Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 2010-2012 Kapa Haka Tour of Western USA 1998 | Page 173

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Rihi with a view up Las Vegas Boulevard (The Strip) from the front of Excalibur Hotel/Casino.

The hotel rooms were 5m by 15m with two
double beds, telephone, television, drawers,
wardrobe and bathroom. The showers were
stingingly forceful with soaps, shampoos, shower
caps and towels all provided.
The telephones were immediately used as
the group rang up each others rooms (and a few
that were not part of the groups’).
The normal room rate was US$275 per day
for three people, but we got a better deal through
Karen Rancilio at US$40 per room!

Breakfast was all together on the ground
floor in the Round Table Buffet and paid for out of
the putea at $5 per head. The selection was vast
but no-one could go back for seconds! Food
plates looked pretty full.
Before the group broke up and headed off to
explore Las Vegas and its wonders, each pupil
received a cash allowance for their lunch and told
when to be back at the Round Table for the
evening meal if they wanted their meal paid for
from the group funds.

The front driveway of Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas.