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Worst Trip Ever: Vegas SUCKS! DONT EVER GAMBLE THERE!
9 years ago
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Fuck las vegas and fuck airline travel! Now I don't even care that we have the ability to fly from one end of the country to another in one day. I'd rather take a fucking covered wagon train pulled by oxen.
But that aside, Vegas sucks!
My boyfriend really likes vegas, he used to go there a lot in the 80s and early 90s and he'd have a lot of fun. He's a slot player, and of course is a players club member and he's been platinum level on their systems for like, ever. He would play the slots and get plenty of play out of them. He'd even win big from time to time!
The first time he took me to Vegas was Caesars Palace. I was down to my last $16 then I hit 12x12x double bar on the 12x pay dollar slot, and won $5700. I was amazing. About half of it went back in, of course, but I had fun and enough money to pay some bills and buy a few nice things.
The next year we went I won about $2k off of a flaming 7s slot, and went home with about 1k extra.
The year after was a wash.
The year after that I lost $400 out of the $500 I took with me, but at one point I was up to $1000 and had some fun
The year after that I lost $300. (not entirely to slots, I play table poker too and usually win but I ran into some tough players and shitty deals)
From then on every trip was a loss, and the slots got tighter and tighter ever since. Now you can't even get mixed bars to line up on the dollar 3 reel slots. You can go 40 pulls with nothing but cherry hits every 10 or so.
Now, I don't like gambling, even though I enjoy taking chance shots because they can pay off big. But not with my money! I know the math behind gambling, I know what house edge means, and I have a fairly intuitive knowledge of statistical spread. I cannot bring myself to gamble if the odds aren't in my favor or at LEAST dead even. But they are not at a Vegas casino. Especially not on the strip. But it's hard not to play the slots when your boyfriend is sitting there doing it as well. And he lost way more than I did.
This trip was the last straw. We stayed at the Aria hotel/casino which by all accounts is one of the nicest. My BF got an offer for free food free room and $350 in free slot play, which was all gone on the first day! I did not want to go but the offer looked too sweet. Walking around looking at the tables, reading the pay schedules on video poker, and watching other slot players, the house edge is higher than ever before. Not a good business model since they just permanently lost two fairly high rollers.
Now the REAL complaints begin: The service at the ARIA sucked. They were either slow stupid or rude or had bad English. The suite was OK but the blackout curtains in the room did NOT keep the light out from the constant flashing signs outside. The toilet paper was one ply. ONE PLY. The remote for the TV had a ridiculously hard button press, and the response time between pressing a button was between 1 and two seconds. SECONDS. I get that they have a lot of them on the system, but damn. Two fucking seconds to go down literally one item in the guide. And there was no page down function. I don't watch TV much but he likes to watch the news, so I had to deal with that shit every time I turned it on (dialing in the specific channel was just as hard as scrolling to it)
If there's one thing I can't STAND is unresponsive controls. I'm a high level gamer and I'm used to things happening when I click and not two seconds down the line, so I might be a bit biased there.
The music at the Aria was extra loud compared to some of the other casinos we visited, and even at the pool there were speakers every 5 feet so it was REALLY hard to relax in the sun. (The weather was the only nice thing... not too hot not too cold.)
And Vegas as a whole sucks (well the strip at least. For reasons I wont state we couldn't go very far from our hotel, or off the strip.) The constant assault on the senses is really wearing. I don't know how anyone could stand working there! And in my case due to my autism (which I've largely overcome, by the way. Thanks mom and dad!) it was even worse, especially after being worn down by the losses and poor sleep. And also, in my case due to my empathy I could feel the bad energy of people losing all around me. I also felt the good, happy energy of people genuinely having a good time but that was infrequent, and mostly booze fueled anyways. And me and my BF had some stupid arguments and misunderstanding over NOTHING and I did not take it very well. He took it much better but for me it really lingered.
We also had free, comped show tickets because of how much money my BF and I lost over the past years, which is nice. So we went to see Cirque du Soleil's KA, easily one of the most boring and confusing CDC shows I have seen. Zarkana was WAY better but of course they ruined it by cutting the show's MC (the Zark, who had this awesome red outfit) entirely, making the whole narrative meaningless. On previous trips we saw the Beatles one, the Elvis one and the Michael Jackson one. The Elvis one was good, the Beatles one was pretty good too. The Michael Jackson one was OK, but kinda creepy at the end. But those all had good music (that were created by the three Great Musicians featured, no the CDC people.) KA didn't even have that, so a big thumbs down to KA.
And on the way to the Airport the cabbie took us the long, $12 extra fare way.
At leas the food was really good. But everything is overpriced. And everything is so... FAKE. It is like, the opposite of the nature that I need and love, and I felt crushed the whole time.
And the booze... everywhere. So much alcohol. And its even free if you are playing the slots or at a table with chips on the felt. Well I don't drink. Ever. Nightclubs bore me, all the stores had overpriced crap I don't want. In short, there is NOTHING there for me.
That isn't to say others can't enjoy the place but I must insist: DO NOT GAMBLE ON THE STRIP YOU WILL LOSE Table poker against other players is OK, I guess, since it really is a game of skill but I was playing so badly by the end I couldn't even pull THAT off.
I'm sure there's more but this journal is getting WAY too long.
But that aside, Vegas sucks!
