Las Vegas 2007 bargain hunt + tips

phill79

photome wrote: »

Sorry if I have given wrong info, but in my experience of booking hotels in Vegas, most of them on specials from fatwallet or lasvegastalk etc. I have found them to offer the zero fee for cancelling, but not if you go through a third party.

My experience is limited to about a dozen hotels over 5 trips

Most of them do give a refund with zero fee, but you do just have to check the smallprint. The Luxor had an offer on a month or two ago where you had to pay all up front and then no refund if you cancelled.

trets77

i cancelled my Excalibur booking today with the special offer i took advantage of on https://www.vegasmessageboard.com.

i called them via http://www.ratebuster.co.uk/pages/home.asp#rates ( worth choosing for the amusing sales patter and 1p / min rate :rotfl: )

nice lady said i will get a full refund in 7-10 days:T :T :T

got my saving foot full to the floor for a possible 7 nights trip week before xmas, if the new car stays fit and i keep up the OT grabbing at work.

damm i wish my Mazda had hanged on one more year

wdyw

photome wrote: »

Sorry if I have given wrong info, but in my experience of booking hotels in Vegas, most of them on specials from fatwallet or lasvegastalk etc. I have found them to offer the zero fee for cancelling, but not if you go through a third party.

My experience is limited to about a dozen hotels over 5 trips

Not a problem Photome, just thought I better point out that not all do full refunds. The two hotels we use more than any others are TI and Venetian, TI does give full refund 48hours prior to the booking date, Venetian full on "normal" bookings 72 hours prior. However, if you book a Venetian suite special through their own web site its non refundable, non cancelable, non transferable!!

trets77

so don,t book this one unless you can complete

http://capps.zt03.net/custapps/vene1/ocbag/web1.php?md=2278267&ed=83656990&ord=83656990

many thanks for the good info wdyw

trets77

wdyw wrote: »

All those years ago the first hotel we stayed in in Vegas was the Stardust. On Tuesday it was sent crashing to the ground to make way for a new hotel.
Sorry to see it go. Now another reason to stay south strip rather.
:-(

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Fountains to Paganini
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The Good , The Bad , and The Ugly theme
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The Mirage Volcano
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i saw this at Ceasers
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Freemont Street
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Lake of Dreams
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Bazlovejoy

Ok guys

Im going to las vegas to watch Ricky Hatton fight on 23rd June, the cheapest flight Ive found so far is £418.50 with opodo.co.uk. Can anyone help me and beat that?

Thanks in advance

Baz

Baz_2

When are you returning and where are you flying from?

Kinda basic info really.

Bazlovejoy

:embarasse Sorry Baz ive just read my post again and ive not included any info at all have I. I'll put that down to being tired this morning. Going from Manchester, the dates are 19th June to 26th but would 2 days either way would be fine. Dont mind how many stops as long as we get there and its nice and cheap. Were on a budget so cost is the most important thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Baz

trets77

£448 with Virgin direct out of Gatwick direct dates 17th to 26th june

http://www.airline-network.co.uk/specialoffers/SpecialOffers.aspx?id=f7595f08-c246-4b05-b83b-4df7a4bbf6c8&departureDate=1/6/2007

Root= http://www.airline-network.co.uk/specialOffersGatewayWeb/Gateway.aspx?DESTAREA=NUS&DESTCOUNTRY=USA&DESTCITY=LAS&OFFERID=f2f787c1-96ed-4f91-b1d3-56182869fc74

Virgins own website throws up £463 if you come back on friday 29th ( longer in Vegas yes please !!!!!!!). use firefox if IE won,t let you in


http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/index.jsp

AA sent me some offers by e-mail for AA advantage members ( free to join) starting at £308 ( good luck getting that though). but there are loads of permutations of connections i,m afraid. but here is the link to give it a go

http://www.aa.com/content/urls/guarantee.jhtml?anchorLocation=DirectURL&title=guarantee

try https://www.flyertalk.com forum for a discount code

https://www.dialaflight.com throws up £364 for 19th to 26th with NW out of London http://www.dialaflight.com/flightlist.asp?airport=692&departday=19&departmonth=2007-06&destination=las+vegas&returnday=26&returnmonth=2007-06&fs_submit.x=16&fs_submit.y=9


or £394 out of manchester with KLM

you have to call them to book

don,t not call Trailfinders while your on the phone and try a bit of Haggling.also see what calling Mytravel does as well

i hate this site but maybe you can make it work for you
http://www.flightcomparison.co.uk/flightcomparison/flights/flylas_vegaslas.htm


check out these Travel worm offers on places to stay for your dates
http://www.travelworm.com/(zxhws345wv0m5jqysuityly4)/HotelsBooking/ShowRates.aspx?DestinationID=1&CheckInDate=6%2f19%2f2007&CheckOutDate=6%2f26%2f2007&NumberRooms=1&SortMode=ByAll

HOOTERS looks like a good deal at $59 !! right next to MGM for you and lots of lovely ladies too boot



:kisses: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy: :happyhear :dance: :grinheart :whistle:

but might not the best choice if your wife/ girlfriend is with you . i,ve never been allowed in one ( officialy ) .....because my wife says i,m not drooling over the staff as well as the chicken wings. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

also don,t forget this Board
http://www.vegasmessageboard.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13

GOOD LUCK !!! and Have a very large Frozen MARGARITA for me.

Patmanuk

Hi

I have just gone to book flights for Vegas in December as they were £290 couple of days ago, these same fights have shot up to £500 now, so disappointed, cant really afford that now.

It seems Virgin have put every flight price up to Vegas?

Will there be anohter sale at all??

Thanks

Patrick