Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2014

ferf1223

vanilla8 wrote: »

Yes all miles bookings are refundable (minus the £25 or £30 charge) up to the day before the flight now, so you would not lose your miles if you did have to cancel. I think it was only last year that they changed this to align themselves with BA policy.

thank you - I did read the T&Cs several times and I think because we always book non-refundable fares I just could not process that this could be correct even though it made sense...was sure I was misreading, but then I remembered someone - maybe duchy/penny/stoneman - saying something about reward flights being refundable. This is great to know.

kroberts

secretmachines wrote: »

Virgin Reward seat sale is open... Miles + £217pp, so tempting!

Thank you. After seeing this we booked ours for next year

John259

If anyone reading this thread needs the latest news on the current I-15 closure and diversion near Moapa north of Las Vegas due to the recent flooding, here's links to the official sites for road information:

Nevada Department of Transportation
https://www.nevadadot.com

Arizona Department of Transportation
http://www.azdot.gov

Utah Department of Transportation
http://www.udot.utah.gov

Winter_Jasmine

Hello All, hope you're all well! I haven't been hovering around the Vegas threads for absolutely ages as I find it makes me sad and jealous when I haven't got a trip booked :P

We've been waiting for a Virgin Reward Seat sale that includes Vegas forever - finally yesterday our patience paid off and we booked two flights MAN - LAS for next Summer for miles plus £223 taxes each (including credit card fee!). Soooooo excited already!

I just have one question (sorry if it's already been discussed, I did search before asking though). I know Virgin announced that they were going to start charging if you wanted to pick your seat in advance but their website is a bit vague - some places it mentions the charge but others it says you can book free 60 days in advance. DH has also found some articles that say they never actually went ahead with the charges. So...to those who've flown Virgin since the end of June, do they charge for pre-booking or not? Thanks

photome

Winter_Jasmine wrote: »

Hello All, hope you're all well! I haven't been hovering around the Vegas threads for absolutely ages as I find it makes me sad and jealous when I haven't got a trip booked :P

We've been waiting for a Virgin Reward Seat sale that includes Vegas forever - finally yesterday our patience paid off and we booked two flights MAN - LAS for next Summer for miles plus £223 taxes each (including credit card fee!). Soooooo excited already!

I just have one question (sorry if it's already been discussed, I did search before asking though). I know Virgin announced that they were going to start charging if you wanted to pick your seat in advance but their website is a bit vague - some places it mentions the charge but others it says you can book free 60 days in advance. DH has also found some articles that say they never actually went ahead with the charges. So...to those who've flown Virgin since the end of June, do they charge for pre-booking or not? Thanks

I think you can only get your seats 60 days in advance at 8am that morning for free

Winter_Jasmine

photome wrote: »

I think you can only get your seats 60 days in advance at 8am that morning for free

Thanks, DH has finally managed to find out something concrete from their website - apparently you can pick for free 60 days before up to 1st (I think he said) October, they'll issue an update after that. Have read elsewhere that they didn't check if their own IT systems could cope with accepting charges for seat allocations apart from the bulkheads etc that have always been done at the airport. Fingers crossed they decide that it's more trouble than it's worth to start charging!

We've already set reminders in our phones for 60 days before :rotfl:

gamboller

Is there any shuttle or other cheap transportation to the Orleans from the strip?

photome

gamboller wrote: »

Is there any shuttle or other cheap transportation to the Orleans from the strip?

Orleans has a shuttle that runs between Orleans, Ballys, Gold Coast in a circle every 20 mins or so, I think it is only supposed to be for guests but no one has ever asked me

vegasvisitor

I think it's open to all but priority to guests. So if there are too many people you could be asked to show your room card.

vegasvisitor

Arrived in vegas yesterday. Some housekeeping issues when we checked it. All else good. Weather has cleared up. Spoke to nvh and mrs nvh this afternoon at the pool.

Our road trip was good however lots of driving. Loved the grand canyon, montezuma castle and sedona. A few road closures due to recent weather we had to find another route to oatman. Enjoyed that too!

Did the rio buffet with wine groupon deal last night. Then up to voodoo for one hour ladies drink free 11-12. Vodkas must have been way too strong as I'm feeling a bit delicate now.

Got the washing machine on and going to head out in the car in a while. No booze for me this evening lol.