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Postcard from Vegas (belated), Part 1. Room with a view.
Tikay10
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I felt rather guilty that i was unable to post anything from Vegas due to the Geo-Block, though it was completely out of my control. Just to add to my guilt, i was able to post daily on another site which is unconnected to Sky Poker. As you may recall, @Doooobs was kind enough to cross-post some of it, for which I was most grateful.
So I thought I'd try & make up for it with a few posts about this year's Vegas trip.
I'll try & do a few of them, &, all being well, they'll appear every few days.
Most of you will find most of it boring, but if you look hard enough, you may find something that tickles your fancy, especially once we get on to poker. Possibly...
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Room with a view? Well yes.
As always, Sky put the players (& me) into a beautiful room with a Strip View, which costs extra. However, I downgraded to have the "rear-view" which meant I could see the planes landing & taking off at Vegas Airport, plus the bonus of something called the MSG Sphere. The Sphere has lots of different digital light displays, & I'd venture to suggest it is quite unlike anything else on earth. It has dozens of different displays which rotate in roughly 3 minute intervals.
Imagine looking out of your window & seeing this. Oh, & for scale, look at those cars driving along Sands Avenue which, incidentally, will be part of the F1 GP circuit in November. Or, also for scale, that white building in front of the Sphere is the 6 storey Wynn Staff Car Park. (Think about rhat, the Wynn has a 6 storey car park just for it's staff).
(Click "Image" below please)
This might be fun come Halloween too. Almost certainly the world's biggest puimpkin?
Again, click "Image" please.
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And here's a still of what it looks like during daylight hours...
And if we pan a little left, that's the Wynn you can see, which has a matching twin, the cleverly named "Encore", both of which might just be the sexiest looking hotels in Vegas. In the background, that oasis of green, is the Wynn Golf Course, which currently charges $550 per round per player, plus buggy. Almost nobody plays it, ever, not due to the cost as much as the sheer heat. A few brave souls do venture out at first light, maybe 6pm, but once it gets to 9am, it's way too hot.
Too hot? This was the temp on a typical day in the late afternoon, after it's cooled down a tad. 111f all day every day is plenty hot enough, believe me.
The room itself? Not too bad I suppose. Not sure I've ever stayed in a better Hotel room lifetime. Incidentally, I'm not trying to chirp, or make anyone jealous, but hopefully it might entice you to try & qualify next year, assuming they do Vegas again of course.
I took this 'photo during last year's trip, whilst the Sphere was undergoing construction, as I do like a bit of crane p orn.
That crane right there is the world's 4th largest mobile crane. Wiki tells us.....
In February 2020, the world's fourth-largest crane, a Demag CC-8800 crawler crane, was set up on the site's northeast side for the purpose of lifting heavy construction materials. The crane is capable of standing up to 580 feet (180 m). In a disassembled state, the crane was transported across the Atlantic Ocean from Zeebrugge, Belgium to Port Hueneme, California. The crane then required 120 tractor-trailers to transport it to Las Vegas. A separate crane was required to assemble the main crane, a process which took 18 days
Again, for scale, the white building in front of it is 6 storeys high. That's one seriously big crane.
What actually IS the Sphere though?
Basically, an entertainment venue. Think of the O2 but 10 times bigger.
It officially opens next month when U2 have a 29 night residency booked. And to be fair, the Sphere needs to be monsta big if it is going to be large enough to contain Bono's ego.
Well that's a starter.
If it gets enough views, I'll do 3 or 4 more, at, say, 48 hour intervals, featuring different aspects of Vegas & in particular, this year's trip, & maybe even some tales of derring do at the poker tables.
I'll spare you any further crane p orn though, there is a limit to what I ask you to endure.
Top man, thanks
Yes, you'd need a big front window in your house to display that thing. It's pretty scary actually.
Hope you had a great time mate
Thanks for taking time out to do these reports @Tikay10 .
Can honestly say Vegas may be the best place in the World to spend 3 days. And the worst to spend 3 weeks.
Love the pictures. Brings back great memories. More please
Thanks guys.
Plenty more where those came from, so episode 2 will be along in a day or two.
Last saw the sphere as a black frame, so will be keen to see it lit up. Looks amazing.
That's the thing with Vegas structures. You don't appreciate the size of the them as everything else around is so big.
Until you walk up to them.
Agree with @Essexphil to a certain extent. I'll go 5-7 days.
Looking forward to postcard no.2
More please.
......eeeeeugh. I thought it was quite scary-Ugly tbh
Bet the Light Show version will be great tho'