Well, good morning, adventurers. Good morning and welcome to a very, very sunny Las Vegas. Y'all, we just drove here from Colorado, and boy are we so happy to be in warm, sunny weather. Yes. So, Vegas is obviously known for having some super cheap, kind of sey hotels. But it is also known for having some of the most fancy, most extravagant, and expensive hotels in the entire world. And that got us wondering, what would it be like to stay at the absolute cheapest hotel we could find on the Las Vegas strip and then immediately go to a super fancy $1,000 a night penthouse? We're going to go from the very bottom to the very tippy top.

Well, it's not the very tippity top. They have rooms for like $100,000. That's nothing that we are ever going to experience in our lives. So, $1,000 it is. But yeah, believe it or not, we found a hotel room on the Vegas strip that is only $10 a night. And I'm assuming it's not the type of place you'd want to bring a black light into. Oh, for sure not. But we're going to do it anyway. To prepare for this trip, we did all of our research, y'all. We watched Conair. We watched The Hangover for maybe the hundth time. Yes. And we didn't leave out the absolute best Vegas movie of all time, and that is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The first hotel we're heading to is actually a big inspiration for a lot of scenes from this movie. All right.

So, uh, what's the score here? What's next? All right. Why don't you just lead the way, Mr. Duke? Vegas. Here it comes. So, it turns out that the cheapest hotel that we could possibly find that's on the Vegas strip is here at the Circus Circus, which is just a freaking awesome looking hotel, isn't it, you guys? They just lit up the marquee. It looks so sweet. This is legit Vegas vibes. I feel like the more lights the better. This is at kind of the butt end of the Vegas strip. Like, this is like the nose bleeds of Vegas. And that becomes very apparent when you see this hotel. It is very lackluster,

very simple, and uh very old. I believe the word is charming, aged like a fine wine. My favorite part is this crazy circus sign that they have over here with the clown with the lollipop. It is so iconic and so creepy. But did you notice that it looks like his boots and his bottom of his pants burned up? Is that just from heat? It looks like he caught on fire at some point. All right. Well, I am very anxious to see what our $10 room is going to get us. All right, let's go check in. Well, so far there are absolutely no signs that tell you what the heck to do, but eventually we just followed the crowd and found I guess they have a registration kiosk thing. Who needs people when you got machines?

They do try to encourage you to upgrade though. These rooms, I guess, are the renovated ones and they look a little bit nicer, but heck no. We want the crappy room. I want carpet and curtains from like the 80s. Well, we're all checked in and they have a huge parking garage and it's all included. Free parking and base. What's with the shoe prints on the little uh beam here? Is that like a gum wall kind of thing? Yeah, that's pretty great. Or were these all laying down at one point? Nobody knows.

We walked in and this guy said, "Let me give you guys your gifts." I want a gift, man. We thought we were getting hooked up with some like discounts or drink vouchers. He's trying to sell us on a time share. Yep. Would somebody It's like for their time shares for the circus. We didn't stick around to find out. We said, "Uh, no, we don't want to go to the presentation." That is a-ok. Okay. Although you can do that and get a lot of free stuff, but it ain't worth the time, baby. We have made it to the 21st floor of the Skyrise. And right when the elevator door opens, you get hit in the face.

Punched in the face, I should say, with cigarette smoke smell. Uh, weed, I believe, sir. Well, it all smells the same to me, man. All right. This should be us. Lucky number 21736, which is going to be really easy to remember. Seriously, after going out and about. Oh, okay. Well, it's bigger than I thought it was going to be. Definitely spacious. I will give them that. Other than this big old rip in the carpet right over here, the room is in surprisingly decent condition considering how much has probably went

down in here. There aren't too many visible stains, that's for sure. We got to bust out the black light, though. We're actually really hoping we don't see a lot of stuff because we still have to sleep here tonight, you guys. Maybe we should wait until the morning. Yeah. To see what we slept in. Oh, god. But then we could shower it off. It'll be fine. I guess at this level it doesn't come with uh art. All the walls are completely bare except for this whatever that is. Call this sir. This is a masterpiece. To get this $10 room we had to do something where they got to choose the room. We

had no control over that. This is the worst room I saw on the website. Makes sense that this is the room that we get. Yeah. So this is the very dated room. They have some updated rooms which you guys saw on the kiosk. You get those at the 12 and $14 price point. Maybe one day, kid. Maybe we'll be that luxurious. I guess tomorrow we'll be that luxurious. We will. Our view seems to be of more of the circus, which could also potentially be a Soviet area hospital. But then right behind it is the Hilton Resorts World.

