{"id":581,"date":"2015-08-07T04:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T23:00:21","slug":"wednesday-generalised-ambling-how-far-can-you-get-and-roller-coasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday – Generalised Ambling, How Far Can You Get, And Roller Coasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t sleep in exactly, but also didn’t feel much like racing out to do stuff, so I had a leisurely morning.
\nNot sure whether there’s a Con Crud or G. Coli issue here; No big symptoms yet, but I’m keeping an eye on things.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>
View From My Window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Actual<\/a>
Actual Landforms, As Seen From A Strangely-Angled Hotel Window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Landscape<\/a>
Landscape and an Airport, as seen from my hotel window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For today, I mostly wandered & rubbernecked, seeing how far I could get without leaving the hotel system.
\nOne 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\u00a0from\u00a0Excaliber\u00a0is New York New York, and across from that<\/em> is the MGM Grand, and the fourth corner of the intersection holds the Tropicana.<\/p>\n

\"Lobby<\/a>
Lobby of the Excalibur Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Red<\/a>
Red Square, at the Mandalay Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Not<\/a>
Not sure why, but the headless Lenin statue amuses me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The “foodcourt” area at New York New York. It’s less blurry in reality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, what have I noticed so far?
\nThe 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 d\u00e9cor, and the MGM & Mandalay are going for general-purpose “Ooooh, swanky”, though the Mandalay felt a bit more like an airport.
\nThe casino floors are all the same.
\nDim lighting, laid out without much in the way of a system for navigation, the same machines in all of them.
\nThe Tropicana was a little different, in that it had better lighting, and thus better navigation paths.<\/p>\n

Amusingly, I am even less<\/strong> likely to want to play a\u00a0game in the casino now that I’ve visited some.
\nThe fact that the\u00a0gaming floor is a smoking zone does not exactly help to\u00a0make it my sort of thing either.<\/p>\n

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.
\nIt’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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-9n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}