Stranded in Las Vegas

So some Volcano with an unpronounceable name in Iceland has gone off and now all flight to the UK are cancelled. I am stuck here in Las Vegas after being here for a Broadcaster trade show. We were meant to fly back on Friday but the flight was cancelled. We knew it was going to happen and so we phoned Virgin on Thursday night and asked for the next available seats and have been told 1 week. We are lucky. Some people we spoke to on the same flight waited until they got a text from Virgin, on the Friday, to try to phone but did not get through even after trying for a couple of hours. They went to the airport and were told 3 weeks !


Friday and Saturday nights are the big nights in Vegas and so most Hotels were already full and therefore we could not extend our stay and had to get out of the hotel (Ballys). We hired a car and drove around to find another. The first we tried was full but by luck the one next door had some rooms (La Quinta). It looked a bit dingy when they showed us one of the rooms but we were desperate and so took it anyway. As it turned out they got us better rooms than the one we saw. We had to pay an extra $20 a night but it worth it.

So anyway here we are stuck in Vegas for a week.