Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2014

silvercar

Butterscotch- wrote: »

Will google open jaw flight! We have two weeks in April with a slight flexibility if needed. Would have happily taken another flight from LAX as I'm getting £1k prices on flights just now.

Try kayak rather than google!

secretmachines

Butterscotch- wrote: »

Hi everyone. We're going to Vegas next year (2nd time) and looking to go on somewhere else for a week but not sure where. Our initial thoughts are New York. We loved Vegas when we last went, otherwise we like European cities such as Budapest, Prague and Riga. We plan to fly from Scotland via London on BA. Any suggestions?

Only been once but we really like Boston. Whole place is walkable but with a good metro system. Good shopping, food, history... I'm talking myself into going back!

duchy

Another vote for Boston-in many ways I prefer it to NYC.

gizmat

butterscotch
I have just booked fights with Thomas cook airlines to nyc, then a delta flight on to vegas 3 days later followed by a return to Manchester agin with Thomas cook,all flights are direct,this is for next june,maybe worth a look.

John259

You can travel between any of Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC by rail, using Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Service. Those cities also have good public transport systems for getting around them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Corridor

Open jaw flight options are sometimes called "multi-city" or some other wording starting with "multi". They're nearly always much less expensive than two sets of separate one-way tickets.

Seldom_Seen_Kid

In May we went Manchester to Las Vegas. Stayed Aria for 2 nights, then had 5 days chilling by the pool at Orleans. We then flew to San Diego, stayed for 4 nights and then flew back to Las Vegas. We then had 7 nights at Signature before flying back to Manchester.

Manchester to Las Vegas return with TC was £550 return, and San Diego to Las Vegas was £100 return. We went to San Diego over Memorial weekend, and whilst Memorial rates were expensive in Las Vegas the hotel rates in San Diego were pretty reasonable.

gizmat

Seldom_Seen_Kid wrote: »

In May we went Manchester to Las Vegas. Stayed Aria for 2 nights, then had 5 days chilling by the pool at Orleans. We then flew to San Diego, stayed for 4 nights and then flew back to Las Vegas. We then had 7 nights at Signature before flying back to Manchester.

Manchester to Las Vegas return with TC was £550 return, and San Diego to Las Vegas was £100 return. We went to San Diego over Memorial weekend, and whilst Memorial rates were expensive in Las Vegas the hotel rates in San Diego were pretty reasonable.

how did you find signature please as this is my first choice at the moment, ie room,distance etc

Seldom_Seen_Kid

Stayed at Signature several times. I really rate it - value for money; kitchen; location suits us; pools are great (also have access to MGM).

As a side point, if the weekend is expensive we pop over the road to Carriage House.

Seldom_Seen_Kid

Regarding distance / location, we like tower 3 as you can walk out the gate and up E Harmon Ave and you are at the side of PH. MGM is less than 5 minutes walk (some is even moving walkways). Also it is easy to get to the monorail if you wish to use it.

Tower 3 I find to be the quiet tower, with no noise from MGM pool and the 2 connected pool areas right outside of the door are nice and relaxing.

secretmachines

Butterscotch- wrote: »

We'd really like to see a couple of places in America. Then do the same in 3/4 years with Europe/UK in between.

Is it just BA and Virgin who fly to Vegas? I've heard/read bad things about Virgin planes.

what have you heard about Virgin planes? I'm guessing you've only heard a handful of bad stories, but none of the thousands of "it was fine" or "it was good" stories.

for what it's worth we've flown VA six times in the last 4-5 years (4 times to Vegas and never had a bad experience. The food's half decent, staff are excellent... drink has run out a couple of times, but what do you expect

and there's no accounting for 'idiots' you might get on board... but you can get those on any flight!