Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2011

realised

adamg wrote: »

where to begin?? Go for one amazing dinner followed by show? I saw phantom and KA and thought they were both fantastic

Yeah I was thinking a show, but I wasn't sure which one. We've already seen KA and although I loved it, i'm not sure whether we should see O as well? The Kodak theatre in LA also has a new Cirque show on Iris. I'm not sure how good that would be.

I'm a vegetarian and was wondering if anyone knew anywhere nice for dinner with veggie options?

Spursman180

March

Indout96 wrote: »

Noooooooooooooo :(
Make it warm up before we arrive next Thursday please

I fly Saturday and have been watching the weather forecasts quite closely, The weather changes from Saturday, they are saying the thunderstorms etc finish Friday, the temperature is shown to settle in the mid 90'sF for the next 2 weeks. That'll do me.

reddeb

September

Spursman180 wrote: »

I fly Saturday and have been watching the weather forecasts quite closely, The weather changes from Saturday, they are saying the thunderstorms etc finish Friday, the temperature is shown to settle in the mid 90'sF for the next 2 weeks. That'll do me.

Hope you're right, or I'll have to re-consider what I pack, we're off on the 25th! Hope you have a great time.

ferf1223

March

photome wrote: »

A question for Ferf or anyone else who has been to Nascar.

What was it like getting to and from the Track and what is it like in town

Thinking of going next year but it is early March and wife isnt keen becuase it may well not be sunbathing weather.

I may concede and go 3 weeks later and take in the MonsterJam world final (awesome as been twice before) and the weather would be a bit better in theory

In town it was fine - it didn't seem hideously crowded or anything.

As for race-day traffic - grabbed this from my trip report...we did go several days, so having the parking pass did benefit us more than once - but it was race day that it made all the difference in the world we think...the valet at PH was astonished we had come from the track.


I had read that traffic is awful on race day…we were planning on leaving about 9:30…then I ran into a guy in the lift about 8:30 who said that they left between 9:30 and 10:00 last year and they got to the track at 1 ( and race starts at noon )! So I hightailed it back to the room and we left about 8:45.

Traffic was absolutely hideous about 8 miles or so from the track – took about 30 minutes to go one mile at one point and doing the quick maths, we thought we were screwed. But realised not too long after that most of the delay was down to merging traffic from I-215 as the right lane ended – note to self and others – get in the left hand lane as early as you can. In the end we got to the track about 10:15 – so an hour and 45 mins before the race, but both agreed we were very glad we had left earlier than expected as the traffic would surely only have gotten worse.

Left right after the race ended and headed for parking – we had paid for Lucky 7 parking ($59 for the weekend) and were sooo glad we did. Lucky 7 has a designated lot and designated exit from the lot onto the road and onto I-15. We had heard horror stories of 2 hours to even get out of your parking space in the regular lot, then an awfully long wait in traffic. We were back at our hotel in 45 minutes from the time we left our seats. $59 so well spent, we thought!

terryrees

November / December

Does anyone have any experience of staying at The Flamingo please?

I've got 10 nights there with a mate from 7th November. I've been to LV 5 times before but this is my first time at The Flamingo (and my mate's first time in Vegas). It's a fantastic location and I got a real bargain (£265 for the 10 nights after Quidco cashback!) but I'm reading very mixed reviews. I'm concerned that we have a deluxe room, which, judging by many reviews, is a somewhat ironic name for the satandard of room. However, the Go rooms seem to get much better reviews. Has anyone had success (or otherwise) with the $20 trick at this hotel? I also read that there's a check-in desk at baggage claim in the airport - is it there any advantage to using that? Any other tips or pitfalls to watch out for would be much appreciated.

Thanks

adamg

August

realised wrote: »

Yeah I was thinking a show, but I wasn't sure which one. We've already seen KA and although I loved it, i'm not sure whether we should see O as well? The Kodak theatre in LA also has a new Cirque show on Iris. I'm not sure how good that would be.

I'm a vegetarian and was wondering if anyone knew anywhere nice for dinner with veggie options?

When are you going? The new cirque micheal jackson may be out. I went with a veggie and few years ago and back them he really struggled to find stuff

pennylane99

November / December

adamg wrote: »

When are you going? The new cirque micheal jackson may be out. I went with a veggie and few years ago and back them he really struggled to find stuff

The Michael Jackson cirque at Mandalay Bay is on Dec 3rd to 27th

ferf1223

March

terryrees wrote: »

also read that there's a check-in desk at baggage claim in the airport - is it there any advantage to using that?

Think that has been closed since 2008 or so? Unless they have reopened it recently.

pebblesmax

November / December

ferf1223 wrote: »

Think that has been closed since 2008 or so? Unless they have reopened it recently.

Still closed.

satrdayboy_2

October

I have been directed to i4vegas site from Vegas Advisor, I am trying to book a hotel room for 4 people but can only seem to book it for 2. Any body used this site before. thanks