Virgin Atlantic Airways Flights from London, Great Britain (LGW) to Las Vegas (LAS)
As part of booking roundtrip flights which depart from US airports,
Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on Virgin Atlantic Airways, which operates a daily non-stop flight from London, Great Britain (LGW) to Las Vegas (LAS) regularly scheduled to depart at 10:45am and arrive at 1:30pm. Usually a Boeing 747-400 is flown for this route. The average travel time from London, Great Britain to Las Vegas, NV is 10 hours and 45 minutes.
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During your Las Vegas vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Casino Legends Hall of Fame Museum
A substantial and fascinating collection of gaming memorabilia (chips, cards, dice, even swizzle sticks, from long-gone and current hotels), photographs (the original Flamingo surrounded by nothing but desert, for example), videos, displays, and minitributes to the people and professions that made and make Las Vegas what it is. Over 150,000 items make this the largest collection of its kind in the world. Provided that this kind of history interests you, this shouldn't be missed. It's well worth the time and small admission charge, though you can sometimes avoid even that, courtesy of the hotel's free slot-pull area, and local magazines, both of which often offer free passes. Attached is a large gift shop where you can buy all sorts of collectibles -- even slot machines. Note: With the hotel's future in jeopardy, so is this collection's. Let's hope that if it has to close here, it gets picked up elsewhere.
Las Vegas Hilton
The casino has two parts, thanks to the space-themed portion adjacent to Star Trek: The Experience. In an area designed to look like a spaceport, you find space-themed slot machines, many of which have no handles -- just pass your hand through a light beam to activate. You'll find other gimmicks throughout the casino (though already some have been dropped since the opening), including urinals that give you an instant "urinalysis" -- usually suggesting this is your lucky day to gamble. We do like a well-designed space in which to lose our money.Over in the original casino section, Austrian-crystal chandeliers add a strong touch of class. The casino is actually medium-size, but it does have an enormous sports book -- at 30,500 square feet, it's the world's largest race and sports book facility. It, too, is a luxurious precinct equipped with the most advanced audio, video, and computer technology available, including 46 TV monitors, some as large as 15 feet across. In fact, its video wall is second in size only to NASA's. The casino is adjacent to the lobby but is neither especially loud nor frantic. Especially plush is the vast 6,900-square-foot baccarat room -- with gorgeous crystal chandeliers, silk-covered walls, and velvet-upholstered furnishings -- and the VIP slot area where personnel are attired in tuxedos. Both areas offer gracious service to players.The Las Vegas Hilton has a new owner as of 2004 so there will probably be some changes by the time you read this.
MGM Grand
Las Vegas's largest casino (171,500 sq. ft.) -- we've been to countries that were smaller! -- is divided into four themed areas, in a futile attempt to make it seem smaller. Most of the Wizard of Oz decorations have been removed, but spend an hour in here and you may feel like Dorothy after she was whisked away by the twister. You will get lost at least once. One section features a high-roller slot area with machines that operate on coins valued at $100 and $500! The sports casino houses a big poker room, a state-of-the-art race and sports book, and the Turf Club Lounge. The French Riviera-themed Monte Carlo casino has a luxurious marble-columned and gold-draped private high-end gaming area. Carousels of progressive slots unique to the MGM Grand include the very popular Majestic Lions high-frequency $1 slot machines, which pay out more than $1 million daily; and the Lion's Share $1 slots, which are capable of jackpots exceeding $1 million each at any time. This hotel takes part in the MGM MIRAGE Players Club, which is also valid at sister properties like The Mirage, New York-New York, and others.
