RE: Las Vegas on the Cheap
I did two Vegas trips in the last year and have some interesting intel based on some things that were discussed earlier in this thread.
Firstly, after reading and writing about the awards programs, I decided to double down on that strategy and really focus all my gambling and purchases on the casinos where I wanted to build up my points. So I decided that the Cosmopolitain Identity program gave good award and I wanted to get free nights at Caesar's. During that trip I made sure I spent a lot of time gambling in Caesar's Palace. When you are gambling they calculate how much you are betting by guessing your average bet and multiplying it by how long you play. guessing the number of hands/spins per hour. I play roulette a lot and the average bet is usually around $25 so if I play for a couple of hours I get decent points.
First Trip: Stayed at Encore & Cosmopolitan hotel. Used my points from previous trips to get 2 free nights at Cosmo and good room rates at the Encore. Then when I was gambling in the Wynn/Encore I asked the pit boss about comps so he looked at how much I was betting and he told me to make sure I charged everything to my room and then on my last day go to the Floor manager and ask for a comp. He said they would take off some of those charges. That turned out to be important, as you will see below.
I had some meetings on this trip so wasn't spending as much time going out as I would normally. One night I was checking out the bars in the lobby and at one point I ran across a tall 25yo blonde with a huge rack and a clingy silk shirt unbuttoned all the way to her waist with nothing on under. She was as close as you could be to naked as you could get and still be allowed to walk around. So when she approached me I said no thanks, I don't want to pay. So she says I just want to party, you don't have to pay. So I was like, OK let's get a drink. Sitting there in the bar, i notice a woman seated across just staring at her. I followed her eyes and see that one tit was completely uncovered for all the world to see, I help her cover that up and said let's go somewhere and she says she wants to come to my room and do stuff. I had a bottle of vodka on ice and some snacks and drinks. So I wasn't worried about raiding the minibar. But the combination of jetlag, some drinks and the big naked tit had made me leave my senses and think I could outscam the (probable) scammer. So she ends up in my room and wants to open a bottle of Veuve Cliquot from the minibar. I said no. And she is like you are cheap! I'm going to go out in the hallway and tell security you attacked me. So I said, OK, take it and go. So she pours a glass and goes out and walks down the hall with a bottle of champagne. Luckily it was only a half bottle, but it was still $70. That went on my room bill. At the end of my stay in the Encore I probably had $250-300 on my room bill and the woman managing the comps told me, OK I will comp you on all your room charges. So Encore covered my ass on the scheming bitch.
At one top club (which will remain nameless) I'm standing in line behind 4 guys when the bouncer lets them in, I stand there and wait and he says are you together? And one of the guys goes, yeah, come with us. So we go in and they turn out to have the biggest table right on the dance floor. One guy was paying and he must have spent $10,000 or more. Non-stop champagne, a full-bar on the table and club employees in charge of hunting down girls and bringing them to our table. When we sat down and talked he said, "you were alone and you looked sharp, so I said come with us". Never believe that dressing well doesn't pay off in spades. The most interesting girls at the table were a russian and a ukrainian and they were drinking hard and partying hard. I started making out with the Russian and she was grabbing my dick and stuff. But then she and her friend said they had to go to the bathroom and disappeared without coming back. After they left I bailed too. I didn't see many girls who looked like they were sticking around but maybe that worked itself out by the end of the night. Most of them just came to leech free drinks there was one group of 3 hotties that grabbed a drink then did their best to avoid talking to any of us. There was a group of girls at the table behind us and when I sat on the back of the sofa I was sitting next to this hardbody girl who told me it was her birthday. She was chatty so I tried to set her up with the guy who invited me in, but no go. She was about 28-30yo, at least a 9/10.
On the last day at the Cosmo, when I asked the pit boss about comps he sends me to talk to the floor manager in the VIP room of the casino. I was wearing a nice sport jacket so I was like, OK, let's see how this goes. But the guy was a real dick and said, if you want comps I need to see you playing $100/hand, plus you already have two free nights here, so I'm not going to give you anything. He said that with my level of play I would still get free room offers. So cosmo is much better than Wynn/Encore for room deals, but Wynn is much better for comps.
Second Trip: My focus on the Caesar's Palace awards program (Total Awards) worked. So by the time I planned the next trip, about four months later, I had 4 room nights comped in any of the Total Rewards program hotels (Planet Hollywood, Caesar's, etc) but when i used the online booking on their site it gave me six free nights. I booked 5 free nights at Caesar's because weekends weren't available. A night here is usually $250+ on weekdays and $350+ on weekends. This was a long trip so for the last few days I ended up staying somewhere else. I waited until the last minute to book because I was planning to use priceline. Not the name your price thing, but something similar where for the last minute deals they say, you get an unnamed 5* hotel on the NE Strip for $xxx. If you look at the hotels they have on the normal booking section and see what's still available at the last minute. You can figure out what the no name hotel is. I reserved a room at Planet Hollywood. Price was about 1/3 off when I did it. I think that hotel is a good mid-range deal. The crowd inside is young partiers, not full of site seers like Cosmopolitan/Caesar's and there are lots of restaurants, bars and even a live music place. For Planet Hollywood I got the deal from Priceline.
I met a guy while playing blackjack at Caesar's who told me that he gets flown out from Tennessee for free whenever he wants, free flights, rooms, food everything. He said, it's free, but believe me, you pay for it! Big guy probably 6'4", soft spoken, very friendly about 28-30. I don't know who he was but I just had a feeling he was a pro-football player. I felt like he was waiting for me to tell me I knew who he was.
At Caesar's there's a food court to the side of the gaming floors just before the passage to the big mall. That's a good cheap place to eat if you're solo and also to scope for pairs of girls.
Not much else to report on the Cheap Vegas Ideas except for I really avoided the clubs on the 2nd trip and tried the bars. Outside of the Omnia I picked up a Russian girl who was heading out of the hotel when I was walking in (I was staying there) and I took her to the bar. Having lived in EE for quite awhile I wasn't super impressed by her look, but a lot of people around were. When she went to the bathroom a working girl (I'm assuming) sitting next to us at the bar asked me if it was my wife. Also a young guy, about 21-23 tried to steal her off me. Just walked up to her when we were sitting at the bar drinking and said, I met you in LA last week, blah blah blah do you want to sit with me and my friends? She didn't want to talk to him or go with him but she told me she did meet him out one night in LA when she was there the week before. Later when I was going to order the 2nd drink she told me she was only 20yo and hoped they wouldn't ask her for her ID. I haven't had a girl tell me that since i was in college. She was leaving the next day so she hung around to talk and drink for awhile but wasn't down for anything. Still in contact with her, so maybe on some other trip west we'll meet. I also found a bar with live music in Bally's hotel. The band was really good and the crowd was really fun. I think it's a good place to start the night. Especially for solo guys.
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2018 12:27 PM by JohnQPublic.)
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