Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2015

duchy

rorylando45 wrote: »

All booked at the Flamingo now. It's working out £298.33 each and that is the 7 of us spread across 4 rooms, all GO Deluxe rooms and including all taxes and resort fees. For 7 nights in May I'm very happy with that price. Could've got it cheaper if we went with a FAB room but I've heard they're nowhere near as nice (I've only ever stayed in a GO room so hard to compare).

The $20 trick at the Flamingo got my Go room upgraded to a Go room with view -and the Bellagio fountain looked mighty fine from there ! (the better Go rooms also have a fridge but we found over several stays at the Flamingo that the non view rooms tended not to have one)

duchy

BTW

Finally booked -will be back in Vegas 2nd to the 5th or 6th Sept
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StuieUK34

My Mlife stuff, and it still took some agro to get some stuff waived! (excluding Monte Carlo). To get pearl status will require more than a $1k spend..... I got Pearl just as leaving Luxor.... I had $30 in express comps from last year, so only made up $40 in my 11 nights......

nvh

StuieUK34 wrote: »

My Mlife stuff, and it still took some agro to get some stuff waived! (excluding Monte Carlo). To get pearl status will require more than a $1k spend..... I got Pearl just as leaving Luxor.... I had $30 in express comps from last year, so only made up $40 in my 11 nights......

WOAH! I hope those estimates are way off, else that's a lot of money to lose chasing comps / status

(... unless you would've already sunk that much anyways - appreciate some people have more disposable income than others - I know you were keen to try and get a host for comp'd rooms etc though)

PS - I can't figure out what bobbyhibs means in reference to the $1k spend. IF he means he walks in with a gambling budget of $1k, and that's the most he can lose then reaching Pearl is still possible but will rely on luck and how long that bankroll can be sustained for

edit: apologies incidently, the above probably sounds way more critical than I intended it to be!

duchy

A day trip to Gothenburg at the end of August ....and a side trip to the USA

STN GOT with good old Ryanair £27 Day in Gothenburg which will be fun as I've never visited there before- Looks nice with the canals and harbour.
Full day there then hop on the late BA flight to Heathrow - night in a hotel with OH -collect my case from him -and then AA to Chicago with a connection to Santa Ana -a stone's throw from Disneyland -but skipping it this time and will settle for a pool day before flying to Idaho to visit friends (Delta cost $5 tax plus 12.5k miles - far better than the ridiculous $500 for the one way fare). I'd forgotten Delta miles never expire so made Idaho a nice extra stop for almost nothing.

From Idaho driving to Utah and attending a concert with friends then driving onto Vegas. Just about decided on the Monte Carlo-a free night from My Vegas and paying for the other two -I could have made it four nights but it Labor day weekend and I decided to skip it and fly on to Ontario CA for a night (Southwest) before flying home via Dallas with AA .

Eurofare with all taxes GOT LHR ORD SNA X ONT DFW LHR OSL with taxes £270 !!

The rest of the hotels I'll use Hotwire for as they are one night stops.

Not your usual fly to Vegas and stay there trip but I like to see a bit more when I can.

bobbyhibs

nvh wrote: »

PS - I can't figure out what bobbyhibs means in reference to the $1k spend. IF he means he walks in with a gambling budget of $1k, and that's the most he can lose then reaching Pearl is still possible but will rely on luck and how long that bankroll can be sustained for

edit: apologies incidently, the above probably sounds way more critical than I intended it to be!

HI
and No worries
I was asking StuieUK34 in regards his comps and i told him i think i was in pearl status,I had said i think i LOST about a $1000 this trip,
I checked the Mlife page and it looks like i was close and lost $848

PropertyEstimated Slot Win/(Loss)Estimated Table Games Win/(Loss)Total Estimated Win/(Loss)Bellagio$0.00$0.00$0.00ARIA$0.00$0.00$0.00MGM Grand Las Vegas($307.61)($446.00)($753.61)Mandalay Bay$0.00$0.00$0.00Delano Las Vegas$0.00$0.00$0.00The Mirage$0.00$0.00$0.00Monte Carlo($20.01)$0.00($20.01)New York - New York($5.00)($30.00)($35.00)Luxor$0.00$0.00$0.00Excalibur($19.90)($20.00)($39.90) Estimated Win/(Loss)($352.52)($496.00)($848.52)

(sorry tried to get it like stuie34 did and failed!!)

bobbyhibs

sorry about the above post was trying to get it to show like stuie34's post


Account Summary

• EXPRESS COMPS™$35.05
• POINTPlay®$11.29
• FREEPLAY®$0.00
• HGS POINTS1,155

Current tier level:Pearl

You need48,498Credits to advance to Gold




As you can tell by my lousy attempt to copy and page has gone wrong!

stuie34 what a bad run you had sir, was it worth it?
Being quite tight with my money. i did have like $600 left going home(was gonna try get duty free but thats another story)

can someone explain to me what the express comps, pointplay, freeplay and the hgs points mean?
i can sorta guess the freeplay, but with the other , is there like a figure that when you reach that figure you get something.if so what? and and IF a figure is in play what is it?
many thanx

duchy

If you don't have massive amounts to gamble then it usually pays to try to keep your gambling to one group of casinos (eg MGM) rather than diluting the coin in.

bubble113

I have a restaurant.com question....I haven't used them for a while so have logged into my account and I have a few that I purchased a while ago and gives me the option to exchange certificate. Does this mean that the restaurant no longer accepts r.com vouchers?
There is Casa Di Amore, Stripburger, Slice of Vegas (which is the one I want to use) and a few others.
Thank you.

StuieUK34

fair enough, seems odd to make Pearl unless u spend lots....
Mlife did say u earn more in points from buying stuff in there shops, booking direct with the hotel, etc etc

Remember, I got my host in Monte Carlo which is cool
Also, I took out $3.5k , spent just short of $1k on clothes/gifts for myself, $700 on my kitty stuff (as in food/drinks kitty, not Hello Kitty! ) $200 on car upgrades.. I blew $300 in 5 mins when checking out of the MC, spent $150 in the airport on duty free, and came back with $1685

I ask how they do the points/profit/loss, etc etc on the tables, then I figured a way to make me look like I spend more than I do