leaving Las Vegas

 I am happy to be going home.  Usually at the end of a trip I am not wanting to go, wanting one more day, and although I will be going back to the grind of work, I am not sad to be leaving the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.  Not a fan.

They never resolved the "no internet" thing and while they credited us yesterday- and I will be talking to them about it again today- I really think they don't WANT you to have internet, so you will go gamble.  which we did to little success.

I felt sorry for the newbie at the hotel Help Desk.    He told us they would call us in 24 hours to resolve the problem.  Good for the NEXT guest, but sucks for US.  Thank goodness for mobile hotspots.

The food here is terrible, except for Ri Ra where we had a amazing meal.All the "menus'" are on a QR code on the tables and sometimes the menus don't load.  Did I mention the problems with the internet in this place?  The cook at the Seabreeze Cafe really knows his way around a microwave. I suspect, but cannot confirm that he also nuked the toast.  I am thankful that I did not indulge in Room Service Breakfast, which was 10 bucks more per plate PLUS the delivery fee.  $18 bucks for a Denny's style meal was bad enough, but $28 would have made me really, really angry

We took the tram over to the Excalibur for dinner and had a fun meal at the Vagabond, which is a bar that serves food.  Decent food. Chris loved  nachos and I kind of enjoyed my pulled pork, except I hit a huge bite of pepper at the first try and thought I was going to stop breathing.  Our waitress Renee was quite cheerful and she made it a nice night.

Don't go to Hazel's COFFEE and Cocktails after 6 looking for coffee.  They only have whatever weak coffee they serve everywhere in this hotel AND give you attitude when you ask for it anything else.  It should be advertised somewhere on their menu  WE DON'T SERVE COFFEE AT NIGHT or something

I wanted a decent cuppa.

EVERY FREAKING STARBUCKS IN THE PLACE WAS CLOSED.

The Gelato place makes coffee. HALLA-Freaking-lulah!

We never got to the pool. When we went to the Shark Reef Adventure we could see the pool was PACKED ( my dad had an expression "elbow to asshole" which seems appropriate"  I am NOT into crowds)

It was semi amusing, watching entitled people march up to the entrance of Shark Reef , only to be told it was sold out.  We bought tickets early in the day as I recall this is why we didn't go last time.  It sells out quickly.  One woman INSISTED that the women directing customers CHECK to make SURE there were no tickets and tapped her shoe at them until they did.  There were no tickets to be had.   The exhibit was nice, but crowded and since we are both on scooters navigation around people got tricky- people were nice but it was sometimes a tight squeeze.

The people in the room next to us were partying with the people directly across the hall from them till around 11. The doors banged constantly.  I thought I was stuck in French farce film.  It started up again to a lesser degree around 2 am.

Don't get me wrong, the people who work here ( except for the bartender at Hazels') have been super nice. The place is mismanaged, probably by someone who got their degree from the Former's Guy's  "University".It  seems to be the same business model.  We won't  be back here.