we cheered when our monarch battled at jousting, sword fighting and horse racing. The serving wenches sang and some acrobats performed for us, but the dinner was interrupted by the evil Mordor who slayed King Arthur and was then slain himself by Arthur’s son Christopher.
After the dinner show we walked to Monte Carlo casino and won $30 at blackjack, so in the end we had a good day.
posted by Ian @ 12:30 am
1 Comments:
At 8:22 am,
Stephen said…
I've been in work for over 30 minutes now, and all I've done is read your blog.
Keep it up - you're bringing the service industry in the UK to a standstill!
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