We did vegas in 5 nights but needed a holiday when we got home lol

Be aware it can be about 40 degrees c in Aug

ITS GOING TO BE SO GREAT, SO FANTASTIC, IT'S REALLY GONNA BE GREAT, NOBODY LIKES VEGAS LIKE I DO.

7 nights are available for not much more. I find 5 nights is usually enough for Las Vegas though! I guess it depends how you like to experience it :laughing:

Great place to visit - not sure I'd want to go there for only 5 nights though.

7 nights are available for not much more. I find 5 nights is usually enough for Las Vegas though! I guess it depends how you like to experience it :laughing:

Be aware it can be about 40 degrees c in Aug

Nearly booked the Luxor then noticed in the small print that when you get there, they charge you $30 per night extra... Making it another $150 of sneaky money.

Couldn't see an option to make it 7 days. Saw the ability to tweak flights, but could only see one for +1 days time and that was $1,300 extra.

Most hotels charge a "resort fee"

Didn't see that as an explicit option on the Virgin site. May ask for it when we get there, as Virgin do state on their website that you will be upgraded subject to availability.

We did vegas in 5 nights but needed a holiday when we got home lol

On the website the cheapest Fountain view was an extra ~£300, but it should be cheaper to upgrade on the day. Do a bit of research on the rooms there before asking though. I booked a Terrace suite there once and on arrival they tried 'upgrading' me to the (in my opinion) inferior wraparound suite for an extra $30 pn.

what is a resort fee?

VERY hot in late August. Cheap as Americans find it much too hot. April /May will be twice these prices. Good value if you can stand the heat!!

Went last year for the first time and just booked flights to go again this year! Usually I'm not a fan of hot places but Vegas was a great heat, I loved it immediately whereas my girlfriend who loves the heat took a day or two to get adjusted to it. This was in June though, at 40°, not sure how hot it is in August. Would highly recommend it to anyone who's up for a good time. 5 nights really isn't enough though, we went ten days and still didn't get to do everything we wanted too due to stopping at every place we went into for a bit of gambling and drinks :smiley:

Find it a different heat over there, not overbearing like some places. Great deal OP

5 days is a lot but make sure you take a day trip to the Grand Canyon. Absolutely unbelievable site.

Don't forget to try the $20 trick when you check in.

Don't forget to play myvegas on Facebook, some people say it's not worth it but we thought it was - got $50 drinks voucher in New York New York, buy one get one free breakfast buffet in Monte Carlo and buy one get one free monorail pass.
There's a book on Amazon for about £15 that has a bunch of coupons in the back for various things; food outlets, bars, casinos etc that's well worth the cost of the book.
Also use GroupOn as there's some fantastic deals on there, particularly for dining out.
I know that time of year it'll be hot but good/comfortable walking shoes are highly recommended!
Hunting for all the deals above meant I could spend more on big ticket items like a helicopter trip to the Grand Canyon and have a few cars round the track at Exotic Racing!

If I was going to fly all that way I would want at least 2 weeks there.

Resort fees are very common in the US/Mexico/Caribbean to cover leisure facilities. Five days is the right amount of time to do Vegas if you're not going to travel too far out of town and concentrate pretty much on the strip and canyon areas.

We used restaurant.com and bought gift certificates for places we wanted to eat really cheaply

Yeah you can, there's a bit of trickery to sign up if I recall, but it works

The book is 'American Casino Guide', MyVegas is a slots game on Facebook that has loyalty rewards, also has mobile apps which includes blackjack. Finally yes you can use the US Groupon with a UK card, can't remember quite how it worked (possibly used the hotel as my address as I did do that for something..) but it was no problem with my Mastercard.

we did Vegas for a week. while there is still so much to see i think 5 days is enough as it's exhausting. We went to Hawaii after for a rest and needed it.

Price keeps flicking between £414 and £834 for me.

Might be a glitch given the same direct Virgin flights at over £700 by themselves.

