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I've stayed at the Bellagio, Caesars, MGM, and the Excalibur. Just pick one, and enjoy your time! They are all great. A must do it to get out the city limits there and go to the gun range (The Las Vegas Gun Store over on Eastside). This is a place where you can rent full auto and have a literal blast.... Kinda expensive, but was worth every penny. Man, I miss my college days, lol.
Skip Vegas. Go to Reno and stay at Circus-Circus. Cheaper and better returns.
The luxor is awesome, also, I really enjoyed the excalibur, it was fun and their medieval show was fun too.
I've stayed at the luxor, next on my list is bellagio. anywhere on the strip is good, you'll be able to walk everywhere.
I had really good luck playing craps at the palms and hooters.
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Originally Posted by Tor Larson
Man I won't go with you, cause you don't know how to work the Strip.
I get premium drinks for free or a buck. Mandalay Bay has the best pool.
And we go to the liqour store across the street from Mandalay Bay or the One by Stratospher buy your own bottle dirt cheap cause there is NO tax.
We also usually get comped for alot of stuff, just ask.
I have a voucher for the Winn at this moment Free standard room, and 100.00 upgrade to suite.
You can score coupons for the automatic weapons shoot and it will cost you half price, just ask.
Right now Excalibur is offering standard rooms for as low as 29.00
MGM owns most of the propertiea around them like the Excalibur etc. look it up.
Go to Vegas .com for some good deals.
And go to the website of the hotel you want to stay at for better deals than just calling.
so you get most of your comps by just asking, asking a manger or the people...who?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.man
^ this is some solid advice.Quote:
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Like Mtn.Man we go multiple times a year. We're going in a couple of weeks with some friends.
If you have a Costco membership you can buy (IIRC) a $100 gift card to Vegas.com for $79 or $89 (I looked at them on sat but can't remember)
Occasionally Allegiant Air, who flies out of Ft. Collins/Loveland and Colorado Springs has some decent deals, but flight times are very limited.
I've loved staying near Caesars palace since it's about center of the strip. If you're going cheap stay Imperial Palace, Flamingo, or Bally's. Going higher end stay Bellagio, or Ceasers. Paris, Monte Carlo, Planet Hollywood, Treasure island, Mirage, are all middle of the road for pricing and location.
This trip my wife and I are staying at the Flamingo, mostly because of their pools.
Mandalay Bay is excellent for pools but $15-20 cab rides, a long walk, or the bus are the only way to see the rest of the strip.
Luxor is ok, but it's down at the end of the strip like Mandalay bay.
Excalibur is old, and has the same distance problem Luxor does.
MGM is nicer but again you are pretty far down.
NY NY, is a lot of fun, I stayed there once and it was just a fun place to hang out in. it's a little far (across the street from MGM)
For a really high end (feeling and maybe cost) trip I'd do the Wynn, all of their rooms are pimp with nice views. Only down side is like Luxor you are at the end of the strip so cab rides or long walks are in your future.
On the other end you have the Stratosphere, which is like out in the middle of no-where. Circus Circus, which is kinda old and dirty now a days and filled with families.
My reason for staying in the middle is because all the hotels worth seeing/walking around are all right there. The Venetian is really cool, with it's huge canal system inside the mall area. Belagio is worth seeing at night since the fountains are really cool. Ceasers is huge and has a lot to see.
If you are going to see a show (and are flexible for what show you do see) use Tix 4 Tonight. Like their name suggests they sell tickets for that night only, at about 40-50% off depending on the show. Not all the shows are available all the time so you have to be a little flexible as far which show you might end up seeing.
I've really enjoyed the Cirque Du Soleil shows I've seen, and have been able to always get decent tickets at good prices from Tix 4 Tonight.
Someone said but don't talk to the people in the lobby offering free stuff.
As far as food goes, if you want quantity go Buffet. For a while there 7 casinos were doing the "Buffet of Buffets". It's a 24 Pass to all of the 7 buffets, as many times as you can go in the 24 period. When I went with some buddies we from 7pm one night to 7pm the next did five...
If you want quality, Vegas is the place. There are more restaurants by famous chefs in that city than any other place I've been too. A lot of them are inside Ceasers and the Venetian.
I've never done anything off the strip, (minus Fremont St.) so I can't help with any of the machine gun stuff. Other than the coupons for that sort of stuff is all over the city, like in every cab there is seat back thing full of coupon books. And usually when you check in the hotel will give you some coupons and stuff for use in that hotel.
Here's another tip we learned that's worked out really well- go to restaurant.com (which is even cool for here at home) and get coupins to new and cool restaurants on the strip. We've found some really nice places that way and even if they aren't the bee's knees you're typically scoring the gift certificates/coupins for cheap. My wife usually hooks them up for a few dollars, and gets ones like $35 off $50 or $75 of $100. BTW you can use that site for here as well.
Yeah rf, You got it.
And yes you need to ask the front desk for alot of discounts etc. They don't offer/advertise it because they will gladly take your money.
Blue man Group is awesome, I didn't think I would like it bit I was wrong.
Terry Fator at the Mirage, and if you can catch Jeff Dunham he is great as well.
We got to see Bill Cosby 1 time he is old school funny. Zumanity is very adult racy and DO NOT sit down front sit in the balcony. Wild Horse Revue is sexy and the wife loved it. Still haven't seen O because it is popular and usually sells out early.
You can't go just once, it might become your next favorite get away as it is cheaper than alot of places even here in CO.
Good point, also the Tix 4 tonight place does a similar thing.Quote:
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Read reviews, and find happy hours too.
If you have a smart phone get something like the Urban Spoon app which gives you restaurants around you and the reviews.