Las Vegas thread and MSE guide 2009 part 2

karie

ali_at_achnamara wrote: »

Hi

We're off to Las Vegas at the end of the month - at the Bellagio, and with tickets to see LOVE at the Mirage. it's a few days out from our main trip to various bits of Canada. I'll do a trip report when we get back, but I was wondering if someone could explain how they are managing to get the vouchers from Restaurant.com? You seem to need a US billing address.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
Ali

hi, i had the same problem, but was kindly advised to enter 89109 as the las vegas zip code and it worked fine.

luci

September

ali_at_achnamara wrote: »

Hi

We're off to Las Vegas at the end of the month - at the Bellagio, and with tickets to see LOVE at the Mirage. it's a few days out from our main trip to various bits of Canada. I'll do a trip report when we get back, but I was wondering if someone could explain how they are managing to get the vouchers from Restaurant.com? You seem to need a US billing address.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
Ali

You can use any address you like. I use my own, NV for the state and 89109 for the zip code. You print of the certs yourself and nothing is posted to you.

stoneman

September

karie wrote: »

hi mrshedgehog, was the luxor really so bad?

we are staying there for 3 nights during our trip and i am really looking forward to it (the novelty of the pyramid!) - now i am worried!

We have stayed there loads of times, it's fab. I always say that everyone should stay at least once in the pyramid at Luxor. It is sooo much fun each time you walk out of your room and look over the balcony down to the attraction level, and of course you can walk from there to Mandalay Bay along the shops in doors

doodle_bug

adrienne1945 wrote: »

I've just booked a 17 day intermediate car thru Netflights with Dollar for their inclusive standard package for £260 which has already tracked on Quidco at £25.96p which really makes for a great price. The weird thing was that if I booked 14 days the price was £255. So I may as well just let it sit in a car park for a few days. At least it's there if I want it. Even 10 or 11 days came to nearly £200. I'm not sure how they work out the charges because last week the cheapest was £303 for the 17 days.

When you get there you will be offered to upgrade from the standard package, I took them up on it but I think it would have been cheaper to get the premier package through netflights. I don't know if by doing what I did got me a car upgrade, I should have had a dodge charger but they gave me a SUV. On the standard package your tyres and windscreen aren't covered, that could be a big pain to sort if you ended up in the middle of nowhere with a flat tyre. You get a free tank of fuel and take it back empty, taking it back with a full tank seems simple but if it isn't quite full they'll charge $25 + the amount of fuel and they won't tell you til your back home and you see it on your C/C a week later, not worth the risk for me.

stoneman

September

Just a reminder if anyone has to park their car at Heathrow. I use this guy, he is at parkatmyhouse.com I have used him 4 times now, meet and greet at the airport, 9 days car parking £30!!! 94 positive reviews is good enough for me. Tell him Andy and Tracy with the Chrysler 300C sent you, he will probably give you a few quid off. Using him next week.

Volcano

October , November

karie wrote: »

hi mrshedgehog, was the luxor really so bad?

we are staying there for 3 nights during our trip and i am really looking forward to it (the novelty of the pyramid!) - now i am worried!

If you're going for the novelty factor then you won't be disappointed. The internal space is immense and the view from the balconies over the atrium is worth booking a room for.

I loved it.

donny_osmonds_mad_fan

October , November

thank you luci, will give that a try

guru...wonder if he is related to or the same guy we saw in times square nyc with the same sign lol

Goldust

Just got back from Vegas, we saw Jersey Boys which was amazing and would recommend it 10000%! I thought it was the best show we saw.

Also saw Phantom, Love and Terry Fator and did the Grand Canyon heli tour all in a week so got plenty done. The best bit of Phantom was the beginning though I thought. I didn't find pre-booking the shows was a great deal cheaper than the tix4tonight booth.

Now I want to go back the the States again but maybe somewhere else - is there anywhere that comes even close to the entertainment and shows on offer at Vegas?

Goldust

Also, if you wanted to do some cheaper shows if you have a free night there were people handing out leaflets in Planet Hollywood giving out free tickets for V and the mentalist - one you had to buy a drink and the other was just straight up free!

We didn't have time but they seemed decent and would fill a gap one evening if anyone going fancied it.

Lolly88

December ( including Xmas and New Year )

I'm going to vegas from the 21st - 28th decemeber. I'm really excited as i'll be celebrating my 21st birthday there and it's my first time abroad. I'm planning on staying in the MGM grand though I haven't booked it yet.

I've seen on offer on facebook where you get $25 activity credit and 2 free entries to a club and pool and discount on the room so that the total room price for 7 nights works out at $490. This seems like a good offer but I don't want to be too hasty are there any better offers for MGM Grand?

Also what website do you book shows from?