Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2016

stevie11

Vegasbound wrote: »

I haven’t used my smartphone before in Vegas except for wifi. If a hotel wants to text or phone me whilst I am in Vegas to let me know that my room is ready, do they dial the UK code 44 (as if I was still in the UK) before the number and do you know if it would cost me anything to receive the text/call.

I have never known a hotel to call or text me to say the room is ready but not saying that may happen at your particular hotel. The number they would have to txt/call i.e +44 1234567890 (leave out first number 0).

The cost would depend on your provider and their charges.

Raymondo111

masterwilde wrote: »

very true, however i always bring dollars back with me for next trip. i havent had to buy for a good few years, however my last trip in june hit me for 8000 dollars and i only have around 2k left. so for me, i will sell my remaining dollars and simply live in hope that by 2020 i might get back there lol

photome wrote: »

$2000 worth about £1640 today

I agree but that value is based on what you have to pay for the dollars at the moment if you wanted to sell them back to a currency exchange you wouldn't get anything like that, the only way to get a better deal is to find someone you know who is going to the US and is prepared to buy them off you at a rate somewhere between what it would cost them at todays rate versus what the OP would get back from the currency exchange. Then everybody gets a reasonable deal.

baza52

when your going to Vegas and probably dropping a few thousand or more while your there is it worth worrying about losing 30 quid or so when changing money back up?

ferf1223

Chyna-s wrote: »

I have just seen this on Groupon - Glittering Lights 2016. It will be on while I am in Vegas in December - has anybody been? Any good? Ta.


https://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-glittering-lights-2016

omg.

no, but I suspect we will be going in November!

thank you for posting it.

ferf1223

stevie11 wrote: »

I have never known a hotel to call or text me to say the room is ready but not saying that may happen at your particular hotel. The number they would have to txt/call i.e +44 1234567890 (leave out first number 0).

we have a few places - Cosmo and Wynn, IIRC.

photome

Raymondo111 wrote: »

I agree but that value is based on what you have to pay for the dollars at the moment if you wanted to sell them back to a currency exchange you wouldn't get anything like that, the only way to get a better deal is to find someone you know who is going to the US and is prepared to buy them off you at a rate somewhere between what it would cost them at todays rate versus what the OP would get back from the currency exchange. Then everybody gets a reasonable deal.

I can get exactly that rate with the dollars i have on my revolut card

stevie11

ferf1223 wrote: »

we have a few places - Cosmo and Wynn, IIRC.

My hotels are not usually as up market as those

Chyna-s

ferf1223 wrote: »

omg.

no, but I suspect we will be going in November!

thank you for posting it.

I went ahead and booked. It does look everso pretty. Thank goodness for cruise control on the American hire cars lol :-)

Raymondo111

photome wrote: »

I can get exactly that rate with the dollars i have on my revolut card

I guess this is the one time that having purchased dollars at a reasonable rate (more dollars to the pound) and then the pound devaluing it means that you actually make some money, I actually looked at the rates on the more specialist exchange sites rather than the normal exchange sites and there is a bit of difference between their buyback rates. I can see this working if like the OP says that they will not be going back to the US for a few years but for those of us that sometimes go to the US if a deal comes up it's better to hold on to any dollars that you have. I think I got my last dollars at about 1.43 to the pound back in May so as I don't have a large amount left after our LV/SF trip in September will probably hold on to them.

bubble113

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