Vegas is an experience, but I feel now everything is aimed at separating you from your money one way or another. I'd recommend anyone to go see the Hoover dam people and take a walk on the new Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge pedestrian footway - the bridge bypasses thru traffic from the dam now. A great view of the dam from above, ideal for photos, the next best thing to an aerial photo. BTW if you get married in Vegas, you're married everywhere!!!

Can you oped in or out of the $30 fee like if you don't want to use the wifi and gym, if not this should be included in the price of the hotel when booking shouldnt it !

Shame it's not from Manchester.

£914 now, whatever offer it was its gone

At most hotels the resort fee is mandatory.

We spent 14 days based in Vegas in late August/early September 2015 and could easily have stayed longer. But we didn't stay in Vegas all the time, we had a car and also drove to the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, Mount Charleston, Red Rock Canyon. Don't think I'd want to be on the Strip all day and night for a week, but we loved staying in Vegas as a base and are keen to return back soon.

As for these deals, I don't find them that great as the really good hotels (e.g. Palazzo) are coming in at £3k for 2 people for a week. When we went for 2 weeks I booked the flights and hotel separately, stayed at Palazzo, paid around £2800 for both and the flights gave us the chance to visit Niagara Falls on the outward stopover. For me, if I'm going to go that far, I like a 6-10 hour stopover both ways to get a chance to spend time in another city.

Seems the cheap prices has disappeared for the dates in the link. However if you play around with the search dates you can still find great deals. I just searched for the week after and could still find it as cheap as £523.

:disappointed:

As I said, the deals are still there, just not for the original week I booked for. I found lots of cheap deals around end of August or beginning of September so try adjusting the dates/duration of holiday to see what comes up.

yeah found for 550 for 7 nights

https://www.travelsupermarket.com/en-gb/holidays/results/5310a3fa823ab0522c0a32d4/528cc28fe4b0ec1df53d62f5/2017-11-21/7/?room=A2

If you look on Travelsupermarket it looks like you can go for £550 ish for a week at different times going through Expedia, which isn't bad as ive seen flights at £450 plus before

Yep these prices are available on Virgin too, see updated description. Just a case of playing around with dates until you find it.

Really?

No, it's mandatory. It was on Rip-off Britain recently. The problem is that a lot of travel websites bury the cost somewhere in the terms and conditions or don't make it explicitly clear when paying.

The reality is that if it's mandatory anyway then it should be included in the headline cost of the holiday. But these companies have been dodgy for years with add-on fees in an attempt to have an advertised price as low as possible.

can't find anything for less than £900! bloomin awful!! cold as ice

Which dates are you searching for? I literally just found it for £499.

Please be aware that taxes and fuel surcharge may still added, which can amount to a few hundred squids. Don't be tempted by apparently cheap flight deals, I've been stung with Ryanair and easyjet before on their penny deals..

Yours sincerely,

I'll get my coat..

:smile:

Assuming this comment was a joke right? Moderators just added this to the description which I removed. There are no hidden taxes or fuel surcharges with this. It is a package holiday with Virgin.

San Francisco? You've been had.

Look a bit harder, I've found £408 in August.

Its clearly not a joke. If you click through the deals, you will find this written in small print. On the first page it mentions somethjng called 'resort fees' - there is no mention of this in statement. I'm not sure what this is, but sound expensive..

With Kind regards

Right, but what you wrote makes it sound like Virgin are going to slap another few hundred quid onto these prices which is untrue. The prices you see on the Virgin site, are the prices you pay. It is a package holiday deal. you can't compare this with 1p flights from budget airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet.

Resort fees are something lots of US hotels charge as has been discussed in this thread. Nothing to do with Virgin themselves and certainly not exclusive to this deal. You'd have to pay them no matter who you book through and are payable directly to the hotels. They're usually around $20-$30 per room per night. Not an insignificant amount of money sure, but not hundreds of pounds of hidden fees either like you make it sound.

If you fancy spending Christmas there, 23rd Dec is a good price.

Point thanks for clarifying...

