The "home" casino is the one you have put the most coin-in through in the past 90 days. It has no effect on point comps, but off-point comps (rare in the current economy) given by hosts are only based on your play at that host's property. The home casino is irrelevant although you usually ask for an off-point comp from the property you play at most.
The main effect the home casino has is on your play cash. Unlike point multipliers which are good at any of the six Stations, you only get the play cash at your home casino.
Historically, if your home casino is GVR you need more coin-in to get the same level of monthly mailer because it is only 50% owned by Stations. There have been some changes lately in the mailer tiers and it is possible (but not likely) that this difference is changing.
The Player's club can tell you the ways you can redeem points, but here are the highlights:
Food at owned restaurants is redeemed at 600 points / $; at leased outlets (Fat Burger, Hooters, etc) it is 1000 pts / $.
You can attend movies, bowling and buy gift shop items with points.
If you are Platinum ($60,000 of coin-in in any rolling 90 day period) or President ($225,000 in any rolling 90 day period) you get discounts at the buffet and gift shop. You can also use your points for travel through Prestige Travel (Platinum is 1200 pts / $, President is 1000 pts / $). There is no limit on travel redemptions like Fiesta has.
Hope this helps.
B
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At 07:57 PM 10/07/2003 +0000, you wrote:
Could someone be so kind as to clarify what this means? Do you get
to pick one Station (apparently the one you play at the most) and
get a higher comp rate there than any other Station casino? Is it
an explicit (higher point accrual) or "understood" (discretional
comps) type of thing?
Further, I've been unable to find a very thorough
explanation/overview (complete with all the different ways you can
redeem points etc.) of the Boarding Pass program. Can someone
direct me to one, or be so kind as to take a soon-to-be local who
has never played at a Station before under their wing and explain a
few things? Feel free to email me offline. Thanks!
> Originally I signed up at Green Valley but requested to have Texas
become my
> 'home' casino and since I play there most, have had no trouble
maintaining
> that relationship.
>
> Karen