Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2021

bobbyhibs

messalina79 said:

We managed to bag business class flights in the BA sale - my first time turning left! Wanted to push the boat out a bit as it's been so long. God, I miss Vegas...

hi

I hope you don't mind my noseyness  but  can i ask what price  you got for the ba  business sale?  and your dates.
I ve been looking  to go back to vegas for the last wee while  but with covid n what not 
i ve  put things off.I ve said to my brother    when i go back ( i  sooo wanna go back!)  and  hope to  go business class (maybe dreaming here)  for       in and  around , hopefully less that £1500pp for flights  but  it seems a pipedream as the   best     i ve found   is something  in and around  £2300  for late may-early june  
kind regards

messalina79

bobbyhibs said:

messalina79 said:

We managed to bag business class flights in the BA sale - my first time turning left! Wanted to push the boat out a bit as it's been so long. God, I miss Vegas...

hi

I hope you don't mind my noseyness  but  can i ask what price  you got for the ba  business sale?  and your dates.
I ve been looking  to go back to vegas for the last wee while  but with covid n what not 
i ve  put things off.I ve said to my brother    when i go back ( i  sooo wanna go back!)  and  hope to  go business class (maybe dreaming here)  for       in and  around , hopefully less that £1500pp for flights  but  it seems a pipedream as the   best     i ve found   is something  in and around  £2300  for late may-early june  
kind regards

Hi,

Im afraid I can’t remember what the flights were specifically as we booked as a package through BA - we initially booked for December 2020 but my husband was too anxious to go then due to Omicron, so we moved it to 29/3/21 - 8/4/21. In total we’re paying £2300pp including accommodation, so I think the flights must have been about 1800. We had to pay extra for this, the December price was about 150pp cheaper. I think you will struggle for sub 2k business class in May/June as these months are much more popular. We usually go to Vegas in the off-season so we can at least get Prem. Ec. Plus it’s much less hot!

bobbyhibs

hi
and thanks for the detailed  post back messalin79!
and you  are right in regards    the price   of business class and   time of year which i   understand but i always     hope for a sale of kind that sorta hits the spot so to speak.I was hoping for   some sorta deals  in the black friday/cyber  monday  last year,  but nothing    hit the spot.
kind regards

vegasvisitor

nvh said:

And before you know it, it's 2022

So who is confident of a trip this year?

We are booked to go in April and I am slightly confident of it going ahead (as we managed to get to Florida for Christmas and it went pretty smoothly)

I really hope we can go this year, but had hoped the same last year so can't be that sure. We've been quite careful and have only been socialising rarely, but we did go on 2 UK cruises and then a cruise from Malaga, all of this when things were a bit better Summer-October. Just feel we can't plan and I definitely wouldn't go on a cruise just now. Not sure about the idea of Vegas just now either. Plus weather needs to be right. Hire car prices are sky high though. 

photome

messalina79 said:

pebblesmax said:

Have you found decent car hire rates for your trip. Mine are still coming up astronomical. Like £500/ week. Crazy. 

Ours were coming up really expensive too, but we used the search engine on this site and found some massively cheaper - we were initially being quoted £677 for a Nissan versa! We found a good one through Skyscanner's tool in the end, got a Dodge Charger for about £350 (nine days).

Can I ask who that car hire is with please as that looks very cheap compared to all the major hirers.

 Is it with Fox by any chance?  

They do come up cheapest but the price looks too good to be true  and  I can’t see that insurance is included, there are a lot of negative reviews for them

hope it works for you and would love a review when you get back

photome

bobbyhibs said:

hi
and thanks for the detailed  post back messalin79!
and you  are right in regards    the price   of business class and   time of year which i   understand but i always     hope for a sale of kind that sorta hits the spot so to speak.I was hoping for   some sorta deals  in the black friday/cyber  monday  last year,  but nothing    hit the spot.
kind regards

We are going business class ( one way) in May , booked a flight with a discount code in July last year with BA , hoping that restrictions would be lifted…business class on way out premium on return

paid £1150 each 


same flights now in the BA sale are £3600 each 😮

photome

nvh said:

pebblesmax said:

Have you found decent car hire rates for your trip. Mine are still coming up astronomical. Like £500/ week. Crazy. 

Pebbles - I'd be interested to see what the prices are like that you get from here: https://hiltonhonors3.hilton.com/en/offers/100062960.htm
(I haven't checked if there's any additional fees beyond the headline prices or insurance cover or the cancellation terms)

I know you're a seasoned enough traveller and user of this forum to have checked airport vs. off-airport pick-up / collection... can sometimes make a big difference (just mentioning for the benefit of others)

Had a quick look at the link, priced a 13 day hire up with collision damage waiver it was $1500 ,similar to everywhere else I have looked most places are around £1100…for full size

nvh

photome said:

nvh said:

pebblesmax said:

Have you found decent car hire rates for your trip. Mine are still coming up astronomical. Like £500/ week. Crazy. 

Pebbles - I'd be interested to see what the prices are like that you get from here: https://hiltonhonors3.hilton.com/en/offers/100062960.htm
(I haven't checked if there's any additional fees beyond the headline prices or insurance cover or the cancellation terms)

I know you're a seasoned enough traveller and user of this forum to have checked airport vs. off-airport pick-up / collection... can sometimes make a big difference (just mentioning for the benefit of others)

Had a quick look at the link, priced a 13 day hire up with collision damage waiver it was $1500 ,similar to everywhere else I have looked most places are around £1100…for full size

No worries. Headline price looked cheap to me but I never went beyond it 👍🏻

photome

Just done a search on Kayak  for car hire….gorentalcars come up cheap £550 ( still £200 more than usual) for 13 days full size rental with Hertz….I cant see any catches , I may go with that,..anyone have experience with gorentalcars and or Hertz

secretmachines

I'm just trying to work out whether or not to book 6 nights in December for the current price...

It's working out just shy of £1000pp for direct Classic flights with Virgin, 2 nights in a Luxe room at Plaza, 4 nights in a standard suite at Venetian/Palazzo.

That averages out at about £330/night... I'd rather it be under £300/night average, but a) prices have generally gone up, and b) I'm impatient to get it in the diary