True to form, we were running late getting on the road yesterday. There was a house to clean, haircuts (and color for one of us...not me!) to be gotten, and an editing project to be finished (again, not me). We have a habit of driving to Vegas at night, which definitely has disadvantages, but more advantages such as no traffic.
We'd made a reservation at Palace Station, an off-strip hotel that recently underwent much-needed renovations. They had the best price of any of the hotel-casinos. Even better than The Orleans, which is where we usually stay for CES. Palace Station used to be really gross, but is better since the refurbishing. Well, we booked a room for about $90/night, a good rate for such a busy convention time.
Arriving at Vegas at 3:30am can be a good thing. It's happened to us before elsewhere and again, the "only rooms left" were suites. We actually got put into a $1500/night "grande suite" and we get to stay in the whole weekend. Once at The Orleans we ended up in a suite bigger than our house (I am not kidding) with a shower bigger than our one measley bathroom back in North Hollywood. We had to move after the first night though. Here's the view from the bedroom:
You'll note the nice widescreen tv! We have a huge bathroom and a powder room! Too bad we'll barely be in here. Anyway, I have gadgets to go drool over!Oh, and it's in the 60's today and sunny. Much better than last year when it snowed!
7 comments:
That is great about the room!!! Have a great trip.
CES! I am so jealous.
is that a peppermint mocha that i see?
I love it when things like that happen. We went to San Diego one year for a work related convention (GIS) and when we got to the car rental place, they said "We're out of the sub-sub-compact crappy car your company reserved, but we'll rent you a Mustang convertable for the same price. Is that all right with you?"
Of course, sometimes it goes the other way. I was in Tampa a few months ago and the only rental vehicle availabe was a bright purple PT Cruiser.
Good eye, Ren! Not a peppermint mocha as they are being phased out post-holidays. It's my newest coffee addiction...soy vanilla latte. Yum!
Chris...I dunno, a purple PT Cruiser sounds fun! I guess it is kind of girly though.
Look at the size of that tele! Wow! I haven't been to Vegas in about 10 years. I'm thinking another trip is in order sometime!
What is CES?
CES is the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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