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Cary on Friday, March 11th, 2011 |
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(A word of caution when booking hotel rooms in Las Vegas)
Last night my wife and I attended a show and dinner at the Excalibur Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. We earned the right to the show tickets and dinner by attending another timeshare presentation. We will tell you about that presentation later in this blog. The show was called the “Tournament of Kings”.
Anyway, we were sitting next to a couple from Pennsylvania who flew to Las Vegas for the week and had booked into the Excalibur for the week in one of the hotels standard rooms described on Excalibur’s Internet site as: “Our rooms feature warm, comforting tones and hardwood furnishings. Its the perfect place to relax and prepare for your next adventure. Hotel rooms feature cable TV, hair dryers and irons.” What they told us next made our heart jump!
The room they paid for was located at the end of a hall near an exit. Sometime during the night they heard their room phone ring several times. The phone was somewhat muted and they didn’t answer it because they were not expecting any calls and assumed it was a hotel message. They told us that they had $900 cash in the husbands pocket. That was all the money they had for this trip. During the night a thief apparently came into their room at the Excalibur and robbed them of the $900. They were sound asleep and didn’t hear a thing. They did not discover the theft until the next morning. They reported the theft to the Excalibur security and were required to make a police report with the Las Vegas police dept. They had their son-in-law wire money to finish out the week. They did not rent a car while in Las Vegas. They came directly from the Las Vegas airport via shuttle. Chances of recovery are slim to none.
They surmised that it was a inside job from someone at the hotel. The husband, while at the front desk, stuffed his money in his front jeans pocket and that someone saw that. They also figured that the phone ringing was an attempt to determine if anyone was in the room and that the thief came up when no one answered, assuming that the room was empty, and the occupants were in the casino.
So, this article is merely a note for anyone staying at any hotel or motel to exercise caution when doing any type of traveling.
Note: My wife and I have never had anything like this happen at any timeshare resorts we have stayed at. And we keep lots of stuff out during our stays, computers, change on the tables, etc,etc. So far so good!
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