vegas this year?

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valor wrote: »

if I try to book any extended stay it wont let me, is that just me or any body know why?

Vegas hotels not geared up for extended stays. Try booking in chunks or on different sites. Hotels.com and Expedia.com have same deals for GC.

fiddlesticks

ditpoker wrote: »

i stayed nearer to downtown last year, in the stratosphere and got a room for 2 for $30 a night. and played most of my poker downtown in the golden nugget or binions. ok, it doesnt have the glitz and glamour of the strip, but poker was softer and more in budget, i felt.

Nit...

5starpool

Vegas hotels don't let you stay more than 30 in a row nights afaik. If you are booking 6 weeks say, then book one night somewhere else in the middle and the rest in 2 bookings maybe?

bigslick

Pretty sure will be jetting off this year for week holiday. Which would people recommend the continental flight from Dublin to Newark and then onto Vegas, or the Virgin flight to London and then onto Vegas?

Virgin is bit expensive but i hear its worth the extra.

nicnicnic

apart from ebookers what other reputable sites should i be looking at for flight hotel deals

bohsman

bigslick wrote: »

Pretty sure will be jetting off this year for week holiday. Which would people recommend the continental flight from Dublin to Newark and then onto Vegas, or the Virgin flight to London and then onto Vegas?

Virgin is bit expensive but i hear its worth the extra.

Problem with the Virgin flight is getting to London the night before to check in on time, other than that its well worth it. Im probably gonna go with Aer Lingus, Dublin to San Fran then a seperate cheap flight onto Vegas. Have only heard bad things about Continental.

Jesus Wept

Clint Powers wrote:

apart from ebookers what other reputable sites should i be looking at for flight hotel deals

www.gohop.ie are worth a look too

5starpool wrote: »

Vegas hotels don't let you stay more than 30 in a row nights afaik. If you are booking 6 weeks say, then book one night somewhere else in the middle and the rest in 2 bookings maybe?

I think they just don't let you book more than 30 days in one booking?
Though if you called them up I imagine they would.

Is there more to this? Some reason they don't/can't actually let you more than 30 nights?

bohsman

nicnicnic wrote: »

apart from ebookers what other reputable sites should i be looking at for flight hotel deals

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055070441 Should find something in one of those. I think Id rather be booking flights and hotel seperately tho.

dK1NG

bohsman wrote: »

Have only heard bad things about Continental.

I had a very bad experience with them last Summer.

Left Shannon on time, 45 mins later we had to turn back due to technical fault. Stuck on runway for approx 90 mins, then we had to get off and wait in the terminal (with no facilities whatsoever apart from a toilet) while the technicians made some final adjustments. The steward told me straight out as I was disembarking that the plane would not be going anywhere, yet we were still made to wait another 8 hrs before this was officially confirmed. At least he was honest about it, that left an awful bad taste in my mouth.

Anyhow, we ended up staying the night in Ennis rather than go back home to Limerick. Great night, which will live long in memory.

The next thing though we were scheduled to be collected from the hotel at 4.30am, arrived down at reception then only to be told no thats wrong, bus would not be arriving til 9ish. Got to Shannon later, and yet more delays with the plane. We eventually took off around 5.00.

They did sort out our internal flights etc, but that didnt make up for losing so much of our hol. Week in Vegas tehn onto Cancun for anothe rweek.

Leaving Cancun, we checked in for the full journey back to SNN- well, my three mates did. They couldnt check me in fully for some reason, I was told I'd have to check in when I arrived in NY. Got to NY and turns out the onward flight was overbooked! I was fuming at this stage. Further, despite being told that the bags were to be auto transferred to teh SNN flight, my mates (by sheer chance) found out that their bags had in fact been taken off at NY and were waiting to be collected. Oh, and the bags had been destroyed during the flight too - destroyed in some 'fish' smell type thing (cant describe it any other way).

Eventually, I got a seat on board the flight home. Thats the end of it, no more bad experiences - you would think. One final nail for me - the air hostess somehow managed to spill a drink all over me when serving hte person next to me (even though I was in the window seat, far away from her!).


