Las Vegas Time-shares and The Monte Carlo Buffet
A person could subsidize their Las Vegas stay just by visiting Time-shares (and probably, some do). It was impossible to walk through any Hotel, on or off the Strip, without someone offering shows, meals and cash for spending 1-2 hours listening to a pitch on time-shares.
The Las Vegas Strip was filled with Condos being built, time-share buildings, older Casinos and Hotels being imploded (the Stardust is the next to go in January, 2007) and construction cranes everywhere. I would think that construction is "the business" to be in if you don't own a Casino. Vegas residents told us..."if you want to work, there's a job to be had"...
Tip #3: If you decide to visit a timeshare, bring I.D. We committed to a spiel and, silly me, had left I.D. back in the Monte Carlo safe. No I.D., no money...and we had negotiated for $100 for a two-hour pitch.
We started our morning with the Monte Carlo breakfast buffet, served 7:00am-11:00am, $10.95, using our 2-for-1. The room was beautiful...View image...with an omelet/egg station, fruit, cereals, yoghurt, different eggs pre-made, potatoes, bacon, sausage, french toast, waffles, coffee, tea, juice, etc....but I had my heart set on waffles. Boo-hoo...they were cold but the nice part of buffets is I just dumped that plate and got some hot eggs. It is almost impossible to beat the price of $10.95 for two persons anywhere...in a coffee shop or even Starbucks.
A visit to Downtown Las Vegas was next. Another cold but sunny day and Fremont Street with Fitzgeralds, Binions, Golden Nugget didn't even resemble the Fremont Street we knew! The entire street has a huge meshy canopy over it now and looks like a big open-air mall with Casinos, shops and restaurants up and down both sides. Actually, it looks pretty good.
If you want very inexpensive buffets, Downtown Las Vegas is the place to go. We saw advertisements for Prime Rib, $8.95, and many other buffets around $5.95.
Walking back from Fremont Street (past many, many pawn shops), our first stop was Wynn Las Vegas. What a gorgeous hotel. If you can afford $300/night to stay there, $500 for a round of golf (only registered guests are allowed to play), $295 for a woman's belt in one shop, this would be my choice.
Their buffet looked phenomenal...View image...and the prices weren't too terrible for Wynn and Las Vegas when you consider that Joel Robuchon at the Mansion, MGM Grand, is $250 or $275 for a 16-course - mini-portions- degustation dinner! That is per person, folks! A dinner there would cost us more than the entire two-days in Las Vegas but it sure would be nice to afford a extravagance like that. Wynn charges $15.95 for breakfast, $19.95 for lunch and $31.95 for dinner. Keep in mind that all the buffet prices I've given run Monday-Friday. The prices go up over the weekend.
The Wynn buffet definitely won #1 spot in our estimation. We didn't taste anything but it looked wonderful. Fortunately, the Monte Carlo breakfast had filled us up and we could resist at that time. There were still miles to walk, hotels to see before calling it another night...
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