Mancations

The casinos the Indians a few hours up 95 set up in Connecticut is a much better deal. Not only do you get world class shows, gambling and good eats, you can actually venture outside and not get shanked.

Plus, you are within 90 minutes of Boston and you can hit NYC on your way back. Tons of golf, outdoorsy-type stuff and Long Island is just a ferry ride away.

But I have always taken vacations by myself. No need to worry about itineraries, doing something I don't want to do, turning the light off when a buddy is trying to hook up.

 

1. Atlantic City is great.
B. Indian casinos, at least in California, screw you on table rules and payouts.

 

Its always nice to blow off steam with the guys every now and then. But like Mizzou says, its hard to come up with the $$ with a wife and kids. I try to get my buddies as clients so I can expense it. Vegas is perfect, golf in the day, nap, great dinner, then gambling at night. Went to golf in Palm Springs in the Spring with a client and his two buddies, a blast. I recommend Thurs. - Sunday. Anything more gets a bit much.

 

We were last in Reno in 2009.
It was like a Scooby Doo ghost town.

 

The more I've travelled - the more I realize you don't need to go a great distance to have a good time.
I guess the question is - is the destination what is important or the people you travel with?

 

My point with AC was that you don't have to fly to get there, at least from where the thread-starter is living now, therefore saving $$$. Gotta fly to Vegas. Gotta fly to Reno.

 

I do a Bay Area jaunt every year ... last weekend in fact. Two Giants games (previously we've also done Giants-Cal and Giants-Raiders weekends) and the highlight event. Six of us rented a limo for an all-day micro-brewpub tour. We hit 9-10 brewpubs from Berkeley to Oakland to San Francisco. Cost about $100 each for the limo plus, of course, beer. Had no more than one beer at each place (except one brewery that had several free samples), but also had some extras in the limo for while we were driving. Limo dropped us off at a blues club for dinner and music, then BART to get back to where we were staying.

 

Really. The Junkies (local morning sports radio guys) host a poker open at the Borgata twice a year and I'm hoping to make it up for one of those, maybe in November.

 

That's the way to do it. That sounds awesome.

 

Borgata's awesome. On the level of most upper-echelon Vegas casinos. And, Don Rickles plays there.

 

Isn't this pretty much why they invented New Orleans?