Las Vegas

There have been a few posts on here if you do a search cause i dont know how to post the links etc..i too would love to go to Vegas..Its looks fab.Know a few people have been and stayed in The Luxor on the strip and thought it was fab.Would also love to hear anyones recommendations...

Have been to Vegas a few times. We have never bothered with the Grand Canyon trip as didn't fancy the coach journey or driving there ourselves. Our daughters went on one of the trips there on a previous visit and felt air sick when they went on the light plane flying round the Grand Canyon. Have stayed at Luxor and found the accommodation a bit tired, in need of a bit of a refurbishment. You can often get good deals on hotels on the strip by going on each hotels website. Normally you only have to pay for the first night's stay and it can be cancelled up to 48 hours before with a refund, so we start with one hotel and keep monitoring prices and deals and have changed our hotel 3 times each time for a better hotel or price. I have stayed at Excalibur which is a reasonable value hotel, no baths in rooms though, only a large shower. Monte Carlo rooms were very good and clean. Mirage good. Aladdin a good location, rooms good there. Paris hotel, got upgraded to a premier room which was lovely. Treasure Island good as well. The last 3 hotels are all almost centre strip so a good location. We try airline network, expedia and ebookers for flights. You can also fly Delta etc if you are happy to have a change in America, but it makes the flight really long and tiring. Make sure you sign up for frequent flyer miles with whichever airline you fly with. If you take out a BMI credit card with mbna I think they still offer 20,000 free miles. We have enough miles with them now to convert to a free virgin flight to Orlando this March. Daughter is in Vegas at the moment, making good use of the buffets and shopping, she is staying in Flamingo which she is also very pleased with. Hope some of this helps.

Las Vegas was a stunning place to visit and an amazing experience but wouldn't want to go back.... did the Grand Canyon Helicopter tour , stunning couldn't praise it highly enough..... also flew over the Hoover Dam and the Lakes on the way to the Canyon . We took the Champagne Breakfast trip down into the Canyon , I think I was speechless for the whole trip it was so spectacular and stunning ... we landed on the edge of the river for breakfast and were able to just wander for an hour or so..... The silence was deafening ....
We stayed at Circus Circus and found it an OK hotel , most people just there for the gambling and hardly left the hotel for their whole stay... enjoyed just wandering the strip and investigating the other hotels , Bellagio was the most spectacular methinks

ENJOY

As others have said , the trip to the Grand Canyon is well worth it , it's a must do IMO. I've been 3 times , the first was a coach and plane trip including a visit to the Hoover Dam. Wouldn't recommend it as you don't get such a good view on the plane and half the passengers (including me ) were sick. The other two times were helicopter trips and were fantastic , the view is much better , the ride is much smoother (though I was sick on a helicopter trip in Hawaii recently :rolleyes: ) and you land in the canyon ,plus if you go at the right time you'll get to fly over the strip in the dark.

Another trip we enjoyed was a jeep trip to Red Rock Canyon.

Another must for me in Vegas is to eat at the Cheesecake Factory and also get some Krispy Kreme donuts from the Excalibur Hotel

If you are going to use Expedia get upto 5% cashback from Quidco, booked to go to Milan and got about £35 cashback a few months ago, tracked prettly quickly but took a while to payout.