I didn’t sleep in exactly, but also didn’t feel much like racing out to do stuff, so I had a leisurely morning.
Not sure whether there’s a Con Crud or G. Coli issue here; No big symptoms yet, but I’m keeping an eye on things.
For today, I mostly wandered & rubbernecked, seeing how far I could get without leaving the hotel system.
One way connects through to the Mandalay Bay, the other to the Excaliber, and there’s a wee tram which also connects them, via the Luxor. Across the road from Excaliber is New York New York, and across from that is the MGM Grand, and the fourth corner of the intersection holds the Tropicana.
So, what have I noticed so far?
The decorated & themed bits of the hotels are all quite different; Luxor has the faux-Egyptian antiquity thing, Excalibur has castles and the like, New York New York has the obvious décor, and the MGM & Mandalay are going for general-purpose “Ooooh, swanky”, though the Mandalay felt a bit more like an airport.
The casino floors are all the same.
Dim lighting, laid out without much in the way of a system for navigation, the same machines in all of them.
The Tropicana was a little different, in that it had better lighting, and thus better navigation paths.
Amusingly, I am even less likely to want to play a game in the casino now that I’ve visited some.
The fact that the gaming floor is a smoking zone does not exactly help to make it my sort of thing either.
Because it’s Vegas, and because it was there, I rode the roller coaster at New York New York, and it was a lot of fun.
It’s an older style, with cars made up to look like New York Yellow Taxis, and what it lacks in high tech, it makes up for in throwing you through a lot of stuff in a small footprint; Kind of glad of the headrest stopping side-to-side neck strain, to be honest.
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4 responses to “Wednesday – Generalised Ambling, How Far Can You Get, And Roller Coasters”
This sounds cool, and Vegas sounds scary in terms of a bunch of HUGE BUILDINGS being in close proximity to each other.
Some of the photos you’ve been taking feel like Mines of Moria interior spaces, and that apparently freaks me out.
We’ve finished Season 1 “A Certain Magical Index,” and have started season 1 of “A Certain Scientific Railgun.” The Index series has been fun (though with a terrible filler arc), but I’m not sure we’d go back to it the same way we do with other shows. “Railgun” is off to a good start, although it could be improved by less comedy lesbian-sexual-harassment. Upsides: it’s taking good characters from “Index” and adding new ones.
The interior of the Luxor is pretty odd; It’s a pyramid with walls one room thick, so the internal space is gigantic and, as you say, Moria-esque.
Add to that this little gem – The elevators go on diagonals; You can feel it if you lean against the back wall while riding them.
The elevators go on diagonals; You can feel it if you lean against the back wall while riding them.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
NOPE.
So that’s, what? A solid maybe?
Did I mention that the ‘hallways’ to get to your room are open to the interior, with an elbow-high railing?
And that, thanks to the angle, when you look over there is nothing down there, because each one sticks out over the floor below?