It was more as a general reminder to members that when they see really good flight details they should always exercise some caution.

But accept your point, and apologies for the confusion.

Nice find..

With regards

The 'cheap 'deals are there are such, but I haven't seen a top hotel like Palazzo for less than £1000 each for a week on any dates, which is very much a standard price for a combined flight/hotel package with the likes of Virgin, BA etc.

The cheap accommodation like Circus Circus etc. fine if you intend to spend minimal time in your hotel room and don't care how awful your accommodation is ("chavtasic" nicely sums it up), not for me but each to their own.

ITS GOING TO BE SO GREAT, SO FANTASTIC, IT'S REALLY GONNA BE GREAT, NOBODY LIKES VEGAS LIKE I DO.

Lollllllllll

Casinos have aircon you know duh!?

I agree. 5 days is a very short stay for a flight time of 10.5 hrs but I'm not sure I would want to spend the whole two weeks or more in Vegas unless it was a first time visit maybe. A few days in San Francisco and/or LA in the middle (internal flights are cheap) or trips to the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Death valley, National Parks etc. are options. As for resort fees, it is what it is. Hotels use them to claw more money out of the tourists and have been doing it for a few years now since MGM started it (back in 2009 I think) to help with their huge debts at the time. They all do it now and the situation is unlikely to change anytime soon either. Also, remember that the 8 hour behind UK time difference might mess up your sleep pattern for a 5 day trip unless you can get some sleep on the plane out, though as Las Vegas is open 24x7 you might feel you don't need to adjust quite as much as you would for a different trip.

I booked The Cosmopolitan for £768 and saw the Aria and Ballagio for less than this. Unfortunately it's just a case of too many people looking at these dates now so prices have jumped up significantly. The pros and cons of posting something on Hukd.

Is this where the aliens live?

He is right it will be like 5 days in vegas 2 days travelling

Just got back from two weeks in America. Did 10 days in Vegas and four in LA. Anyone thinking of going, do it! I loved Vegas.. even though I've come back completely skint and needing a new liver :confused:

Thanks a lot OP. Booked

The streets in between hotels don't have air con which up and down escalators to get over the roads you will feel the heat. I've been in mid July with hugest temp on the outside board at a hotel was showing 115f it was like a sauna and whilst the hotels are cool the streets are almost unbearable. I've also been in oct and Nov where the temp is a nice 25/30c

What a place. Great deal too. Been 3 times

It would appear the cheap deals have gone!

I need to get a rate like this a single traveller. :disappointed:

One of the cheapest times to go as it's so hot.

4 days in vegas... slept 9 hours in 3 days.

What a place :smiley:

Was in Vegas last summer where the temperature reached 115 degrees. Had two weeks there and loved it! Going again in July.
Just remember most 7 night holidays will have a resort fee of about $240 per room

Lol
Our plan was to be in bed by 11pm first night. Cut to 3 am and only just getting in! Get to sleep and wake up feeling like I'd slept for hours and the clock said 4.30am!

Met at 10am for breakfast, Went out at 11am, home to get changed at 7, dinner, club at 11-5am, casino til 730am, breakfast, then was champions league final so stayed up for that as well.... went to bed round 3pm that day!

Its a crazy town.... so need to go back!

Huge heat, that's a great deal, especially as it's still within the school holidays. Only thing stopping me booking is the wife will be 38 weeks pregnant by then!!

The $20 dollar trick is when you bat your eyelashes at the checkin desk operator and slip them a 20 dollar note whilst asking them if there's any chance of an upgrade on the room. Worked for me at The Bellagio a few years ago, got an amazing fountain view room in one of the towers

Oh and 5 days is a decent amount to spend there.... We did 4 and although we were knackered, we did almost everything we wanted to do

That'd be a great gamble for Vegas!

