Vamplify :: Blog: Four day weekend

I wanted to stay away somewhere this weekend in order to take advantage of the fact that we’d both managed to get Thursday and Friday off work, and Nao had her heart set on Crown Towers, so that’s where we went.

Firstly, I’m not gonna recommend it. I’m sure the suites are exceptional, but the rooms are poky, and while the bed and TV were great, it wasn’t the kind of luxury I was lead to believe we were paying for — I needed the complimentary shoehorn to extricate myself from the tiny spa bath — not to mention my displeasure with being disturbed by hotel staff no less than 4 times, during our one night stay!

This is what you’re paying for — the view! It did look pretty cool though.

Aside from the room itself, our stay was most enjoyable. We got gussied up and ate a delicious Cantonese dinner at Silks, and then made our way to the casino floor, where Nao promptly threw red wine at me whilst I was still in my finest (that’s not fair actually — she was bumped, and she did apologise profusely — it’s just funnier this way).

A quick trip up to the room, and a change of clothes later, we returned to the casino and dropped a cool fiddy on the Roulette table. I should preface this by saying we’d just witnessed a guy in a tracksuit lose $1000 in 5 minutes, so needless to say, we didn’t play on that table.

Our system for the placement of our $50 worth of chips on the Roulette table is what became known as “pissing them about”, and after about an hour of doing that Naomi decided to go all in for one last round (well, it was her money after all).

It took me a few seconds to realise that the croupier’s little marker thing was sitting ON ONE OF OUR CHIPS (Nao put that one down — I still officially suck at gambling)! The croupier kindly congratulated Naomi and handed over what can only be described as a shitload of red $5 chips, with a nice little black $100 sweetener chip on top.

You’ve never seen two people run to the cashier so fast.

I estimated our stack to be about $175, but was quickly corrected when the cashier handed us back $240 in cold hard cash, which went towards a spot of shopping on Friday. You gotta love a 4 day weekend.