Vegas Eats March 2025

 Here's a photo dump of some of the food we ate during our March 2025 Vegas trip. 

Clubhouse sandwich with fries and onion rings from Triple 7 at Main Street Casino. The fries were "meh", so we're glad we got the onion rings. 

Fried rice . . . it was ok . . .

. . . and oxtail stew . . . pretty good, from 

California Noodle House is the Cal's upscale casual dining restaurant. Some of the items are similar to Market Street Cafe, the 24-hour restaurant, but a little more elevated. The portions were pretty big and definitely sharable. 

Corn beef hash breakfast and loco moco (eggs scrambled) for breakfast from Market Street Cafe.

$3 beer and hot dog from the Downtown Grand.

On our Strip day, we had dinner at Pinky's by Vanderpump at the Flamingo. This is her third restaurant in collaboration with Caesar's Entertainment. The other two locations are at Caesar's Palace and Paris. The menu consist of sharable selections and unique cocktails. Some menu items are unique to the location and the decor is beautiful and unique to each location as well.

As of this post, it was just announced that Lisa Vanderpump will be rebanding the Cromwell, a boutique hotel right across from Caesar's Palace. A part of the agreement will include room and casino renovations. I'm excited to see how everything turns out when it's completed in 2026!

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• Vegas Trip Diary March 2025

Vegas Trip Diary March 2025

 March is a great time to go to Vegas! We visited the first week of March, and the weather never went above 60 degrees (the air was cool and crisp!) and it wasn't crowded at all!

Since we're frequent visitors to the 9th Island, our trips have gone from "go-go-go" to "slow-slow-slow" so it was definitely a relaxing trip. We stayed the Cal, Hawaii's home away from home, and ventured out to the Strip on one day.

Here's how it unfolded . . . 

Did you know that if you show your boarding pass at the El Cortzel player's club/rewards desk within 24 hours of arrival you can get some freebies? It includes $10 free slot play, $25 match play and a free drink. This perk is available once a year; multiple if you earn 100 tier credits on your prior trip that year.

I put in my free $10 slot play into this Happy Prosperous slot machine and was lucky to hit a bonus! This was a great way to start our trip! 

I started playing video poker on this trip and I had a nice win during this session. Unfortunately I wasn't lucky enough to replicate this. LOL.

Wheel of Fortune remains popular, but there aren't as many machines as before. This was a nice bonus.

We played bingo at the Plaza. I haven't hit bingo yet out of the several times we've played, so on our next trip, I'll still play, but I won't buy as many cards.

There was a two-day Super Bingo Tournament at the Plaza when were there, so we needed to wait until the sessions were over. before we played in the late afternoon. A huge convention hall had tables and tables of bingo players. With your entry, they provide you breakfast and lunch and there are special room rates as well. I think I may do this one day! :-)

Unfortunately, our trip coincided with the week that switched out the conservatory display. One week earlier, we would have experienced the Chinese New Year display; one week later, the Spring display.

It's kinda cool to see them putting everything together.

I'm sure these pictures won't do the actual display justice.

We could still walk around the back portion of the conservatory, so I was able to view this live floral frame. 

It was very windy on the day we visited the Strip.

We visited this really cool art installation called Colors of Mexico, showcasing the culture of Mexico. Located at Fashion Show Mall with FREE admission, it consisted of several rooms with displays, including digital ones. It was really cool. Does anyone know how to add video to Blogger? There is an option to upload media, but it never works. I would love to be able to include videos on this blog to show you how cool it was.

Every time I go to Vegas, I get obsessed with something, whether it be a new machine, a new souvenir or things to do. This time it was Silver Strike slot machines that dispenses collector coins.

This one was from the Plaza. Each machine has several different, limited edition coins you can collect. 

This one is from Four Queens. The machines are quarter machines and you play three credits per pull. I didn't have to play a lot before I got the coins. It says on the coins that they are worth $10. Not sure if I actually tried to redeem them at the cashier's cage they would give me $10? I looked it up on the internet and a $10 Silver Strike coin are 42mm in diameter, has a .999  pure silver core and a heavey gold electroplated outer brass ring. Total silver content is about .65 oz. There's even a Silver Strike Club where you can buy/sell/trade coins, and they hold meet-ups in Vegas!

There was this really cool racing game that I found at New York New York. It's a slot machine and the bonus rounds allows you to race a car, similar to Mario Cart.

It was super fun! I didn't win a lot on the racing rounds. I only bet the minimum and I didn't do very well (as usual) during the races. I think I raced about 4-5 times and I won less than $2 each time. But it was sure fun! I will definitely be back to play this machine.

