Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2020

bobbyhibs

hi
jonesMUFCforever   best of luck  !
unsure if it helps, but  vegas at the best of times is a looooong journey, prehaps going down to london the day before and a cheap hotel may be of use?
all the best

deejaybee

pebblesmax said:

deejaybee said:

Is it worth applying for ESTA now, or hold off till ( hopefully ) things calm down in the States ?

I have an existing booking for Paris in September .

Have you had one before? I believe you can apply now, but it will just say pending until they lift the restriction for UK visitors. I haven’t looked at the website recently to see what message they have regarding eligibility. We should have flown in last night for 6 weeks. It is all cancelled, and I haven’t the heart to look myself just now. 

Stay safe everyone. 

Hi pebblesmax -sorry to hear about your cancelled trip,must be gutting..

No, I havnt travelled to States before, i dont think the ESTA process takes long ( in normal times ) , so i will leave it for a while..

Also I am hoping that an airline takes over Flybe's Exeter-Dublin slot eventually,i suppose it depends on whether it was viable or not..otherwise will have to travel a bit further up to Brizzle i guess.

At least my Virgin Atlantic credit card refunded the Flybe money quickly and with no hassle.

pebblesmax

It doesn’t take long at all, so I’m sure you will be fine. Longest one of ours has taken is 24 hours, but they are usually much faster than that. 

I hope you enjoy your first visit. We love the place, but will wait a while before re-booking. 

Brats64

Our Vegas trip was due to fly out on the 17th March...the first day of no flying to the states.
Tried getting in touch with insurance company, and other companies we used regarding refunds, but not much success with any of them...just a heads up for those who will soon attempt to claw any cash back from paid for trips.Getting a refund at this time isn’t really the most important thing in anyone’s life, and we have decided to leave it for now.But I would still like to be able to get recompense somewhere down the line.
We have another trip booked in October to the West Coast, and to be honest I’m not really expecting to go on that one either...even if you are allowed to fly by then, don’t think I’ll want to take the chance.

deejaybee...interested to know, when was your Flybe due to go, and was refund paid without hassle ?
Our Vegas flights for 17th March were with Virgin, and paid for with VA credit card.But no nearer getting refund from them.

pebblesmax

@Brats64 ours were with virgin using their card too. They told me to expect to wait up to 90 days for the refund.  

Brats64

pebblesmax said:

@Brats64 ours were with virgin using their card too. They told me to expect to wait up to 90 days for the refund.  

Yeah..I have no problem waiting for as long as it takes.But I would expect to be refunded eventually.I don’t think anyone can expect refunds within a normal timescale.

deejaybee

Brats64 said:

Our Vegas trip was due to fly out on the 17th March...the first day of no flying to the states.
Tried getting in touch with insurance company, and other companies we used regarding refunds, but not much success with any of them...just a heads up for those who will soon attempt to claw any cash back from paid for trips.Getting a refund at this time isn’t really the most important thing in anyone’s life, and we have decided to leave it for now.But I would still like to be able to get recompense somewhere down the line.
We have another trip booked in October to the West Coast, and to be honest I’m not really expecting to go on that one either...even if you are allowed to fly by then, don’t think I’ll want to take the chance.

deejaybee...interested to know, when was your Flybe due to go, and was refund paid without hassle ?
Our Vegas flights for 17th March were with Virgin, and paid for with VA credit card.But no nearer getting refund from them.

Hi Brats64 :  The Flybe flights were due on Sept 10th & 19th this year.

Not long after Flybe went down pan, I had a text from Virgin , cant remember exact wording,but that they had seen that we had paid for Flybe tickets on Virgin card, and they would be in touch soon.

Not long after that i had an email from them requesting info, such as transaction dates, value, copies of booking invoices etc, which i had to post off to them ( to PO BOX 10234, Wigston LE18 9FA )

Then confirmation letter confirming they had credited my account.

At no stage did i have to chase them, and the initial contact was instigated by them - so i was very impressed..

Phone No on my letter is 0800 011 3210 , if that helps.

Indout96

pebblesmax said:

@Brats64 ours were with virgin using their card too. They told me to expect to wait up to 90 days for the refund.  

We should have bee in Russia at the end of March with FinAir via expedia we have also been told 90 days for flight refund and 30 days for hotel. Still waiting foe Jet 2 to get in touch for out Greek holiday which is also now gone.
Still hoping our Vegas holiday is not gone as we are not going until Mid November this year

StuieUK34

i wont be going now next month
Our flights were Virgin airmile flights, so although they are supposedly converted to open tickets, with the news surrounding virgin at the mo, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !!!!!!

Just hope the flights we got booked for end of Sep still go ahead, fingers crossed!

bobbyhibs

hi
stuie  ( and some others as well) i do feel really bad for you  all.esp  since  im sure you  had a countdown!
i do wish everyone effected the best and hopefully  the travel ban so to speak ( to a degree i guess) will be lifted  soon and  we can  start a countdown to when our next vegas trip is!