2. Majestic Star FYI
Posted by: "bobtry2000" bobtry2000@yahoo.com bobtry2000
Date: Mon Aug 3, 2009 6:22 pm ((PDT))Was as the Majestic Star today. Downgrades to two programs.
The multiple point days now exclude video poker.
No longer a $15 food voucher for seniors after 50 points.
Around May or June, Majestic announced that its "star" programs (its various tiers of player recognition), which usually are re-evaluated and taken away / re-awarded every six months based on the previous six months play (unlike most places' annual programs), were "extending" everyone's current level until "fall" (whenever they define that to be) - and that then, there would be an all-new awards program. Then a postcard came announcing "new" benefits as of Aug. 1 -- I guess what is reported above is the "new benefit"!!
Guess this is not that big a surprise (and would expect "more" - i.e., more reductions - to come by the time they wind out the whole new program). Although they do have some decent paytables for VP, cash-back has been 0.1% for years and years, therefore nearly worthless, and Superstar status, which requires $50K of coin-in per six months to maintain, really didn't provide much benefit other than the quota (two nights per month in addition to any coupon free nights) of "self-comp'ed" rooms at their pathetic hotel, which I often describe as low-end Days Inn, and which you really can't say much nice about except that the price is right.
I rarely have a stay there when I don't find something new lacking in the room - keys that don't work, coffee makers removed, remotes for the TV with no batteries, and almost always peeling wallpaper next to the shower (which always has a curtain that's about a half inch lower than the top of the tub's edge, so...surprise!). Complaints to management (and sometimes thru the VIP desk, trying a different approach) have apparently caused some rooms to get a coffee makers again; no other changes noted!
I sure wish the Horseshoe in the area, just 15 minutes away, would find some real estate on which to build a hotel, where I'm sure my Diamond status would qualify me for some stays!!
--BG
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