I love my time in Las Vegas.\u00a0 And last week I was once again fortunate enough to attend IMEX America, my third time in three years, and my third consecutive stay at the mammoth convention complex, Venetian Palazzo.\u00a0 Unlike previous years however, I was not exactly welcomed by a four star experience this time around and the story is absurd enough that it’s worth sharing.<\/p>\n
I arrived in the early evening and, as I have in the past, I expected to check into my room and run off very quickly to an opening reception.\u00a0 I knew that I would not have the ability to change or even freshen up very much since IMEX has always taken responsibility for delivering luggage to the rooms and not doing so all that quickly.\u00a0 It was not a surprise then, when more than an hour after checking into my suite at the Venetian, I was yet to see my bags arrive at the door.\u00a0 As I had in the past, I left for my reception expecting to return to my suite with luggage delivered.<\/p>\n
It was not delivered however, not even at 10:00p when I returned to my room.\u00a0 Since this level of tardiness exceeded even my lowest of expectations, I began calling around and conducting some reconnaissance in an effort to reunite me with all of my clothing for the week.\u00a0 With a breakfast I needed to attend the next morning and with stores closed at this late hour, it was becoming an increasingly desperate situation.\u00a0 The bell staff were kind but unhelpful.\u00a0 Apparently it was just my shuttle bus, perhaps ten guests in total, whose luggage had gone missing.\u00a0 Not very comforting in a hotel with 7,100 suites that my luggage would turn up any time soon.<\/p>\n
What made matters worse was that en route to my reception on this evening, while standing in front of an upscale dining establishment on Italian marble floors, I stepped in dog poo.\u00a0 This is not hyperbole.\u00a0 I literally stepped in dog poo.\u00a0 If I were out on a farm, if I were even in a residential community, if I were say\u2026 outdoors — perhaps then this fact would be plausible.\u00a0 But inside a four star hotel!\u00a0 Trying to wash this off in a public bathroom where my usual invisibility cloak was worn standing in front of the sink auto sensors was also a challenge whose frustration level compels me to blog more.
\nLong story long – the bags?\u00a0 They were delivered at 7:30a, a full twelve hours after my arrival after I’d slept in a bathrobe and considered that I’d be missing half of my first day.\u00a0 I wound up missing none of my appointments and instead having an awfully fun tale to tell just about everyone I met this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love my time in Las Vegas.\u00a0 And last week I was once again fortunate enough to attend IMEX America, my third time in three years, and my third consecutive stay at the mammoth convention complex, Venetian Palazzo.\u00a0 Unlike previous years however, I was not exactly welcomed by a four star experience this time around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n