You actually have a view of that huge sphere. The whole thing is a screen, and they put all kinds of like promotions and ads and videos on that. Y'all, I noticed a little something on the uh little ledge down there beneath our window. It's like a giant busted lollipop and a weird piece of gum. It seems incredibly appropriate for the circus, though. It does. As expected, it is very bare bones in here. All of the furniture is mismatched. Although, they do have a big workstation. They do have a couple little uh USB ports. That's got to be worth something, huh? Yeah. The future, man. They also have lots of storage, but no refrigerator or microwave or anything like that. So, you got to pay $12 for that.

$12. I guess that means we'll be doing takeout or eating somewhere in here. Is the rule that we also have to eat in the hotel we're in? We never said that. We didn't. So, stay tuned. Is this what it looked like originally, like when they built it in the ' 80s or the '90s? Or was it renovated in the '8s and '90s, and that's why it's got this vibe? I don't know. But they are sticking with whatever this is. Well, this might be my favorite thing so far. Look at this door, you guys.

All right. Um, I'm pretty sure we had a couch that looked like this when I was growing up. Let's get a little look at the bathroom. They've got a ton of counter space. That's pretty nice. And it's very, very spacious. Check this out. Ooh, I didn't expect for there to be real stone. Woo! Luxurious. And more funky wallpaper, of course. During our road trip, we've been staying in a lot of just random like Motel 6es, Motel 8s, and they are much, much worse than this and cost way more. This is not too bad, y'all, by our standards.

It's rough around the edges, you know. Needs a little bit of work here and there, but for 10 bucks, I will take it. Yeah. And you're in Vegas, so you're not going to be in your room that much anyway. Exactly. Well, obviously this room is boring as heck. And I think we're going to wait until the sun goes down to do the black light test. See what stuff is lurking on the surface. Put it off as long as possible. So, I guess we're going to go explore the Circus and see what it has to offer.

The sun's going down, so we just My microphone's messed up. I was like, "What's happening?" I have it taped onto my chest. Show it. Prove it. I told you it's messed up. Look at that P90X body. Oh, yeah. Look, I got abs now, you guys. You do. We're getting derailed. It's funny that this is the most benign thing happening on this trip right now. No one's even noticing this. We just popped outside for sunset. For some reason, Vegas at sunset is just magical to me. I know it's just a bunch

of buildings in the desert, but the way the light reflects off of it and everything, it's awesome. But I was reading a little bit about the Circus Casino. And apparently this part here and that tent back there is the original structure. Like it was just a casino. That's all they built. And then eventually they added the three buildings behind there that are the actual hotel towers. You guys, I also read that they had elephants that people would ride around and also monkeys that would walk around the casino floor and interact with people, you know, back in the day. They wouldn't do that now obviously before PETA. I guess you could have the monkey pull the slot

thing for you. How awesome would that be? Look what we found. This is the rotating little casino area. This used to actually be a bar way back in the day. Yes. In fact, this was the bar that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas based theirs on. Such a funny scene. Hilarious scene. Also, I'm sure some of you are not loving how much we love that movie, but it is a hoot. It's one of my favorites. Well, I think it is time to do the black light. Do we dare? Doesn't this just remind you of being a kid? I feel like we all had black lights just like this at some point.

We were trying to figure out where to get a black light from. And I was like, "Oh, just get it from a Spencer's cuz they always had that when we were little." If you know that still, you know. What about Tower Records? Huh? Deep cut. You do know once we plug this in, we can't go back. Are we doing it? We must go forward. Okay, hold on. I got to turn the whole light off. Oh, what do we got? Oh. Oh, there is a bunch of stuff. Okay, so this is where somebody was murdered, obviously. It's funny. Your mind just like, oh, that's blood.

Yeah. No pooling on the carpet, it seems. So, that's okay. So, the walls are covered in stuff. Don't touch the walls. The walls are lava. Well, listen, man. We can have stains anywhere in this place. As long as they're not on the bed, I'm good. There's definitely what I'm assuming are like hand marks. Allison said that's ectoplasm. What do you guys think? We got some goop on the curtains. Yummy. Okay, I'm impressed that the floor doesn't have more stuff. But guys, look at my shoes. Dude, you look like you ran a rave.

