Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2012

photome

VALUE FOR MONEY

Porthorg wrote: »

To anyone thats flown via Atlanta airport......is 1 hour 40 mins enoungh to clear immigration and get through to the connecting Vegas flight.

Delta have now changed my flight for the 3rd time since booking and I'm worried. Also exteremly fed up with them messing me around.

I have but it was a long time ago

you have to collect bags and clear immigration

I wouldnt want to do it with that short time, but they will put you on the next flight anyway so I guess you have nothing to lose by keeping that flight booking

someone who has done it recently will advise i am sure

ferf1223

VALUE FOR MONEY

Porthorg wrote: »

To anyone thats flown via Atlanta airport......is 1 hour 40 mins enoungh to clear immigration and get through to the connecting Vegas flight.

Delta have now changed my flight for the 3rd time since booking and I'm worried. Also exteremly fed up with them messing me around.

You can get an idea of average processing times here - if you use seasonal monthly averages, choose your month and day of the week you can get some idea what to expect:

http://apps.cbp.gov/awt/

It isn't perfect and won't include times to get to your connecting flight, etc...but will at least give you a starting point...I wouldn't want to do it, but like photome says, they will have to get you to Vegas on a later flight...maybe worth checking later flights to see what is on offer...won't mean they have room, but at least if you know that they have several later flights that you'll get there eventually...they may put you on a partner airline as well.

retepetsir

coz2099 wrote: »

I used a specific Signature code - R79599 for 20% off. Ive just tried the code for $65 dining credit and it comes in at $615 for a 1 bed suite on my dates and the code i used is $492 so dont think it does include the 20% off too, give the code i used a try for your dates and see if its any better!!

I shall do! Cheers. Couldn't find that code anywhere, and the only MGM code I found was for the Grand.

Edit: Looks like the same price for me. Cheers for that though. :T

glenbois

Looking to go in Sept/Oct and was quoted this for flights:

London to San Francisco, stay for a few nights, internal flight to Las Vegas and only indirect flight is the one back which is Las Vegas to London via LAX.

Available itineraries for
649.76
GBP per adult




Including taxes & fees
Price breakdown | Fare rules
Select


Flight Airports/times Stops Duration/equipment More information United 955
Depart: LHR
Sep 27 10:35
Arrive: SFO
Sep 27 13:37 Non-stop
11h 2m
Boeing 777 Flight details
View seats United 1699
Operated by
Continental Depart: SFO
Sep 30 20:45
Arrive: LAS
Sep 30 22:13 Non-stop
1h 28m
Boeing 737-800 Flight details
View seats United 796
Depart: LAS
Oct 12 14:00
Arrive: LAX
Oct 12 15:12 Non-stop
1h 12m
Airbus A320 Flight details
View seats <<< connecting to >>> United 934
Depart: LAX
Oct 12 17:55
Arrive: LHR
Oct 13 12:15
Arrives next day
Non-stop
10h 20m
Boeing 777 Flight details
View seats

£650 each including internal with a direct flight in to the USA - is this reasonable, could I expect anything better?

Porthorg

Thanks for the advice on Atlanta. There is a later flight which we are goign to switch onto. It means a 4 hour wait but would rather do that than worry about missing our connection.

Last year our AA flight was slightly late into Chicago then I had issues with my visa. We were sheduled onto a later flight which was great however that is at the "desk's discretion" which I don't want to rely on.

This is the 3rd change to our Delta flights since we booked in October. Is this common?

secretmachines

VALUE FOR MONEY

glenbois wrote: »

£650 each including internal with a direct flight in to the USA - is this reasonable, could I expect anything better?

try Skyscanner for checking prices of flights on different days.

For September, currently showing £521pp as best price for indirect flights and £697pp for direct flights.

depends if you want those couple of nights in SF or not

blindman

HOTELS

glenbois wrote: »

£650 each including internal with a direct flight in to the USA - is this reasonable, could I expect anything better?

I take it that doesn't include the hotels in San Fran

As secretmachines has pointed out for that price you should be able to get direct there and back.
(Also I don't like the time of the SFO to LAS flight)

If you do want a stop over in SFO I'd say you could get a cheaper price.

Fares to SFO should be about £500 and a single fare from SFO to LAS can be as low as £44.

I use Kayak to search for fares

Problem then is you are booking two separate Itins so no easy changes can be made.

jammerr

has anyone tried to blag an upgrade at the Cosmo before just by asking? I've booked a City room but seen that they only do 2 queens and not one King. Gf won't be pleased (or maybe she will:p)
I'm wondering whether to chance it and act all suprised that we'll be stuck in two seperate beds for our stay hoping to score a free upgrade to a balcony room.

retepetsir

glenbois wrote: »

Looking to go in Sept/Oct and was quoted this for flights:

London to San Francisco, stay for a few nights, internal flight to Las Vegas and only indirect flight is the one back which is Las Vegas to London via LAX.

Available itineraries for
649.76
GBP per adult




Including taxes & fees
Price breakdown | Fare rules
Select


Flight Airports/times Stops Duration/equipment More information United 955
Depart: LHR
Sep 27 10:35
Arrive: SFO
Sep 27 13:37 Non-stop
11h 2m
Boeing 777 Flight details
View seats United 1699
Operated by
Continental Depart: SFO
Sep 30 20:45
Arrive: LAS
Sep 30 22:13 Non-stop
1h 28m
Boeing 737-800 Flight details
View seats United 796
Depart: LAS
Oct 12 14:00
Arrive: LAX
Oct 12 15:12 Non-stop
1h 12m
Airbus A320 Flight details
View seats <<< connecting to >>> United 934
Depart: LAX
Oct 12 17:55
Arrive: LHR
Oct 13 12:15
Arrives next day
Non-stop
10h 20m
Boeing 777 Flight details
View seats

£650 each including internal with a direct flight in to the USA - is this reasonable, could I expect anything better?

That's not too bad really.

I did a lot of research last September/October for flights this May and we're now going with United as they were the cheapest.

Flying from London to Chicago, then Chicago to LV, then LV to SF (as to get back from LV it was a change via SF anyway), and then SF back to London, with a few days in each location.

Even doing direct flights to LV and back with internal flights it wasn't cheaper. Ours were around £750 each which didn't seem too bad to me (all direct flights, no stops).

As mentioned before, Kayak is very good for 'multi-city' tickets.

:T

zaffi

CASINOS

jammerr wrote: »

has anyone tried to blag an upgrade at the Cosmo before just by asking? I've booked a City room but seen that they only do 2 queens and not one King. Gf won't be pleased (or maybe she will:p)
I'm wondering whether to chance it and act all suprised that we'll be stuck in two seperate beds for our stay hoping to score a free upgrade to a balcony room.

we got upgraded from a terrace studio to a wraparound suite for free. girl asked if we were there for anything special told her we were getting married (we were) so there might be some scope for a free upgrade if you get the right person in the right mood!