Viva Las Vegas

tonebex

Looking for a 4 night break in las Vegas from 27/4/05 from Shannon. Any recommendations for routings or good deals?

BuffyBot

Currently the best fare I'm finding is €714.50 per person from SNN - LAS via Chicago with Aer Lingus/American Airlines. If you were flying from DUB, €694.07 is not much better, again the same airlines.

You could go with two changes from SNN (a lot of hassle though) for €547.94 with changes in Heathrow and Los Angeles.

tonebex

Where did you find the €547.94 flights SNN-LHR-LAX-LAS? I got a quote on this route from Opodo at £383.30 (roughly €564.35). Not too worried about the extra transfer. Thanks for your assistance.

BuffyBot

Where did you find the €547.94 flights SNN-LHR-LAX-LAS?

This was also Opodo. Probably currency flucuations and/or availability.

Widget

Can I suggest www.lasvegas.com to keep an eye out for good hotel deals - we stayed in Luxor Hotel in August and highly recommended. The Luxor has its own web site and it gives an idea of what the likely cost is going to be of a room. You can often phone the hotel direct an dget a better deal nearer the time. Have you thought about Continental to Newark and then to Vegas, they have fairly frequent flights

Zaph

We stayed in the Luxor two weeks ago and I'd endorse Widget's recommendation. Check out the calendar part of their website as it gives the price for each night and availability. This can vary considerably depending on whether there's a big convention in town check here for convention dates and numbers attending or if it's a weekend. It's $10 a night cheaper to book online and the prices appear to fall the closer you get to the date in question. The rooms we booked were $89 per night, but when we booked in we were asked if we'd like to upgrade to corner jacuzzi suites for an extra $50 per night, which we did. The rooms were huge and had two TVs, a couch and a jacuzzi underneath the window. If you decide to stay there, when you're booking in, regardless of the type of room you go for, ask to be near the lifts for that floor. There's only one set per floor and they're all in one place on that floor - it's a long walk back to the room if you've forgotten your wallet.

comet

Regarding opodo, they only send tickets to a UK address.

PullMyFinger!

http://www.touramerica.ie/specials/package.asp?ID=-1871900243


A few of us stayed in the MGM last year and its nowhere near what a 4 star hotel should be, its size - granted - is unbelievable but it failed to give the lavish feel of, say, the Bellagio, which would have cost slightly more but worth it.

It depends on what you want from Vegas really, there's around 15-20 major hotels with different sights to be taken it so remember that if you want to do it properly (we only managed 7 hotels in 3 days - not bad!) you wont be staying in your hotel much.


If its just somewhere to lay your head and its a few days on the rip with the lads the above deal might be worth looking at Tonebex, if you're doing this with someone you want to still give you some lovin' when you get home then have a look at the Bellagio, Venetian or Mandalay Bay



Ive been reading THIS site a bit for advice of next hotel choice but that also depends on what options the travel agent has, how much much money is in my wallet and who Im going with next year.


Its the holiday of a lifetime. Enjoy.

zaph

zaph wrote:

but when we booked in we were asked if we'd like to upgrade to corner jacuzzi suites for an extra $50 per night, which we did. The rooms were huge and had two TVs, a couch and a jacuzzi underneath the window. If you decide to stay there, when you're booking in, regardless of the type of room you go for, ask to be near the lifts for that floor. There's only one set per floor and they're all in one place on that floor - it's a long walk back to the room if you've forgotten your wallet.

I'd concur,I stayed in a jacussi suite there last week on the 15th floor.
Couple of observations though.
Firstly the windows don't open.
From the minute you enter that huge pyramid building you are breathing air conditioner air all the time-thats like being on a plane the whole time and not good.

The other thing is that if you are on a high floor , you better not have vertico as the rooms are designed to be around the edge of the building, the whole core of which is a drop to the first floor, ie the corridoor outside your room is about 3 ft wide and then there is a waist high wall seperating you from a massive drop-a couple of hundred feet on the 15th for instance.

The hotel on the web site gives the impression that it is a five star, but while the jacussi suites are nice, it's far from five star.You dont get 5 star attention, the carpets are well worn, the walls are dirty and the doors to the rooms look like tyre ramps, they have that many marks on them.
Theres no mini bar either lol



The bellagio is the place to stay for a few bucks more !!

mikuaraman

The recommendation to stay on the higher levels of the pyramid is good if you have vertigo, but if you don't like noise, stay away from the lower leverl. The noise from the Casino can be bothersome. I stayed on the 27th floor and loved it!

Miku Araman
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