Overall, you could say it wasnt the most pleasant of experiences flying with Continental. (Or, as they were called when I worked in Shannon, C.u.n.t.inental!)

hotspur

Slightly tangential but I thought this was an interesting article on the economics of Vegas hotel occupancy figures and rates:
http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article.cfm?ContentId=177506&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Featured_Story&utm_campaign=3-23-09

5starpool

The-Rigger wrote: »

www.gohop.ie are worth a look too



I think they just don't let you book more than 30 days in one booking?
Though if you called them up I imagine they would.

Is there more to this? Some reason they don't/can't actually let you more than 30 nights?

I think there is something to do with residency? If you stay more than 30 nights in one hotel you are classed as a resident rather than a visitor. I must try and find out more, but that is in my head for some reason.

Edit: Couldn't find anything in 5 mins so I gave up.

bohsman

AFAIK it has to do with squatters rights aswell. I had to move hotel, even when I got there they wouldnt let me stay the extra couple of nights.

ditpoker

binions 3rd annual poker classic is up...

http://www.binions.com/gaming/poker_classic.html

the ventian deepstack 2009...

http://www.venetian.com/uploadedFiles/The_Venetian/Gaming/PokerRoom/Deep_Stack/DeepStackIII_09.pdf

bohsman

Not even going to look at the schedule after seeing the "optional" $10 bonus chip option.

thechamp87

ditpoker wrote: »

binions 3rd annual poker classic is up...

http://www.binions.com/gaming/poker_classic.html

the ventian deepstack 2009...

http://www.venetian.com/uploadedFiles/The_Venetian/Gaming/PokerRoom/Deep_Stack/DeepStackIII_09.pdf

how long is the clock in these venetian tourns does anyone know?

5starpool

thechamp87 wrote: »

how long is the clock in these venetian tourns does anyone know?

The 330 and 550 games were 40 mins last year, the 1k ones 60 mins. They skip a couple of levels though so it gets very crapshooty coming towards bubble time in the 330 one I nearly cashed in. Standard is pretty horrific though, so not much different to home really.

bigslick

I'll be over from 29th May to June 5th. Hoping to play few of Venetian games and few Binions classic's.

Anyone know if satellites are done for every WSOP event? Or is it only the bigger ones? As dont have the cash to be playing the $1000 event but wud take shot at $100-300 satellite for it or others.

5starpool

I think the have regular sng sats that can be used as credits for any event, but I didn't play any of those. FAirly sure they will be running the whole series though. Anyone better placed to answer this definitively?

bohsman

Yea, they have sngs for tournament chips, cheapest one is 125 in with 2 $500 tourney chips and $100 cash for the winner, plenty of deals being done.

bigslick

bohsman wrote: »

Yea, they have sngs for tournament chips, cheapest one is 125 in with 2 $500 tourney chips and $100 cash for the winner, plenty of deals being done.

Soft or full of SnG experts?

bohsman

Soft, especially at the low levels, structures fairly fast though from what I remember

ditpoker

bohsman wrote: »

Not even going to look at the schedule after seeing the "optional" $10 bonus chip option.

why is this such a bad thing!? just ignore it... so instead of playing a 150 game with a 3k stack, you play a 160 game with a 4k stack. everyone buys it anyway. its just a marketing gimmick is all. it goes into the prizepool... whats the big deal???

bohsman

If it goes into the prizepool fair enough but any place Ive seen it used in Vegas its gone to the dealers or the house.

ditpoker

from what i remember last year it went into the prizepool, the house takes 3% from the overall prizepool for dealers etc , thats why tipping from tournament winnings is very limited over there.

bohsman

Id be quite sure its extra rake, would be way too much hassle for them to have it for an extra $10 into the prizepool.

5starpool

My understanding is that it is an extra charge as well and does not go into the prizepool, but I still had no real issue with paying it either.

AKDK

try Air canada we got return two week flights 4 $450 goin 24th june

dougee19

i'll be there

kakak1

If anyone is thinking of Vegas nearer the end of this year this is something I received from Go Hop today & must be booked before April 3rd (This Friday)

Flights to Las Vegas between 1-Nov-09 and 20-Dec-09 €365 return

The contact No is 01-2412377 or online at http://www.gohop.ie/

nicnicnic

AKDK wrote: »

try Air canada we got return two week flights 4 $450 goin 24th june

travel time ? how many stops/flight.changes