Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2018

jonesMUFCforever

Brats64 wrote: »

After all the trips to Vegas,and using Downtown as a base for the weekends,I was never aware that the Rolling Smoke Downtown was half owned by Rick from Pawn Stars fame..apparently he works behind the bar at weekends.

Might give it a try on the next trip while we are staying at MSS for the weekend.

On our last trip we met him outside his bar on a Friday night - to be honest was not a nice man - just said hello to him in the parking lot (as they say!) he just brushed us aside and said not now I'm going to the bar - he made his entrance and the Pawn star smile came back!

photome

pebblesmax wrote: »

Is it a lot better than Rolling Smoke? Might try it of it is because we didn’t rate Rolling Smoke very highly.

I am with you re rolling smoke, went once, never again, the place was full of flys

photome

Brats64 wrote: »

After all the trips to Vegas,and using Downtown as a base for the weekends,I was never aware that the Rolling Smoke Downtown was half owned by Rick from Pawn Stars fame..apparently he works behind the bar at weekends.

Might give it a try on the next trip while we are staying at MSS for the weekend.

Rolling smoke BBQ I referred to above is the original one which isnt downtown, I didnt know there were 2

flybynight

Looking at our 3rd vegas jolly (to think mrs flybynight originally said "I dont fancy vegas very much,it looks boring, but u suppose we could do a few days there on the way").for the first time am looking at cashing in flying club miles. Meams we cant fly direct though.has anyone done manchester jfk vegas? Am debating it, but the delta portion of 5hrs, having alrady done a hop over the water looks a bit torturous as they dont even offer premium econ.

flybynight

Oh also, does anybody remember when my vegas started offering the 2nights stays ratger than the 1? As I have enough chips to get them and was wondering what the chances were of that being an option at the end of may?
Cheers guys

Brats64

photome wrote: »

Rolling smoke BBQ I referred to above is the original one which isnt downtown, I didnt know there were 2

Yeah I think the one Downtown is a newer one.
The original one was on food network/ travel channel the other night,which pricked my curiosity.I searched,and read about about the downtown one,and thought that might be a different option while on Fremont.
But reviews rate Ricks BBQ not as good as the original.So after reading that neither you nor pebbles even rate the original I think we will give it a miss.

pebblesmax

flybynight wrote: »

Oh also, does anybody remember when my vegas started offering the 2nights stays ratger than the 1? As I have enough chips to get them and was wondering what the chances were of that being an option at the end of may?
Cheers guys

I can see two night rewards now. The calendars go up to June at the moment. I don't remember when they started offering them though, sorry.

bobbyhibs

flybynight wrote: »

Lhas anyone done manchester jfk vegas? Am debating it, but the delta portion of 5hrs, having alrady done a hop over the water looks a bit torturous as they dont even offer premium econ.

hi

not sure if it ll help at all but on our last trip to vegas we did similar though we did edi-newark-vegas and it was such a looong day and i doubt i d do that again in one go, I think in total it was something like a 22 hour day to get to vegas, though it was a 5 or so hours in newark as a layover.maybe an idea for you is to do manchest-jfk do a few days there in and around new york and then do jfk-vegas?

flybynight

pebblesmax wrote: »

I can see two night rewards now. The calendars go up to June at the moment. I don't remember when they started offering them though, sorry.

oh, i wonder if its because you have more levels than me or something.... hmmm
ta for info.

bobbyhibs wrote: »

hi

not sure if it ll help at all but on our last trip to vegas we did similar though we did edi-newark-vegas and it was such a looong day and i doubt i d do that again in one go, I think in total it was something like a 22 hour day to get to vegas, though it was a 5 or so hours in newark as a layover.maybe an idea for you is to do manchest-jfk do a few days there in and around new york and then do jfk-vegas?

we were thinking that, there is the option to do a fly down to heathrow night before and then travelodge it and fly direct to lax ( i fancied a few days in LA , but wasnt sure if it was an option) plan is to fly back from jfk having spent a few days up there seeing friends, so was hoping to avoid it on the way. ta for ur insight.

stevie11

flybynight wrote: »

Oh also, does anybody remember when my vegas started offering the 2nights stays ratger than the 1? As I have enough chips to get them and was wondering what the chances were of that being an option at the end of may?
Cheers guys

I purchased a 2 night room reward about 6 months ago. As Nov/Dec approached the same two nights then went to a 3 night reward. I can see 2 nights now if that helps.