Advice: Las Vegas hockey tourney transportation

[Jayems]

Going to Vegas for a hockey tourney next week. 11 guys staying at 2 hotels (Monte Carlo / Hard Rock). Need to get to North Las Vegas Ice Center each day. Wondering if anyone has suggestions for transportation. We'd prefer to go all together.

I called a company today, and they said they charge 1.5hrs one way (something like $190USD) for a van. I asked if it could handle 11 hockey bags and all he said were "Yeah, they're like golf bags, right?"

Anyone done this before and have any ideas so we don't get hosed?

[Northendzone]

No direct advice, but to me you would need a pretty big van to haul 11 guys, plus sticks and duffle bags.

Maybes if you could rent a 20 person party bus then it would work

[Galakanokis]

I'm waiting on a reply from a buddy that has done a tournament in Vegas for years now. Pretty sure they get a bus that's at their disposal all the time. Probably not cheap but worth it.

Will update when I hear.

[edn88]

for our tournaments in Vegas we rented a bus - it had a storage compartment in the back for all of the bags... could have carried about 30 people.

We used it only for to and from the rink (arranged for pickup times). I seem to recall it was pretty reasonable.

[nickerjones]

I have done it Jayems... We run our draft tournament in Vegas every January. ( Shameless plug: DraftTournament.com - We just finished our Canmore one today and have one coming up in Calgary in July).

We use Bell Trans
Email: lisset.avitia@belltransportation.com. They charged us 70 USD each way for a 24 passenger van and yes they were able to accommodate all our hockey bags.

[Jayems]

Thanks! We saw a rate for $60USD and of course called and it turned into $200USD.

I've sent an e-mail to the Bell Trans and we'll see what they say. $70USD each way is what we were hoping for, so I told them if they can hit that we'll book today.

We want to avoid renting something ourselves as no one wants to be burdened with with being a responsible DD.

[nickerjones]

Keep in mind the 70USD doesn't include tip. I guess technically you don't have to tip the guy but he loaded and unloaded our hockey gear so we felt obligated.