Just back from 2 days in Vegas with Mom. Stayed at Caesars on $300
freebie. They'd said I'd get Augustus room when I'd made reservation.
When I arrived, they gave me Palace. Other unexpected downgrade was
that concierge wouldn't print boarding passes without $5 charge. I like
the Diamond Lounge, but food sort of mediocre, maybe I didn't hit it at
right time for a proper meal. It was open 9a-10p during weekend, 4p-?
on Mon.
The City: too hot.
Played at the $ Bonus Poker machines at Paris on Sun to avoid stiffing
The Corp. They gave roughly 3:1 bonus reward credits. After 100 base
credits ($1K coin in), promo gave us "win finders." (Special case for
Ballys/Paris, get 100 base between them, and you get win finder from
each.) 2 of our 4 went off, and paid $100 + $50 in comps added to my
Total Reward account. Mom hit quad fours for $200 on VP, best hand.
We finished down $160. The win finder promo included some free music
downloads, which I haven't figured out yet.
Harrahs Diamond Lounge under construction. Small food selection, but
great crab soup.
Mom was new Wynn sign-up, so we got free buffets after 100 points
($1K coin in). I still say the buffet is great. Sun brunch opened at 8am
with little line. Likewise for Mon breakfast when we went around 10am.
After Mom hit her 100, we played together on my account at rate of
~500pts/hour. 1500pts enough for the 2nd two buffets on Mon morn.
Those comps were use-it-or-lose-it after 72 hours. For hitting my first
500pts on my own account, got 2 more buffets coming, that they said
are good for a year.
So in summary: 1st 2 buffets after 100pts. Another 2 after 500pts.
That's a special promo; otherwise, 2 meals for 1500 pts. Each 500pts is
$10 free play. I think that makes the play ~99.7%? Worth it for the food
and atmosphere; I'm hoping for some sort of Dec offer. Lost about $400.
Circus Circus is a zoo. We played $ NSUD+ for about 4 hours over 2
days. I'd thought I was establishing myself for future offers/stays at
Circus, but turns out even the meager $30+ comps I earned vanish after
72 hours. And seeing the place so packed with families, I wonder if they
market to my kind. So it was all a bust for that plan, but I hit quad
Deuces twice and Mom hit them once ($1K each). Walked away with
~$2.3K profit. They gave us each $5 free play for our email. Also, we
each played the "$15 for $10" blackjack promotion, which is ligit worth
about those $5.
Finished up at Hooters. Started with quarter loose deuces. But they had
a promo for a stuffed Hooters owl for 900 pts ($2700 coin-in) and I
wanted it for a friend's baby, and we didn't have time to earn that at
quarters. So switched to NSUD at dollars and did the pts in 40 min or so
(+$56 too). They give $5 cashback for 500 pts, which I think makes
NSUD just about even. Hope they don't change, that's where I'll take my
play next time.
Including $300 cash from Caesars for coming, $56 bounce back from
play back when Caesars was good, we were ahead $2100 for trip when
we left. No crowd or fuss at airport on a Monday afternoon.
Stuart (RandomStu)
http://home.comcast.net/~sresnick2/fungames.htm