Last day Get up and start packing Call for bell service Take cab to airport Wait in “web check in” line about 25 minutes while the 1 lady serving that line spends 10 minutes with one person, and 10+ minutes with someone from the First Class line (which has 2 other windows serving it) Give up and take our bags outside to curb checkin, done in 3 min. Fly home, landing 20 min early Cab home ...
Back to TI to look at photos Avoid buying full rez photos on CD ($1200) but did get a couple extra 8x10 Breakfast at Hilton Cafe Back to hotel just to chill Cash -15 Cab back from TI to our hotel Credit -60 Midnight snacks, drinks, cold medicine -30 Deli, snacks
Bus+walk to Atomic Bomb Museum Walk back (no bus, ouch) Monorail (1 stop worth) Hilton restaurants all closed 2-5 Had mini pizza at Pizza Hut stand Return to hotel Dinner at Hilton, 888 Noodle bar (thx Darren) Cash - 1 Bus -12 Museum - 5 Monorail 1 ride - 9 Pizza hut -20 Slots Credit -40 Deli breakfast stuff and snacks -10 Deli snacks, water
Drop off Miche and Corrii at Treasure Island Try to find shirt or bandana for Darren’s costume and mine Breakfast at Starbucks Stores not open yet. Gamble. Win 700 at roulette table betting on red, red, black Drive to Supercuts and get haircut Return to Treasure Island, locate Bridal Dressing Room Change into costume, chat with officiant and wedding staff Ceremony! On a freakin Pirate Ship! Lots of pictures after Back to hotel for quick lunch Cab to Postrio Excellent dinner Cab back to hotel ...
Cash +20 Corrii, buffet -10 Deli, sun screen Credit -60 Buffet breakfast -24 Two day passes for monorail -180 Cafe Bellagio (need to collect from Corrii, Ed, Julie)
Day 1 Packed, got cats situated Parked car outside so L could park inside Took cab to airport Cab driver took 20 extra minutes to find our house (S.V.Place NOT S.V.Way ok?) Boarded plane 20 min late, then waited an extra 70 min to take off C and L were on the same flight, took cab to hotel together Cash -25 Cab ride to airport -15 Lunch at airport -30 Cab from airport to hgvc +20 Clay-for cab -20 Dinner, hilton cafe ...
Are any of you interested in the following deals? \* Orlando: 3 nights for $69 \* Las Vegas: 2 nights for $89 \* Waikiki: 4 nights for $699 Fair warning: The catch is that you have to attend a timeshare sales presentation (2 hours). The timeshare is a nice one, M and I have been happy with ours, it’s very flexible and tradeable and the rooms are very high-quality. Email me if you’re interested…
We are currently in Vegas. I think I really like our timeshare. The room is beautiful, and has a full on kitchen, washer/dryer, shower and whirlpool tub, and TV in the front room and another in the bedroom. Also, the internet access is not only high-speed, it’s also free/unlimited. Not that I expect to be camped out in the room all week or anything. Gambling, buffet, and comedy show tonight.
We changed our vacation plans a little, and we will now be going to Vegas in the dead of winter, instead of going to Florida. So we will be in Vegas between Dec 13 and Dec 19. JB and 9M will be there for some of that time. I wonder if there’s any chance anyone else I know will also be in vegas at that time. hmm.
For those who didn’t quite read all the details of our trip, we are now proud owners of a timeshare known affectionately as Hilton Grand Vacations Club on the Las Vegas Strip. Here are some facts. Our fraction of the property is based on a 1-bedroom suite occupied for 7 days. It’s not a specific assigned week, it is based on a reservation system, first-come first-served. We have the option to take a smaller suite for a longer time, or a larger one for a shorter time. If we go at an off-peak time we can have 14 days instead of 7. The cost of this timeshare property is a little less than a new car. We will probably pay it off in 3-4 years. After it is paid off we can use it forever, we just have to pay a yearly maintenance fee of $480 (kind of like a condo association fee). The 7-days (or 14 off peak) can be used at the home resort, or any resort in the Hilton Grand Vacations system, such as Florida (beaches, islands, disneyworld), Hawai’i or Scotland, or a couple other places. We can trade with other timeshare owners using a network called RCI. Because Hilton properties are quite desirable, we can trade our 7 days for 10 days most anywhere else on the network. If we decide to take shorter vacations, we can reserve in smaller blocks (2 or 3-day minimum I think). We can also decide to fold our points into Hilton Honors program and get “normal” hotels instead (or air fare or rental cars or a combination of things.) They gave us 9.9% financing which is not bad, but I still want to refinance with our credit union. Our property is 10 acres, and is located on the strip across from Wet ’n Wild, between Circus Cirus and Stratosphere. 0.00406% of 10 acres is 176 square feet. Therefore, property in Nevada is about US$100 per square foot, if purchased with a resort already attached. This makes the sale price of the entire resort by the developers about $450M. So, the only thing left to decide is, where are we going on vacation next year, and who should we take with us?