AndyM3000 Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I haven't been there for 6 months now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom_Wren Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I want to go so bad in the summer!! Villatalk meet up in vegas!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I got married there in March 2013 (5th). I think I want to die in Las Vegas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I think I mentioned previously somewhere in the travel thread that I was booking a surprise trip for my Mrs 40th, well Vegas was the choice of destination and we are off in October. We were there before in 2007 so what's changed since? We stayed in MGM last time, gone for The Bellagio this time around. What's new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Since 2007 so much. You have the Linq now, and The Cromwell, so from opposite ballys down a couple of properties, thats all new. SLS will be open, that was The Sahara. Not to mention The cosmopolitan and the rest of the city centre complex. Lots on the strip since 2007. Downtown has had a huge resurgence. You have The D in what was Fitzgeralds, East Fremonts bars are great to hangout and 3rd street too. Downtown Grand has opened up there aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 that new development elsewhere in the city which was meant to draw people away from the strip should be open in october too, summerlin downtown or something like that, although i think the reality is it will be something for LV residents rather than tourists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) Are there decent cheap places to stay? Edited August 11, 2014 by mikeyp102 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Define cheap I guess .... I stayed at the golden nugget on freemont last time ... It was cheap relative to the suite I had at the Palazzo the time before I like Freemont and if / when I go back with mates I'd probably base myself there again ... But if i was with the kids again then I'd stay on the strip Fairly sure the hooters hotel was offering rooms for about £27 a night when i went last time .. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 If you need a really cheap hotel you are going to struggle to get by in Las Vegas, it can be done on the cheap but I wouldn't enjoy that. Id just accept you are going to need a lot of money for one of these holidays. I stayed in Hooters for a week last year, was one of the worst hotels I have ever stayed in. As far as cheap goes the Quad is slightly better and in the middle of the strip but if you want cheaper but still nice then Id go with The Flamingo, great location too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Casino royale is fairly cheap, no resort fee and well placed at centre strip. Flamingo is the same but you get the resort fee, similarly the excalibur. This will be one of the bigger and more irritating changes since 2007, the resort fee. A charge pinned on at check in, per night for stuff you wont use. Its around $20 per room per night and is pretty much every where on the strip and downtown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 when i flew home from there there were a few people on the plane talking about how they booked a decent enough hotel off the strip to stay in and then on the 1st day used that hotels internet access to find themselves better deals on the strip, sure they said they paid £30 a night to stay in the luxor but that was around 5 years ago when a week there cost me £500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 It looks very much like I'll be heading back there at the back end of September/early October. I almost cry happy semen at just the thought of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 It looks very much like I'll be heading back there at the back end of September/early October. I almost cry happy semen at just the thought of it. Pervert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Where are the best buffets or places to eat on the strip these days? And somewhere with cheap beer to watch NFL and Premiership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Not on the strip but the best buffet IMO is opposite golden nugget Prime rib and everything , they almost had to roll me out I'd eaten so much Tbh I don't think I've ever noticed a buffet on the strip but I'm sure there must be some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Bellagio buffet for me, tried a few and this is the best for my money. Well aside from ballys sadly departed original buffet. I would avoid nyny buffet. Not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) Sorry I meant buffets in hotels on or near the strip. I will def try Bellagio whilst there. We always enjoyed breakfast in the Rainforest cafe in the MGM, we will prob give that another go also. Edited August 14, 2014 by bully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I got off the train thingy at MGM one time .. took about another 3 days to get from the railway stop through the MGM onto the street ... it's when the scale of everything really hits home I didn't know they did a buffet in the Bellagio ... gives me an excuse to go back now and check it out the Bellagio lobby at Christmas must be the most OTT thing I've ever seen in my life , had an igloo with a mechanical penguin that would pop out and a massive train set with a live web cam broadcasting as it drove around ... took me hours to get the kids out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I think pretty much every hotel on the strip has a buffet, the one at planet hollywood was very good and reasonable as well. Was there a couple of weeks ago for the start of my honeymoon. I bloody love that place. Stayed at the Wynn which is a beautiful hotel and the steak at the SW steakhouse there was on a different level to anything i've ever had in this country. Saw the show Le Reve and would suggest people go and see it if they get chance, it was brilliant. Couldn't afford to gamble on the strip but managed to find some $5 tables on freemont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I went to imperial palace for their buffet, made the mistake of using logic and thinking they'd have some awesome Chinese thing on the go, it was horrific, only bad meal I had all week, and the food was one one of my favourite things about Vegas , didn't go anywhere particularly posh or expensive and had a lot of steak but everything was really good, couldn't do another buffet after that though From memory I know I went to rainbow cafe, serendipity, an Italian in the golden nugget, some blues bar in Mandalay bay, I've never eaten so much steak in my life, probably same prices as here just everything was bigger, the waiter in the Italian thought it was mind blowing that I was from Worcestershire, the home of the sauce.... Also the bakery / patisserie in the ballagio, mind blowingly good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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