Vegas trip in May! Best place to book flight and hotel? Good Tournaments?
So I am most likely heading to Vegas in May for 3rd straight year, but I never seem to find the good deals eveyone else does. So where does everyone go for their awesome flight and hotel deals?
Also, what about tournaments in May? Anything good to be found that time of the year?
Also, what about tournaments in May? Anything good to be found that time of the year?
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I have always booked directly with the airline for flights, if you find a direct flight from Toronto, for $425 to $500 round trip then that is good. I know some player tend to fly out of Buffalo or Detroit and it is much cheaper but I do not think they are direct flights.
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Flights you just have to keep checking for seat sales. Westjet or Sunwing usually has the best prices out of Toronto.
+1 on the Total Rewards Card. Register with someone else who has one and you'll get the best rate.
I've always flown from Detroit because it's super cheap and direct, but it is a pain in the ass to get there and probably spend the night before you fly. Also getting home to KW (for me) from Detroit after a long day of traveling is quite exhausting, but it is very cheap ($180-$300) round trip. Next time I wouldn't mind pricing out SouthWest out of Buffalo, although I don't think they fly direct for cheap.
Not anymore - they have I think 1 direct flight to Vegas per day, but their flight prices are not cheap anymore. Reason? Read below
Fuel Hedging | Hedge on fuel prices pays off - Los Angeles Times
Depends where you're flying from. You won't be walking anywhere, best case scenerio you'll be jumping on the mono-rail, but with it being in June you wouldn't want to walk anywhere from there.
what's the price of the mono rail?
Calling the hotel directly is always cheaper, especially if you already have a players card.
What is the easiest and/or cheapest way to get around Vegas - Specifically from the strip to Fremont St?
The Duece. I think it's up to $6 for 24hrs now.
Total newbie question I know but why? I went to vegas once about 8 years ago but never left the strip.
Planning on playing @ Binions & Golden Nugget during WSOP...
We used this years ago...it was overcrowded and painfully slow...looked up The Duece today..looks like there has not been much improvement...says plan on an hour trip from strip to downtown... It does give a tip that if you get on on either end of the strip there is more likely to be seats/less traffic/less travel time...
Where would u guys say on the north end of the strip traffic/congestion/bus seats start to free up?
Well you asked what the easiest and cheapest way to get there. The easiest and NOT cheapest is to cab it. Cab is WAY faster.
Seats probably open up on the Deuce around the Venetian and/or the Fashion Show Mall.
The next best way is a cab or if you have a group (say around 10) you could persuade a limo driver to take you all there. I think we all paid $10 each:
disagree......but be forewarned......u can never leave there sober...at least, that's my experience
Golden Nugget has the only decent action but you are just as likely to be stuck playing 2-4 limit as you are a 1-2nl game and they rake every pot, regardless of seeing a flop or not. So if you want to get hosed, by all means play downtown.
Binion's has a nice room - but it is completely rebuilt and not the room where the greats played, so there is zero history. There is no action. On a Friday night we waited 30 min for seats. One 2-4 limit game and one 1-2nl game only with terrible dealers and ridiculously slow service.
All the other casinos are scuzzy holes with either no poker or at most 2 tables full of grumbly locals playing 2-6 spread limit.
If you feel like buying a 3 foot high slushie and stumbling around drunk, with a few hundred other drunks while a cheezy show plays overhead - then you have found the place. You can do the same thing on the strip and watch the Bellagio fountain and at least feel classy.
Does anyone know what other casinos beside Binions & Golden Nugget offer $100 & $200 buy-ins and 30+min levels during the WSOP?
I fail to see the downside?
Here's the thread with the tourney sched's
http://www.pokerforum.ca/f10/other-events-during-wsop-27688/