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18-03-2009, 10:46 PM
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Use this link mate, I got sent an advert by email from Luxor. If the link wont work, PM your email addy to me and I will fwd the offer on.
https://reservations.mgmmirage.com/b...mo&code=LLUCKY
https://reservations.mgmmirage.com/b...mo&code=LLUCKY
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19-03-2009, 12:39 PM
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I went a couple of years ago and stayed at the Mirage, it is a truly amazing place - but expensive (even more so now with the exchange rate!) so budget accordingly.
A sunset helicopter flight into, a picnic in and flight out the Grand Canyon was a couple of hundred!
There is some stuff you can do for free - all the casinos try to outdo each other so you can watch the dancing fountains at the Bellagio, a 'volcano' erupting outside the Mirage etc. etc. and easily kill an evening or two that way.
Only other thing i noticed was that there's nowhere to eat except inside any of the hotels/casinos. Not even a McDonalds/Cafe/Coffee Shop to be seen!
A sunset helicopter flight into, a picnic in and flight out the Grand Canyon was a couple of hundred!
There is some stuff you can do for free - all the casinos try to outdo each other so you can watch the dancing fountains at the Bellagio, a 'volcano' erupting outside the Mirage etc. etc. and easily kill an evening or two that way.
Only other thing i noticed was that there's nowhere to eat except inside any of the hotels/casinos. Not even a McDonalds/Cafe/Coffee Shop to be seen!
Next door to the MGM is Fat Burger, and there was a McD there too. I went in December, got diverted to LA becase of snow.. 17 hours no ciggy. Not fun. If i could i would live out there. got chattin to a valet guy and he told me it was a nightmare to get a job out there. sucks really. but anyways, its fantastic, you'll enjoy it no matter what!
Couldn’t resist the photo just for the name – very appropriate for American fast food
Pizza slut / KFC :
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but you do have the option of buying pictures taken by them 
). We also got a Indian style lunch on the rim (very similar to Mexican). This is the place we ate lunch, it all runs on solar :
The west rim is owned by the Indians and therefore H&S was far more relaxed than I would have expected, this for me added to the experience. There are no safety rails / warnings etc and you are free to wonder around without supervision etc, so long as you are back at the airstrip for your flight they are not bothered how you spend your time there – I guess you could sit on the skywalk all day if you wanted …
The only warning we were given was from the woman that explained where everything was when we first arrived “You can go as close to the edge as you want, if you slip you will die. We haven’t had anyone slip that survived …”
Might be a ‘tourist’ warning but defo possible 
I am not sure who we booked our trip with but the GF found details of it on expedia and the airline we flew with was either ‘king airways’ or ‘king airlines’. They had a special offer on and it only cost us Ł122 per person all in including hotel pickup / drop off, lunch, skywalk etc. Total door to door time was probably about 7 hours. We took the first tour of the day so it wasn’t very busy – there was only about six of us on the skywalk at any one time and about 8 of us in the plane
This was my seat on the trip back :
There are some more pics I posted further up this thread.
Off topic a bit but any film buffs recognize these places ?
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19-03-2009, 12:53 PM
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View from the top :
Hot dog in Roxys diner :
I so regretted ordeing extra chips with mine ...
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Has anyone stayed at NewYork NewYork hotel? Was tempted to split the time there and have 4 nights at the Luxor and 3 in NewYork NewYork??
Also found a flight on the 4th June for Ł293 all in with KLM (I used to use these when I worked in Amsterdam and are fine). It does have a stop in Minneapolis but only for a couple of hours though but worth it for the saving.
Also found a flight on the 4th June for Ł293 all in with KLM (I used to use these when I worked in Amsterdam and are fine). It does have a stop in Minneapolis but only for a couple of hours though but worth it for the saving.
I got my souvenir t shirt from there with a dolly bird waitress on - City of sin casino and lounge – Liquer in the front, Poker in the rear… The GF doesn’t seem see the funny side ?
If I was going with the lads it would be at the top of my list for places to stay along with the Hardrock (a little bit off the strip though but they do put a free bus service on) and possibly PH
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