I gave them my email address and, as Dan predicted, I get a bunch of what is normally considered junk mail and junk email. However, I am quite amused at this offer - you can stay at the Peppermill Hotel (remember, this is a nice place, with the best sports book in Reno) for NINETEEN DOLLARS a night. They also have an excellent health club. If you work out the price / month that I spend at my fancy health club here in Chicago and divide it by the number of times a month I go to the gym, it probably works out to about $19 / visit, so essentially if I go to the health club while at Reno (Dan and I went every day) I am breaking even and you throw in the room for free.
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Damn $19 a night. What a deal - that place is great. And next super bowl at least we know that we don't even have to leave the joint since Reno didn't appear to have that much to offer unless we want to go for a drive around Tahoe.
Even at the "outrageous" rate of $89 or whatever we paid, if we took that trip to Vegas just the LODGING on super bowl weekend would have cost us more than the entire Reno trip, and like you said we didn't have to worry about battling massive crowds everywhere.
While I am not ready to give Reno the Milwaukee tag of "it isn't as bad as you think", I certainly give the Peppermill the huge thumbs up.
Don't forget that in Vegas we'd be LUCKY to find a $25 craps table during Super Bowl weekend and it would be mobbed.
That isn't fun throwing down $500 just to sit there and a few bad rolls and you are out. Plus if you go up a bit you should go out, too.
You think so? I imagine there would be a few $10 tables but those would probably be MOBBED and impossible to get on.
We would have to leave "the strip" and go to the dingiest downtown club to find a table that starts at $5 and it would be up as soon as it is packed.
From the casino's perspective good to raise the minimum on all those dumb bets as soon as possible. For us on the pass line it just makes the game go much faster and we have to pick up our chips on a couple wins that much sooner.
You'd be hard pressed to find a $5 table in the evening now even.
But I haven't gambled too much in the last couple years in Vegas maybe now it has gotten less crowded but I doubt it.
Oh I don't doubt that it is good strategy for the casino to raise the minimums. Especially if they can keep the tables packed.
The other variable is that in Vegas you are just meat and the Reno dealers were all so pleasant and funny - AND the drink lady was also pleasant and was there every 15 minutes. I am sure at the low roller table in Vegas it is a drink every six hours.
One more thing, I was surprised that they "grandfathered" in the $5 players when they raised the table minimum to $10. Good for them though, it makes us want to go back along with everything else.
That Reno place did right by us. I may even try to bring a nephew or something there one of these years if we make it an annual tradition.
They were very pleasant to us and made us feel at home.
For some reason I just thought of that carload of guys that were hollering at us. That was very strange. Perhaps we were the most normal tourists they'd seen.
Yea I think it will probably be an annual thing. As for those guys shouting at us, the cabbie didn't seem fazed at all. Just part of the deal I guess.
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