45 Days.

Starting to hype up for the next trip. It's next month!

Will have 4 1/2 days which I think is just about the sweet spot for me now. The June trip was too short to really get into (though that was by design), and the week-long trips a la Xmas last year are just a little too much.

Rolling in about at check-in time then having the late afternoon and night to do it up is a good way to hit the ground running. No crazy early wake up call that way either to mess up the sleep schedule. Then it's 4 full days, and not out too early on the fly-out day but also not too late that I'm grinding it out.

4.5 days works OK for the financials, too. I will have no SF weekends for the next 6 weeks but that should be tolerable, and it gives me $500 for the first short day and the usual $800/day for the rest of the trip. Just take it easy on the gambling the first night then it's just a regular trip; if all goes to normal I'll have a nice stash built up by day 3 to start opening everything up. I actually just cut down the Xmas trip to this length, too. I had been booking 21st-27th but the flights on the 21st were insane so I pushed it forward to the 23rd. Dumped the MB plan and booked 3 comped days at the Trop and 3 at MGM again.

Looking forward to checking out the Grand on this trip. It's never been a fave property of mine but I'd like to see if actually staying there changes that. Room looks like your standard MGM resorts mid level standard room, nothing too special, but I wasn't a big fan of Caesars either before I stayed there and now I think it's pretty great after doing so. If nothing else there will be plenty of places to discover food wise. The Monorail's right there too to make for cheaper trips upstrip.

Then I'm also pumped on the last two full days to check out the newly upgraded Palms, which looks like a whole new resort. Actually pretty excited about the room after looking at a couple YouTube vids on it, looks pretty sweet. Kitchen, whirlpool bath, terrace, nice big sitting area. Looks like a lot of room for $51/night. May end up spending a decent amount of time in the resort which I didn't plan on doing when I booked it.

Going to try to do the "cool down day" thing that I talked about in a previous post. That would be the 21st, a Tuesday. Try to just stick to beer, and eat a hell of a lot to get the power levels back up to finish strong, unlike how I did on the birthday trip. Alcohol poisoned is never a good look in Vegas. Am also hoping to be a bit more svelte come August 19th by doing a weekday fast for the next several weeks. See if I can stick to it and maybe up the health levels a bit before arriving. I got lucky and was able to redeem a myVegas reward for Beatles Love again too, it'll be my 3rd time seeing it. That'll give me a goal on that evening to not be smashed for.

So as it stands this one's looking like fun, we'll see if anything else shakes out but as of now it looks like a good, August hot banger.