The Rio Revisited

Last year during Affiliate Summit West, I blogged about my experience at the Rio All Suites Hotel in Las Vegas. If you read that post, you can see by the picture on the right that not much has changed in terms of house-keeping, or retrieval of room service accoutrements. When I arrived on Saturday afternoon, [...]

The McCarran Massage

I spoke at Affiliate Summit West 2010 in Las Vegas over the weekend and flew home yesterday out of McCarran International Airport. It was the first time I’d seen a full body scanner at security. Well, not only did I have to go through the scanner, but because of the very thin J. Jill top [...]

5 Days at the Rio in Las Vegas

“Hello?” “Hello?” I responded, incredulous. “Isn’t this housekeeping?” “No.” “I called housekeeping.” “You dialed the wrong number” came the reply. “I didn’t DIAL at all, I pushed the ‘Housekeeping’ button.” “You DIALED the wrong number, I’m a GUEST of the hotel“. UGH. Wake someone up at 1AM because the phone doesn’t work. Housekeeping’s response (when [...]

Bellagio Conservatory: Christmas 2007

I love Vegas. And I was fortunate to get there for the 3rd… hmmm, maybe the 4th time this year to speak at Anik Singal’s PPC Classroom Live event being held at the West Casaurina – just a little east of Bally’s on the north side of Flamingo Road. On Sunday morning I took a [...]

The 23 Dollar Sandwich

I know… I should know better by now, especially since I’ve written about the exhorbitant prices that hotels charge for room service. But I was hungry. And the Turkey Clubhouse sandwich on the Westin Casaurina’s room service menu sounded just perfect to munch on, while I worked on my talk for PPC Classroom Live last [...]