How to Get Free or Reduced Priced Rooms for Your Las Vegas Vacation
August 22, 2009 by Kyle Chapman
Filed under Destinations
Ok, it’s time to go to Las Vegas! Round up your friends, book a room, book a flight, and let the party begin! But wait a second…how should you go about doing all of this? Can I get a discount Las Vegas rooms, flight, or car rentals?
You sure can! There are actually a couple of different ways to get deals on a Las Vegas hotel and airfare. You just have to know how to work the system, and where to look.
Let’s jump right into the fun part. FREE STUFF! Ok, now don’t get too excited because to be honest, most people don’t get free rooms or airfare when going to Las Vegas. That’s just the facts. As the old saying goes, “How do I get a free room in Vegas? You buy a hotel.” Well, that isn’t exactly true, but you are going to have to do a little bit of gambling.
To get some good offers from the casinos, you are going to have gamble a lot. You need to be a part of the casino’s players club, and they will start mailing you offers. These offers often include free hotel rooms, show tickets, food, and sometimes transportation.
If you gamble more money than a normal patron the casino will appoint you a “Casino Host”. A Casino Host’s job is to make you happy, and give you free stuff! So, if you are offered a Casino Host, be happy! They will give you their contact information, and the next time you come into town give them a ring. They will set you up with rooms, show tickets, nightclub reservations, and pretty much anything you can think of. Now, they don’t give away everything as it still depends on how much money you’re gambling and how often you visit the casino, but they are your best bet at getting free stuff.
Now, if you are like most people, you don’t gamble enough to get these special offers or to have a “Casino Host”. So what is one to do to save a buck? You really have two options.
*Book your vacation through a booking company that offers vacation packages. If the hotel itself isn’t going to give you free stuff, go ahead and go through one of these companies to find a discount on a Las Vegas hotel and airfare. A lot of times you purchase things together like a flight, hotel, and a rental car. You can often find really good deals doing this, because these companies will often buy a “block” of hotel rooms, or a certain amount of rental cars and they get a deal for buying in bulk. Therefore, they can pass the discount onto customers like you!
*Visit the hotel’s website. Especially in Las Vegas, different hotels will give discounts for Las Vegas rooms seasonally. You can often find a deals such as, “Get a room for $175 a night, and receive a $25 food credit, and $30 in free slot play.”
So, in conclusion you have a couple of options to get that deal you’re looking for. Gamble a lot and get freebies, go through a booking company, or check for deals on hotels’ websites. There really isn’t any reason to pay full price until you shop around a little for those Las Vegas air hotel specials.
Deer Valley Utah Fine Dining Restaurants
May 7, 2009 by Robin Rutecki
Filed under Destinations
The ski resorts in Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado have been competing over the last 20 years to create the perfect mountain vacation getaway. The ski vacation is no longer the same experience it was in the 1980s when lodgings of marginal quality were considered the norm.
Over the last 10 years western ski resorts have continually expanded their size, quality of facilities, and breadth of services. Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah and Vail Resort in Vail, Colorado have risen to the top of the ski resort show down. Deer Valley Resort has been ranked the #1 Ski Resort in North America by the readers of Ski Magazine in 2001, 2005, 2007, and 2008. Vail Resort held the honor in 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2006.
To consistently hold the #1 spot in Ski Magazines survey, Deer Valley Resort focuses on its dining experience, on mountain services, and well manicured ski runs. Deer Valley is widely known to have the best food in the ski business but it does not just stop with lunch. The resort converts its opulent ski lodges into fine dining restaurants each night during the ski season. Each evening the staff redecorates with such skill you can hardly notice that you are dining in the same lodge you ate lunch earlier in the day.
The Mariposa is considered Deer Valleys flagship dining establishment serving European continental fare. Fireside Dining offers optional romantic horse drawn sleigh rides before dinner and a unique Swiss alpine menu served alongside stone fireplaces. The Seafood Buffet is a longtime favorite featuring a large selection of seafood as well as hearty items from the grill.
Park City has also added many fine dining establishments as well as hundreds of new luxury ski accommodations. The modern traveler demands a decidedly more luxurious experience than the traditional ski vacation lodging options and restaurants were able to provide.
Due to this recent transition towards a more discerning visitor, Park City and Deer Valley restaurants have responded by providing an ever improving dining experience. Mobile, Michelin, AAA, and Zagat rate several restaurants close to Deer Valley Resort as top choices within their widely read travel guides.
Although there are many fantastic Deer Valley restaurants, my favorite choice is the Goldener Hirsch Restaurant which is tucked away in the Austrian inspired Goldener Hirsch Inn. The Stein Eriksen Lodge has arguably one of the finest restaurants in the county with its Glitretind Restaurant. The Glitretind is also famous for its daily Skiers Lunch Buffet during the winter season.
No matter what your personal preference, Deer Valley Resort certainly lives up to its reputation as a top ski destination in North America. There are now many unique dining options to compliment the fabulous skiing and scenery. Its definitely worth a closer look.
Travel tips for Honeymoon Couple
April 11, 2009 by Travel Them
Filed under Travel Tips
Couples-only resorts almost guarantee a romantic vacation. They do it by offering unlimited opportunities for togetherness, by freedom from spending stress, and — strange as it sounds — by a little peer pressure.
From the comfort of a living room, travel is a gauzy, wildly romantic notion made less clear by glossy pictures and the miles-high perspective of a map. Having a Travel insurance from this vantage is appealing to almost everyone. However, the realities of a long journey will test even the most seasoned couple. Make sure that you and your partner enjoy the same kind of travel. One person may want to spend three months bicycling across China while the other wants nothing more than to spend two weeks relaxing on a tropical beach.
“Hey, don’t wander off like that; I’ll be the only one without a partner,” I hissed at my husband on our initial orientation tour of couples-only Sandals St. Lucia. We were both still travel-frazzled, but the peer pressure to stay together was obvious as we joined eight other couples walking two by two behind our guide on our “First Day Tour.” Everyone was holding hands like little kids on a summer camp outing.
The whole resort, in fact, looks like summer camp for grownups with everyone on the buddy system. No singles, no kids, no families. Both parties have to invest themselves in the trip. Choose the destination together and the time of year you’ll go. Read everything you can get your hands on. Histories and the accounts of those who have gone before you will supply a rich context for your journey. Read together (one of life’s most intimate pleasures is reading aloud to the one you love) and talk about what you’ve read. What one person considers trivial (Malaria? No problem.) may be of great concern to the other.
You’ll never have it all figured out before you go, but having planned together will give you a strong foundation. Only couples. Mostly 20-, 30-, and 40-something in age. Everyone two by two in the dining room, on snorkel excursions, in the pools, at the bars, on the beach, everywhere you look. Everywhere you look, just couples — strolling, splashing, smooching, or quietly standing arm in arm watching the sunset.
Anyone without their partner stands out like a weed in a dichondra lawn, inviting speculation about whether they had a fight or what. And the resort has 100% occupancy. What’s going on here? Do couples-only resorts possess a magic formula? I think so. The new generation of all-inclusive, couples-only resorts just happen to deliver an almost perfect Romantic Escape. Since today’s two-career, workaholic couples can’t seem to find romance and escape from stress anywhere else, they’re lining up to buy it from Sandals and SuperClubs. Part of the formula is a true all-inclusive price. No beads, no sneaky charges for certain watersports, and even no tipping. You just don’t have to think about money — at all — for a whole week. That means there’s no way you can fight over money. A major stress eliminated.







