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Reading the fine print, Casino Royale

#1

Reading the fine print:

HARRAH'S

7 star players get an annual celebration dinner worth $500. I was going to
use it for a party of 30. Was told that it's limited to 4 people. Several
times in the past I've had more than 4 people & the restaurants always took
care of it but I never read the rules.

SILVERTON

has a current promotion that gives you food credit in the following
amounts:

250 pts = $10
500 pts = $20
1000 pts = $40

$1 play = 1 pt

The screen on the machine tells you about the promotion but does not tell
you about the restrictions. When I tried to use $40 for dine in with a
friend & a sandwich take-out I learned the rules:

--- only 2 entrees can be ordered
--- no take-out
--- the rules are on the back of the coupon

We protested that you don't know the rules until after you get the
coupon.**

CASINO ROYALE

has brought back the video poker coupons for those who play enough to
establish themselves for the quarterly mailer.

I'm guessing that's 100,000 pts which is $10 in comps or free play.

**PEPPERMILL in Reno often did this with their coupons by offering dining
freebies which weren't really free due to restrictions printed on coupon.

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#2

We have used our Harrah’s celebration dinner for big groups (as many as 18) in many different casinos over the years, most recently last month. (We would choose a buffet for a large number of people rather than a gourmet restaurant for a few.) I don’t know where the “rules” are written down. In the 7* booklet I last received it did say to make arrangements with a host and “some restrictions apply.” I wonder whether it depends on the host, the casino, or what?? I never have heard of that 4 limit – very troubling!!!!!

Silverton’s food promo has another negative. If you earn at the $40 level, you can’t get two $20’s rather than one $40. Very inconvenient for a single person. A friend said they were just shooting themselves in the foot – next time she would just play 500 points instead of 1000.

Great idea, casinos – run a promotion that causes your customers to play less!!!!!

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From: TedChee@aol.com
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:18 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Reading the fine print, Casino Royale

Reading the fine print:

HARRAH'S

7 star players get an annual celebration dinner worth $500. I was going to
use it for a party of 30. Was told that it's limited to 4 people. Several
times in the past I've had more than 4 people & the restaurants always took
care of it but I never read the rules.

SILVERTON

has a current promotion that gives you food credit in the following
amounts:

250 pts = $10
500 pts = $20
1000 pts = $40

$1 play = 1 pt

The screen on the machine tells you about the promotion but does not tell
you about the restrictions. When I tried to use $40 for dine in with a
friend & a sandwich take-out I learned the rules:

--- only 2 entrees can be ordered
--- no take-out
--- the rules are on the back of the coupon

We protested that you don't know the rules until after you get the
coupon.**

CASINO ROYALE

has brought back the video poker coupons for those who play enough to
establish themselves for the quarterly mailer.

I'm guessing that's 100,000 pts which is $10 in comps or free play.

**PEPPERMILL in Reno often did this with their coupons by offering dining
freebies which weren't really free due to restrictions printed on coupon.

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#3

I used mine on a party of 7 with 7 free deserts and an overage on the meals of $23 which they also covered.

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#4

Queen of Comps wrote:

Silverton’s food promo has another negative. If you earn
at the $40 level, you can’t get two $20’s rather than
one $40. Very inconvenient for a single person. A friend
said they were just shooting themselves in the foot â€"
next time she would just play 500 points instead of 1000.

Great idea, casinos â€" run a promotion that causes your
customers to play less!!!!!

Silverton is the premier purveyor of promotions that encourage
you to play less!

G'luck all,
Gamb00ler

#5

I've never had this problem. Every time I have gotten the annual dinner I just get a printed voucher for $500 made out to one of the "partner resturants" (this is in NOLA), and I use it to pay the bill. The number of people never seems to matter. I haven't tried to feed 30 people, but I've had plenty of 7* annual dinners with 5 or 6.

EE

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, TedChee@... wrote:

Reading the fine print:

HARRAH'S

7 star players get an annual celebration dinner worth $500. I was going to
use it for a party of 30. Was told that it's limited to 4 people. Several
times in the past I've had more than 4 people & the restaurants always took
care of it but I never read the rules.

#6

We were in New Orleans in October and they would only give the $500 "celebration" dinner for in casino restaurants on a 1 to 1 - other parter restaurants were 2 for 1 - a $250 vaucher was givien for partner restaurants.

Mike

To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: eecounter@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:46:41 +0000
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Reading the fine print, Casino Royale

>
> Reading the fine print:
>
> HARRAH'S
>
> 7 star players get an annual celebration dinner worth $500. I was going to
> use it for a party of 30. Was told that it's limited to 4 people. Several
> times in the past I've had more than 4 people & the restaurants always took
> care of it but I never read the rules.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I've never had this problem. Every time I have gotten the annual dinner I just get a printed voucher for $500 made out to one of the "partner resturants" (this is in NOLA), and I use it to pay the bill. The number of people never seems to matter. I haven't tried to feed 30 people, but I've had plenty of 7* annual dinners with 5 or 6.

EE

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#7

I haven't collected my celebration dinner for this year yet, so thanks for the warning. But it's really not much of a shock - Harrah's NOLA seems to re-write the rules for which resturants you can or can't use the celebration dinner every single year.

EE

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, MIKE LOONEY <M_R_LOONEY@...> wrote:

We were in New Orleans in October and they would only give the $500 "celebration" dinner for in casino restaurants on a 1 to 1 - other parter restaurants were 2 for 1 - a $250 vaucher was givien for partner restaurants.

Mike

#8

This is news to me ... we did my celebration dinner a couple of years ago at NOLA and were quite pleased when they issued a comp for the full $500 (this was about a year after the partner comp ratio went to 2:1).

More recently, friends of ours used their celebration dinner in NOLA for a partner restaurant in September and it was my grasp that they received the full $500 credit.

- H.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, MIKE LOONEY <M_R_LOONEY@...> wrote:

We were in New Orleans in October and they would only give the $500 "celebration" dinner for in casino restaurants on a 1 to 1 - other parter restaurants were 2 for 1 - a $250 vaucher was givien for partner restaurants.

Mike

#9

Current policy for the annual dinner at NOLA is *definitely* $500 for the in-casino restaurants, or $250 for the partner restaurants. Trust me on this.

Of course, that doesn't mean that they won't change the policy next month...

EE

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vp_wiz" <harry.porter@...> wrote:

More recently, friends of ours used their celebration dinner in NOLA for a partner restaurant in September and it was my grasp that they received the full $500 credit.

- H.