All My Lifes A Circle...
It is so funny how you can completely change everything and then land right back in the same place. When I started writing this blog about a year ago I was working for DMP and hating every minute of it. My first post was made from Las Vegas. Now I am with Precor and love it and am making this post from, you guessed it, Las Vegas. We are doing a dealer summit here to introduce our new lines for the next big selling season.
Vegas has been anything but a treat so far. Gabi was sick all week, Alex was sick on Saturday evening so he wanted to sleep with us. He tossed and turned and kept me up most of the night. By the time I got up at 5:30AM I had the sore throat and runny nose. I got to Vegas and was dragging pretty bad. I was not allowed to check in until 4:00PM and it was only 11:00AM. So I went upstairs and assisted commercial unloading their gear. I finished up our stuff at 6:30 and was happy to get a King room on the 28th floor. Happy that was, until about 9:00PM...
I noticed that across the hall people were preparing for some sort of party. I figured, Vegas, a few hours, some drinking and some loud music, but by 12:00AM or 1:00AM things would be over...I couldn't have been more wrong...it seems the room was a specialty room called The Palms Playroom. Feel free to look it up on the net www.palms.com . It is a room with a pole, pimp decor and a full on stereo system. It is made for batchelor and batchelorette parties. By 10:00 the party was in full swing and the walls were thumpin'. THIS WENT ON UNTIL 7:30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING!!! At 5:00 I finally got up and using the chairs, extra pillows and cushions, I used towels and knives from room service to pin them to my door. I turned it down from a "10" volume-wise to about a "6" and was able to survive until the party died at 7:30AM. I got up at1o:30AM and looked out into the hall. Vomit, broken bottles, garbage, food and cigarette butts as far as the eye could see. Some asshole actually vomited in the ice machine drain. It was a night from hell.
Anyhow...later in the day I got to go into the room becuase the maid had unlocked it. Here are some pictures of the aftermath. Sorry, they are phone pix and can't demonstrate the smell in the room.
The room is now empty and tonight I will sleep. Just a trivia note for you...I am on the 28th floor and at the end of the hall is the "Real World Suite" where they filmed MTV's Real World in 2002.
I will talk to everyone tomorrow...
Vegas has been anything but a treat so far. Gabi was sick all week, Alex was sick on Saturday evening so he wanted to sleep with us. He tossed and turned and kept me up most of the night. By the time I got up at 5:30AM I had the sore throat and runny nose. I got to Vegas and was dragging pretty bad. I was not allowed to check in until 4:00PM and it was only 11:00AM. So I went upstairs and assisted commercial unloading their gear. I finished up our stuff at 6:30 and was happy to get a King room on the 28th floor. Happy that was, until about 9:00PM...
I noticed that across the hall people were preparing for some sort of party. I figured, Vegas, a few hours, some drinking and some loud music, but by 12:00AM or 1:00AM things would be over...I couldn't have been more wrong...it seems the room was a specialty room called The Palms Playroom. Feel free to look it up on the net www.palms.com . It is a room with a pole, pimp decor and a full on stereo system. It is made for batchelor and batchelorette parties. By 10:00 the party was in full swing and the walls were thumpin'. THIS WENT ON UNTIL 7:30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING!!! At 5:00 I finally got up and using the chairs, extra pillows and cushions, I used towels and knives from room service to pin them to my door. I turned it down from a "10" volume-wise to about a "6" and was able to survive until the party died at 7:30AM. I got up at1o:30AM and looked out into the hall. Vomit, broken bottles, garbage, food and cigarette butts as far as the eye could see. Some asshole actually vomited in the ice machine drain. It was a night from hell.
Anyhow...later in the day I got to go into the room becuase the maid had unlocked it. Here are some pictures of the aftermath. Sorry, they are phone pix and can't demonstrate the smell in the room.
The room is now empty and tonight I will sleep. Just a trivia note for you...I am on the 28th floor and at the end of the hall is the "Real World Suite" where they filmed MTV's Real World in 2002.
I will talk to everyone tomorrow...
posted by AndyP (Seattle, WA) at 11:20 AM
2 Comments:
The last time I was in LV for work I had the flu the whole time. I basically worked a booth at a trade show. I would go there, stand for 10 hours and then go back to my room and try not to die. My sinus headache was so bad I piled my stuff on the bathroom floor and started the shower so I could get some humidity! Then I filled the bath and let it slowly evaporate in the dry heat.
I know they are having a water shortage and all, but after a day spent in gross cigar smoke around ever corner I had to do something.
It looks like they had some kind of Red Bull party by the last photo! No wonder they were still going at 7AM!
You should complain to the hotel and get a free spa day or something. They are usually pretty good at that sort of thing there.
Michelle, I definitely went the complaint route...hopefully I can get a free weekend or something out of it and can take the fam down for a show or something.
There was definitely some Red Bull action going on, and to stay up all night, Red Bull was needed. What was interesting was the sheer amount of Grey Goose Vodka bottles left around. I saw at least 20, and that stuff is not cheap.
What I should do is get a free night or two and give it to Mark and Suzy when they come over...then they can be totally disgusted with America at that point.
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