New Year's Vegas trip

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At the moment booked at a Premier Suite at T.I. which is 1300 square feet, for a one week stay arriving a few days before New Year's, and leaving a few days after. T.I. is old school but I've always liked it. It wasn't always old school - think of the movie Swingers

The new places down on the strip, now, those places are supposed to be it.

Oh, Mike, you don't want all that fuckin' Pirate of the Caribbean horseshit.

Or the rock and roll grunge trip.

You know, guys like me and you gotta kick it here. Old school.

Yeah, this is... This is truly old school.

At that time, in 1996, Treasure Island (not even yet known as T.I., which incidentally, I was the one who suggested that they start calling it T.I., in 1999, and they eventually took up my suggestion) had been open only a few years and was very much NOT old school.

Over two decades later (how time flies), and it is probably the only nice (as in still upscale, not including the Flamingo, or Harrah's, which are dumps) old school joint on the strip. I like it. Brings back a lot of memories, and they treat me very well.

I had also booked a suite for the same time period at Wynn/Encore, but because they have so many big players during the New Year's period, I was extended only a regular "suite" at Encore, meaning 745 square feet, but on a full RFB (room food beverage comp'ed) basis, with tickets for us to Wynn's New Year's Eve bash with Kelly Clarkson (which hey, we're no fans of hers, but she is a pretty big name for an intimate casino gathering). The plan was to put friends or family into the Encore suite, we stay at T.I., and given that the two casinos are across the street, walk back and forth between the two for gaming.

However, my intended guests decided that they don't want to go to Vegas this month, so the plans are in limbo right now as to what I'm going to do with the Encore suite. Maybe give it up, and just book our usual Encore Parlor (1408 square feet) or Encore Salon (2261 sq. ft.) for arrival right after New Year's, right after the T.I. trip. But, Palms has offered us a suite too plus free gaming chips.
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Given that the plan is to stay in Vegas about two weeks, not sure yet whether it'll be T.I. then Encore, or maybe T.I. then Palms then Encore.

Decisions, decisions!