Yeah, dude. I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and they were in like a murder scene that had happened in a house and they're like, "Oh, let's turn on the black lights." And they had black lights all over the house. They turned them on and there were just blood splotches everywhere all over the house. Zach, it scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Just the thought that it's there, but you can't see it, it's kind of freaky. Well, in classic $10 hotel style, the restaurant we wanted to eat at, which gets a 2.0, by the way, was supposed to close at 10:00 p.m. As you can see, it's 8:30. They're closed already. Y'all, we don't usually gamble in Vegas. We're

going to take a gamble on Chinese food at a $10 hotel. Maybe this is the universe saying that was a bad idea. We dodged the bullet on that one. So, instead, I think we're going to have something delivered to the casino. Yeah. Thanks, Ubres. Our food has finally arrived. It took about an hour. So, now it is past 10:00 p.m. Allison decided at the cheapest hotel she's going to dress in the cheapest possible way. Well, he took so long I didn't want to have clothes on anymore, so I got comfy cozy. I promise I have pants on underneath.

Well, don't ruin the illusion. Here's to late nights and eating poorly and making great but terrible decisions. All right, our late night dinner is finally served. So, this is how people like us do Vegas. But I'm ready to see how people who really do Vegas in a $1,000 a night hotel room. Y'all, that's easily the more than we've ever spent on a hotel room. Easily. That was basically our rent in San Francisco for an entire month. Could $1,000 a night ever be worth it? I guess we're going to find out. I'm going to put this away so we can eat. Yes, please. I'm so It smells so good and I'm so hungry. Get in there. We are officially headed to our fancy hotel room. But why are we in some creepy alley? Because our $1,000 a night

hotel room does not come with free parking. No, it does not. You'd have to pay $20. And uh we didn't want to do that. So, we found free parking next door and we're walking. Well, I feel like we already paid our dues at the Circus and we have earned a bit of an upgrade. A huge freaking upgrade, actually. So, there are obviously a lot of very fancy, very, very expensive hotels in Vegas. Some of them well over $1,000, $2,000, $5,000. There's like $100,000 suites you can get, but we are nowhere near that level. We're not even thousand fancy, but that is like the max we're willing to go.

Yes. Plus, it is our wedding anniversary, y'all. We've been married for 18 years, so we figured this is the perfect opportunity to splurge for one night. We're only staying one night. We found out that some weeks a hotel will go for like 100 bucks and it'll go for 500 bucks. But this penthouse at the Bellagio is basically consistently $1,000 a night. That is what you have to pay to enter. All right, but it is officially check-in time, and I want to spend every second I possibly can in this room because of the price tag. So, let's go see what a $1,000 night penthouse suite on the Vegas strip is actually like.

This way. Let's go to decadence and opulence and all the fancy adjectives. Well, this already blows circus circuits out of the water. I mean, look at this. Holy cow. This is Vegas. Looks like we have found the check-in desk. There are real people working here, huh? you guys, because it's our anniversary, they gave us $150 for food and beverage. And now I think we are on the very top floor, you guys, to the elevators. The elevator to the penthouse. And you guys might notice Allison's dressing a lot more fancy for this hotel.

I'm sure it's just because we were at the circus, but this hotel seems really, really fancy and really faking nice, you guys. Just like everything is so well done. There's this beautiful tile work and marble everywhere. Everything is spotlessly clean. Everyone's happy and smiling. The ceilings are high. It's very cool. This is it, you guys. 32006. And look at this door. Oh, man. Gigantic. Wow. Oh, yeah. This will do. Oh my word, y'all. This place is crazy. This will do. It smells like a new house.

I think these rooms actually are renovated recentlyish, but it definitely shows. Everything in here is squeaky clean and seems brand spanking new. Yeah, I can get used to this, but I'm not gonna cuz we're only here for one night. Listen, at this price point, shouldn't all this fancy booze and stuff be included? Is it not? I'm assuming not. I really hope that wasn't pressure sensitive because the refrigerator definitely is. Is that what they do?

Oh, no. Oh, IT DOES HAVE A PRESSURE PLATE. AND I'VE TAKEN IT OFF three times. Are they going to charge me for three bottles of whiskey? Well, I guess it's not the worst thing that could have happened. So, this is the fountain view penthouse suite at the Bellagio, y'all. We are way up high. The fountain is right outside of our window. This sucker is over 1,500 square ft, y'all. Our apartment in San Francisco was like a little over 300 350 ft² or something. So, this is about the size of five of those.

