Wednesday, August 13, 2008

snippet 2008 - tips next time (end of trip report)

Dear Dewey,

****Carry more dollar store bag clips. You know you leave them attached to the curtain when you leave one hotel and go to the next. have many spares.

****Carry an extra phone charger. You lost coordination with friends and one entire experience sleeping at the Palms and attending a free pool party because you forgot the phone charger. And a week later it is still at the River Palms waiting to me mailed out. A spare charger will solve that dilemma and while you are at it.....

****Get a duplicate driver's license. You will lose your wallet one of these times.

****Make a good last minute list. It is not good to almost forget your every two week shot. It is worse to not know where your traveler's checks are packed and so to frantically stop at the bank on the way to the airport. It is not good to only pack one disposable razor for 11 days and then only by accident.

*****Do you want to try downsizing luggage or just wait until Southwest begins charging. That fellow on the shuttle suggested that SW has already decided to start charging for extra bags in in 2010 despite their advertisement.

****Remember those bungy cords. They were a real easy way to put a bag on top of the rolling suitcase and that made entering the CAT 109 very easy.

**** Forget the hot pot. Just take a few good tea bags. This is especially true if the River Palms is going to be a main stay casino since they have self serve drinks in their buffet.

******Laughlin will mean less couponing. Plan just to collect Terribles, Ellis Island matchplays as well as downtown. No POV. But bring free room certificates for the River Palms.

****Three day before confirmation of times and dates and charges and the question, "Any more rooms on my name" will eliminate forgotten rooms booked in confusion.

*****Stay off of the River Palms internet and just book at the desk or if booked on the internet, call a few days later to see what arrived and what did not.

*****CAT bus that was the 105 is now the 116. Check to see other changes before going. have change in pocket to cover new bus rates.

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