Las Vegas 2007 bargain hunt + tips

trets77

harvey1964 wrote: »

Going to Book for las vegas for May/June next year. Will have to fly out of Dublin as there are no direct flights from Belfast at that time of year.Should I book the flights now and hold off for hotels until atfer the new year?.
Is E-bookers ok to book with ? Have read a few scary reports on here.Seems to be a problem with Hotels mainly .....
Any advie on anyone else i can try.have checked expedia and e-bookers for flights and flights and hotels together.
The best price i can get for may is Planet H at £784 and Ceasars £764 and Paris for£734 and New York for £709 they all include flights fro Dub to Ny and then on to Las vegas

we always advise booking with the hotels direct , preferably with a offer as regards to your hotel. . there is nothing to stop you booking anything you like the look of now on the hotel front , and cancelling later for a full refund. remember they only take your 1st night as deposit.

if your stuck with indirect try some flight brokers , travel brokers and price comparsion sites. of course it always better to try and get alll flights under the same booking , in case there are delays ect. i 'm afraid i haven't done much research of flights from over there though

here is the full list of places to search for thoose hotel offers

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?start=60&catid=63&threadid=704925

http://www.vegasmessageboard.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13

http://www.vegashotelspecial.com/

http://casinotripreports.com/smf/index.php?topic=57.0

http://www.vegas-promotions.com/

Hi everyone, im new on here so apologies if iv'e posted on the wrong thread! Im looking to go from Manchester to Vegas flying direct on 24/4/08 for 1 week and price quoted best so far is BMI £500 pp- anyone think its worth booking or will it go down? Has been £568 last few weeks and prior to that £487- i want to get them booked but dont want to be stung! Anyone any ideas?? thanx |

no apologies needed here

i have April 2008 pencilled in ( i work 2 holidays ahead) . BMI flight prices are a law onto themselves from my regular searches. they will lower them to start to shift some seats and then quickly re re raise them. end of they day they want to get the maxium amount of money from the seats available on thier aircraft. there is no guarantee they will come down , all you can do is search your dates as often as possible with them , i recommend everyday or every other day if you can , and be prepared to swoop fast if they drop to something good. My Travel should be a good bet to get lower fare late , but it is a game of nerves as to how long to leave it.

wydw tips are what i would be looking at as he goes with them about that time. a fellow traveller claimed you can get 25 kg of baggage with them but others get a slim 15kg :mad:

ferf1223

Welcome back Trets ! Glad to hear it was a good trip and I cannot wait to go shopping at $2/£1 - so exciting! 3 weeks tomorrow for us!

wdyw

trets77 wrote: »

hi guys :hello: i made it back from New England in one piece ,


have had a Fantastic time , and it certainly was a very different type of holiday to Vegas.we never got to Grafton notch though wdyw we got side tracked and missed it unfortunaly

Did you say you were going to do Mount Washington? If you did how windy was it!

trets77

i missed Mt Washington Auto route closing by 10 mins and had no time next day get back up there :mad: . gutted !!! thats beacause we went mad shoppping in North Conway .

we did some fantastic drives though . Acadia Nat park and mt Cadillac Maine was awesome because we had a clear day in the 80F range , as was the Mohawk Trail . but Kangamangus Highway was my Fav.

as for my Fav state of the six we visted Vermont would just ( and only just) top the pile , due the stunning Foilage that is on just about every road you drive down.plus the friendly people.
e.g
on our first night in Stowe the Owner of the Cactus Cafe Mexican drove us back to our hotel rather than see us get a taxi

i loved Boston , Salem , Newport , all of Cape Cod , White Mountains , Green Mountains and Bar harbour area too . not too struck with Hartford or Sturbridge though.

sorry for going off topic folks

wdyw

Gotta love North Conway and no tax New Hampshire! Always used to prefer Freeport but its gone downhill these last few years (as well as being in Maine and therefore tax) and I don't see the big deal with LL Bean.

We've never got as far west as Vermont, stick to Maine and New Hampshire. In all the years we have being going there we've never got up Mt Washington. The one day we promised ourselves we would make the effort it was cold and foggy so we went somewhere else. When we got back everyone was gushing about how it had been the best visibility at the top of Mt Washington for years! GRRRRRR!

gibbyni

harvey1964 wrote: »

Going to Book for las vegas for May/June next year. Will have to fly out of Dublin as there are no direct flights from Belfast at that time of year.Should I book the flights now and hold off for hotels until atfer the new year?.
Is E-bookers ok to book with ? Have read a few scary reports on here.Seems to be a problem with Hotels mainly .....
Any advie on anyone else i can try.have checked expedia and e-bookers for flights and flights and hotels together.
The best price i can get for may is Planet H at £784 and Ceasars £764 and Paris for£734 and New York for £709 they all include flights fro Dub to Ny and then on to Las vegas

We have went from belfast a few times, once we did the continental BFS - NY - LAS, the flights where nothing special. We booked it (and Aladin) through expedia and got it cheaper then paying for them direct. The other times we have went easyjet to london and then the virgin flights with miles plus money. You have to fly over the night before and stay in a hotel as there is no flights early enough to get you to gatwick in time.

