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[LotsOfOuts69]

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So what hotel is everyone going to be staying at? Are any Novas going to take up stars on this Treasure Island offer? Is Treasure Island even any good? Why there? If I don't, how much should I expect to pay. I've never been to Vegas and I've never booked a hotel anywhere in my life so I'm stressing already. Any ideas/help would be great.

Ryan

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Treasure Island is *OK*, I mean its a nice hotel, compared to Hotels around the U.S., but as for Vegas strip hotels, its one of the lower budget ones. The pool blows IMO. Obviously Stars is not gonna put you up in the super swanky joints on their own dime.

I dont think there is a poker room there, but its right next to the Wynn, 5 min walk for some side action. However, if you want to get to the MGM/Bellagio area you need a cab unless you like walking for miles in 110 degree heat.

And the Rio is off the strip so no matter where you stay, you'll have to cab it there. PS had a shuttle bus from TI to the Rio every year for their players, not sure if thats still available this year.

[MicroBob]

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So what hotel is everyone going to be staying at? Are any Novas going to take up stars on this Treasure Island offer? Is Treasure Island even any good? Why there? If I don't, how much should I expect to pay. I've never been to Vegas and I've never booked a hotel anywhere in my life so I'm stressing already. Any ideas/help would be great.

Ryan

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Treasure Island is *OK*, I mean its a nice hotel, compared to Hotels around the U.S., but as for Vegas strip hotels, its one of the lower budget ones. The pool blows IMO. Obviously Stars is not gonna put you up in the super swanky joints on their own dime.

I dont think there is a poker room there, but its right next to the Wynn, 5 min walk for some side action. However, if you want to get to the MGM/Bellagio area you need a cab unless you like walking for miles in 110 degree heat.

And the Rio is off the strip so no matter where you stay, you'll have to cab it there. PS had a shuttle bus from TI to the Rio every year for their players, not sure if thats still available this year.

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Lotsofouts - agree and disagree with different parts.

Agree that TI is a decent enough hotel but not terrific.
Better than the Gold Coast or something at least. It's certainly not a dump or anything close to it.

The pool is certainly completely unspectacular compared with other pools of course.
But saying that 'the pool blows' to people who haven't been to LV may conjure up images of some run-down pool at a Motel 6 or something.
Obviously the TI's pool is pretty decent overall. Just not all that spectacular compared with some other LV pools.


TI does have a small poker-room now. I think they are kind of trying to push some other specialty-type games like crazy-pineapple or something.
Couple of people in the B&M forum have reported having a fun time there. Not going to spread very high stakes though. But the 1/2 or 2/5 NL or whatever it is they have could likely be juicy enough.


TI is 5-10 minutes walk from Wynn and Venetian poker-rooms.
It's about 15-20 minute walk to Mirage poker-room (and they have a TI-to-Mirage shuttle as well...although this might be out-of-order).
TI is probably about 30-35 minutes to Caesar's Palace and Bellagio poker-rooms.

I didn't time it. But I made the walk from bellagio to TI several times during my stay there and it just didn't seem too horrible to me. I don't mind walking though.

Bellagio and MGM aren't really in the same area of the strip imo.

You can definitely walk from TI to the Bellagio but would not want to walk from TI to MGM (or even Bellagio to MGM imo).


Walking from TI to Rio is possible but not advised. You have to walk across the overpass over the interstate. And it's a lot longer than it looks. i came out smelling like exhaust. It sucked. The high was literally 115 on several of the days I was there. It is true what they say about it being a 'dry heat' though.

115 in LV woth 5% humidity didn't feel as horrible as I would have thought.
Certainly not as awful as a 96 degree and 90% humidity day in Memphis which we have all the time in the summer.


Take a cab or shuttle from TI to Rio.

Better yet, may I recommend a car-rental? Seriously, it's probably going to be cheaper than taking cabs around.

It seems like a $30/day car-rental might not be worth it.
But when you consider that it's pretty much an $8-$10 cab-ride to get pretty much anywhere in LV just going 1 way I think you can quickly see how getting a rental might be the better option.

Been to LV twice. Enjoyed it MUCH more when I had my own car.


Those are my observations anyway. Stayed at the TI for 10 days in 2005.
It was okay but I would really prefer to stay in a different strip hotel next time around if I had the option.

[MicroBob]

I'm kind of curious about how the money stuff works too.
Is Stars somehow going to catch up to you if you don't register yourself into the WSOP?

I'm assuming you still get the $1k in spending money even if you don't show up to get the additional $1k hotel-allowance.


700k FPP's for $11k in cash would be 1.57c per FPP.
This works out to be better than the 1.50c cash-for-points bonus for Supernova players. And also would appear to not involve a play-through requirement either.


If it really works the way it appears then this could be considered similar to a really huge points-for-cash type purchase which is something I would definitely be interested in trying to do.

[ridonkulous]

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and they have a TI-to-Mirage shuttle as well...although this might be out-of-order

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Has anyone ever actually ridden this?

I have never seen it operational.

[Bobo Fett]

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and they have a TI-to-Mirage shuttle as well...although this might be out-of-order

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Has anyone ever actually ridden this?

I have never seen it operational.

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Was working in November when I was there.

[TylerD]

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and they have a TI-to-Mirage shuttle as well...although this might be out-of-order

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Has anyone ever actually ridden this?

I have never seen it operational.

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Numerous times.

[jbsc7769]

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and they have a TI-to-Mirage shuttle as well...although this might be out-of-order

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I have never seen it operational.

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Has anyone ever actually ridden this?

It was also working for the durations of last years WSOP. I stayed at TI and frequently made the journey.

In response to the other query, TI is fine. It is not the Bellagio or Wynns etc but it is certainly better than places like NY,NY, Paris, Bally, Monte Carlo and Aladdin (or whatever it is called now). The rooms are larger than quite a few others on the strip as well.

[Dignam]

Am I missing something?

So Stars runs 12K packages where they will now make $1,000 for those that don't fly out there to get the hotel money when they register for the WSOP?

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They don't make anything, because that 1000$ was their free comp.
Anyway, this is dissapointing, cause now i have no incentive of playing the sats, since i know i won't play the WSOP and this is basically like playing any other donkament, which i hate.

[bumpking]

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I'm kind of curious about how the money stuff works too.
Is Stars somehow going to catch up to you if you don't register yourself into the WSOP?

I'm assuming you still get the $1k in spending money even if you don't show up to get the additional $1k hotel-allowance.


700k FPP's for $11k in cash would be 1.57c per FPP.
This works out to be better than the 1.50c cash-for-points bonus for Supernova players. And also would appear to not involve a play-through requirement either.


If it really works the way it appears then this could be considered similar to a really huge points-for-cash type purchase which is something I would definitely be interested in trying to do.

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Does anyone know the answer to this? If I can just buy the package for 700,000 FPPs and get $12k deposited into my account, then that'll be alot better than all the f*ing $1,500 FPPs bonuses I have to deal with.

-BK