Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2011

Traincrashing

November / December

Out of curiousity, has anyone here done the B3 Burrito challenge?

Someone mentioned it on here a few weeks ago and since then I have not stopped watching Man V. Food and now just want to travel around America. I'm really disappointed that the NASCAR Cafe is closing as we won't be there until November and I had wanted to try to get the boyfriend to try it

Buzz78

Hi everyone,

I found that there are a lot of flight options for less than £500 (if you're flexible with your dates) around September and October.

I helped my future sister in law and her partner on Saturday to book flights to come out for our Vegas wedding in September. They're flying from Heathrow to Vegas, and then home from San Francisco. Good flight times with Delta, one change each way, total price; £450 each, and then another £60 for the internal flight with Virgin America.

I just found a range of return flights to Vegas on Kayak for circa £450 which is extremely good!

P.s. I read this forum almost everyday and it's provided me with invaluable information in the past, so thanks again everyone for their contributions. I tend to only contribute when I have what is hopefully a golden nugget of useful information!

stoneman

October

Joe_Canada wrote: »

Hey guys, has anyone seen Terry Fator @ The Mirage? Did a search and nothing came up, so excuse me if this has been discussed before Regarding tixs, the Mirage has 20% off atm which seems pretty good, I think?

Thanks!

We saw him and thought over rated, but then I am notoriously hard to impress

stoneman

October

Hi from the galleries lounge at T5. Having loads to eat and drink, makes a mockery of the weeks dieting but hey ho. Having a massage in about half an hour. Ah well, must go for another glass of chamagne, ta ra. Oh and ferff, you don't half beat around the bush with your answers lol

duchy

May

Greetings from Vegas
If you've seen my facebook page you'll see things didn't go quite to plan........... especially an overnight delay due to a snow storm in May !

Fab flight out on Tuesday with Continental -a row to myself -from Heathrow to Houston-and then a free up grade from Houston to Vegas-checked in to Cesears -met up with Luci and eventually headed for bed -great start to the trip..............however things rapidly went downhill !!

Up the next morning at 5.30am -to discover there was no hot water-(I was in a Forum Tower room) highly unimpressed-reception weren't interested. Got to LAS and boarded on time for my LAS to Denver flight on time-but then sat on the tarmac for an hour and a half. Most people were freaking about connections-I had a long connection so despite arriving 2 hours late -I still had an hour til my connecting flight to Idaho at 3pm-however my smugness soon vanished as my flight went technical and was cancelled. I was booked on the next flight -due out at 9.30pm . Not wonderful but I could live with it-until the snow started....and turned into a white out. No problem you'd think as Denver is an all weather airport -except they ran out of anti-freeze. My 9.30pm flight was eventually cancelled at 1am......... as my earlier flight was a tech cancelation not weather I did get a hotel paid for-pity UA booked me into one which stopped its shuttle at 1am and didn't tell me ! Eventually got it all straightened out and UA paid my $60 cab fare !! I got four hours sleep -and back to the airport again. The pilot told us the auxilary power pack was faulty and we'd be making an unpressurized take off-not the most inspiring of situations but I finally got to Idaho 22 hours late. Thank goodness for status as it got me on the morning flight otherwise I'd have been on the flight out another four hours later !(It also got me a much nicer hotel I was in the Renaisance which was GORGEOUS)

Had a fab time in Idaho helping out with a charity marathon but decided I couldn't face the return flight so came back with friends by road -stopping off in Provo staying with a mutual friend and threw in a concert there and some sightseeing in Salt Lake City and St George and ended up back in Vegas tonight-decided to switch out my CP reservation after their disinterest in he hot water issue and am going to use a couple of free nights at the Orleans instead. The road trip was so much FUN ! Stayed last night with my friends in Vegas but as they are back to work today and I don't want to drive makes more sense to stay near the Strip for my last couple of days. Meeting Peeblesmax later today.

The delay at Denver turned out to be a blessing as I got to do far more than I originally planned

Not really a Vegas trippie but I did promise I'd do one

Joe_Canada_2

September

stoneman wrote: »

We saw him and thought over rated, but then I am notoriously hard to impress

Worth $110 each for front row seats? Or are cheaper tix better value for money in your eyes? Just fancying something a bit different from a show =]

Gav86

Wow, been an age since i logged in here. Moving house, mentally busy at work, and part time uni exams... no time.

Even if i did just mostly read posts in here, its def. one of my favourite threads on the net. Me and my GF are getting ready to book our flights for our next trip, so im getting all excited again!

aspinallkate wrote: »

Luci, any chance we could see some of your Scoot City Tour pics? I'm trying to talk my husband into doing it!

If you still want some pics, give me a shout. We did it last year and got some great shots.
Pics dont do the trip justice though, its an incredible amount of fun, with some stunning scenery.

stoneman

October

Joe_Canada wrote: »

Worth $110 each for front row seats? Or are cheaper tix better value for money in your eyes? Just fancying something a bit different from a show =]

No! All of the seats offer a good view and there are 2 video Screens as well. We were only second row but to the side so watched most of the show on the screens

stoneman

October

Welcome back Gav

Porthorg

May

Having never used connecting flights before I'm a little confused. Before I call AA maybe someone on here will know *crosses Fingers*

We fly AA to Chicago then connect to LA again with AA on the way out.

Route back is AA Vegas to New York then booked through AA but its a BA flight on the way home to heathrow.

So........what baggage restrictions should I follow. I'm assuming the ones which restrict the most.