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[StuartHopkin]

Booked 25/12 - 01/01

Are those the days your flying ?

Yep

You not celebrate Christmas or NYD ?

Christmas Day still get the morning, it will just be in a hotel plus 12 hours later it will be time for Xmas lunch!
Pretty sure NYE is a lot more important than NYD, cant thing of anywhere more fun to be on NYE.

Basically just fits perfectly and means I don't have to think about keeping everyone happy.

[   ] I'm a very selfless person

I'm sure it'll be pretty sick, I wouldn't be that bothered about Xmas but love NYD, enjoy.

What do you normally do on New Years Day? I normally just sleep and sigh at everywhere being closed.

[mondatoo]

Booked 25/12 - 01/01

Are those the days your flying ?

Yep

You not celebrate Christmas or NYD ?

Christmas Day still get the morning, it will just be in a hotel plus 12 hours later it will be time for Xmas lunch!
Pretty sure NYE is a lot more important than NYD, cant thing of anywhere more fun to be on NYE.

Basically just fits perfectly and means I don't have to think about keeping everyone happy.

[   ] I'm a very selfless person

I'm sure it'll be pretty sick, I wouldn't be that bothered about Xmas but love NYD, enjoy.

What do you normally do on New Years Day? I normally just sleep and sigh at everywhere being closed.

Go to the pub all day so pretty standard but it's always packed and good crack, everyone's out NYD whereas quite a few up here seem to fade NYE, the past few anyway.

[rex008]

TY for the advice. I'm certainly not ruling anywhere out, but location main consideration, for price within reason. Would love Venetian, but checking the convention calendar (yes, I'm that sad) there is a 17000 attendee convention with Venetian as the "home" hotel that weekend, so suspect cheap rooms will be scarce (could be wrong, don't really know how it works). Keeping my eye on fatwallet, any other offer round-up places worth bookmarking? City Centre not open last time I went, but Aria or wherever would be cool too, if price is right.

SmarterVegas usually worth a look.  As with most things, it depends how much surfing effort you want to put in and how important saving a few hundred is compared to the time it takes to do it.

I usually prefer to book a direct flight separately to the hotel.  And the hotel either direct with bonus code or some other method that is also transferable.  That way, should you want to change any element of your trip, you have max flex to change flight dates, swap hotels, etc.  Orbitz & co sometimes do have very good offers and are worth a look, but I am loathed to take one as it gives you a "paid in full in advance-non-flex voucher."  For a crazy deal I'd do it, otherwise I'd rather just hunt a bit harder for direct/flexible options.

In my experience, just being observant 6 months out pays dividends.  On the last trip, I paid less for Premium Economy than the last -minute guys paid for economy.  And I paid less for Encore than some did for TI.  All the "but I only need a bed for the night" arguments don't come into it ~ even if people only want a bed and a shower, its still hard to understand why they would pay the same amount to the Pigeon as the could have to the Wynn.

TY TY. Booked flights this week. Prices were rising steadily - was going to book on Friday but hadn't got confirmation from 1 of the guys - ended up costing us £80 more each on Monday . This is Virgin out of Gatwick. Direct flights for £560, which I thought was ok - could have got £410 with miles+money if could have done a full week, but we're all married with kids, so passes to Vegas for 4 nights were pretty impressive, no chance of getting a full week .

Anyway, signed up for alerts on SmarterVegas, thanks for that one.

[celtic]

Anyone need dollars? I have $1490 I need to shift. PM please.

[KarmaDope]

16th Nov to 30th Nov

[RioRodent]

16th Nov to 30th Nov

You were already on the list in the OP.

[Marky147]

I always book several hotels up as early as possible, you can always cancel if any deals come up as time passes and it costs nothing. Like Simon said if you spend a bit of time there are some sick coups to be had for both hotels and flights. I always book my flight in January as the one thing that's almost certain is flights will never get cheaper.

[Marky147]

Oh and if I bink in Killarney I'll be going in November,  if not then June 22nd 2012 it is!

[Joobie538]

16th Nov to 30th Nov

You were already on the list in the OP.

i''m not though

pretty sure Im going - unless adam has cancelled my ticket..... i know he isn't stupid enough to do that

[RioRodent]

16th Nov to 30th Nov

You were already on the list in the OP.

i''m not though

pretty sure Im going - unless adam has cancelled my ticket..... i know he isn't stupid enough to do that

Sorted.

[cdw1111]

On the APAT trip 16th-22nd Nov.-Harrahs

[RioRodent]

On the APAT trip 16th-22nd Nov.-Harrahs

OP updated - http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=37654.msg828196#msg828196

[redsimon]

On the APAT trip 16th-22nd Nov.-Harrahs

when/where is APAT event, might extend trip a week if its close to my leaving date

[Laxie]

On the APAT trip 16th-22nd Nov.-Harrahs

when/where is APAT event, might extend trip a week if its close to my leaving date

44 of us going at last count.  Going to be one heck of a trip!

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=7405.0;topicseen

[mickyp]

Alan add me to the november list. 17-24 staying in harrahs