We slept in a closet. It was a studio apartment and we built a loft bed in the closet. Oh, how far we've come. Oh, how far. Now we can handle one night at a fancy hotel. Yes. So this is the gigantic entryway. I think there's a restroom over there. There is a full-on wet bar over here. We have confirmed the booze is not included. You guys have already kind of seen the living room area, but they've got tons of seating. One of the biggest TVs, maybe the biggest we've ever seen in the hotel, but man, I feel like we should have invited a bunch of friends or something. This is way too big for the two of us. Exactly. It was crazy. It's just one bedroom. This is not a pullout couch or anything, but with all this space, it's

too much for two people. We actually have some friends that are in town at a much crappier hotel, but do we need to invite them over and have a penthouse party? I feel like we have to now. Yeah. And then over here, we have, I guess, the dining area where we will probably be having our um uh what do you call when you get food delivered to the room? Room service. Did you just have a little brain malfunction there? All right, first look at the budoir. My god. Okay, this is the size of a hotel room. This is a normal hotel room.

This is too much room for us. Oh my god, this is amazing. They have a button to open the curtains. No, they do. So fancy. Amazing. Are you guys seeing this view? Oh my. Oh man, check this out. Wo, we're really high up. Do not look down. Oh my goodness. All right, this is pretty freaking sweet. We can see to these suites straight down below. They have their own private little pool with a terrace and a jacuzzi. What does that cost? Oh my gosh. I don't know. And some people have like balconies over here. Wow. This feels like we don't deserve this kind of a view.

Oh, we deserve it. Look at all those peasants roaming around on the streets. Well, in addition to maybe the world's best view, we've got an epic king-size bed, a little thing to sit on down here and ponder. Is that what you do on this? To be super fancy on to lays upon more seating, another huge TV over here. I think they have his and her bathrooms. Oh, yeah. Well, I have no words. It's so fancy. A huge like jacuzzi tub. All marble floors. Like the lighting in here is just pristine. I love lighting like this because it's very flattering on your face. It's like, look how good I look in a $1,000 penthouse.

A full-on closet robe. Yes. What do we have in bathroom number two is basically the same size as the other one, but in here we have a shower. Another toilet room. Oh, they got all kinds of things. They got a BUTT WASH. OH NO. OH GOD. That's okay. We were really scared we were going to get sprayed by the robot toilet. That horrified me. It opened up and hit my hand. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT was happening. I will tell you this is a rare occurrence in the US of A. They never have fancy bedet toilets and stuff. Especially like this. Like it has a whole control bar. This looks like your a DVD player or something. Look at these little icons. It's a little butt and

then she's just enjoying herself on the toilet. They have some weird control in the shower. I wonder what the heck it does. Don't you dare touch it. You know me too well. I know. Do fancy people know what these are? I don't. No clue, man. Man, how long do people stay here, y'all? Are you staying like weeks at a time? Jeez. Yeah, it only costs a yearly salary. Well, next time one of y'all does it, invite us. Yeah, we'll happily come and fill up these drawers with you.

Now, we mentioned we have some friends in town. It's actually Joy and Russ. They joined us in Tulum. Yeah. They've just been out roaming around and checking out Las Vegas a little bit. We actually saw them from the window and they danced for us. But we figured this is way too much room for just two people, so we invited them up. I think they're they're just at the door now. Welcome, friends. Enter. Oh my goodness. It's welcome to luxury to our penthouse where we live. What do you guys think? Flowers is setting. And it's huge.

Crazy. I think it's bigger than my house. This is 1500 ft, y'all. Is it really? Yeah. Come on. Pretty much bigger. Actually bigger than our house. Joey, there's a whole other bathroom over there. Everyone gets your own bathroom. Walk into that toilet room. See what happens. Walk in there. Just walk in there. Just walk all the way in there. Is that a TV? It's a robot toilet. Well, we have our room credit and we were going to go to a restaurant overlooking the fountain and then we looked up how much those restaurants are.

One of them was $400 a person. Yeah. So, instead we are going to have room service. The prices for room service are still a bit high, but not that high. Hi. Yeah. I'd like to place an order. We'll do the shakurerie and cheese board the 14oz ribeye. Can we do that? Medium rare. Okay. Thank you. And that's how you order food like a boss. And it's free. My favorite thing. I was trying to think when was the last time we even had room service of any kind. I don't know cuz either you stay at a place where you do not want that room service or we cannot afford that room service.