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Rio bills itself as a "carnival" atmosphere hotel, which in this case means hectic, crowded, and noisy, and the recent edict requiring the already Most Scantily Clad Waitresses in Town to burst into song and dance in between delivering beers. The newer section, the Masquerade Village, is actually pretty pleasant, with a very high ceiling, but the older section's low ceilings only seem to accentuate how crowded the area is in both the number of people and the amount of stuff (slot machines, gaming tables, and so on). All this party atmosphere, by the way, is strictly for adults; the hotel actively discourages guests from bringing children.The rooms are touted because of their size. Every one is a "suite," which does not mean two separate rooms, but rather one large room with a sectional, corner sofa, and coffee table at one end. The dressing areas are certainly larger than average and feature a number of extra amenities, such as refrigerators (unusual for a Vegas hotel room) and small snacks. Windows, running the whole length of the room, are floor to ceiling, with a pretty impressive view of The Strip, Vegas, or the mountains (depending on which way you're facing). The furniture doesn't feel like hotel-room standard, but otherwise the decor is fairly bland.Rosemary's at the Rio, a new version of one of our favorite restaurants in town, Fiore, and the hotel's first-rate buffet are described in chapter 6. You might consider checking out the Wine Cellar Tasting Room, which bills itself as "the world's largest and most extensive collection of fine wines," and hyperbole aside, it's certainly impressive and a must-do for any wine aficionado.Penn & Teller, the smartest show in town, is reviewed in Nightlife, as is the Voodoo Lounge, Bikinis, and Club Rio. The missable Scintas also do a regular act, while we adore the unpredictable antics produced by the improv dinner show Tony & Tina's Wedding. The casino, alas, is dark and claustrophobic. In case you missed the party/carnival theme, there is a rather bizarre live-action show called The Masquerade Show in the Sky. It is presented Thursday through Tuesday at 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 8, 9, and 10pm. Sets modeled after Mardi Gras floats (sort of) move on grids set in the ceiling, filled with costumed performers who lip-sync to music designed to rev up the crowd but doesn't continue the theme (swing selections, for example). These floats are best viewed from the second floor of the village. Down below, dancers do their thing on a stage, while even stranger costumes (ostriches, dragons, and so on) prance next to them. Guests can also don costumes and ride a float, but you have to pay for the privilege.Out back is a pool with a sandy beach, and two new pools in imaginative fish and shell shapes that seem inviting until you get up close and see how small they are. It could be especially disappointing after you have braved the long, cluttered walk (particularly from the new tower rooms) to get there. Three whirlpool spas nestle amid rocks and foliage, there are two sand-volleyball courts, and blue-and-white-striped cabanas (equipped with rafts and misting coolers) can be rented for $100 and up per day. The 18-hole championship Rio Secco golf course was designed by Rees Jones.Facilities: Casino; showrooms; 13 restaurants; 4 outdoor pools; golf course; health club and spa; Jacuzzi; sauna; video arcade; concierge; car-rental desk; business center; shopping arcade; 24-hr. room service; in-room massage; laundry service; dry cleaning; nonsmoking rooms; executive-level rooms.
Westward Ho Hotel & Casino
We know we referred to the Stratosphere as having motel rooms, but we did emphasize that they are nice motel rooms. These are just plain basic motel rooms, because this is, after all, a motel. Which means that it just doesn't have the facilities and other doodads that a true resort, even the Strat, offers. But the price lures. Located next door to Circus Circus, the Westward Ho is fronted by a vast casino, with rooms in two-story buildings that extend out back for several city blocks. In fact, the property is so large that a free bus shuttles regularly between the rooms and the casino 24 hours a day. Plans are in the works for a new casino and a gas station/convenience store in the back of the property. A good buy here are the two-bedroom suites, with 1 1/2 bathrooms, living rooms with sofa beds, and refrigerators. Suites sleep up to six people.
Boardwalk Hotel & Casino
This is just like a Holiday Inn -- in fact, up until a few years ago, it was a Holiday Inn, but in Vegas you gotta have a theme, and the hotel underwent an extensive renovation to give it a more attractive Coney Island and Boardwalk flavor, inside and especially out. The facade is kind of fun, with clowns and games and mannequins dressed in turn-of-the-last-century clothes. Of course, all this is completely eclipsed by New York-New York, which is just a few doors (in Strip terms) down. After all, the roller coaster on the outside of this hotel is just a facade, while New York-New York's coaster is real. The whole property is owned by the MGM MIRAGE Corp., which hasn't done anything special to the place, but does mean a certain amount of quality control. At least, until they figure out how to "redevelop" the property, and tear the whole thing down.You don't have to walk through the casino to get to the lobby, which is a plus, as is the hotel's coveted Strip location. On the other hand, it's a bit pricey for what you get -- standard Holiday Inn hotel rooms -- unless you do get that often low midweek rate.
