Stratosphere Hotel and Casino

Out of 5 Stars I would rate this hotel 3.5 Stars for some of the glitches I see during our stay over Christmas holiday. Of course only not look at the glitch but I would also like to say the good things about the hotel.

Let me start with the good ones. We've been looking for different deals directly on different hotel's website in Vegas that are located in the strip. Stratosphere had the best rate we found. For 5 days 4 nights stay we paid less than $260.00. For us this is a bargain, since we requested an upgrade upon availability. They had one available room at the premier tower. One problem I had with the room was the smoke scent is ridiculously scent that I can barely breath while am inside the room. We did requested if we can transfer to a non-smoking room since we also did specifically asked for it during our reservation yet they don't have one available. The manager offered to remove the odor when the room is empty. I believe he mentioned that they are going to use Biozone to remove the smoke odor in the room. Biozone is a commercial air purifier, this is a powerful air purifiers for sanitizing and decontaminating air and surfaces by destroying offensive odors such as smoke. Since they don't have non-smoking room available for us we instead stayed in that same room. After we came back to our hotel room it did smell better yet it didn't fully removed the odor of the smoke and it kinda smell like there's mildew in the room when we turned on the A/C. They room was really hot and dry even though we haven't even turned the heater on. I turned the A/C to cool down the room yet the thermostat won't even go below 69. Seriously, it's really hard to sleep if the room is hot.

They have 4 elevators in the garage. People travel with luggages, stroller and carry other personal stuff. It is really inconvinient for their guest to climb up and down the stairs carrying their heavy stuff because the hotel couldn't fix the other three elevators in the garage. If you don't carry anything heavy it's a lot faster for you to use the stairway even you park up in the 7th floor. People with luggages and small children were in line to catch the one an only elevator that operate.

Before I forget! For almost half a day they don't have hot water. I was gonna take a shower but because the water was as cold as ice I was thinking twice to jump in the shower. I ran the shower for about five minutes hoping that there's hot water that would come out. Unluckily an ice cold water keeps going and going. So when I called the frontdesk there I got the bad news.

Well, I have nothing to say about their food because my husband and I didn't even thought of trying their buffet. We did visit one of their store there because I was going to buy bottled water when I asked the prize of the small bottle of water I decided to go outside and buy the water in one of the convenience store. It's rediculous that they charge people $3.00 for an 8 oz. of water.

Officially In Vegas This Christmas

We will be spending our Christmas holiday as well as our Anniversary in Las Vegas. A week ago we finally booked our hotel. Since we live not that far from Nevada we decided that instead of flying in the busiest season of the year we are going to drive. It's only about six hours drive with no traffic and who knows the traffic situation on the 24th around Los Angeles. But no matter what we still have to drive and have some fun on the road. This is my very first time spending my Christmas in Las Vegas and I think there's going to have a lot of activities going on. Can't wait to see some of the shows.

Las Vegas Baby

My husband and I decided to change the date of our wedding anniversary to our second wedding date on December 28 since the first one is my birthday. For the last few years we celebrate our anniversary in Las Vegas. Now on our upcoming wedding anniversary we are planing to celebrate our special day in Las Vegas as well as our Christmas Eve. We live a few hours drive to Nevada so the trip is not that over costly because we don't need to pay for the airfare and we found a good discount hotel which is 50% off. We probably book our hotel tomorrow before they sold out.

Presidential Election 2008

Around 2:15PM PST I had my chance to vote. This is my very first time to vote and I am very proud to let you know. I became a US citizen last August 8, 2008 and later I registered to vote for Presidential Election.

Since I lived in San Diego in Judicial Drive during my registration the Polling location I voted is located in:

NOBEL RECREATION CENTER-MEETING
8810 JUDICIAL DR
SAN DIEGO CA 92122

The polling place was painless. There was no long line, there's not that many people. The only situation I have encountered during my vote which it wasn't major. One of the Preposition instead I mark No I accidentally mark Yes. Well there was a mistake on my cheat sheet. So I asked for a ballot replacement and the first one will go to the spoiled box. This volunteer old man just jump all over me when I asked for a replacement ballot because I made a mistake in one of the California Preposition. He told me that you are only allowed to get a ballot replacement once and that's your only chance and if you make a mistake again after this we don't give you any more ballot.

Well, first of all people make mistake and it doesn't say that you are only allowed to make mistake once. The only sign they have said, when you make a mistake asked for a ballot replacement and don't try to correct them. Second, it doesn't say that you are only allowed to make a mistake once. They should make their sign more clear. So, I told the man, 'Do you need people to vote or not? Because as what you're treating me you don't want me to vote because I asked for a ballot replacement. I can walk out here and you can keep my spoiled ballot. People make mistakes and it doesn't say anything on the sign that you are only restricted to make a mistake once.'

Overall, my vote was successful.

Daylight Saving Time Begins Today

Let's Fall Back today. DST changed at 2am. If you haven't set your clock to jump backward yet do so from 200DST to 100 Standard Time.

A Few Travel Input

Nowadays you can really find good deals from different websites. Most of the time package is a bargain when you have more than one person traveling, but you don't necessarily have to buy a travel package all the time. Through a savings website you can still find a cheaper price airfare or rental car than in the company itself. But there's one airline company where you can find better airfare pricing directly from their website when you purchase your airfare 3-4 weeks ahead of time. Southwest Airline offers good prices if you luckily hit the right timing on their website to purchase an airfare. Some airline also offer weekend promotion like United and Frontier. But if you are using your bank mileage to purchase a ticket I don't think it's a good idea to use that mileage to an airline that is going bankrupt like Frontier Airlines because you are not going to get your mileage back and when your flight is canceled you're doomed because I don't think this airline will put you into consideration to seat on the next flight. There might be a little bit of possibility but if the flight is full and you want to be at you destination soon you're screwed.

Site 59

Before we moved here in Southern California my husband and I travel a lot. Even though we visited a lot of places this doesn't mean that we spend a lot of money in our trip. Of course we try to save and economize our trip.

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This website help us save with our trip.