Florida Keys | What You Can Learn From My Trip: Part 3
The Blue Parrot Inn & D.J.’s Clam Shack From the Green Parrot Bar we went back to the Blue Parrot Inn to regroup and watch the pouring rain from the porch. (Although the rain was unlucky overall, we did seem to get indoors by the time it was really coming down.) When the rain let […]
Las Vegas | The Venetian And The Palazzo Grazie Players Club
You’ll earn points for Grazie when you play video poker and slot machines as well as spending throughout the Venetian and Palazzo Las Vegas resorts and the mall that connects the hotels.
Hotel Review: Embassy Suites at the LVCC (aka A Gamer In A Non-Gaming World) – Part II
If you caught part one of our review of the Embassy Suites at the LVCC you saw a little bit of everything. Interesting decor, a spacious room, a just removed location, and a hotel with not a single gaming fixture throughout. But as I know you’re avid readers of our reviews, I’ll spare you the […]
Florida Keys | What You Can Learn From My Trip: Part 2
Driving To Sugarloaf Key The Overseas Highway is 113 of the 174 mile drive from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Sugarloaf Key (17 miles from Key West) and it is a lovely and interesting drive (even in the rain, though it was only overcast with the occasional drizzle). You take the Florida Turnpike through mainland […]
Las Vegas | Sunday News | MGM Reorganizes and The Venetian Might Expand
I started writing this week’s edition of “Sunday News” with the thought that the news didn’t tie together. When it was finished I realized that most of this week’s news in Vegas actually does work together. In fact, there’s more MGM Resorts news than you might expect for a slower news week. Last week we […]
Las Vegas | Alon May Not Have Money But They Have Plans
Once financing is secure Alon Las Vegas will be built on the land once occupied by the New Frontier across the street from Wynn Las Vegas and next to the Fashion Show Mall. Alon is being developed by James Packer and Andrew Pascal who most recently helped open SLS Las Vegas. Pascal knows the luxury […]
Florida Keys | What You Can Learn From My Trip: Part 1
Our Flight I used Southwest Airlines frequent flyer points in 2015 because I worked a Southwest credit card in 2014. In June, while checking sale fares to Las Vegas (because I’m constantly checking air fare to Vegas) I noticed a really good fare from Philadelphia to Fort Lauderdale. We had driven the Overseas Highway from […]
Review | The Luxurious & Brand New La Première Cabin, Air France
La Première New Cabin JFK – CDG March 2016 Author & Pictures: J Todd Wheeler I am an Atlanta captive and fly Delta and its SkyTeam member, Air France, regularly. I had often wondered about La Première class while staring at its red carpet from the business class cabin. La Première is Air France’s first […]
Las Vegas | The Golden Nugget 24k Select Players Club
The Golden Nugget The Golden Nugget seems to change their 24k Select players club as often, if not more, than any other Las Vegas players club. That doesn’t help since the 24k Select players club is slightly confusing. The first thing to know is that the Golden Nugget players club in Las Vegas is that […]
Sonoma County, California | Tasting Tour Day 3 (Russian River Valley)
The third day of the Sonoma County wine tasting tour was reserved for Russian River Valley. The Russian River winds through much of northern Sonoma valley, and is the river that creates Alexander Valley as well. But it is a pretty large AVA. The Alexander Valley wineries are right around the river or on the […]