Las Vegas experts

[darkxshade]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: darkxshade
so this $30 for the long route, is that including tip?

no tip included yet. I think i paid $36 last year.

So ask them not to take the long route, if they don't oblige, don't tip?

 

[compuwiz1]

LOL @ people going to Las Vegas and thinking $30 is a lot to pay for something.

Normally, the limo from the hotel I'm staying in picks me up at the airport.

 

[Descartes]

Honestly, I don't know why more people don't just rent a car. Much of Vegas is walkable, sure, but there's a lot to be seen elsewhere as well. I've never had a problem parking at any of the casinos either.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

lol, u want cheap i gave you cheap!

they way i figure it, no matter what i pay for a taxi it is going to pale in comparison to what i lose gambling... at least im getting a ride out of it!

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

for about $20 you can usually have one of the car services run you to the strip if you find one dropping someone off

 

[So]

FYI, the monorail line ends about 1mile north of the airport, yet the Taxi association has fought and managed to stop a planned extension that would cut them out of the mandatory loop.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Honestly, I don't know why more people don't just rent a car. Much of Vegas is walkable, sure, but there's a lot to be seen elsewhere as well. I've never had a problem parking at any of the casinos either.

Maybe because people don't want to designate a driver on vacation.

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: So
FYI, the monorail line ends about 1mile north of the airport, yet the Taxi association has fought and managed to stop a planned extension that would cut them out of the mandatory loop.

Monorail ends at MGM and goes all the way north. Ask to be taken to the MGM and $12 ticket on that gets you all over the strip (and to the convention center directly) for 12 hrs. Its about a mile away so you can walk (and i see people doing the walk daily actually as i leave work seems like) - so long as you have a rolling suitcase and backpack its not that bad.

saying 'one of the hotels on the strip' doesn't say much. The strip is like 5 miles of hotels.

 

[m21s]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
Leaving tomorrow for Las Vegas for CES.

When you take a taxi from the airport, what route should you tell the taxi driver to take? Last two times I been taken on the long route and got charged about $30. I'm staying on one of the hotels on the strip.

Tell the driver not to take the tunnel.

Take Paradise Rd. out of the airport and this will bring you to any road crossing the strip. Tropicana Ect...

Or I could pick you up and drop you off for 20.00

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: m21s

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
Leaving tomorrow for Las Vegas for CES.

When you take a taxi from the airport, what route should you tell the taxi driver to take? Last two times I been taken on the long route and got charged about $30. I'm staying on one of the hotels on the strip.

Tell the driver not to take the tunnel.

Take Paradise Rd. out of the airport and this will bring you to any road crossing the strip. Tropicana Ect...

Or I could pick you up and drop you off for 20.00

Prepare to receive a PM some time in the future, up to three years from the tiem of this post.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Descartes
Honestly, I don't know why more people don't just rent a car. Much of Vegas is walkable, sure, but there's a lot to be seen elsewhere as well. I've never had a problem parking at any of the casinos either.

Maybe because people don't want to designate a driver on vacation.

Meh, I've never had a problem. Unless you're drunk the entire damn day, use the car to get around, hit some restaurants, etc. and then walk your drunk self home. It's not that difficult.

There's more to see in Vegas than the strip. That's my only point.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
take the shuttle to southpoint, from there you can take their shuttle to mandalay, from there hop on the tram as far north as excalibur. if you need to go further up, walk thru NY NY, hop on tram at Monte Cristo and take it to Bellagio. from there you have to hoof it though.

Is this a special shuttle that goes to Mandalay? I paid $6.50 for a damn shuttle that had to stop at MGM, NYNY, Tropicana, Excalibur, Luxor, and finally MGM. Felt like a damn hour. I should've just taken a cab especially since we had 3 people in our party. Pissed me off.

 

[akshatp]

Casino host and limo pick up FTW

i do remember once paying $36 to a cabbie from he Venetian to the airport though. Glad those days are gone

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
take the shuttle to southpoint, from there you can take their shuttle to mandalay, from there hop on the tram as far north as excalibur. if you need to go further up, walk thru NY NY, hop on tram at Monte Cristo and take it to Bellagio. from there you have to hoof it though.

Is this a special shuttle that goes to Mandalay? I paid $6.50 for a damn shuttle that had to stop at MGM, NYNY, Tropicana, Excalibur, Luxor, and finally MGM. Felt like a damn hour. I should've just taken a cab especially since we had 3 people in our party. Pissed me off.

The shuttles are grouped, one line serves several hotels in a cluster. That's the tradeoff, it's only $6 but you aren't the only hotel it stops at. It's still better than being taken for a ride (in both senses of the term) in a taxi though.