Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2011

stoneman

October

nvh wrote: »

Ferf - we're AA via ORD (to SFO) and then back from LAS via. ORD return on our next trip - can't wait to try http://www.chilis.com/ now you've mentioned it!

We always stop off at the Fox Sports Sky Box (used to be "Slap Shot") 20Oz. beer in a frozen mug, huge burger and fries, complete with a full dill pickle on the side, mmmmmmm

stoneman

October

Booked the Carriage house for March, looks like our sort of place. Went for the 1 bed suite with kitchenette because it has the bigger bathroom with a tub compared to the one with full kitchen. Good rate of $92 a night inc tax as well with the AAA rate (just show your AA card). Thanks to Triker and others that found out about this place

Porthorg

May

Can anyone recommed a good car hire company?

duchy

May

stoneman wrote: »

Absolutly not, never happen on a BA flight!! Oh wait, I once made a right scene after having a few too many Champers in Club. I had to wait a full 5 minutes for the trolley dolly to come round again to fill my glass that I started pushing the button on the privacy screen to make it go up and down, the wife looked non too pleased with me, and told me to stop making a fool of myself.:o

Shocking !!

(Tracy shouldn't have stopped you :rotfl:)

Froggitt

Porthorg wrote: »

Can anyone recommed a good car hire company?

carehire3000

stoneman

October

Porthorg wrote: »

Can anyone recommed a good car hire company?

Just use moneysupermarket.com to find the cheapest quote, they are all much the same and all of them are stationed at the consolidated car hire building. A tip though is to sign up for the "preferred member" scheme of the company you go with (Avis, Hertz, Dollar etc) there will be a sign up section on the website. With that you can just go straight down or up to the garage to collect your car instead of standing in the queue

duchy

May

stoneman wrote: »

We always stop off at the Fox Sports Sky Box (used to be "Slap Shot") 20Oz. beer in a frozen mug, huge burger and fries, complete with a full dill pickle on the side, mmmmmmm

I like ORD -lots of good food choices and I once saw a TSA bloke patiently explain to a woman she couldn't take her full size bottles of toiletries through........she had EVERYTHING but clearly didn't know and was willing to chuck them away-so he made her take them all out-asked her what she didn't care about losing ....checked his boss wasn't watching-and put the rest back in her bag :rotfl:

If you every got a long layover at ORD (I booked one deliberately) the train to the city goes direct from the airport (the downtown hotdogs are sooooo much better than the airport ones ) and is quick and cheap.

mookybargirl

March

Froggitt wrote: »

carehire3000

We use carhire3000 too. Have used in USA and UK without any problems. UK call centre with free phone number, no cancellation penalties and the fee includes all the insurances you need, so no need to be paying extra this and that for waivers etc.......

duchy wrote: »

I like ORD -lots of good food choices and I once saw a TSA bloke patiently explain to a woman she couldn't take her full size bottles of toiletries through........she had EVERYTHING but clearly didn't know and was willing to chuck them away-so he made her take them all out-asked her what she didn't care about losing ....checked his boss wasn't watching-and put the rest back in her bag :rotfl:

My funny security story was at Birmingham airport. The lady in front couldn't speak Engish and the security guy was trying to ask her for her shoes. He did the usual speak slower and louder, but that didn't work, so he started pointing at his shoes and then hers. She looked like she understood, and then proceeded to swing one leg up onto the belt so her shoe was in the tray! So funny! He just gave up and waiver her through. Shame, I'd have loved to see how she was going to get the other shoe up there ..... :rotfl:

Back to hotels - lol My favourite subject :rotfl:
Has anyone stayed at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the City Centre? Reviews looks great and it's not much more than my current Venetian rate for the first half of my trip at the end of March........

Spursman180

March

StuieUK34 wrote: »

After all this talk about stag groups on the virgin flight, etc etc....
Anyone got any stories about Hen groups ?!! will balance out the worries that some people might have for there booked virgin flights !
I'm in seat 61A & C (the 2 seaters), so hopefully away from everything!

2 years ago I was on the flight that was carrying a lot of the Brit/ european 'participants' for the adult entertainment expo. I didn't hear of any complaints even though it was quite rowdy!!!


J. no I didn't need to apologise, ask Tel about the identical twins though.

totallybored

November / December

[QUOTE=mookybargirl;

Back to hotels - lol My favourite subject :rotfl:
Has anyone stayed at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the City Centre? Reviews looks great and it's not much more than my current Venetian rate for the first half of my trip at the end of March........[/QUOTE]

I did last week, will update later with pics hopefully