The Trump Hotel in Las Vegas
Double cut pork chop from Trump room service (click to enlarge)
MD and I had to come to Las Vegas – a place we both hate – for a conference. We looked around for the best deal we could get on a hotel, and we found it at the Trump. We went ahead and booked, figuring that it was going to be just like all the other hotels in Las Vegas.
We were wrong.
After just one night it has become our favorite Las Vegas hotel. We can both heartily recommend the Trump International Hotel if you have to stay in Vegas and are looking for something non-Vegas-y.
Why? Many reasons.
First, unlike all the other large hotels in this town, there is no casino on the ground floor. In fact, there is no casino at all. When you come into the hotel, you don’t have to walk through acres of slot machines ding ding dinging. It’s like a regular hotel lobby – nice and quiet and clean.
Second, it is a totally non-smoking establishment. You don’t get to your room smelling like smoke after having had to walk through a phalanx of smokers playing slot machines on the ground floor.
Third, the rooms are terrific. The clerk asked us when we checked in if we wanted to upgrade to a suite for an extra $150 per night. We declined because we weren’t planning on spending a lot of time in the room. When we got to the room, it was of suite-like proportions. A huge bath, a kitchenette, and a monster-sized room. I can’t imagine what the actual suites would be like.
Fourth, the staff is incredibly friendly. In most of the Vegas hotels we’ve stayed in, the staff seems really jaded. Here they have been exceptionally friendly and helpful.
Fifth, the room service food is great. And doesn’t cost a kings ransom as does room service food in just about every hotel in which we’ve ever stayed. The giant – and I mean giant; it’s hard to tell how huge it was from the photo and from the fact that I had eaten half of it before it occurred to me to take the picture – double cut pork chop shown at the top of this post cost $19.00. The serving of steamed asparagus – also half eaten – cost a whopping 5 bucks. It was all cooked exactly as I like it instead of how room service food is typically cooked. We normally don’t use room service because it’s so outrageously expensive, but when we saw the prices on the menu, we couldn’t believe it, and so gave it a whirl. And were very pleasantly surprised.
All in all, the Trump Hotel would be a great hotel anywhere, but in Las Vegas it is a real gem. And well located. It’s right in the middle of everything.
As always, I have no financial affiliation with any Trump enterprise and have not been paid to endorse or recommend.
Hello all: Warning about the coming hollydays, the coming thanksgiving and christmas.
God put in my destiny a The Learning Channel show last night about super-fat people who have to eat 40,000 calories a day in order to stay alive. That show served me as a warning to control myself and stay away from compulsive eating. And indeed, anybody could gain a lot of weight with the food addictions. We must stay away from those people who celebrate every thing with food.
Dr. Mike,
I was fascinated by the discussion of magnesium deficiency and supplementation. (That finally convinced me to order a copy of PPLP!). Anyway, if there’s anything new on magnesium since that book, perhaps you could write a future blog entry on Mg?
Thanks!
Thanks for introducing me to sous vide. First time I’ve heard of it and it sounds great.
Regarding casinos, I understand your reservations, but I do go to Las Vegas once a year or so. My favorite game is craps, and if you know the right bets, the house take is only 0.5%. You can play for hours and be up or down a small amount.
So why would that be worth spending hours doing ? It’s just fascinating seeing all the people’s reactions. It’s wild and fun. It’s a truly random game based on dice rolls, which means that there are streaks of up and down rolls which can last a long time.
The players are also truly random, this is what I like about it. There can be 20 players around the table, an Iowa farmer and his wife with John Deere hats, a couple of hip-hop guys with their girlfriends who have a lot of bling-bling. A rich couple from Hong Kong with a few million to blow. A doctor and his wife in for a convention. A couple of college guys down to their last ten bucks hoping to make enough to pay for their room. An elderly couple celebrating their 50th anniversary, a newlywed couple having their honeymoon.
So you have this completely random diverse group playing a completely random game and all thoughts and emotions are shared on the roll of the dice. The emotion is thick, when a streak goes in the player’s favor the crowd goes wild. When it goes bad everyone commiserates.
It is a really fun experience. Maybe it’s like the hunts of the Paleolithic days, some days are lucky, some days aren’t!
FYI,
There’s another Dean Ornish post on the Tierney blog.
In case you weren’t aware, HDL are the garbage trucks blah blah blah.
Cheers!
Just in case you haven’t read it already, here is my response to the HDL-as-garbage-truck nonsense.
Cheers–
MRE
I have a new WOW statement from someone who should know better. A veterinarian who thinks he’s a human physiologist – Michael Davis. I have never seen such a unsourced stupid comment as this one:
“If you feed a diet that’s very high fat to a human, a lot of humans become obese and they develop type 2 diabetes. And the dogs don’t,” Davis said. “There is no such thing as an obese Type 2 diabetic sled dog despite the fact that they’re eating a diet that should produce that.”
Full article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080926/sc_livescience/iditaroddogsendurancesecretrevealed
This guy should know better studying dogs that were bred to get our food…alas what a poor soul.
-Eric
The depth of their dumbth is astounding.
HELLO EVERYBODY AGAIN: i would like to comment on a couple of things about high protein diets. Well, i would like to comment about metabolism, high protein diet, low carb diets. The thing is that i had a soy protein pancake for dinner, with egg and fat free cheese. But then after a while i got so hungry that i had to eat 8 oz. of baked chicken and some fat free cheese. i think i am eating more calories now than when i used to eat higher in carbs. But i would like to know if high protein diets raise the metabolism and as a result of raising the metabolism, do high protein/low-carb diets increase hunger as well?
Never been to Vegas, but if I do I know where I’m staying!
THANKS Dr. Mike!
Thought you might want to look at the new Science Daily article which suggests that we are all eating too much protein. What about this IGF-1 they are talking about? They seem to think humans and mice should eat the same way.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924151018.htm
It’s too complex to get into in an answer to a comment. Perhaps I should post on it at length.
Trump’s condos here aren’t selling well, so you can really get a great deal on staying there as the unsold units are being rented out per night to keep cash flow happening.
Per getting money at an ATM, Bank of America has ATM’s in the Forum Shops (one near Casa Fuente) that are real B of A machines. IE, no extra fees.
Also, I believe it is Wells Fargo that has a similar machine in Harrah’s Carnival Court.
Hope this helps,
Ted Newkirk
Managing Editor
http://www.accessvegas.com
Thanks for the info.
ANSWER TO LOW CARBER
IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE LATE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BUT…. WTF! DUDE. A SOY PROTEIN PANCAKE, FAT FREE CHEESE? THOSE THINGS ARE LOADED WITH CARBS , THAT IS WHY YOU ARE FEELING HUNGRY…. LESS THAN 20 CARBS PER DAY WILL KEEP YOU WITHOUT CRAVINGS.