Hi, how are you? Come on in. May I bring this in? Yes, please. A steak. Gosh. Yes. And a jacer lunch meat and cheese. Our food has arrived. It is all in to- go containers because they do something uh an express dinner or like a fullon dinner. The full on one took how long? They double at least an hour and a half to 2 hours. This was about 45 minutes. So, so this isn't quite what we expected. We thought we were going to have like this whole fancy, you know, like in the movies when they have the cart that has all the silverware and stuff. But let's be honest, this is exactly what we deserve. You guys, I want to move this. This is maybe like 50 lbs right here. Like what is this?

I don't know. This is classic hotel craft. Silver orbs in a glass gold bowl. But the thing is at the circuit circus, this would be plastic, but here it's real metal, baby. That's what you're paying for. Mhm. You could knock somebody out with this stuff. Got some pretty decent looking bread. Rustin went with the chicken tenders. Joy went with a big old cheese shakuderie thing. It'd be a little bit classier if it was like on a board, you know, but this is what we got. And then we went with the ribeye.

How much would you guys expect to pay for this ribeye? Because it was $69. It's a pretty penny. But happy anniversary. And most importantly, we did not pay for those. We were right. We did not. Or else we would have all had the chicken tenders. We're still like $29, y'all. Y'all, we have stayed up entirely too late. I can't stop looking at this view out here. It is fantastic. It's so cool. We're really trying to like take it in as much as we can because it's so expensive. The view's so amazing. And then after this, we're

going back to the crab. We are going to no views, five views only of parking lots. It's next door, but it's called the jockey club and it's a lot worse. This has been a wonderful magical anniversary. All right, I guess we got to go to bed. Good night. We'll put them in here. Put you guys to bed. Get on in there. Sleep tight. Uhoh. Well, good morning y'all. If you thought we were leaving without using this beautiful tongue tub. If you thought we were leaving without using this beautiful tub, you were wrong. Dead wrong, y'all. Somehow the water was hot

immediately. I don't know. It's just perfect. Like I don't know that I've seen such a beautiful tub anywhere. Well, obviously this is just like luxury vibes for sure. But I'm going to just go ahead and say I'm in love with this freaking toilet. I mean, look at it. It does everything except say hello to you. But I must say one day, well, less than one day is not enough. I feel like we did not really get the luxury experience. So, book two days at least so you get like a full 24 hours. All right, but we have to actually check out very soon cuz it's 11:00 a.m. checkout and it's almost at 11:00 a.m. So, Alison's going to enjoy her bath and then we're getting the heck out of here.

Back to our normal life of not luxury. Not even close. Okay, bye. Okay. Well, I mean, I guess they got to go. I can stay. Yeah, you put them away and come back in. See you guys in a bit. Well, I sure am going to miss this place. This view just does not get old, you guys. It's fantastic. I actually noticed that two of the lights last night were like red while the rest were white. And now this morning, there's this little platform out there, and these guys are all working on it. But I guess the real question is, was our $1,000 penthouse worth it for one night? Probably not.

I'm glad we did it once for a special occasion. I feel like splurging on something like that is a Okay. And our anniversary, you know. Yeah, exactly. The things that are worth it though, the view. Uh the toilet. I'm in love with the freaking toilet. I got to get me one of those. There's nothing you're stuck on the toilet. Out of all of these things, you'll pay a,000. I mean, that toilet probably does cost $1,000. I know they gave us that credit, but I just in general, I thought getting this room would come with like some free booze or

some champagne or something like that. So, that was kind of a let down. The room service was literally just some crappy to-go containers and the food wasn't anything special for a very high price tag. So, that was kind of a let down. We still made quite a mess, though, as you can see. Yeah, I tried to do like a little mess montage this morning, but it's like we just didn't trash I feel like we needed to trash this place more. We need to have like an epic raanger. We need to like knock some stuff over. Yeah, there's still time. Let's flip this thing. Oh, this is really heavy. Allison just found out you can actually pull up your bill on the TV. And they did not charge us for any of the booze

that I kept lifting off the little pressure plates. But yes, this room was a little bit over $1,000, but we're still going to call that, you know, about $1,000. And then, of course, with all the room tax and resort fee, that's how they get you. But we are about 5 minutes past checkout and we're going to get the knock any moment cuz I'm sure they're pretty vigilant about that. So, take it in one last time. Our beautiful Vegas view. I feel like I haven't even been looking at the camera this whole time. I've just been staring out there. All right, let's get out of here.

All right, back to reality. Amazing, beautiful villa. It's been fun. Well, I guess we should say bye to them. Oh, all right. Goodbye, adventures. We'll see you on the road. Okay, now let's get the heck out of here.