My boyfriend really likes vegas, he used to go there a lot in the 80s and early 90s and he'd have a lot of fun. He's a slot player, and of course is a players club member and he's been platinum level on their systems for like, ever. He would play the slots and get plenty of play out of them. He'd even win big from time to time!
The first time he took me to Vegas was Caesars Palace. I was down to my last $16 then I hit 12x12x double bar on the 12x pay dollar slot, and won $5700. I was amazing. About half of it went back in, of course, but I had fun and enough money to pay some bills and buy a few nice things.
The next year we went I won about $2k off of a flaming 7s slot, and went home with about 1k extra.
The year after was a wash.
The year after that I lost $400 out of the $500 I took with me, but at one point I was up to $1000 and had some fun
The year after that I lost $300. (not entirely to slots, I play table poker too and usually win but I ran into some tough players and shitty deals)
From then on every trip was a loss, and the slots got tighter and tighter ever since. Now you can't even get mixed bars to line up on the dollar 3 reel slots. You can go 40 pulls with nothing but cherry hits every 10 or so.
Now, I don't like gambling, even though I enjoy taking chance shots because they can pay off big. But not with my money! I know the math behind gambling, I know what house edge means, and I have a fairly intuitive knowledge of statistical spread. I cannot bring myself to gamble if the odds aren't in my favor or at LEAST dead even. But they are not at a Vegas casino. Especially not on the strip. But it's hard not to play the slots when your boyfriend is sitting there doing it as well. And he lost way more than I did.
This trip was the last straw. We stayed at the Aria hotel/casino which by all accounts is one of the nicest. My BF got an offer for free food free room and $350 in free slot play, which was all gone on the first day! I did not want to go but the offer looked too sweet. Walking around looking at the tables, reading the pay schedules on video poker, and watching other slot players, the house edge is higher than ever before. Not a good business model since they just permanently lost two fairly high rollers.
Now the REAL complaints begin: The service at the ARIA sucked. They were either slow stupid or rude or had bad English. The suite was OK but the blackout curtains in the room did NOT keep the light out from the constant flashing signs outside. The toilet paper was one ply. ONE PLY. The remote for the TV had a ridiculously hard button press, and the response time between pressing a button was between 1 and two seconds. SECONDS. I get that they have a lot of them on the system, but damn. Two fucking seconds to go down literally one item in the guide. And there was no page down function. I don't watch TV much but he likes to watch the news, so I had to deal with that shit every time I turned it on (dialing in the specific channel was just as hard as scrolling to it)
If there's one thing I can't STAND is unresponsive controls. I'm a high level gamer and I'm used to things happening when I click and not two seconds down the line, so I might be a bit biased there.
The music at the Aria was extra loud compared to some of the other casinos we visited, and even at the pool there were speakers every 5 feet so it was REALLY hard to relax in the sun. (The weather was the only nice thing... not too hot not too cold.)
And Vegas as a whole sucks (well the strip at least. For reasons I wont state we couldn't go very far from our hotel, or off the strip.) The constant assault on the senses is really wearing. I don't know how anyone could stand working there! And in my case due to my autism (which I've largely overcome, by the way. Thanks mom and dad!) it was even worse, especially after being worn down by the losses and poor sleep. And also, in my case due to my empathy I could feel the bad energy of people losing all around me. I also felt the good, happy energy of people genuinely having a good time but that was infrequent, and mostly booze fueled anyways. And me and my BF had some stupid arguments and misunderstanding over NOTHING and I did not take it very well. He took it much better but for me it really lingered.
We also had free, comped show tickets because of how much money my BF and I lost over the past years, which is nice. So we went to see Cirque du Soleil's KA, easily one of the most boring and confusing CDC shows I have seen. Zarkana was WAY better but of course they ruined it by cutting the show's MC (the Zark, who had this awesome red outfit) entirely, making the whole narrative meaningless. On previous trips we saw the Beatles one, the Elvis one and the Michael Jackson one. The Elvis one was good, the Beatles one was pretty good too. The Michael Jackson one was OK, but kinda creepy at the end. But those all had good music (that were created by the three Great Musicians featured, no the CDC people.) KA didn't even have that, so a big thumbs down to KA.
And on the way to the Airport the cabbie took us the long, $12 extra fare way.
At leas the food was really good. But everything is overpriced. And everything is so... FAKE. It is like, the opposite of the nature that I need and love, and I felt crushed the whole time.
And the booze... everywhere. So much alcohol. And its even free if you are playing the slots or at a table with chips on the felt. Well I don't drink. Ever. Nightclubs bore me, all the stores had overpriced crap I don't want. In short, there is NOTHING there for me.
That isn't to say others can't enjoy the place but I must insist: DO NOT GAMBLE ON THE STRIP YOU WILL LOSE Table poker against other players is OK, I guess, since it really is a game of skill but I was playing so badly by the end I couldn't even pull THAT off.
I'm sure there's more but this journal is getting WAY too long.
And as a person that is aware of their own gambling addiction and so refuses to do so anymore, I know what it does to you.
At the very least, you got to spend some time with your boyfriend.
But yes, the buzz and the possibility of winning more than you lose to get it tends to be the main issues of it.
Vegas is a weird place.
And yeah, it plays hell on empaths.
Sorry to hear about your experience.
I'm not the gambling type myself, so I didn't bother :)
Shows! Shows! Shows!!!