Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2017

Brats64

Looks like there will be a few of us in Vegas in October.

We arrive on the 1st October also Stuie..1st-13th October for us.

Pebblesmax will no doubt be there from October to near Xmas.:rotfl:

Anyone else there in October ?

pebblesmax

Brats64 wrote: »

Looks like there will be a few of us in Vegas in October.

We arrive on the 1st October also Stuie..1st-13th October for us.

Pebblesmax will no doubt be there from October to near Xmas.:rotfl:

Anyone else there in October ?

Cheeky! 😉
We haven't booked yet. It's killing me. Have to wait until after Thursday when I see my consultant.

We are looking at mid October until late November, so you're not far off. Can't slide it much later because I'm taking my dad on holiday on 17th December. Such a hard life.

ferf1223

Brats64 wrote: »

Anyone else there in October ?

we arrive on the 11th, so maybe we can figure something out to meet for a coffee or a drink or what have you.

pebblesmax

We are booking tomorrow (later today?) all being well. A meet up would be nice. I'll let you know asap.

totallybored

Hi all,

I have a quick car hire question. I've been to Vegas loads of times and hired a car, however, I'm having trouble finding anything at a reasonable rate this visit. Last summer I used rentalcars.com but they're coming up at over £300 for Sunday to Friday over xmas which seems incredibly steep. I normally collected the car at TI on the strip from dollar which used to do a package to include all insurances and a tank of fuel but this doesn't seem to be available any more. I'm staying at the Cosmo so don't mind collecting closer. I don't want to pick up at the airport. Any ideas on who to use?

TIA

photome

totallybored wrote: »

Hi all,

I have a quick car hire question. I've been to Vegas loads of times and hired a car, however, I'm having trouble finding anything at a reasonable rate this visit. Last summer I used rentalcars.com but they're coming up at over £300 for Sunday to Friday over xmas which seems incredibly steep. I normally collected the car at TI on the strip from dollar which used to do a package to include all insurances and a tank of fuel but this doesn't seem to be available any more. I'm staying at the Cosmo so don't mind collecting closer. I don't want to pick up at the airport. Any ideas on who to use?

TIA

I was going to say try Alamobrits but you would need to go to the airport, I cant offer anything else if you dont want to go to the airport although you may find it cheaper just to get a cab/lyft/uber to the airport and pick up there

ferf1223

photome wrote: »

although you may find it cheaper just to get a cab/lyft/uber to the airport and pick up there

I did this last trip as the price was significantly less doing it that way. I picked it up on our first morning, so I scheduled the pick up at 6am as I knew I would be wide awake by 4:30, I took an empty suitcase from our room, took a taxi (very quick that time of the day!), got the car and then ran to WalMart to stock up...everything went in the empty case I had with me, and I was back in the room by about 7:15 with all the room snackery and coffee maker and everything.

ferf1223

also, as big fans of Dollar picking up at TI - I will say that the cars we have had from Alamo picking up at the airport to be vastly superior to those we get from TI. No comparison at all. Maybe we have been unlucky, and we have used TI for pick-up for years, but the last few have been not great...not so bad as to deal with the faff to swap them, but not great.

pebblesmax

We have had some dreadful cars from Dollar at TI. Old, dirty, and otherwise unsatisfactory. It's worth going to the airport for a better car. We use Alamo almost exclusively now. Better prices and better cars.

stoneman

pebblesmax wrote: »

We have had some dreadful cars from Dollar at TI. Old, dirty, and otherwise unsatisfactory. It's worth going to the airport for a better car. We use Alamo almost exclusively now. Better prices and better cars.

Yeah I am coming round to that way as well. In fact if you use lyft line or uber pool you can get to the car facility for $5 and usually won't have anyone else in the cab with you if you go really early.