Las Vegas 2007 bargain hunt + tips

ferf1223

mookybargirl wrote: »

I've applied for a Post Office card - just a reminder to everyone to go through Quidco - £20.50 up for grabs.

Thanks for that suggestion...I've not looked into Quidco before (husband does Rpoints and Ipoints) but will do so before we apply.

ferf1223

Harrrrrrry wrote: »

Well its roughly £250 return going from manchester so thats what I consider cheap.

The Air Canada prices look cheap but then they add on fuel charges, taxes etc and work out to be nearly £500 each.

And Maxjet is over £1000 from Stansted!!!!!!!

Maxjet is expensive because it's business class only...cheap compared to other business class flights.

When I search on lastminute.com I'm coming up with under £400 for some dates, including taxes.

You may have some luck with last minute packages...other than that, I'm not sure how likely cheap flights will be this late in the game...we booked under £300 direct on Virgin for last June, but booked them the December before.

mookybargirl

It's the credit card with 0% on purchases abroad
Trets posted the link before;
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/jump1?catId=19400177&mediaId=34100665

Kezza25_2

0% commision - normal interest rates though.

thanks

mookybargirl

Kezza25 wrote: »

0% commision - normal interest rates though.

thanks

Yes, should have said that too, although you do get 3 months interest free on purchases.

Ayrshire_2

Well i've bitten the bullet ....... and booked our flights for September :j :j

Booked via Opodo (via quidco) ........ sadly by the time i waited for US Airways to register me on their dividend miles program the flights went up £25 each :eek:

So it's £880 for 2 adults, Glasgow - Philidelphia - San Francisco (17th Sept) ......... Las Vegas - Philidelphia - Glasgow (1st October).

Not the best price i've seen on here but best i could find for the time we wanted to go and as someone said before (photome i think).....if you're happy with the price book it.

Might need to have a wee :beer: tonight with the wife to be to celebrate Then i'll crack on with looking at hotels in SF, LV and the Grand Canyon .....oh and car hire.

Roll on September :T ... for the wedding of course

patrickbateman

Hey,

Has anybody used vegas.com for booking a room? I have found a deal for a room @$50 ish but vegas.com have it at about $90 but offer a best rate guarentee. Am I likely to therefore get the room for $10 as they then refund double the difference, or will they shaft me somehow?

BTW I reckon at the moment anything below 450 return to vegas looks a decent rate, deals seem few and far between this year!

Hannah2

Ayrshire wrote: »

Well i've bitten the bullet ....... and booked our flights for September :j :j


Might need to have a wee :beer: tonight with the wife to be to celebrate Then i'll crack on with looking at hotels in SF, LV and the Grand Canyon .....oh and car hire.

Roll on September :T ... for the wedding of course

Hi Ayrshire, Congrats on booking your flights!

I dont know anything about Las Vegas but I have stayed in a few hotels in San Francisco. I dont know what your budget is but I can highly recommend The Orchard Hotel. It is close to the main shopping area and on the cable car route if you dont want the short walk up the hill from Macys, which is very handy if you have an unlimited use travel card as you can just hop on and hop off (extremely useful).

Let me know if you want any more info.

(Hope it is ok to put this on the las vegas thread ?)

trets77

Congrats Ayeshire :beer: :beer: US Airways are suppose to be a very good airline so you should have pleasant flight, let me know as i,m flying with them with a connecton in Philly for the 1st time in late sept.

Well its roughly £250 return going from manchester so thats what I consider cheap.

The Air Canada prices look cheap but then they add on fuel charges, taxes etc and work out to be nearly £500 each.

And Maxjet is over £1000 from Stansted!!!!!!!

£250 isn,t bad but they have been lower but are there school holidays around your dates ??? , just depends on your attitude to risk and a later booking. my apoligies i have not been doing the My Travel price checks but things have been a bit up in the air this last week and half.

Personally if the choice is Manchester direct or London indirect i would take Manchester every time simply because you could go up the night before and /or not add 6 hours to your flight .from London. unless you have done long haul of this nature before , don,t under estimate how hard 10 hours on a plane is ..let alone 16-17.

i can handle long periods of being couped up in the same place with extreme boredem because of my job but when you are 7 hours in with 3 left on a cramped plane it really starts to grind even for me.

2-3 hours in your car in this country is much more preferable IMO

ferf1223

patrickbateman wrote: »

Hey,

Has anybody used vegas.com for booking a room? I have found a deal for a room @$50 ish but vegas.com have it at about $90 but offer a best rate guarentee. Am I likely to therefore get the room for $10 as they then refund double the difference, or will they shaft me somehow?

I haven't tried it and Vegas.com is a pretty reputable site, where is the other rate from? They only offer the guarantee on US-based websites and it has to be for the exact same room, same dates, etc...the guarantee only applies to the base rate (so no taxes, etc) so make sure that the rate on the other site is in the same format...and also their T&C says:

"*If there is a hotel-only rate available on VEGAS.com which is the same or lower than the rate submitted in the qualified notification, the VEGAS.com rate will be offered to the guest. In such a case, the guest will not receive double the difference back. VEGAS.com will only refund double the difference if VEGAS.com does not have the best available rate as described in these Terms & Conditions."

So they could, in theory, offer you the room for the same rate as you could book on the other site rather than the double the difference.