Who would see Stevie in Vegas again?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Livia

And split aces and eights!

[desertangel]

Well, it had been a very long time since my daughter or I had been to Vegas, so we had to do the Vegas thing just a bit. We also stayed 2 nights at the Luxor and it WAS very expensive. We also budgeted $100 per person a day spending money and found it to be almost not enough. That covered food, drinks, souveniers, incidentals, rides, rental car and a bit of gambling. It was a shoestring budget and I managed to piss my daughter off several times by saying "no, we're not going to buy that." Hey... what are moms for?

Would I do it again? In a heartbeat, but give me a chance to pay off this trip first. I agree with some of the reasons already mentioned;

Intimate venue
Not a full blown tour, so she doesn't hold back as much vocally
I get to travel, which is rare for me.

Would I do anything differently? YES! I would stay at Best Western, use taxis, eat at Coco's and fly out the next day.

Someday I would like to go back for the purpose of going from one end of the strip to the other, up one side and down the other going in and out of every casino because they're FASCINATING from the outside. And Caesar's little shopping street was awesome. I'm afraid it would take weeks tho. Seems the intent when you get inside one of those casinos is to make you get lost amongst the high end stores and slot machines. I was tempted to stroll into Dolce and see if they had anything my size I could slip on and slink in front of the mirror in, but I doubt they have size 12 of ANYTHING.


Laura

PS: I have to add this... it would need to be a special show, like this one was, with lots of old songs. Otherwise, I might be too tempted to wait for the tour to come to my town. Oh... and I would try a LOT harder to get a better seat and I would travel alone. It's not fair to drag other people into this craziness of mine. ... okay, I'll stop.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by desertangel

Well, it had been a very long time since my daughter or I had been to Vegas, so we had to do the Vegas thing just a bit. We also stayed 2 nights at the Luxor and it WAS very expensive. We also budgeted $100 per person a day spending money and found it to be almost not enough. That covered food, drinks, souveniers, incidentals, rides, rental car and a bit of gambling. It was a shoestring budget and I managed to piss my daughter off several times by saying "no, we're not going to buy that." Hey... what are moms for?

Would I do it again? In a heartbeat, but give me a chance to pay off this trip first. I agree with some of the reasons already mentioned;

Intimate venue
Not a full blown tour, so she doesn't hold back as much vocally
I get to travel, which is rare for me.

Would I do anything differently? YES! I would stay at Best Western, use taxis, eat at Coco's and fly out the next day.

Someday I would like to go back for the purpose of going from one end of the strip to the other, up one side and down the other going in and out of every casino because they're FASCINATING from the outside. And Caesar's little shopping street was awesome. I'm afraid it would take weeks tho. Seems the intent when you get inside one of those casinos is to make you get lost amongst the high end stores and slot machines. I was tempted to stroll into Dolce and see if they had anything my size I could slip on and slink in front of the mirror in, but I doubt they have size 12 of ANYTHING.


Laura

I'm sorry I missed you when I was there but i'm glad to hear that you guys had a great time. Did you end up going to Margaritaville on Tuesday night??

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I'm sorry I missed you when I was there but i'm glad to hear that you guys had a great time. Did you end up going to Margaritaville on Tuesday night??

Were you at the Luxor on 5/10-5/12? We did stop by Margaritaville for just a few minutes. My daughter is the type who likes to run the show, so it got kinda hard trying to please both of us during our stay. I wanted to do the fan thing and she wanted to do everything else. Oh well... next time I won't be such a super chicken and will travel alone!

Sorry to have missed you too and everyone else. I met Amber and a guy and his wife from Pullman WA, which is in my neck of the woods, but that's about it. That's why there needs to be a "next time" - so I can try this again.


Laura

[amber]

Originally Posted by desertangel

Were you at the Luxor on 5/10-5/12? We did stop by Margaritaville for just a few minutes. My daughter is the type who likes to run the show, so it got kinda hard trying to please both of us during our stay. I wanted to do the fan thing and she wanted to do everything else. Oh well... next time I won't be such a super chicken and will travel alone!

Sorry to have missed you too and everyone else. I met Amber and a guy and his wife from Pullman WA, which is in my neck of the woods, but that's about it. That's why there needs to be a "next time" - so I can try this again.


Laura

yeah, she was really nice - your daughter didn't look exceptionally thrilled though! I thought you were still there, then, Marissa, but maybe not.
Anyway, it was nice talking to you, Laura.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by desertangel

Were you at the Luxor on 5/10-5/12? We did stop by Margaritaville for just a few minutes. My daughter is the type who likes to run the show, so it got kinda hard trying to please both of us during our stay. I wanted to do the fan thing and she wanted to do everything else. Oh well... next time I won't be such a super chicken and will travel alone!

Sorry to have missed you too and everyone else. I met Amber and a guy and his wife from Pullman WA, which is in my neck of the woods, but that's about it. That's why there needs to be a "next time" - so I can try this again.


