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Travelling to America for a UFC Event - Advice, Tips, Costs etc

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    #452
    dulux99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    Has anyone seen any info regarding the press Conf tomorrow? First access to fight club members I hope/assume?


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    #453
    Mr. Manager
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Doors open 4pm
    VIP check in from 4:15 - 4:45
    Weigh-in starts 5pm


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    #454
    sc86
    Registered Users Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭sc86


    many irish visable yet?


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    #455
    JoeyJJ
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    Looks like fighters staying mgm park.


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    #456
    wilkie2006
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    Mr. Manager wrote: »
    Doors open 4pm
    VIP check in from 4:15 - 4:45
    Weigh-in starts 5pm

    Anyone ever attended presser before? Would you want to be queuing a good bit in advance?


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    #457
    The Ayatolla
    Registered Users Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭The Ayatolla


    No need to queue really, there usually is a massive queue but you could easily stroll in 10 mins before it starts and avoid all that. Unless your particular about where you want to sit, which doesn't really matter. the seats up close are reserved for media etc.


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    #458
    JoeyJJ
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    Girl on check in at airport said a lot going to vegas this morning had no fight tickets.


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    #459
    dulux99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    JoeyJJ wrote: »
    Girl on check in at airport said a lot going to vegas this morning had no fight tickets.
    The person I spoke to checking into the hotel said the same. Fair few irish around already but Vegas is fairly quiet, maybe its just cos its a Wednesday.

    Any word on official times for the door etc for the presser tomorrow? Fairly wrecked now after the day of travel but gonna be up early tomorrow and make a day of it


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    #460
    JoeyJJ
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    Think it was 2pm doors its on one of the threads here. Im going to just miss it.

    Hope the person who missed their flight on Norweigan this morning doesnt have a ticket


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    #461
    DrPhilG
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    The Ayatolla wrote: »
    No need to queue really, there usually is a massive queue but you could easily stroll in 10 mins before it starts and avoid all that. Unless your particular about where you want to sit, which doesn't really matter. the seats up close are reserved for media etc.

    I showed up 5 minutes late to the UFC 100 weigh in and wasn't allowed in. Fight Club member or not.


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    #462
    EagererBeaver
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    Reports on Twitter of loads of lads at the airport not being allowed on their flight this morning by US immigration.


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    #463
    Whelo79
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    EagererBeaver wrote: »
    Reports on Twitter of loads of lads at the airport not being allowed on their flight this morning by US immigration.

    Good. The lads were probably all decked out in their finest tracksuits, tricolors and singing away with a belly full of booze by 11am. I had to sit through hours of insufferable ***** when I went over for the Aldo fight.

    I remember reports of flights being turned around and fights on board before take off previously. I'd feel sorry for any genuine respectable fan who got caught up in this but zero sympathy towards the other scrotes.


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    #464
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 6,411 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    Whelo79 wrote: »
    EagererBeaver wrote: »
    Reports on Twitter of loads of lads at the airport not being allowed on their flight this morning by US immigration.

    Good. The lads were probably all decked out in their finest tracksuits, tricolors and singing away with a belly full of booze by 11am. I had to sit through hours of insufferable ***** when I went over for the Aldo fight.

    I remember reports of flights being turned around and fights on board before take off previously. I'd feel sorry for any genuine respectable fan who got caught up in this but zero sympathy towards the other scrotes.

    The lad I saw tweeting about it insisted that he was kosher but some of the other lads had "past convictions"


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    #465
    dulux99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    Actually lads something I posted in the main CMG thread which may be of some use. We landed in immigration yesterday in Vegas and the que was already insane - if you already have your esta form done, there's a self service on the right hand side where you just scan your passport and I was genuinely through in about five mins. Met a guy from our flight earlier in the day later on in the mgm who said they were 2.5hrs getting through immigration.


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    #466
    Axwell
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    You need to have your ESTA done to leave Dublin/London anyways..if you dont have it they will make you go do it there and then online.


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    #467
    dulux99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    Axwell wrote: »
    You need to have your ESTA done to leave Dublin/London anyways..if you dont have it they will make you go do it there and then online.
    Yeah I always thought that myself but it was a strange moment, one of the staff at the airport came upto me and asked if I had my esta completed (which I thought went without saying) and he almost whispered that there was a self service terminal for people who've already had their esta approved. I thought everyone getting off the flight would already have their esta approved, and maybe they did tbf. Now for all I know the self service could have gotten much busier when people saw us breezing through it


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    #468
    Axwell
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    Well not every country can apply for an ESTA so it was maybe they meant if you have an ESTA you can self service as its matched to your passport and can be read electronically. Someone who cant get an ESTA has to go through customs, they cant do it electronically.


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    #469
    wilkie2006
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    dulux99 wrote: »
    Actually lads something I posted in the main CMG thread which may be of some use. We landed in immigration yesterday in Vegas and the que was already insane - if you already have your esta form done, there's a self service on the right hand side where you just scan your passport and I was genuinely through in about five mins. Met a guy from our flight earlier in the day later on in the mgm who said they were 2.5hrs getting through immigration.
    Ah sorry, man. I guess I was just lucky last time I visited (VERY lucky, by the sounds of it).


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    #470
    JoeyJJ
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    Tickets for sale on my flight earlier. Mates refused entey of the guys selling


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    #471
    xtal191
    Registered Users Posts: 6,310 ✭✭✭xtal191


    JoeyJJ wrote: »
    Tickets for sale on my flight earlier. Mates refused entey of the guys selling

    Any idea why they were refused?


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    #472
    JoeyJJ
    Registered Users Posts: 3,663 ✭✭✭JoeyJJ


    xtal191 wrote: »
    Any idea why they were refused?

    The mate selling didnt hide why but that shouldn't be said on public forums. Not massive offences


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    #473
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 6,411 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    JoeyJJ wrote: »
    xtal191 wrote: »
    Any idea why they were refused?

    The mate selling didnt hide why but that shouldn't be said on public forums. Not massive offences

    Were they honest on the ESTA application? If you lie and are caught they'll tell you to **** off every time.

    Trying to enter the US with a conviction on your record is a risky game


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    #474
    KingJamsie
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭KingJamsie


    EagererBeaver wrote: »
    Reports on Twitter of loads of lads at the airport not being allowed on their flight this morning by US immigration.

    Funny McGregor mentioned this at the presser. Might have been some of his family


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    #475
    JoeyJJ
    Registered Users Posts: 3,663 ✭✭✭JoeyJJ


    6am mgm poker tables im in heaven


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    #476
    Whelo79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭Whelo79


    JoeyJJ wrote: »
    6am mgm poker tables im in heaven

    You'll lose a fortune. No way you can concentrate on Poker when you know official weigh ins are a couple of hours away!


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    #477
    JoeyJJ
    Registered Users Posts: 3,663 ✭✭✭JoeyJJ


    Ok so far however nearly time for breakfast


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    #478
    dulux99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭dulux99


    Christ it was some sh*tshow trying to get into the press conference yesterday. They really underestimated the amount of people that showed up


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    #479
    JoeyJJ
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    What times are for today?


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    #480
    JoeyJJ
    Registered Users Posts: 3,663 ✭✭✭JoeyJJ


    Ryan Laflare would want to negotiate a better room is a few doors down from me


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    #481
    KingJamsie
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭KingJamsie


    JoeyJJ wrote: »
    What times are for today?

    open to correction but Ceremonial Weigh-ins 1am IST


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