Las Vegas

I mentioned that I was in Las Vegas. I stayed at Mandalay Bay. I found it very interesting that my first experience there was to wait in line for better than 30 minutes. I was only the 7th person in line.

I looked around and found something interesting about my situation. If you will notice in the image below, there are a lot of people waiting. There are a total of 26 lines where people can check in. Only 10 of them were manned (or womanned... as the case might be). At the point of taking my first picture, there were approximately 8 people in each line. It may look like there are more, but many people wait in line together. But still, that is about 80 people waiting to check into the hotel if you don't count their associates.

After I was done checking in, I decided to step back and take another picture. As far as I could tell, the lines doubled in length during that 30 minutes. continue reading...

I just left Las Vegas and left my hotel room 1 hour and 30 minutes before my flight. I went outside the hotel to the taxi stand. There was no doorman so I went to the taxi stand myself and called for a cab. Since I didn't have any cash, I asked if he accepted credit cards.

The driver was a little disappointed and said, "No."

I waited a couple of minutes for another cab to show up and asked the same question.

"Sorry, there is only one cab company in the area that accepts credit cards," came the response.

So, I looked for a doorman to help me with finding the right cab company, but there were none to be found.

I decided to go to the back of the hotel where I knew there was another taxi stand.

I would have just gotten cash from the ATM on the way to the back taxi stand, but I didn't have a debit card with me. continue reading...