Las Vegas thread and MSE guide 2010

pennylane99

June

mattwallisuk wrote: »

Well I just changed my Bellagio booking as I could get a suite in Palazzo for the smae money (~$150 a night). I wanted to stay in the Bellagio just because I know my girlfriend wants to have stayed there just once, but when much nicer rooms are on offer across the street for the same money, I cannot justify it

Encore is $134 a night with the earlybooking promo if you fancied staying there.

totallybored

September

mattwallisuk wrote: »

Well I just changed my Bellagio booking as I could get a suite in Palazzo for the smae money (~$150 a night). I wanted to stay in the Bellagio just because I know my girlfriend wants to have stayed there just once, but when much nicer rooms are on offer across the street for the same money, I cannot justify it

The Palazzo rooms are great as they are huge. We just stayed there and I loved it. Also, I prefer the location to the Bellagio as you're close to the Wynn, Fashion Show, Forum shops etc.

I did prefer the rooms at the Encore though as they seemed a bit more modern and are around the same size. I'm not sure what time of year you're going but I really liked the Encore pools as they were never too crowded when we were there (also, if you stay at the Encore you can use the Wynn pools but not the other way round). However, I found the location to be a bit of a pain as walking to anywhere but the Wynn became annoying.

crazyhazel

January , February

Hi Peeps

Have gotton good advice from you lot before so here I am again.

We are going to Vegas next month on the 11th. We normally stay at the Signature as we really like it there, however, we were wondering, during this
time of recession if there were any swanky hotels offering silly deals this side of Spring Break.

What We also would like to know is favourite Sunday Champagne Brunch places.
We have been to the Rio before and had a marvalous time, however change is good.

All contributions gratefully received.

Many thanks

Crazy

Froggitt

Yup - Signature $79/$99!!!

crazyhazel

January , February

Does any one have any codes for booking discount on the Vdara hotel, City Centre?

Cheers:beer:

nvh

crazyhazel wrote: »

Does any one have any codes for booking discount on the Vdara hotel, City Centre?

Cheers:beer:

couple here: http://www.vegas-promotions.com/Vdara/dp/1.htm

pennylane99

June

crazyhazel wrote: »

Does any one have any codes for booking discount on the Vdara hotel, City Centre?

Cheers:beer:

http://www.earlyvegas.com/vdara_promo_codes.html

bulletproof_1979

Hi all,

I'm looking for a multi centre holiday including Las Vegas, LA and San Francisco anytime this year - can anyone recommend some good websites for this? Ideally looking to spend no more than £800 per person for as many days as possible...

ratkarth

ferf1223 wrote: »

We didn't find the standard rooms at Bellagio to be all that exciting - unless it's a fountain view. But Bellagio is much more central than MB.

Now I'm wondering if we should try MB or The Hotel rather than a Celebrity Spa Suite at MGM...since the prices are similar and I suspect that at least at The Hotel the rooms will be far nicer...but the location is less interesting...thanks for the links Luci - I have much research to do.

would prob go mgm above mbay but the hotel above mgm...if looking at niceness of the rooms
for location mgm slightly beats mbay too
but lion king offer posted by luci with thehotel room would be reasonable

ratkarth

blueybug wrote: »

The good
vdara hotel was great, the rooms were huge very clean Inc fridge, microwave
etc lush huge bathroom and the twin HD telly was fab!.
Very quite non smoking hotel

gran canyon trip was a great day out, very long but in my 7 trips
it was the first time of seeing it covered in snow.

The strip was so quite on the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday it was nice to walk
at your own speed without the crowds ( I normally go Aug/Sept ).

I had my two tattoos done at a place called smoking aces great shop and artist.

For the first time ever! I brought home $$$$ ! couldn't seem to spend it.

The bad

traffic jams on the strip all day/ night long. Riding the bus took an age
and even the drivers were telling people just to get off and walk it will be quicker.

The strat had closed the outside viewing point, you could only stay
inside but still had to pay full price! Which was a con in my book.

After telling the taxi driver do not go through the tunnel and get to the
hotel fast please didn't get into his tiny head then was quite happy to charge
me $36 for the trip after I told him no I asked you to go the quickest route
not the longest I give him a $20 and left him shouting.

The ugly

now this is my view on the subject, some of you won't agree or think I'm a little OTT but this is my own view

airport security What the hell are they playing at? As soon as I got to gatwick they said the LV flight was 2 hr delay which was fine. Then I checked the bags in and went through security again no problems here. Was told to go to the gate an hour before the flight was due out again no problem. While walking to the gate I could see a long line of people wow I thought I asked the family in front is thethe line for Vegas? Yes it was and the line for the two Orlando flights too.
What I never knew and what others were never told we were going through yet another security point. What's the point? We just came from one!!

Cutting a very long story short picture the scene
3 flights going out at 3 different times
one huge line of people
3 now very late flights

Mr Gatwick security wouldn't it of been better to line up three different
flights of people so at least one of the flights may of gone out nearer their
time slot, maybe use a loud speaker to tell the 1300 people in the que what the hell is going on? The LV flight was 4 hours delayed and could of been less
if they did their job better and had three lines of people not just one

As soon as you got through this mickey mouse secuity ( this person never even checked my bag!!!!) you got put on the plane and had to wait till everyone on your flight was checked.

I know it wasn't Virgins fault but the people on board were screaming and shouting at the stewards and it was nasty to see.

I know it was all due to the security issue on dec 25th but the way they addressed the issue was a complete joke.

And to top it all off I'm in bed with some sort of sickness bug
27 hrs of sleep and lost 2 stone in weight in 3 days not at all good

will it stopme from going back?

No, but Gatwick needs to pull their finger out and wake up on the problems
it makes peoples hoildays start with a bang

part of me often thinks though i would much rather have ott security than not as at least it makes me feel slightly more safe in this day and age...
interesting comments at vdra,you seemed to have enjoyed it,