Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2016

blindman

Barcode wrote: »

Ah, see, this is why we're hand-luggage only.

In that case (no pun intended) you should be OK. :cool:

stoneman

Barcode wrote: »

Surely, these sorts of fares are aimed at feeding people onto their mainland U.K flights? So yes.

No,
I am flying this time from Dub to PHL, then to LAS. All on AA who in my opinion have a superior offering than BA anyway.

stoneman

silvercar wrote: »

Whereas I can see the logic of what you are doing, it cannot be quicker to get from London to Nottingham by going on 2 flights via DUB than to take the train!

So to get a train I first have to get from LHR into London, hoik all our luggage fom a tube to St. Pancras then the 1+ hour train to Nottingham then a cab to my house. It's near on 4 hours.

I get off the 7:45am flight from PHL at DUB, walk about 5-10 minutes to the Ryainair gate, catch the 9:15am flight to EMA and a 20 minute cab home. The return flight is £50 each with luggage.

stoneman

It has to be said, as has been mentioned on HFP over the past few days that either you "Get it" or you don't.

Some will see these ridiculously low fares to LAS as some sort of "it must be a con". Well it's not. There are many thousands of us out there that put a little effort in to get great benefits out.

It works, we have not flown economy for many years, and we dont pay anymore than most of you pay for sitting at the back.

We get lounge access with massages and pampering, private security channels, fine wines and top quality food on china plates on the plane.

We lie down and sleep off the excesses of overindulging while the miles float on by. Wake up to full breakfasts before disembarking wondering where the last 10 hours have gone.

All because I decided many years ago that with a little effort I could do all this for the price of a cattle class ticket.

silvercar

stoneman wrote: »

So to get a train I first have to get from LHR into London, hoik all our luggage fom a tube to St. Pancras then the 1+ hour train to Nottingham then a cab to my house. It's near on 4 hours.

I get off the 7:45am flight from PHL at DUB, walk about 5-10 minutes to the Ryainair gate, catch the 9:15am flight to EMA and a 20 minute cab home. The return flight is £50 each with luggage.

I accept that, but you said you route through LHR to get the tier points. I was saying that LHR-DUB-EMA is longer than getting the train from LHR.

stoneman

silvercar wrote: »

I accept that, but you said you route through LHR to get the tier points. I was saying that LHR-DUB-EMA is longer than getting the train from LHR.

What I meant was that I usually try to include a LHR leg to get extra tier points (as long as I can get it for no more money) So the routing I would do is DUB-LHR-XXX-LHR-DUB
The time it takes is immaterial to me as its all about getting those extra tier points

And is it really longer to do LHR-DUB-EMA? I don't know but it sure as heck is going to cost me more than a £9 flight

rpstdavids

Just booked trip no. 15 to Vegas:j

I was only there back in Sept, and hadn't planned to go back so soon, but an old school mate is heading there for his 50th in Feb, so I just could not resist.

Doing 3 days in San Diego first, then heading to Vegas for 4 nights. Staying at Bally's, who have comped the 4 nights, even though I only had 11 points on my Total Rewards card.

Flights both ways with Virgin, via LAX on the way out and direct return. Upgraded the return to Premium as it was only £80 extra, so worth it in my opinion. :beer:

ferf1223

rpstdavids wrote: »

Staying at Bally's, who have comped the 4 nights, even though I only had 11 points on my Total Rewards card.

11 reward or tier points?

rpstdavids

ferf1223 wrote: »

11 reward or tier points?

Tier points I think, it states 11 reward credits.

ferf1223

rpstdavids wrote: »

Tier points I think, it states 11 reward credits.

that's reward credits so not really a fair reflection of your account status/historic play for comps. as you spend reward credits they come out of your account, so you could have earned 10,000 reward credits, spent most of them and only have 11 left. so saying you had comped nights for 11 reward credits may be misleading. Tier credits is a better view of your overall status for the year...but in the end the specifics as to what generates comps is a bit of a mystery.

Tier credits reset to zero on 1st Jan, so you could have zero tier credits and still get comped rooms based on previous play as well.

at the moment I have 938 reward credits (worth $9.38) as we spent most of them in October. I have 5,138 tier credits...though I did have some weird promo which gave me 1,000 tier credits, and some other bonus tier promos applied. I did not flat out earn 5000 tier credits one at a time this year.