Laura

Were you and your daughter at Sat.'s show and if so, where you on like the third or fourth row all of the way to the right? If so, we sat in front of you

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by desertangel

Were you at the Luxor on 5/10-5/12? We did stop by Margaritaville for just a few minutes. My daughter is the type who likes to run the show, so it got kinda hard trying to please both of us during our stay. I wanted to do the fan thing and she wanted to do everything else. Oh well... next time I won't be such a super chicken and will travel alone!

Sorry to have missed you too and everyone else. I met Amber and a guy and his wife from Pullman WA, which is in my neck of the woods, but that's about it. That's why there needs to be a "next time" - so I can try this again.


Laura

I missed getting the chance to see Luxor (and my IMAX show ) but had a great view while waiting in line on the runway for takeoff back home. It looked really awesome. How were the rooms??

Amber, I may have still been there at that point but hell if I knew what was going on around me It was that post-concert haze/ a ton of people / freezing cold, etc.

[diamondsnake]

Originally Posted by desertangel

Well, it had been a very long time since my daughter or I had been to Vegas, so we had to do the Vegas thing just a bit. We also stayed 2 nights at the Luxor and it WAS very expensive. We also budgeted $100 per person a day spending money and found it to be almost not enough. That covered food, drinks, souveniers, incidentals, rides, rental car and a bit of gambling. It was a shoestring budget and I managed to piss my daughter off several times by saying "no, we're not going to buy that." Hey... what are moms for?

Would I do it again? In a heartbeat, but give me a chance to pay off this trip first. I agree with some of the reasons already mentioned;

Intimate venue
Not a full blown tour, so she doesn't hold back as much vocally
I get to travel, which is rare for me.

Would I do anything differently? YES! I would stay at Best Western, use taxis, eat at Coco's and fly out the next day.

Someday I would like to go back for the purpose of going from one end of the strip to the other, up one side and down the other going in and out of every casino because they're FASCINATING from the outside. And Caesar's little shopping street was awesome. I'm afraid it would take weeks tho. Seems the intent when you get inside one of those casinos is to make you get lost amongst the high end stores and slot machines. I was tempted to stroll into Dolce and see if they had anything my size I could slip on and slink in front of the mirror in, but I doubt they have size 12 of ANYTHING.


Laura

PS: I have to add this... it would need to be a special show, like this one was, with lots of old songs. Otherwise, I might be too tempted to wait for the tour to come to my town. Oh... and I would try a LOT harder to get a better seat and I would travel alone. It's not fair to drag other people into this craziness of mine. ... okay, I'll stop.

Did you get lost in Caesar's too? I was thinking that if there was a fire in the building, I would die! I could never find my way out of those casinos. Caesar's especially.

And don't go into Dolce! A size 12 there is more like a size 6. I wear a Large in t-shirts and even an XX Large wouldn't fit me in that store. I was mortified!

[Livia]

I LOVE VEGAS anyway, so yes, I'll go see Stevie there again. Hell, I'd go see anyone there. My Reckless Kelly boys are opening for Dwight Yoakum on 4th of July weekend. Hmmmm.....

The Wynn hotel is GORGEOUS! Bruce and I ate at the buffet for lunch on Saturday. We both agreed it was the best buffet ever! Crab legs already cracked open for you, that was worth the price of admission alone. And lunch was around $20, which was worth every penny! Everything was delicious. I waddled out of there in a food coma.

One of my favorite places is the Peppermill Lounge and restaurant. You can google it for pics. It's right next to the Riviera. All the locals know about it, it's like a glorified Denny's (it's also open 24/7). It's SO old school Vegas, big booths (Penn, of Penn & Teller had one built in his kitchen at home), tons of neon, great Bloody Marys, floating fireplace and sassy music videos in the cocktail lounge with waitresses who do the "dip" when they serve drinks, like Playboy Bunny waitresses used to do. Great food, especially breakfasts, huge portions. On another Vegas trip, my friends and I ate there twice in a 24-hour period, we loved it that much. And it's always a "must do" every time I'm in Vegas.

I've still never done Fremont St., the Liberace museum, the Elvis-Rama, etc. So I keep coming up w/ reasons to go back. I'm not much of a gambler, but I came home this time $10 up. The nickel slots at Paris were good to me! I always say if you break even, you win!

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by amber

- your daughter didn't look exceptionally thrilled though!
Anyway, it was nice talking to you, Laura.

Yea, she had gotten into it with her boyfriend the night before we left so she was in a mood the whole time... spent most of the three days on her cell phone. It's cool, I just ignored her most of the time. I am soooo glad I got to spend even 5 minutes at Margaritaville or I woulda been gloriously pissed off. That's why she looked that way. LOL!!

Laura

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by diamondsnake

Did you get lost in Caesar's too? I was thinking that if there was a fire in the building, I would die! I could never find my way out of those casinos. Caesar's especially.

And don't go into Dolce! A size 12 there is more like a size 6. I wear a Large in t-shirts and even an XX Large wouldn't fit me in that store. I was mortified!