Personaly i would go for the virgin one. Our flight with both where all on time etc but the virgin one was a better aircraft and works out shorter in time. Virgin arrived about 3pm vegas time, where as the continental arrived about 7pm.

Mardrew

Hello

I wonder if I could ask for a general bit of advice. DH is 50 next May and a good friend is 50 the following April. For years a group of us have been saying that we will all go to Las Vegas to celebrate these birthdays somewhere between both birthdays. The bugbear is that I can only go during school holidays and so we are looking to go October 2008 Half-Term.

I am furiously reading through this fantastic thread and making loads of notes of all the tips that have been given (currently up to post 814) but I want to send an email to really firm up who is really interested in going and would like to give everyone some indication of cost on which they can make their decision. I called into the local travel agents this week for a couple of brochures and the TA said that we would be looking at a cost of about £800-£850 per person for that week next year. I know that the general consensus is not to book a package but would you agree that that will be what we can expect to pay if we book separately? (I do like to get a good standard of accommodation but at a good price whereas, I know for some in the group, accommodation doesn't mean very much and they would just like cheap prices so it's is going to be a balancing act.) There could be 10-12 of us going.

Very many thanks in advance.

Mardrew

PS Ideally we would like to fly direct from Manchester

photome

Mardrew wrote: »

Hello

I wonder if I could ask for a general bit of advice. DH is 50 next May and a good friend is 50 the following April. For years a group of us have been saying that we will all go to Las Vegas to celebrate these birthdays somewhere between both birthdays. The bugbear is that I can only go during school holidays and so we are looking to go October 2008 Half-Term.

I am furiously reading through this fantastic thread and making loads of notes of all the tips that have been given (currently up to post 814) but I want to send an email to really firm up who is really interested in going and would like to give everyone some indication of cost on which they can make their decision. I called into the local travel agents this week for a couple of brochures and the TA said that we would be looking at a cost of about £800-£850 per person for that week next year. I know that the general consensus is not to book a package but would you agree that that will be what we can expect to pay if we book separately? (I do like to get a good standard of accommodation but at a good price whereas, I know for some in the group, accommodation doesn't mean very much and they would just like cheap prices so it's is going to be a balancing act.) There could be 10-12 of us going.

Very many thanks in advance.

Mardrew

PS Ideally we would like to fly direct from Manchester

I always fly from London for about £300 per head, I believe manchester can be done for about the same and sometimes less.

Standard of hotels in vegas is far higher than the UK (generally). If you take a price of $100 a night for a strip location ( you can pay more and you can pay less) that would bring in you in at about $700 for a week or about £350 oer room not per person. If there are 2 per room that is about £175 per person add the flight on and you are looking at about £475 per head.

That is a simplfication but they are the prices I would be working on.

You can very often get Caesers Palace and Venetian for less than $200 a night (top hotels) which if two per room would still bring you in at well under £800, if you can get flight for around £300

Mardrew

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. To get it for £475-£500 would be an absolute dream. I know most of the flights are not yet out for travel on 18/19 October 2008 but I did find them on one site (My Travel) and the price was £599. Actually, I've just gone to that site again and it looks as if the basic price is £469.40 before adding meals on etc.

Is anyone travelling to Las Vegas next Saturday, 20 Oct, from Manchester. (Start of Half-Term.) I was just wondering what you were paying? It may just give me an indication of Half-Term prices and whether they do go for a premium.

Kind regards

Mardrew

PS I've also just realised that the My Travel flight is on the Sunday which would mean I wouldn't be back in time for work on the Monday. I have a term-time only contract which means I only work 38 weeks of the year but the down-side is that there is no flexibility for extra time off!! Nobody else in the group is tied to school holidays except me and I'm going to feel really bad if everyone else has to pay a lot more than they would have done if they had gone during a non-school holiday.

photome

Mardew
I dont know much about Manchester flights, my experiance is all with London.

Couldnt you get to london for a saturday flight? Virgin operate daily flights from London so you could do a 6 night holiday and also bear in mind the time diff, you would have to leave Vegas on the sat as the flight is about 10 hours direct or 16 plus with connections then add the 8 hour time diff.

Others on here have more experiance with Man flights