It was 45° when we went last year... oh unbearable heat was still 35° 2 in the morning but everywhere is air conditioned

I was there 4 Sep last year stayed at the belingo everyday was in the 40+ degrees unless you're walking in midday sun it's not that bad .
Grand Canyon is just amazing by helicopter
Freemont street is a different world I did the zip wire it's ace,
I moved onto the lakes and then San Francisco which was 10-20 degrees lower
But still hot
At this price it's a steal

Thomas Cook do flights for about £200 each way if booked in advance (includes baggage but not seat reservations) and hotels, even decent ones, can be less than $50 a night if there isn't any major event on. Well worth a visit.

I have just returned from my first trip there, stayed at the Bellagio too. We had two suites with unlimited access to the Chairman's Lounge, if you're able to get a room/suite with a fountain view you will not regret it.

I personally think that 7 days is ample, though it was broken up by taking in some shows, doing the helicopter tour for lunch at the Grand Canyon and visiting the Old Strip down by Freemont Street to do the zip wire.

Well the Cosmo is a great hotel. At least it is not the Circus Circus which these types of deals tend to offer.

We went late Sept a couple of years ago and it was over 40C some days - had their 80th day of the year over 100F. But as you say it is really dry heat and something I found much more bearable than even 30C with high humidity. As soon as sweat tries to form it is gone, but everywhere indoors has strong air conditioning.

****! i was going to book the 25th - 1st september for £1100 ish tropicana hotel how its £1100 each!

that'll teach me to wait.:disappointed:

Website won't display any holidays. $20 to check in assistant to upgrade did work for us in Vegas a few years ago

think website is down, trying myself now.

How much would you spend on average in 5days.

Given the type of deals that get hot on this site I don't think Vegas is the place for the majority of people on here!

put $20 in your passport when checking in and ask the have any free room upgrades, they'll either give you a better room and take the money, or say they can't and return your money - worth taking the chance

Prices seem to have gone up now.

An hour ago. I could get Luxor for £600. same dates are now £858

thx for the heads up though

same happened yesterday, doubled in price in an hour

Just called a travel agent. he said due to the virgin sale, prices are up and down constantly right now.

If you clear your cookies and go back it'll give the low price. Travel companies keep track and increase prices l.

booked now thankyou £627 each 5 nights in mid september at TI

What you could do is use one os for searching and one for booking i use chrome and ff

​yes we went for 14 nights and that wasn't long enough loved it

When in September? What is TI?

I got offered Wynn hotel 28th August with breakfast, 5 nights for £887. That hotel doesn't have the mandatory tax either.

​exactly at least, brilliant place something for everyone

​problem with 5 days is you try to cram everything in, go for at least 2 weeks if you can afford it and take it at a more leisurely pace

​and me love it love it love it and so on and I am scared of flying but it's worth it

Treasure Island 16/9 - all the cheap prices gone now on those dates .

Can't see any deals left on this one. Can anyone find any deals?

I can't see any deals anywhere NEAR this price and I have searched for the past hour for multiple dates in August, September, October and November - if anyone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful!

Surely this should be expired now? I like the cookies trick though..will use that in the future
I did yesterday go and check with the Virgin sales rep instore and like someone has already said its down to their Sale which has ended, apparently they don't even get told when it starts or finishes

As someone who has been there a few times - i can share the following

1) never ever go to Vegas for less than a week....its not just the gambling....its the drinking, partying, shopping,eating, shows, events, concerts, sight seeing whether its hoover dam or the grand canyon or at least another 100 places of interest around!

2) always - always - always put a $20 bill in your passport when you check in! Trust me!!!!!

Looool made me chuckle.

We went for 4 nights and that was perfect for us ....!

1300 not 414

$20 for what?

For a top room I'm guessing

That's the best sounding 7 day Vegas trip I've heard of in a long time. And they say Vegas is just about the casinos. Hats off to you. Amazing itinerary.

Google $20 trick .......although I have managed upgrades in Vegas with a smile and asking if there are any complimentary upgrades too. One time I didn't try at all and after a long delay getting there was very grumpy and got upgraded from their cheapest room type to a one bedroom suite ......so anything is possible.