Las Vegas thread and MSE guide 2009

stoneman

The Bellagio Fountains

pebblesmax wrote: »

One of the reasons I love Vegas so much is the feeling that I am "Home" whenever we arrive. I don't think that I could pin it down to a single reason if my life depended on it.

I could live there very easily.

We feel like that as well. When we pick up the car and head for the strip it's as if we are on home soil. We don't have to worry about anything, I know all the back roads to get to just about any hotel along the 2 mile stretch without hitting a jam. We do our food shopping like locals, have all the discount and loyalty cards. Last trip was only a month after the previous one and I was still as exited as ever. We were actually on the brink of moving out there a couple of years ago, Tracy was due to go to the U.S. Embassy to get her green card ( I am a U.S. citizen) and the night before the appointment her father died of pancreatic cancer, so because it left her mother on her own we abandoned the idea and stay in England

ferf1223

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I agree with the 'feeling at home' thing...absolutely...it's just such a great feeling to arrive and to be there and wander around aimlessly some days knowing that you'll find all kinds of stuff to do along the way and have a great day even if you don't have a plan of action.

Maybe if we went somewhere else a number of times we'd start to feel the same way about that other place as we do Vegas...but as it stands, Vegas is really the place we want to go and everywhere else is compared against it...so everywhere else ends up being kind of lame to us.

pebblesmax

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That's a shame about Tracey's mum. We are seriously considering buying something if the prices continue to drop.

I've been to several places in the US, but have never felt that homey feeling anywhere else.

debtfreelondon

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I wanted to echo previous posts on feeling at home in Vegas. Came back from there after a 9 day trip in April (been 10 times already) and already looking to book again for the end of August. Don't even mind where we stop as long as we're there! Everywhere else pales in comparison. Guess I'm one of those people who loves the place like many on here.

I get so excited knowing I'm going there and spend weeks going through all the details. I'm like a kid at Christmas. When the plane is landing knowing I'm going to be on the Strip again it makes me so happy.

I could definitely live there. If only the US allowed us in.

Stew68

The Secret Garden

Mmmmm, I wonder how MSE would it be if we had an MSE Timeshare in Vegas:rotfl:

pebblesmax

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That would be heaven.

stoneman

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pebblesmax wrote: »

That would be heaven.

I'm in. I can even take a couple of the weeks in the middle of August when everyone else thinks it's too hot. Ahhh, I love the smell of eyeballs melting in the morning.

ferf1223

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just a word on trip reports...for anyone who doesn't write them, I really recommend that you do even just to keep for yourself...we've just found and reviewed all of ours for the last 5 years or so and reread them - many times for the first time since they were written. It's really cool reading back through them and seeing how things have changed and how we have changed...how we didn't feel at home at all the first time we stayed at Bally's and were planning on going back to the south strip (which never happened and we now love Bally's), how we really preferred Bellagio to Wynn after Wynn first opened (now we much prefer Wynn for all but location)...and just all the general things we've done over the years - it was really fun to read back through them.

And also, I'm still having new trip report withdrawals. I think I'm going to start randomly reading them from:

http://www.lasvegastripreport.com/

kitchensink_2

Hi I'm due to go on my first US road trip and also love reading trip reports. I can see ferf why they would be lovely to look back on too.

I've just written a post in the nevada, california, arizona thread about my itinery for a trip between pheonix and san fran in mid-end sept this year.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=542691&page=24

I was hoping I could ask a specific vegas question here - we will be in vegas from the 16th to 20th of september and have seen rooms in Hotel paris for £73 a night (average) and covering fri and sat nights. do people think this is a good deal or should I wait till nearer to time we go - the rate is not fully refundable via the website i have found it on. I was also wondering if i could get the same rate through the hotel itself somehow - it's not on their website, so i could cancel if any better deals came up?

any thoughts - info on other hotel deals would be very much appreciated

ratkarth

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heya
that seems a little on expensive side for paris
are you dead set on staying there?

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anyone have any experience of los angeles tours, were doing it is a weekend trip from vegas.