Leaving Las Vegas Boulevard
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canyonwalkerLas Vegas, NV - Fri, 11 Mar 2022, 5:15pm
This afternoon I left Las Vegas... Boulevard. I checked out of my hotel at 11am, my business trip nearly complete, but instead of heading to the airport to fly home I transitioned to the leisure part of my combination work-leisure trip. I stowed my bags with the bellhops and walked out onto the Las Vegas Strip for one last time this week.
I walked out to get lunch. Sure, there are multiple restaurants at the Aria hotel where I was staying, but they're expensive. I wanted to spend less of my company's money; plus, I was in the mood for simpler food. Everything at the Aria is very rich.
I came back to the hotel after lunch to work for a few hours from the business center. Sometime after 4 I called it enough of a day, collected my bags, and hired a taxi to the airport. This edition of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles didn't actually involve a plane, though. I rode to the airport rental car center to pick up a car for the next 24 hours.
With car keys in hand I drove to a Holiday Inn Express a few miles west of the Strip. I was pleasantly surprised to find I'd been upgraded to a suite!
Of course, a suite at the Holiday Inn Express is still the Holiday Inn Express, so it's plain middle-class accommodations instead of the swank of fancy hotels like the Aria.
Oh, and this suite has a view of the Strip, like my room at the Aria!
Well, okay, it's not like the view from my room at the Aria, but it is a view of the Las Vegas Strip. It's just not a good one. 🤣
Next: Take a Hike!
This afternoon I left Las Vegas... Boulevard. I checked out of my hotel at 11am, my business trip nearly complete, but instead of heading to the airport to fly home I transitioned to the leisure part of my combination work-leisure trip. I stowed my bags with the bellhops and walked out onto the Las Vegas Strip for one last time this week.
I walked out to get lunch. Sure, there are multiple restaurants at the Aria hotel where I was staying, but they're expensive. I wanted to spend less of my company's money; plus, I was in the mood for simpler food. Everything at the Aria is very rich.
I came back to the hotel after lunch to work for a few hours from the business center. Sometime after 4 I called it enough of a day, collected my bags, and hired a taxi to the airport. This edition of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles didn't actually involve a plane, though. I rode to the airport rental car center to pick up a car for the next 24 hours.
With car keys in hand I drove to a Holiday Inn Express a few miles west of the Strip. I was pleasantly surprised to find I'd been upgraded to a suite!
Of course, a suite at the Holiday Inn Express is still the Holiday Inn Express, so it's plain middle-class accommodations instead of the swank of fancy hotels like the Aria.
Oh, and this suite has a view of the Strip, like my room at the Aria!
Well, okay, it's not like the view from my room at the Aria, but it is a view of the Las Vegas Strip. It's just not a good one. 🤣
Next: Take a Hike!
