Las Vegas Wedding: Leg to stand on?

luci

The Deuce is $3 for one trip or $7 for a 24 hour pass.

Be aware that it is extremely slow and could easily take you 30-40 mins to get from the Strat to centre strip.

If you are pushed for time and don't want to take a taxi, you could walk down to the Sahara and take the monorail from there, $5pp one way. However the monorail stations are way at the back of the hotels and it could take you 15 mins to walk to the front in the case of the MGM.

luci

I'm a little confused with your price comparisons. You say you have booked a wedding package with Virgin and it's around £1000 each. Then you say that guests have now booked it for approx £150pp less.

Surely your guests wouldn't be booking the same deal as you and your hubby to be as they woulnd't need the wedding part of it?

I may have missed something, but it sounds like a comparison between apples and oranges.

HJS86

Thanks Nw_man and Kenny

Will know for next time about the car, but then whilst myself and my Dad would be okay ferrying our little units about, I don't think the rest of the party would be happy driving as one of them I know at least is a nervous driver. Plus at least with the bus we can all stay together.

Luci - thanks for that advice 40 mins is fine, will give us chance to look out and take it all in! Wanna absorb as much as possible and hopefully will pass things that take our fancy and just hop off!

So excited!

My dad has advised I get the new couple's details to give to Virgin during the phone call so they can look it up, so will be calling Monday now.

But you're right, if nothing comes of it, I will stop thinking about it because its not what i want to be remembering out of this!

lol there's always brides stuff to do! Just a shame work comes in the way! (am watchin vids on youtube though of the chapel )

xx

duchy

I'd suggest to the OP that if you are looking for uber-comfort the Strat may not fufil your present expectations and *some* of us are aware that not "everybody knows" the Strat is poorly located for those expecting to be "on the Strip"

luci

Did you see my second post just above yours? I think we were posting at the same time.

neilbond007

Just to add my tuppence worth...

I'm off to Vegas in 4 weeks and stopping in the strat. It's $140 for 5 nights. (Sat - Wed - Premier room).
Location may not be good but who gives a rats a55. Even if you're in centre strip you have to walk.

duchy

neilbond007 wrote: »

Just to add my tuppence worth...

I'm off to Vegas in 4 weeks and stopping in the strat. It's $140 for 5 nights. (Sat - Wed - Premier room).
Location may not be good but who gives a rats a55. Even if you're in centre strip you have to walk.

I agree with you completely-my last two trips we've split our stay between the Orleans and the Flamingo and didn't find it any harder from the Orleans to get around (we use a mix of shuttles,Deuce, monorail and a rare taxi I don't see the point in car hire for what we want from our trips and the Vegas traffic is horrible)
My concern was that the OP said they were paying extra for "uber comfort" and although the Strat rooms are nice I wouldn't quite describe them in those terms personally.
I rather like the smaller old style Vegas hotels and I'm thinking the Sahara may be worth a try sometime -prices are really good and the fact it has its own monorail station for me makes it more attractive than say the Riviera or the Strat. I only stay mid strip if the deal is really good (or comped) nowdays.

neilbond007

Kenny_Powers wrote: »

I never stay mid strip either, for me though the pool is whats important.
The luxor undoubtedly has one of the best pools in Vegas for sunbathing, but Mandalay Bay has the best pool for the kids.

The difference between the South end of the Strip and the North is that you can walk from the Luxor/Mandalay or get the monorail to Excalibur then walk. At the North end you can be miles out whereby walking just isn't an attractive option.

It's attractive at $140 for 5 nights
My original statement wasn't quite right. I'm stopping Fri - Tues night inclusive. So 2 of the nights are "pricey" weekend nights.

ferf1223

luci wrote: »

I'm a little confused with your price comparisons. You say you have booked a wedding package with Virgin and it's around £1000 each. Then you say that guests have now booked it for approx £150pp less.

Surely your guests wouldn't be booking the same deal as you and your hubby to be as they woulnd't need the wedding part of it?

I may have missed something, but it sounds like a comparison between apples and oranges.

I thought that too - but assume the wedding package is an add-on, maybe?

As for the Strat...don't think it's been mentioned that the area is a bit seedy...after dark we aren't terribly comfortable walking around that area ourselves - have done it a few times, but have always felt a bit on guard. It's not horrendous, but just be aware that it's not the nicest area.

As for the budget not stretching further than the Strat...the same money would have got a much nicer hotel if booked separately...but I suppose I can understand the convenience factor of booking a package + wedding services. I'd have chosen a bit more research-related stress and a nicer hotel for the same money myself, but perhaps that's because I've been enough times to know my way around booking direct, etc.

HJS86

Hi

Sorry, yes the deal is the same for our guests as our wedding package is an add on. We booked online to get the 10% discount, then once we had the reference number we had to call the weddings line and book our chapel as an add on.

The comfort bit was about the Virgin planes rather than the hotel. We booked the Stratosphere for a few reasons. We did want to be out of the main strip so that was a plus, we'd heard about the bus so didn't think the transport would be a problem and like you say, you have to walk wherever you stay cause the place is sooo big! lol

The main reason though was the cost, we just couldn't afford anywhere better. It was a choice of the Mardi Gras or the Stratosphere from the Virgin website. From the piccys, which is what we were going on, the stratosphere looked the nicer of the two. The Virgin deals at the flamingo etc were just too much out of our budget at the time. Not sure what the prices are like now, not going to look!!

Thanks for all the advice

xx