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Today our plan was to start with the Gondola Ride at the Venetian & Palazzo Hotels.
I dropped everyone off at the Palazzo Hotel which is the closest entrance to The Gondola Ride. Barbara, my wife, would head to the ride to purchase the tickets while I went to park the Tesla. Chris, my nephew, rode with me in the Tesla to the parking location. Initially I was going to park at the Mirage Hotel which would be free since it is another MGM brand hotel like the Delano where we are staying. Then I thought I should maybe just park at the Venetian and pay the $20 Self-Parking Fee. But when I saw how far the parking garage was from The Gondola Ride, I figured if I was going to pay $20 for parking, I might as well park at the Tesla chargers at The Linq and at least get my car charged up for free while parked.
Everything in Las Vegas is further away than it looks. I think that is because of how tall the hotels are on the Las Vegas Strip. One hotel can be right next to another, or maybe just two hotels down, and look close by when in reality they are a pretty good walking distance. It looked like the Linq Hotel was just a couple of hotels down from the Venetian Hotel but it was actually more than a half mile away! It was a good thing I had dropped everyone off at the Palazzo except for Chris as they would have had a very hard time walking that distance. I used to walk 3 miles every day just for exercise and really need to get back to doing that, so a half mile walk is no problem for me. Both Chris and I walk pretty fast so it would not take us too long to join back up with our group.
As I mentioned in a report from a previous day, the GPS in the Tesla provides the code needed to enter the charging parking lot at the Linq Hotel. Once I entered the lot I parked at one of the many empty Destination Charger parking spaces. When I arrived there were a few other Tesla vehicles at the Supercharging parking spots and a couple of other Tesla at the Destination Chargers. It now makes sense to me why there are so many Destination Chargers at this location along with the great number of Tesla Superchargers. I would be parking here for several hours today. If I left my Tesla in a Supercharging parking spot, I would be fined by Tesla $1 per hour for every hour after my Tesla was fully charged. A Supercharger would have my Tesla fully charged in about an hour or less so that would be a fine of several dollars by the time I returned. But, because they have so many Destination Chargers also at this location, I parked at one of those. Once I plugged in, the Tesla said that it would take about 4 hours to completely charge my Tesla. So, by using a Destination Charger a Tesla can sit in this parking lot for several hours and charge up without getting fined and without blocking any Supercharging spots that might be needed by other Tesla vehicles. The two times that I've come to this Tesla Charging Location there have always been a great number of Destination Charging spots available so I definitely did not feel I was blocking anyone from using those by leaving my Tesla parked at one for several hours.
As I was walking from the Tesla charging location at The Linq towards the Venetian & Palazzo Hotels, I noticed the above poster in from of The Piano Bar while walking and taking an air conditioned short cut through Harrah's casino. Both Barbara and I love jazz, especially when saxophones are featured. I made a note to check this out later in the week.
The Venetian is known for its living statues. The above are real people standing very still to look like statues.
Since our group had moved down the Las Vegas Strip from the Mirage to the Bellagio, we were now closer to the Linq Hotel where the Tesla chargers are located. It would still be quite a walk for others in our group but was a fairly easy walk for me. The only inconvenience was that I had to go over two different pedestrian bridges to get to the Linq Hotel. The way everything is arranged in Las Vegas they don't make the shortest path from one location to another obvious.
As you can see from the above photos, the Tesla Charging Area at the Linq Hotel is almost under the giant wheel of the High Roller ride. Notice how empty this entire Tesla Charging location is. I don't know if it is always this empty on a Monday night or if it is just because it is Labor Day. Sometimes there are quite a few Tesla vehicles at both the Superchargers and the Destination Chargers but there have always been plenty charging spots still empty each of the two times I've been there. There are so many Superchargers and so many Destination Chargers that it is hard to imagine them all being in use at the same time.
The cost to park in this Tesla Charging parking lot at the Linq Hotel was only $15 this time unlike the $20 that it cost when I parked here on the weekend to charge.
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