Charlie’s Sports Bar at The Wynn, Las Vegas, NV USA

Luis and I ordered club sandwiches at Charlies Sports Bar at The Wynn before his flight home.

Vegas is such a long flight from Boston, but an easy return home. Why is it a solid 6 hours there and just 4.5 back? Are the headwinds that big of a deal?

This seems solvable. Not by me, of course, but by someone much smarter than me.

I digress. I was in Las Vegas for eTourism Summit, a conference I had been going to since 2010. Luck struck us this time though, as the event was at the Wynn… my first time staying here, I was blown away with how nice the property, and more importantly, my hotel room was. While the lobby lacked the energy of other hotels, the room exuded relaxation and comfort… and after all, I was here for work.

48hr trip; meetings, dinners, drinks, lunches, meetings. Yes, it is worth it. You see new people, old friends, colleagues. Attending events is a critical aspect of sales and business development. You need to keep your network strong, and you need to discuss opportunities in person. As someone who is on Zoom calls 8 hours a day, I truly do love meeting people in person.

My last meal of the trip, Luis and I decided to grab lunch and discuss the conference. Our first choice was Red 8, a trendy Chinese restaurant specializing in dumplings. But alas, they had no room, so we ventured over to Charlie’s Sports Bar, an establishment with unassuming anything, and a restaurant that begged the question: “What are you doing at the Wynn?” The home of restaurants easily commanding $200/person, Charlie’s Sports Bar was a spot where it was hard to spend over $50.

We decided to get club sandwiches and compare them, while catching up on life before Luis rushed to the airport for his flight.

Cute plating, loved the baseball and basketball toothpicks, but despised the classic French fry dump. The French fry dump has no place in a world of expensive club sandwiches.

Cheese that seemed to have been melted to the bacon hours before. Turkey that lacked so much flavor you wonder how they could have smoked it, per the menu description. Hard avocado coupled with a flavorless tomato that almost made me shed a tear in pity. Great bread though, I’ll give them that!

This was a poor club sandwich even though it looked decent. Another tale of good execution using terrible ingredients, the person who assembled the club sandwich did a great job while the person who sourced the ingredients should be fired.

At $27 this represented terrible value, even in Las Vegas, and even at The Wynn.

We finished our conversation, shared some laughs, and bid goodbye, another successful trip on the books.

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