Long Term Vegas Casino

Having a Life

In early 1993, the Las Vegas Adviso1r ran a story about the Queen of Ku Pon staying in Las Vegas for 50 nights and only paying for one. A ITllonth later, a man wrote to the Advisor, commenting that staying for almost two months in Las Vegas Hotel rooms sounded about as fun as having a root canal. His is a common response to our lifestyle. Often people look at us sadly, as if they're thinking how uncomfortable" boring, even degenerate this must be.
If you live in Las Vegas, you don’t gamble 24 hours a day, seven days a week (not even if you're addicted!). Likewise, when we spend multiple weeks in Vegas Casino, we don't gamble round the cIolek. We shop sales, telephone our broker, take in a matinee, or go out dancing. If there's a good mini-series on, we'll be watching the TV screen, not the v"ideo poker screen. The point is there are lots of other things to do in Vegas besides gamble. We refer to the time we spend in the casino world as our" artificial" life, all of the other activities are our "real" life.

Leaving Home

People wonder why we spend so much time away from home. The primary reason is that we don't like the weather in the Midwest in the wintertime. If you like the cold, snow, ice, and misery, it's the place for you, but it's not the place for us. We drive our car across the country in early December and generally stay through March. With the car we can go about our business with the same convenience that we have at home, only in a warmer climate and with video poker machines always at hand. And though we refer to our two- to three-week visits during the rest of the year as "vacations," even then it's a matter of living real life in a different place. We don't "stay" in Vegas; we "live" there. How do we manage the day-to-day details of our lives back home from 2,000 miles away in Las Vegas? First of all, we have good neighbors and friends. One neighbor checks on our place daily and takes in the mail. A close friend comes in once a week to go through the mail to be sure that nothing needs our immediate attention. If we're only gone for two or three weeks, rarely will he find anything that can't wait till we get back. When we're gone all winter long, we have our first-class mail forwarded to us in Las Vegas Live Casinos. Where? We've had it sent to the hotels where we stay, but that gets a little complicated since we're moving around a bit. We've had it sent to the main Las Vegas post office, which held it for us to pick up periodically. We've rented a box in one of the private mail-service storefronts. These days we have our mail forwarded to the address of a friend whom we see frequently. We pay all of our monthly bills-electric, gas, water, sewer, telephone-by having them taken straight out of our checking account. Since our pensions go into our checking account automatically, a lot of the business is taken care of without our even being involved (short of balancing the checkbook). We have one credit card bill a month. We call the credit card company, find out the current balance, and send a check. Condo fees, insurance, the car registration-we simply pay these bills ahead before we leave.

Eating

One valuable and little-known amenity that makes our long-term visits more comfortable is a mini-refrigerator. We only stay at Online casinos that offer them for free and it's the first thing I ask for when I check in. I tell the front-desk clerk that I'm on a special diet (which is true) and that I need a fridge. Most of the time you won't even have to cite a special reason. Just ask for one and it will usually be supplied at no charge.

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