Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2014

duchy

I'm trying really hard to feel sympathy for you Ferf ....... Honest I am !

NASCAR does look fun though

pebblesmax

Have a lovely time in Las Vegas jonesMUFC.

Three long weeks for us to wait yet. Will need to make meet up plans with Ferf, photome, stuie and luci soon. Anyone else visiting between 30 Mar and 22 May?

ferf1223

we were just talking about you and Tony, about making plans to see you guys - looking forward to it!

ferf1223

duchy wrote: »

NASCAR does look fun though

the best part of NASCAR for me the year we went was the food...it was like being at an American county fair...no one told me NASCAR has fair food or I would have been going for years.

I pretty much burnt out on funnel cakes within the span of 4 days though, so that's at least a point of reference for the future.

ferf1223

I'm now in MyVegas redemption mode and cannot for the life of me remember - when new rewards are released about 3pm or so our time, if you are sitting with one of them on your screen showing sold out - will it change to available when the new ones are released, or do you have to keep going out and going back into it to see the newly released rewards?

duchy

Pretty sure you have to keep going in and out from others FB posts.

vanilla8

I'm back from vegas. Went for 5 nights, jet lag doesn't seem as bad.
We were babysitting the mother in law so not much of a trip report this time. We were staying at the luxor and unfortunately above LAX so kept awake on our first night (a sat)
We had a great meal at Tender (my vegas reward) and also the visit to 107 lounge at stratosphere was great (2for1 cocktails and appetisers were good value)
We went with $2400 and came back with $1000, had some joy with the slots

lizzielie

Hi all

Need a bit of advice regarding hotels or rather any experiences for frequent changes. Normally we would only split between 2 hotels, but this time it does not look a good option as hubby booked 2 nights at Palazzo (Xmas pressie for my birthday) and we jumped on the offer of Palms for Memorial weekend (such a fab deal). But that leaves us with a further 9 nights somewhere else and hubby not too keen on staying those nights at the Aria. So would it be mad to do 3 nights at Paris and 6 nights at Aria? Packing/ unpacking doesn't bother me too much, nor does having to wait for a room, but do wonder if it would cause a lot of upheaval during the hols? any help much appreciated x

John259

lizzielie wrote: »

So would it be mad to do 3 nights at Paris and 6 nights at Aria?

With a car - no problem, it would be like a road trip holiday but without much road

Without a car you could use a taxi. Lugging suitcases onto a normal public bus not might be viable. As a possibly rather way-out suggestion, I suppose you could use a combination of the two hotels' courtesy buses to and from the airport.

ferf1223

I don't think there are courtesy buses to and from the airport for any of those hotels? I am not sure how they could be used to go from one hotel to the other if there were?

It does sound like a lot of moving but with a 6 night final stay (so a lot of moving then a stretch one place) and a 2-week trip it doesn't sound unreasonable...if you know you're only staying somewhere a few nights you can minimize what gets unpacked so repacking isn't too painful. If you have a car I agree it would be a bit less of a faff and if you plan for any potential delays checking in - and plan what to do while you're waiting, it should be fine. The one time we had a considerable wait we were a bit out of sorts as felt a bit homeless...since it had never happened before we hadn't really come up with a contingency plan for the homeless period.

The only thing that might be something to consider is staying somewhere other than Paris? As Paris->Aria is a short move and you're not really changing the scenery at all.

We moved from Paris to Cosmo once and it seemed moderately silly but rooms were comped so we figured it was OK.