Playing Golf in the Las Vegas Desert

January 21, 2008

My last trip to Vegas started at the end of November last year (so far away already) and I’d taken a few friends with me as I’d made some profit from them playing poker online. We’d done the usual gambling and drinking all week, and decided for our last day we’d try something different and play a round of golf.

We all play golf back in the UK, although not very often and not very well, so we were looking for a course which was not going to be too up-market and as such also quite cheap. We found one which was advertising $19 for a round, and so got a taxi from outside our hotel to there.

It was quite a way out, past downtown and a lot further still. Once we got there everything seemed fine, we got some clubs and a couple of buggy’s and of we went. The course was fine, a bit scruffy but then so were we, and we had a good game with some wayward shots and a little bit of buggy racing.

However then we finished and it was time to make our way back. We returned to the clubhouse and asked there if we could have a taxi called for us, only to be told ‘F*$king Hell, why is it always the last people who come in and need a taxi’. OK, so we decided to leave and find a taxi somewhere else, the only problem being that we couldn’t find one!

The area had some fast food restaurants and shops around, but no taxi’s. We called one and decided to eat while we waited. An hour later nothing had turned up. We tried another number, still no joy. Eventually we went to try and find a bus, which turned up after an hour or so and got us to downtown where we jumped straight in a taxi back to our hotel.

Altogether it took us 5 hours to get back to our rooms, half the time it would take to fly back to London Gatwick the next day!

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