You’ll Like it, But Not a Hot(-tub)
Today we checked out of one hotel and moved to New York, New York on the Strip as a treat. Our room wasn’t ready when we checked in so we left our luggage with the bellboys and went out to have lunch at Coco’s, between NYNY and Monte Carlo. When we got back to NYNY our room in the Empire State building was ready. The rollercoaster went right by our window and we’d got a deluxe room with a hot tub IN the bedroom! However, we were annoyed to find that the hot tub didn’t have a plug. Not to worry as I phoned house keeping and they said it would be fixed while we were out for the day.
Our first activity of the day was the magic show at Tropicana. On our way there we asked a young woman to take our picture in front of NYNY. She said she loved our accent and when we said we were from London, she said it fabulous that she’d met so many Englanders in Vegas (I’ve got a rant building up about language, but that will wait until a later posting). At the magic show there were small card tricks and big tricks where helicopters and trains, not so suddenly appeared on stage and tigers were made to appear and disappear. It’s sad to say that we weren’t wowed by it all. It was ok, but special effects in films have made us blasé about what we see.
(Note that we've added more Vegas photos to album 9a).
All the restaurants at Bellagios were fully booked so we ate at a Chinese restaurant outside Paris. The food was ok and we were lucky that we both ordered a beef dish as apparently they have five kitchens and it is not unheard of for desserts to arrive before your partner has had their starter. After the dinner we bought Paris balloon cocktail mugs and walked to MGMs to see the recording of a tv show, but we’d just missed the last recording for the day so instead went to Excalibur to find our $5 black jack table…and lost the $50 we’d made in the previous days. D’oh!
Back in our NYNY room, we found that the hot tub still didn’t have a plug, so I made an angry call to house keeping who apologised and said they would send someone there right away. It took fifteen minutes for the maintenance guy to show up and I was ready to demand our money back. I soon changed my tune when the guy should us that the tub had an internal plug and had been working all along!
Our first activity of the day was the magic show at Tropicana. On our way there we asked a young woman to take our picture in front of NYNY. She said she loved our accent and when we said we were from London, she said it fabulous that she’d met so many Englanders in Vegas (I’ve got a rant building up about language, but that will wait until a later posting). At the magic show there were small card tricks and big tricks where helicopters and trains, not so suddenly appeared on stage and tigers were made to appear and disappear. It’s sad to say that we weren’t wowed by it all. It was ok, but special effects in films have made us blasé about what we see.
(Note that we've added more Vegas photos to album 9a).
All the restaurants at Bellagios were fully booked so we ate at a Chinese restaurant outside Paris. The food was ok and we were lucky that we both ordered a beef dish as apparently they have five kitchens and it is not unheard of for desserts to arrive before your partner has had their starter. After the dinner we bought Paris balloon cocktail mugs and walked to MGMs to see the recording of a tv show, but we’d just missed the last recording for the day so instead went to Excalibur to find our $5 black jack table…and lost the $50 we’d made in the previous days. D’oh!
Back in our NYNY room, we found that the hot tub still didn’t have a plug, so I made an angry call to house keeping who apologised and said they would send someone there right away. It took fifteen minutes for the maintenance guy to show up and I was ready to demand our money back. I soon changed my tune when the guy should us that the tub had an internal plug and had been working all along!
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