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Old Jul 26, 2004 | 1:34 pm
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jimcfsus
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Athens, WV, USA; a US cockroach long before it was in FFOCUS; now a lowly US5 for only the 2nd time in 20 years.
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Sleeping advice for LAS

I had the unfortunate experience of missing my connection on UA/Ted to a US redeye on Friday night. I could not find any UA people to assist me, and even when I got one on the phone, they told me to stick it (even though in SFO, they had told the LAS people in my PNR to put me up on a misconnect).

Nonetheless, the US gate people were SUPERB! They tried to get me a cheap room, but it was a Friday night, all everything was booked. So, they showed me a great place to crash at LAS. In Concourse D, there is a place at the front of the terminal called the Kids Play Place. It's a simple room with some things for little kids to crawl on. However, it's carpeted, clean, dimly lit and comfortable. It was quiet except for the music in the background (a decent 70's and 80's light rock mix that was refreshing for me). There was no noise of equipment or slot machines. There were also some benches that I leaned up against as a backrest.

This was definately better than sitting on the hard seats in the brightly lit concourse. For anyone doing a MR to LAS on any of the airlines in Concourse D (US, UA, Delta, Airtran, AA, F8... I probably left one out, forgive me) this is nice. Plus you get the added bonus of dropping a few quarters in a slot machine without having to leave the airport (or even security), should that interest you.
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