Easy Evening, Easy Morning at the Wynn

Dec 04, 2024 08:21

Trade Show Travelog #6
The Wynn Las Vegas - Wed, 4 Dec 2024, 8am

Taking it easy is rarely something that happens at a trade show. Sometimes the opportunity comes around, though. Generally it requires affirmative effort to make it happen, which is kind of ironic. I had an opportunity to carve out some "me" time after Day 2 at the trade show and I took it.



I started by checking in to my hotel room at the Wynn. I had already been here Tuesday morning, but that was just to stow my bag. I got a room on the 55th floor, 5555. "Lucky 5s," I call it.



The room is pretty comfortable. It's well sized without being huge. It's luxurious without being frilly. It has even has a nicely sized desk for working. Well, it's not literally a desk; it's a table, on the right in the photo above. It's way easier to spread out my computers and get some work done there than on an ironing board.

Then there's the bathroom....



Again, luxury without ostentation. Though maybe that is a bit ostentatious. And it's way bigger than what I need. I"m not going to use the tub or the second sink. I just need the shower, one vanity, and the toilet.

Speaking of showers, I took when I came home from dinner. Once again that was late, like almost 11pm, even though dinner was just in the neighboring attached property, Encore. OMG even though these casinos are relatively new they are smoky. I took a shower before bed just to wash all the latent smoke off my skin and out of my hair. This is a trick I figured out years ago in Vegas for sleeping better. It worked again.

Oh, but before going to bed I snapped a pic of the view at night from my hotel room.



The floor-to-ceiling windows spanning the width of the room are another touch of understated  luxury. Plenty of other nice hotels I've stayed at don't have such expansive views.

Here's a pic after I got up this morning:



This morning I'm enjoying sitting by those huge windows, working on my personal computer from a small table while sitting in an easy chair. I enjoy the view though not specifically because it's the Las Vegas Strip. I'd be fine if it were just the mountains. Though at least it's not a view of a freeway, high-voltage lines, and miles of concrete.

Oh, and this room on the 55th floor? It's not really the 55th floor. As I noticed when staying on the 54th floor at another casino, floors 40-49 don't exist. Really I'm on 45, not 55. It's nice regardless.

Now, just because I'm taking it easy early this morning does not mean today is wholly a take-it-easy day. No, there's still plenty of work ahead! I do have downtime for the next few hours, but then I have a customer meeting at 11, booth duty from 2-6pm, and probably another team dinner after that. But definitely it's nice to have this downtime now to recharge for later.

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