We followed the herd right thru the shopping mall!!! But I am sooo glad we did. It was such a whirlwind stay for us even with adding an extra day so wandering thru the little "outdoor" shopping mall kinda made up for having missed Fremont Street. Those casino builders build them that way on purpose. Notice how there's ever only ONE ceiling sign that says Lobby and that's the one that hangs two feet away from it? The rest of the many signs point to restaurants, shops and the casino floor. Why is it everyone who hasn't been there a lot comes away saying they got lost, no matter which casino they're in. It's a trap! hehe...

Gawd, I'm glad I didn't go into Dolce or I woulda jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm havin a hard enough time dieting without that kind of discouragement.

So I'm not TOTALLY unhappy about having to walk around lost most of the time cuz I was able to work off the little deserts I ate at the buffets in Luxor and Mandalay... those little torte thingies were YUMMY!!!!

Laura

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I missed getting the chance to see Luxor (and my IMAX show ) but had a great view while waiting in line on the runway for takeoff back home. It looked really awesome. How were the rooms??

We saw the same view coming in. It really did look awesome from the runway. I tried to get a picture but it didn't come out the same. I have lots of pictures and AVIs of the inside of that hotel. All those sphyixs and pharoahs and Tuts and oblisques (not sure I'm spelling all that right but who cares.) The shops in that place are KILLER. If you're into all that Egytian-New Agey- Aromatherapy-Mood-Lighting stuff, like I am... wow! Most of it cost quite a bit o' $$, but one of a kind, really unique stuff. I'll bet Mick and/or Stevie went home with a few pieces from that place. I'm not even gonna try and explain what the inside of that hotel looks like, but it is something to behold. They have "inclinators" instead of elevators and I would not want to ride one drunk. I'm into architecture anyway, so I was blown away the first night we were there. We were up until 3am scoping the place out. After that it got to be kinda bothersome because it was dark and dank and the overhead music which was LOUD was a little too "youthful" for me. No Doubt, Cher, top 40 stuff. The rooms were nothing fancy short of the one section of wall that was concave because of being in the pyramid. The decor was "Walk Like An Egyptian" type stuff... heiroglyphics painted on the amoire, etc. Nice view of the Excalibur from our window. The bathroom was stone tile and granite to give it a nice "ancient" feel. Room service sucked. The waitresses at the Cafe were nice and, overall, the buffet was not as good as Mandalay, next door - but the Luxor buffet desert section kicked major a*s. We were hoping the nightclub there would have been open, but it was closed until Thursday night... the night we left. We didn't do any of the IMAX ridefilms because we didn't think it sounded like a good use of $$$. I hated that we had to be so tight with the dough. Yea, you can't miss seeing the inside of that hotel cuz I doubt there's anything that compares. You have to be a guest on one of the upper floors to take an inclinator to an upper floor for a birds eye view. They post a security guard who checks room keys of everyone getting on an inclinator. We went to the top suites floor and saw the inside of the heart shaped hot tub room with a picture window overlooking the strip. (the maid was cleaning the room.) I wanted to see the suite with the double doors and was just about to ask someone to open it up for me if it was empty. My daughter was begging me not to so I passed. I bet it was awesome.

Sigh... so many casinos, so little time (and $$$)!

Laura

[desertangel]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Were you and your daughter at Sat.'s show and if so, where you on like the third or fourth row all of the way to the right? If so, we sat in front of you

I sooo WISH!!! We were there opening night and we were sitting in the LAST row of the 2nd MEZZ. UGH! Sounds like I might have wanted to be at Wednesday night's show. We were still in town and I had my credit card. Sigh... If only.

Laura

[LeighB04]

Kinda loved the Luxor - I had a Pyramid Deluxe room booked on Friday and wanted a spa suite for Saturday - simple enough, you would think. The kid at check in was completely confused, and sent me to a suite - which already had somebody's luggage in it! Thankfully, I didn't walk in on them in the jacuzzi! I called the front desk from the room, and after a few minutes, gave up getting an answer, so hauled my stuff back to reception. I caught a Supervisor who tried to sort things out, but gave me a room in the tower, instead of the pyramid. Sorry, Luxor - a small discount for the screw-up doesn't cut it: for the rates they charge, I wanted what I had paid for.
Saturday was better and I got my suite, which was a nice treat.
If I do go back to Vegas, it will be at a cheaper hotel, one night only, and no more walking for hours and hours trying to find a cute cabana boy to keep me company!
(Oh, the creativity and attention to detail at many of the hotels, including Luxor, was just amazing, so if anybody saw me crawling around and under things to get pictures, I was NOT inebriated!!! Promise!!!)

[Christopher]

I would go back again...I had a blast seeing Stevie on Wednesday! She was on fire, made up for her stoic performances I saw with FM in 03" and 04"....I was seriously thinking she had lost her mojo, now I know she's just too conservative in FM trying to please Mr.B. She really seems more in her element solo and she rocked more too!!
And besides BATB alone was worth the price of admission for this long time fan....I've been going to Stevie and FM shows since I was old enough for over 20yrs and this performance was one of the best eva