Las Vegas Trip Report 6.30-7.5.2022 - The one with COVID as a parting gift

This trip report is super delayed, but I wanted to post it late rather than never at all. This was supposed to be an early birthday trip for John's birthday.  

The G gates at MSP had just reopened to travelers. Everything was very shiny and new! 

We stayed at Park MGM for the first few nights of this trip. I think we used Hyatt credit card free nights for a couple nights. 

I think we walked over to Cosmo and played video poker at Chandelier bar for awhile that night. 

We had made breakfast reservations at Mon Ami Gabi ahead of time. Quite good as always. 

We were at South Point and decided to grab lunch there at Baja Miguel's. It was affordable and not bad at all. I think we both had a lunch special that included a drink. 

Bellagio gardens

Dinner was at Yellowtail at the Bellagio

mile high roll

tuna tataki

we liked the mile high roll so much we ordered a second one

view from our hotel room at Park MGM

Saturday morning we went downtown for breakfast at Magnolia's. I think we played video poker at Vue bar a bit also. 

We went downtown and had a late lunch at at 8East at Circa

I think we wandered around downtown a bit using some free play coupons here and there also. We also stopped at Main Street Station and finished the night at Golden Gate playing blackjack. 

Sunday morning we went to Salt and Ivy at Aria for breakfast 

ham omelet

After breakfast we packed up and moved over to Cosmo. Our room was not quite ready yet, so we grabbed lunch. 

I had lunch at Tekka bar at Cosmo- I also had the threesome hand rolls. Forgot to get a pic. We played video poker a bit before our room was ready. 

nice room at Cosmo as always, we had a view of Aria, looking south 

We went to Palms and signed up for the player's club and played video poker there awhile before having an early dinner at Mabel's BBQ. 

We headed over to the Wynn for the Lionel Richie concert at 8pm. His show was great! He had a lot of fun songs in the setlist. 

Cosmo pool for awhile after breakfast. I think we maybe had breakfast at the Wicked Spoon buffet but I'm not totally sure. No pics to help us remember. 

After the pool we went over to Ellis Island to play blackjack for awhile 

lunch at In and Out at the Linq before riding the High Roller 

I had a comp for free ride on the High Roller from my Caesars Diamond status match 

We walked back to Cosmo and played video poker at the sports book bar for awhile.

View from the balcony- the room faced the wrong direction to be able to see the majority of the fireworks n the strip, but we could see smaller displays all around the valley. 

breakfast at Eggslut before heading to the airport 

My parting gift from Las Vegas on this trip was a case of COVID. Although I could have picked it up at a number of places before the trip, so who really knows.  John got it about a week later. Yuck.

DDB Quad Report

                                                Melissa      John

Aces w/Kicker                             0                0

Aces                                           0                0

Premium quad w/kicker              0                0

Premium quad                            1                2

Regular quads                             10              3

Gambling was a little tough, I didn't have any great VP hits, but enough regular quads to keep going. I had a couple slot wins (Wheel of Fortune) and a nice $200 hit on a Whales of Cash machine I played as we walked through Flamingo! I know I played some blackjack but I don't think it was anything worth remembering. 

Vegas trip count: 

Melissa: 42

John: 37