I’m so excited!! I will be heading to Sin City with Baby Daddy and a group of my friends at the end of March. I’ve wanted to go back to Vegas ever since my first trip, right after turning 21. I fell in love immediately—I really don’t know anything better than a single destination that allows extreme partying, dancing, gambling and sunbathing for days on end. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the luxury of having work meetings there two or more times a year like a few of my lucky friends. Since I haven’t made it back in the last five years, I figure I’ve been more than overdue.
In the last week that I’ve been researching hotel and flight packages, I’ve realized that I’m slightly neurotic and very indecisive. I mean, I stayed up till 12:45 last night, researching package options, and still didn’t buy anything! I was, quite literally, losing sleep over booking a vacation. Doesn’t that seem like an oxymoron?
You name it—I couldn’t decide on it. Did I want to pay a little more for a little nicer hotel? Did I care that the pool sucked at that hotel? Did I want a Deluxe or Standard room at this hotel? Did I want to upgrade to a better flight, or take the cheaper flight and add on two VIP tickets to a nightclub? Should I book something super cheap and sorta lame, and save my money for entertainment, or should do we want to stay in the middle of everything? Aaaah!
Luckily, I have amazing friends who love me, even if all I harp on and on about for four days is HOW. STRESSED. OUT. I. AM. about booking a package to Vegas. God, really, Jeanna? Life could be so much more difficult. My wonderful friends have coaxed me through making decisions on our trip without the other half of my “our” here to give me the okay on vacation plans, such as purchasing $90 show tickets on his credit card. What’s a girl to do? I finally just closed my eyes and clicked “Proceed with Package” today on Expedia. I knew that if I really spent anymore time changing dates, checking different Web sites, and researching pools and rooms at each hotel, I was going to go quite crazy.
So, I opted for The Sahara—the most luxurious and spacious hotel in Vegas! Right. But, it is one of the most inexpensive hotels on the Strip. Even if it is a little old and more north than I would have liked, but the recently installed Monorail down the Strip solves that problem. Plus, the pool is pretty decent, and it’s one of the only hotels in Vegas with $3 Black Jack! Hello lover! Since it only cost us $300 each for flight and hotel (!!), I’m saving my money for VIP tickets to Tao nightclub and tickets to a fancy show—Le Reve at Wynn Hotel.
The last time I went to Vegas, I drove there with my boyfriend on $300 for the entire week. So, you could imagine there weren’t too many fancy dinners, shows or nights-out for us. I think opting for a crappier hotel, and splurging on the nightlife is a far-better option this time. Someday I might be able to actually see the inside of a hotel room at the Bellagio, MGM Grande, Venetian, etc. But right now, I’ll just live the pseudo four-star lifestyle…
Any restaurant, nightlife, or must-do suggestions, friends? (I still haven’t necessarily made up my mind between Le Reve and Stomp Out Loud.)
Currently Feeling: SUPER excited for that King-sized bed. Whoops. TMI?
Currently Anticipating: Getting this contract crap figured out at work—and hopefully a raise?!
Currently Loving: Shrimp cocktail and BLTs.
Totally reccomend Stomp out Loud. You wont be disapointed
The Beatles show is supposed to rock. Let me know if you need the DL on the sweetest strip clubs. When I went I almost returned with a Ukranian wife. It was awesome.
Looks like we might be staying at the Sahara, too.
I have about ten thousand Vegas suggestions since I’ve been there like 15 times (I’m planning my June trip for the World Series of Poker right now). I stayed in the Sahara about 7 years ago, it’s not bad and you can’t beat the price, but it’s a little ways from the area I like in the middle of the trip (I fork out for the Mirage or Flamingo Go Rooms these days, both places have great pool areas). If you want to do a Cirque show, I recommend Mystère, it’s really awesome. A fun place to get drinks that’s a full ’70s Vegas flashback is the Peppermill Fireside Lounge. I had a great time drinkin’ and clubin’ at the Voodoo Lounge on the top of the Rio last time. You can get free passes on their website to get in before like 10pm… it’s kinda dead then, but free, and fills up with a DJ and crowd within an hour. And it’s half outside on the 55th floor, an insane view of Vegas at night. I don’t do the dance clubs there, my friends all gamble. I would suggest spending at least part of a night downtown on the old strip/Freemont St. to watch the light show, artists and performers (5 motorcycles in the ball of death rules), and the check out stuff like the largest gold nugget and Golden Nugget’s shark tank. And don’t take a shuttle from the airport, take a taxi.
Wow. I’m definitely hitting you up for suggestions, Dan!