Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2015

Winter_Jasmine wrote: »

a sick day in Vegas is better than a great day in work!!

I love this. Someone should make it into a bumper sticker!

Hovis91 wrote: »

Can anyone who has managed to bag some of the myvegas buffets for 2 please tell me approximately what time did you get them??Tried today on the hour and 1/2 past but no joy,much preferred the 3pm regular top up of rewards!!Typical got 720k worth of lps and 4 rewards and I will probably struggle to use them if it carries on like this!!

hi
Im sure someone said a few pages back it had changed from 3pm to pretty random times.

My experince though was around this time 9.30-10pm, for when we got our rewards in late may (this year) for our trip in june
we got the mgm buffet for 2, the mandaly bay 2 4 1,the miragex2 lunch buffet and i cant recall the other buffer we got, but we also went for the ny ny rollerocaster(never again !:o)

I also think the more popular ones go quickly, so maybe its a bit hit n miss?

hope this helps and best of luck !

It was me that asked about the 2x buffets being hard to get.
As Bobby says,we were informed that the renewal time s now random.
A couple of days later I managed to get the 2 x mirage dinner buffets at 8 o clock in the evening.it is more of a nuisance not having a "set time" but I just left the spare iPad on the rewards page,and refreshed it every half hour or so..got lucky fairly quickly,without too much hassle.

Vegas Trip ( no 14 or 15 can't quite remember!)

16/7-30/7

Flights

Flew direct with Virgin from Manchester. In the bubble on the way out, didn't have to pay to choose seats as booked before this was introduced. I chose the seats behind the exit seats as I thought they were less likely to recline due to having all the leg room and they didn't recline all flight. It was a nice quiet flight, very good service and drinks didn't run out. Older plane on the way back and had paid for seat plus, it was a full flight so did appreciate the extra seat, however you get allocated this at check in and it was on row 45 which is next to toilets which I didn't like but OH and son found it very convenient just to stand up and be at the loo (boy thing maybe?). I actually managed to sleep and woke up with 1hr 30mins to go so best flights yet, oh except for landing in Vegas, I struggle more each time with this felt very ill. immigration was quickest yet, straight through.
We used mostly miles to pay for flights cost about £900 total for 3 of us.

Hotels.

As we need 2 rooms for the 3 of us this can be expensive so we booked an apartment via VRBO at Grandview. These are opposite Southpoint, a casino we like. We have used VRBO for villas in Vegas and had no probs. The apartment was 2 seperate 1 beds that share a front door but then have a separate door to each apartment (if that makes sense!) it worked out very well for us. There are a few pool areas and you could always get a bed no matter what time of day. Plenty of room and you can move beds about not squashed in like a lot of strip hotels. It's also a different atmosphere not a Vegas one at all, very little drinking and more families so definately not your typical Vegas pool. So wouldn't recommend for most Vegas goers but it suited us. They are open 8am-midnight so longer than hotels, not that we used it at midnight! I prefer

Luxor

We stayed here for first night using myvegas (2 rooms). not stayed here before and found it just OK, wouldn't choose again it seemed a bit tired to me, we were just in pyramid rooms so i'm sure Tower rooms are better.

Monte carlo

Offer via Mlife for BOGO. Stayed for 2 nights. Have stayed before and like it here, just a basic room didn't try for upgrade.

Sunset Station

Free night from myvegas and you don't have to pay resort fees unlike 'free' nights at MGM hotels. Again its OK nothing fancy but we were at the waterpark thats near here so worked well for us.

Food

We eat very casual even had a few nights in as we had full kitchen and walmart!
My son was on a mission to find best burger. Having never tried In n Out this was obviously a must. So we compared Fatburger, In N Out and Steak and Shake (didn't make it to 5 guys). For me fries animal style at In n Out, burger with egg from Fatburger, cost at Steak n Shake but overall In n Out was declared winner.

Buffets

MGM (myvegas) Found this very disappointing. Cold food, dry fried chicken just not a great experience.

Monte Carlo (myvegas) Quite enjoyed this, not a huge choice but hot. Self serve soft drinks and coffee.

Red Rock lunch buffet (myvegas) I thought this was excellent value for money ($9 if paying) Great salad selection and lots of other choice.

Southpoint ($17 for 3) Paid mainly with slot points. Free mai-tai's and a coupon for free bottle of wine so yes really enjoyed this one!

Sunset Breakfast (myvegas) Can't really mess up on breakfast, however not sure about apple cinnamom pizza and scrambled egg pizza...

Like Jasmine Sterling Brunch has been on my list to do for a while and we finally made it. My OH loved it, its definately quality over quantity and the champagne is free flowing. We paid $85 each, $5 off with players card. Not worth it for our son but we tried to make up the cost for him with the champagne, hubby did a good job of this! The blue cheese mash with fillet mignon....lovely...

thank you for the trip report bubble113 , As i said up the page its always nice to see vegas from someone elses viewpoint, so thanks for taking the time to share your experince,I often try see things that we may have missed and put it on a list of things to do in vegas,though there is NO WAY in france(family forum mind!) i will do a sky dive!
On a side note, i ve noticed people mention "in the bubble", what is this?
Prehaps im a novice in regards flying though

Planning our trip for next year, so best of luck you you too !:D