Las Vegas Hotel Bookikng

[denmanstar]

Hello All, My wife and I want to treat our son to a 5 day trip to L/V to celebrate his 21st birthday , we aim to fly from B'ham on 15/07/2013 via Newark, I have been given a quote of £900 for the package staying in the Riviera hotel. I am going to be paying for the trip on a fairly tight budget and would welcome any tips on how I might be able to save a few pounds here and there. My main question is, will it be cheaper for me to book flight only from my travel agent & then book the hotel rooms on my own? Thanks for your help........

[LDC134]

Lucky son :) it's always cheaper to make sure you are staying Sun - Thurs as rooms can treble in price over a weekend, but you look like you have already covered that - it's certainly cheap to get rooms when you arrive, although this might be daunting at 21. The Riviera is quite a low budget hotel (no offence meant) I simply mean you could probably get a much better hotel by going directly. Good luck and have an amazing time.

[VHG]

I have not studied the route maps, timings etc, but why fly to Newark first?

Newark is in New York, the east coast of the USA.

Las Vegas is on the west coast of the USA, so you will have to fly all across the USA (4 or 5 hour flying time).

Cant you fly direct from Birmingham to Las Vegas, going "over the top" like flights to San Francisco do?

Sorry if you have already looked in to this, and as I said, I have not studied the route, timings, prices etc. It would just seem a shame to spend 4 or 5 hours in the plane when you dont have to.

[jno]

I don't think there are Birmingham-LV flights; you'd still have to change planes in London somewhere, which might be no quicker (but at least you'd be on home territory). A quick look on Skyscanner suggests the cheapest flights going via Amsterdam and Detroit from around £700. Non-stop from Gatwick £750-odd. (Those prices are for next month; airlines don't usually release them more than a year ahead.) At that rate, a £900 package sounds a pretty good deal.

From memory (years ago), eating in hotels is cheap as they want to get you gambling.

Rule 1: don't gamble!

[bednobs]

is 900 for all 3 of you?

[MichaelZZ]

We have had three America holidays (two in the US, one in Canada) all booked through Just America (http://www.justamerica.co.uk/). They got us good deals on flights, car hire and hotels. Although they have an online brochure (see link) they say that a large proportion of the holidays that they arrange are tailor-made to individual requirements. Well worth a look!

[spudqueen]

Just a quick question - but this is AFTER yours sons 21st birthday and not before? It's just that under 21 he wouldn't be able to drink, so if you're going to go all that way then it's better that he be 21 plus a week rather than 21 minus a week!