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| - Rather than aimlessly wandering the casino, my friends and I decided to stop by the Baccarat Lounge while waiting for our dinner reservation. We had about 45 minutes to kill and a thirst to quench.
The ambiance was nice--a rounded, dim area in the center of the casino, with small tables and booth-like seating suitable for intimate gatherings. As we sat down, a woman greeted us and checked our IDs. A minute later, she returned and asked if we were ready to order our drinks--we weren't, so she left. She didn't come back for a long time, by which point we had decided on a $50 bottle of wine to split among three of us, and as one of us didn't want anything. The woman suddenly became unfriendly, and declared the one-drink minimum and actually said that he had to leave if he didn't order anything. So he just said he would also share the wine with us, and she nodded and walked away.
...and never came back. The people who arrived after us all received their drinks, and we waited and waited. Nearly 15 minutes had passed, and we were still unacknowledged. Frustrated, I walked up to the register area and asked to cancel the wine, explaining that we had waited a long time and that we had to leave unless they gave us the wine immediately. The same woman looked sideways and down at the bottle of wine (with four glasses) on a tray and basically shrugged me off while the woman next to her just said okay.
Angry, the four of us just left. We were astonished by how rude those women were. It appeared that they ignored our group simply because of our age. We were the youngest group present, but we were certainly able and willing to pay for a bottle of wine. But hey, if they didn't want our patronage, we weren't willing to stay to be disrespected like that.
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