Las Vegas thread and MSE guide 2010

ferf1223

April

adamg wrote: »

Help needed,
been to vegas 4 times now every time with friends but wanting to go next year as we are saving up our tesco clubcard deals, should have £700 off a virign holiday by this time next year, BUT the OH is not to keen on going she would rather go to spain.......
trying to convience her she can sunbathe etc in lv and have so much more as well. anyone come accross this problem before and how to overcome?
cheers

Agree with the others on ways to tempt her - Vegas really can be so many different holidays to different people.

But on the Virgin thing - since you have time - maybe price up a Virgin holiday you would be interested in, then price up the component parts separately - so the same flight on the same dates and the same hotel booked directly (with or without any of the discounts you can find from the links on page 1).

In my experience VH is vastly overpriced - the value of which depends on which hotel you go for...so while you may save £700 off a Virgin Holiday, you won't actually be saving £700 on what it would have cost you to book separately so may not be the best use of your clubcard points.

Lottebear

January , February

Hi,

We have just got back from LV

We used BA for the flights which was really good, small ish plane but new fittings and indivdual TV for each seat, they seem to be using this flight as one of the main ones from mainland europe so our plane was full of the Spanish arm of Nestle heading for a conference.

We stayed in the MGM which was fine, clean and huge, got 45% discount to see the KA Cirque show, which was amazing, we paid for the cheapest seats but moved along to the more expenisve ones.

Personally I didn't like the shopping in Vegas too many high end designer brands, we then went on to Tuscon were I got loads of stuff.

adrienne1945

December ( including Xmas and New Year )

Ferf1223 I definitely agree with you. Our 17 night luxury (Bellagio/MGM/Mandalay Bay) Xmas holiday would have cost 3 times what we paid if we hadn't done it separately. Anyway it's great fun sorting the different components out. My only complaint was I should have made it for even more nights! By the way if you want to make any Alessandro avatars I've just had a great time on their meerkat site making different ones. I've got a great Poker Playing one and a belly dancing one as well that's really cute.

ferf1223

April

Lottebear wrote: »

Personally I didn't like the shopping in Vegas too many high end designer brands, we then went on to Tuscon were I got loads of stuff.

Agree as far as most of the shopping directly on the strip - but some great outlet centres very close by for some good bargains.

stoneman

September

ferf1223 wrote: »

Nope.

Looking at the Palazzo reviews - I'm pretty sure the two from Jan were in the same party - both from Canada, experiences almost identical.

Ultimately, there's a chance anywhere that staff will be up to no good, but somewhere like Vegas, where (relatively speaking) wages are decent for housekeepers and many people tip - I'd have to think that in general people aren't going to risk a much better job than they could get elsewhere. Also in general I think that the vetting process is going to be pretty strong for any casino employee. Will they weed out everyone who plans to get up to no good? No....but they will get most.

We've never had anything stolen and never bother with the room safe - cash and passports are hidden somewhere out of plain sight. But we normally have both of our PMPs, two cameras, netbook, mobile phones, etc. all laying around the room somewhere and nothing has ever happened to any of them. I had one day where I accidentally left $200 on a table in the room and it was there when we got back hours later.

Have to agree with this. We never use the safe, never felt the need to, not like when we stay in Spain or Portugal!!!
What we tend to do is put all the expensive stuff out of site in a large suitcase and lock it. they would have a hard time getting that out without being noticed.

photome

Boa21 wrote: »

Hope you have an awesome trip Photome - who are you flying with and where are you staying?

Thanks..flying with Virgin (cant wait :eek:) , have Monte Carlo, Platinum and MGM booked at mo, but liable to change

photome

Lottebear wrote: »

Hi,

We have just got back from LV

We used BA for the flights which was really good, small ish plane but new fittings and indivdual TV for each seat, they seem to be using this flight as one of the main ones from mainland europe so our plane was full of the Spanish arm of Nestle heading for a conference.

We stayed in the MGM which was fine, clean and huge, got 45% discount to see the KA Cirque show, which was amazing, we paid for the cheapest seats but moved along to the more expenisve ones.

Personally I didn't like the shopping in Vegas too many high end designer brands, we then went on to Tuscon were I got loads of stuff.

Didnt you go to any of the fashion outlets ?, there are some fantastic bargains to be had. Even Macys in the fashion show mall have some great deals especially on handbags (according to my wife) and you get an extra 11% off buy picking up a discount card

photome

adamg wrote: »

Help needed,
been to vegas 4 times now every time with friends but wanting to go next year as we are saving up our tesco clubcard deals, should have £700 off a virign holiday by this time next year, BUT the OH is not to keen on going she would rather go to spain.......
trying to convience her she can sunbathe etc in lv and have so much more as well. anyone come accross this problem before and how to overcome?
cheers

NO contest, Vegas everytime!!!! and as others have said it can be anything you want it to be. As Ferf says check the prices a clubcard deal may not be the way to go

photome

triggerrabbit wrote: »

have been reading reviews on trip advisor and the hotels we're looking at staying, palazzo or mgm grand, have quite a few people, mainly americans, complaining that there were quite a lot of thefts from rooms and even catching staff in the act. Has anyone had any issues with thefts from hotels by staff?

Never had problems anywhere I have been. I have stayed in many places in the US and while I do use a safe, I have often left stuff out on show and it has never vanished

adamg

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In my experience VH is vastly overpriced - the value of which depends on which hotel you go for...so while you may save £700 off a Virgin Holiday, you won't actually be saving £700 on what it would have cost you to book separately so may not be the best use of your clubcard points.[/QUOTE]

true never booked wiht clubcard always done both seperate but as she is a teacher we are limited to holiday times when the 4x does work out better so should be paying approx £1000 ourselves which we cant argue with, beats spending the vouchers on crisps and booze in tesco