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lisa21

I'm looking to book up for Vegas again in February, and I'm finding the cheapest flight deals are with US Airways via Philadelphia (from Manchester), total journey 15hrs. I've never used US Airways before...can anyone advise what the planes, service etc is like?
Also if anyone else has travelled that route before I'd be interested to hear what you thought (only ever gone direct before). thanks!

Stew68

craigbroadman wrote: »

Lance Burton @ Mirage - $75 or David Copperfield @ MGM Grand - $75

Hi,

I've seen both Lance Burton and David Copperfield in Vegas and I would personally go to see Lance Burton, I thought he was fantastic. Copperfield looked a little bored with what he was doing.

Stew

ferf1223

March

Stew68 wrote: »

Hi,

I've seen both Lance Burton and David Copperfield in Vegas and I would personally go to see Lance Burton, I thought he was fantastic. Copperfield looked a little bored with what he was doing.

Stew

There's also a $10 off ticket deal at the moment.

https://res05.mgmmirage.com/cgi-bin/lansaweb?procfun+netsls+netsls+tck+funcparms+IOFRWW(A010):lancedisc

Lance Burton was the one show we planned to see last month but it just didn't work out.

*Adam*

November/December

Hi all,

I'm looking at hotels now for my trip next month, and a casino website is offering 3 days at $127 for the following:

"BREAKFAST BUFFET PACKAGE Tower Lower Floor - Includes 2 coupons for a delicious buffet breakfast for two at Marino's, 1 show ticket, $200 free slotplay, 25% off spa, $25 match play, one free drink at Dixies, 25% off retail purchase. !!Limited offer!!"

What does all this mean? *is confused*

ferf1223

March

*Adam* wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm looking at hotels now for my trip next month, and a casino website is offering 3 days at $127 for the following:

"BREAKFAST BUFFET PACKAGE Tower Lower Floor - Includes 2 coupons for a delicious buffet breakfast for two at Marino's, 1 show ticket, $200 free slotplay, 25% off spa, $25 match play, one free drink at Dixies, 25% off retail purchase. !!Limited offer!!"

What does all this mean? *is confused*

It means you're looking at Hooters and I would consider somewhere else.

They are trying to entice you in with some freebies...it's quite common for hotels to offer you something extra to get you to choose their place over somewhere else. Whether these things have any value is really down to the individual.

The $200 free slot play will be on specific machines and you'll have little chance of winning anything of value...it's not like they'll give you $200 to play on any slot in the casino...it will be on promotional machines and you may qualify to win a prize.

You will get 2 coupons for a breakfast buffet.

1 show ticket (not sure what show, but I don't recall hearing good things about any of their resident shows)

25% off the spa is what it says - a discount on the spa.

Free drink is a free drink (in a town where free drinks are the norm)

$25 match play means that you bet $25 with the voucher and if you win (usually even-money bets only) they will pay you as if you bet the whole $50 in cash.

25% off retail purchase means 25% off merchandise probably from the gift shop.

MichH

October

ferf1223 wrote: »

we would also see him again.

The only bad reviews I've seen are of his movies and his television commercials...even the girl at the 1/2 price booth said when we bought the tickets that she hated his movies but loved his show and had seen it several times.

Saw Carrot Top show last month, absolutely hilarious! Laughed so much my jaw and sides were aching the following day.

Bit of advice - go for a wee before you go in to see the show, you do not want to miss any of it (or wet yourself laughing!!!) :rolleyes:

photome

craigbroadman wrote: »

Hi All

Thought I would put a list on here of the things we plan to pack into 7 days in Vegas along with their rough costs (simply taken from www.vegas.com, I am guessing that there will be a number of coupons that we will be able to get when we are out there for a couple of $ off or 2 for the price of 1 or something)!!

Going on 24th November ....

Will give a short review of each one we have time to do when we get back....

Helicopter trip to Grand Canyon - $350
Stratosphere Rides - $32
Carrot Top @ Luxor - $60
Bodies @ Luxor - $32
Secret Garden @ Mirage - $15
Lance Burton @ Mirage - $75 or David Copperfield @ MGM Grand - $75
Circus Circus - Free
Sky Dive - $150
Shark Reef @ Mandalay Bay - $16.95
Gondola @ Venetian - $16
Fountains @ Bellagio - Free
The Aquarium @ Silverton - Free
Fall of Atlantis Fountains @ Caesars Palace - Free

All sounds good to me, hope you like heights and are fearless as you will have to be to ride the strat rides!!

The gondola rides are more suited to couples IMO ( or are you all couples) I took my wife on and she loved it.

Do you have a car? as the Silverton is a way out of town and prob not worth going unless you do, having said that there is a fantastic outdoor advnture shop next door where you can spend a few hours it is enormous!
The aquariom is just one fish tank all be it very big and loooaaads of fish in it. If you do go i can recomend the buffet there and it is cheaper than most on the strip.

photome

*Adam* wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm looking at hotels now for my trip next month, and a casino website is offering 3 days at $127 for the following:

"BREAKFAST BUFFET PACKAGE Tower Lower Floor - Includes 2 coupons for a delicious buffet breakfast for two at Marino's, 1 show ticket, $200 free slotplay, 25% off spa, $25 match play, one free drink at Dixies, 25% off retail purchase. !!Limited offer!!"

What does all this mean? *is confused*

The one thing ferf didnt tell you about is the hooters girls, they are lovely;)

sew109

November/December

lisa21 wrote: »

I'm looking to book up for Vegas again in February, and I'm finding the cheapest flight deals are with US Airways via Philadelphia (from Manchester), total journey 15hrs. I've never used US Airways before...can anyone advise what the planes, service etc is like?
Also if anyone else has travelled that route before I'd be interested to hear what you thought (only ever gone direct before). thanks!

Hi,
AS you can imagine the cheapest airline is not the best that said US Air are good or a budget carrier dont expect seatback TV's and if you are lucky enough to be on a plane with them dont expect them to workl. US air are good value butnot as good as say United, American or AA

ferf1223

March

photome wrote: »

The one thing ferf didnt tell you about is the hooters girls, they are lovely;)

see, I think some of the cocktail waitresses at other casinos (Wynn's comes immediately to mind) put the Hooters girls to shame.

But still, I see your point - they are certainly very pretty girls...and if very pretty girls are your thing then all the better.