My Views on NFR 2006

Views from NFR 2006 Dec 6-10, 2006: I graded every main experience on a scale of 1-10 this year with 10 being best.

Enterprise Rent A Car – A 2, barely! Don’t rent from them EVER!

Traffic in Las Vegas – A 3, horrible but I guess not bad for a big city!

Fry’s Electronics – 8, Sorry I’m half techno geek and the only thing I regret about Fry’s is there is not one in Albuquerque and I have no $$ to spend there!

Cowboy Christmas – 6, parking climbed to $10 and there is just too much to see. Glad I’d seen most of it over the years.

South Point Casino – 7, Clean open environment. Looks like the new cowboy hang out in Vegas! Buffet wasn’t bad and was priced about right!

Terrible’s Casino – 7, Good food, fair price and slow service.

Bucking Stock Sale – 9, A must attend. Reason I rate it low is because not all lots are in program and a riders insert would be nice!

Sam’s Town – 3, Poor Service, Poor food Quality.

Sheplers Tent Sale – 6, Nothing I haven’t seen there past few years. Prices seem to creep up and not much for us fat boys!

Gift show at Mandalay Bay – 4, Decent show with manure for parking = average at best! Parking is like that again we’ll bypass it like we did the Sands Show.

Las Vegas Outlet Mall – 7, Prices seem to go up every year! But if you’re not afraid of a little bargain hunting this isn’t a bad place!

Las Vegas Hilton Buffet – 4, High priced for just about average food. And the Star Trek Experience is almost $40 a person.

Las Vegas Fashion Show(Mall) – 8, Can’t afford much there, didn’t think I could. But it’s a fun people watching experience none the less! Check out the ticket outlet there, lots of good prices on discounted tickets!

Treasure Island Buffet – 6, Smallish and pricey but the food was better than most places. Ok so that’s not saying much so I gave it an Avg.

New Frontier Casino – 4, Long lines and a smoked out smell didn’t leave a warm fuzzy with me! Sorry just don’t like to stand in 2 hour lines for nothing, especially a bar. Even if it is Gilley’s!

The Mardi Gras – 5, Off the strip and close to the convention center (Walked there twice). Clean rooms, well cleaner than the Stardust was the last two years! Decent food and a decent price. And slot machines that took coins. So ok I’d rather been on the strip, but for the $$ you can’t beat it!

McCarran International – 4, ok so no airport is very good anymore. But I learned the secret here. Show up before 6am! Spent 15 minutes in line and an extra hour at the gate!