On our December 2024 trip to Vegas, we stumbled upon a wrestling match at the Container Park. On this trip, we witnessed the 2025 World Sign Spinning Championship on Fremont Street! Yes! Who knew there was such a thing! We only stayed to watch a few contestants, but we were impressed by their skills. Again, I wish I knew how to upload videos to Blogger!

This post is getting pretty long, so I'll do a food post separately. I'll end here with a congratulations Boyd Gaming who is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. A lot of the staff were wearing "Cheers to 50 Years" shirts (I asked if customers could buy them, but unfortunately we can't), the table game felts had 50th anniversary branding as well as chips and player's club cards. Happy Birthday Boyd!

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• Vegas Eats 2025

Main Street Station Room Review December 2023

 If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that we normally stay at The California Hotel and Casino when in Downtown Las Vegas. On this trip, the first night of our four-night stay was sold out, so instead of staying one night somewhere else and then moving back to the Cal, we opted to book the entire stay at Main Street Station, which is connected to the Cal via a pedestrian bridge. In addition, we haven't stayed at Main Street in many, many years, and the rooms were recently renovated, so I thought it was good time to check it out.

The rooms are very similar to the Cal. It's roughly the same size and the layout/furniture is pretty much the same. You have a tv that sits on a dresser that includes the safe and mini-fridge; you have a desk right next to the dresser; there are two chairs and a table/lamp; and the windows have shutters over them. Like the Cal. 

There's a bench near the entry way, right across from the bathroom. I really liked the bench as it was great to sit on while putting on my shoes. I liked the large mirror as well.

The closet has a pretty wallpaper.

The sink is outside of the toilet/shower and is open from the hallway/entry way.

The shower/toilet is very small. It feels a bit claustrophobic when you close the door and it's a bit dark in there as well.

Instead on individual containers, the shampoo, condition and body wash is mounted to the wall, like how other hotels are now doing.

So what are my thoughts? Although the room is very similar to the Cal, I do prefer the Cal, specifically the rooms in the what I call the mezzanine tower (vs. the Buddha Tower -- they are called the East and West towers, but I'm directionally challenged when it comes to using East and West). And it basically comes down to the bathroom. The bathroom in the mezzanine tower is much bigger and brighter. I didn't realize you can actually enjoy a bathroom space, but when we stayed at Mandalay Bay, I learned that a bathroom can definitely be an experience.

We actually spent only one night at Main Street. The air conditioner looked new, but man, was it loud! Every once in while, it would make really loud noises like gushing water and that woke us up a lot at night. The clincher was the toilet -- it didn't flush properly and was on the verge of overflowing if we weren't careful. 

The Hubz is a BIG fan of the Cal -- he thinks that Main Street is very far from Fremont Street and from the Cal itself (even though it's connected). So instead of calling down to fix the toilet or moving to a new room, he used it as an excuse to move to the Cal, which we did, and I'm not mad about that because of the small bathroom at Main Street. NOTE: We haven't in the Buddha Tower in a long time -- I think it's the original hotel tower when the Cal first opened -- and I recall the bathrooms in this tower to be similar to Main Street.

AFTER NOTE: When checking out, we did inform the front desk of the toilet issue. I hope they did send someone to fix it before the next guests checked in.

Not to say that Main Street Station is a horrible hotel. Here are my pros and cons:

Pros:

• Newly renovated rooms with an in-room mini refrigerator
• Connected to the Cal via a pedestrian bridge
• Smaller hotel, so even if your room is located at the end of the hall, it's not a far walk to the elevator
• Close enough to Fremont Street Experience, but far enough that you don't hear the noise from it
• Garden Court Buffett and Triple & Brewery
• Quieter casino

Cons:

• As of this post, table games are only open Friday - Sunday.
• Small bathroom
• Possible noise from passing trains, depending on where your room is situated

So not a lot of cons. The casino itself is beautiful with a Victorian theme. A lot of the decor are from different parts of the world. For example, a part of the Berlin Wall is installed in the men's bathroom; there are chandeliers from the San Francisco opera house and the Coca-Cola building in Austin, Texas, street lamps from Brussels, Belgium. You can pick up a brochure and take a self-guided tour of all the artifacts.

What are your thoughts? Have you stayed at Main Street? Leave you comments below!

More posts from this trip:

• Christmas Diary 2023
• Bellagio Conservatory Christmas 2023
• Vegas Food Diary December 2023