Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2013

StuieUK34

understood with the hire cars, and did read that the west rim wasnt the place for hire cars... Happy to drive to the south rim, which i guess is over 250 miles away (4hrs drive, etc)....

jammerr

vegastripping.com have posted their yearly 'vegastripping' awards (readers and editors choice)
what do you think?
(some bad language on there)

http://www.vegastripping.com/news/blog/4844/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-trippies-2013/

secretmachines

just stumbled across this, thought it was interesting!

Las Vegas Strip street drive from 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqzMJlufrJ0

stoneman

Froggitt wrote: »

Always picked up at airport. Always booked economy/compact. Always given something bigger/better e.g. Chrysler Sebring one time, and Ford Victoria Crown another.

Always picked up from airport (prob 20+ times) usually book economy/never got anything other than what I booked:o

MK55

nvh wrote: »

Any tips on which tower to book @ signature?

Hey, we have stayed at MGM Signature and stayed in tower 1. We loved it as you had your own bar in near the reception, and a Starbucks. (none of the others have this) and it is the quickest one to the towers 2 & 3 are a further walk from the inside.

Eponym

Hi all

I have read the first post and I'm just looking for some tips really.

7 friends and I are going on a 3 week California-area roadtrip ending in Vegas. We'll probably be there around April 16th - 18th (which is midweek) and fly home on the 21st which is a Sunday. I can't be precise about dates as we're playing it by ear to an extent. We're not booking most of our accomodation in order to give ourselves the freedom to spend longer in certain places or conversely, to move on if we want to.

I see that the first post says if we just roll up we can expect to pay the top prices; does anyone have any tips for which are going to be the least painful?

We're not looking to spend too much money if we can help it! It may be that we can book somewhere a few days before we arrive in Vegas, but if anyone has any tips it would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

photome

Havent seen it mentioned but may have just missed it.

The Fremont streetexperience coupons are no longer available for free.

The ones where the was a bogof at MSS buffet

They are now available in the LVA members book though

photome

Eponym wrote: »

Hi all

I have read the first post and I'm just looking for some tips really.

7 friends and I are going on a 3 week California-area roadtrip ending in Vegas. We'll probably be there around April 16th - 18th (which is midweek) and fly home on the 21st which is a Sunday. I can't be precise about dates as we're playing it by ear to an extent. We're not booking most of our accomodation in order to give ourselves the freedom to spend longer in certain places or conversely, to move on if we want to.

I see that the first post says if we just roll up we can expect to pay the top prices; does anyone have any tips for which are going to be the least painful?

We're not looking to spend too much money if we can help it! It may be that we can book somewhere a few days before we arrive in Vegas, but if anyone has any tips it would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Personally speaking I wouldnt want to just turn up in Vegas and hope, especially if it includes a fri and sat when hotels are often full or if a convention is in town and again rooms are at a premium.

Wouldnt it make sense just to decide on a day to arrive in Vegas and book those dates leaving the rest to book on spec

KayJ066

Hey everyone,

My fiance and I have just booked our holiday to Vegas for 2013. We are flying with Virgin from LGW on Oct 26th, staying in the Signature @ MGM Grand.
We are total newbies to LV, and we are also going to get married whilst we are out there. We are looking to do a few things whilst we are there, so I'am looking for some recs if possible.

My fiance wants to visit a shooting range, we also want to try a good steakhouse (have heard good things about Envy?) and also a good BBQ restaurant if there is one.

What are the chance of getting an upgrade at the hotel? We are booked into a deluxe suite, but we told Virgin that we were visiting to get married and they said they would put a note on our booking for the hotel? Any experience of this would be great.

We definitely want to visit the Grand Canyon, probably a bus tour as neither of us drive, who are good to book with and are they really expensive?

How much spending money is needed for 5 days on average? We were thinking of $1500-$2000?

Thanks in advance

Eponym

photome wrote: »

Personally speaking I wouldnt want to just turn up in Vegas and hope, especially if it includes a fri and sat when hotels are often full or if a convention is in town and again rooms are at a premium.

Wouldnt it make sense just to decide on a day to arrive in Vegas and book those dates leaving the rest to book on spec

I agree but the others are keen to leave all options open!