MyVegas news

[dewey089]

Okay. The Station calendars have been extended sooner than expected. I booked Palace Station in September and Red Rock in November. I expect the nights will go quickly, so act fast. There were some nights that I could not reach, but actually the Red Rock was expensive enough to eat up most of my points anyway. 150,000 for a midweek night compared to the 15,000 I put out for a weekend night at Excalibur. All in all I've now booked 5 Station nights and 2 Excalibur nights for the two trips I'm planning. Pretty nice. Use this number and they can tell you what is available where so you can buy the rewards and call back to book. 844-266-0048 Have a credit card ready and your player's card as well although it ended up on one booking that they could see that number once they pulled me up. I don't think the weekend deals are very good. We still pay resort fee on the 50% deals and at Palace Station weekend nights would have cost me $78 each. I can book at that rate without using Rewards points. But the midweek nights were free of resort fee. They were literally "free" instead of bait and switch free. Amazing! Okay. Good luck.

[SteveBourieOLD]

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How long does it take to earn enough rewards for a free room? I tried playing on that MyVegas site once and it took me a few hours and I think I only earned enough points for a two-for-one ice cream cone, or something like that. I gave up after that because it seemed to take forever to earn enough points for something good, unless you paid to buy some more points.

[dewey089]

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For folks who really like playing slots, it is a no brainer as it is fun and they get rewards. After all, the argument for slots has always been that it was entertaining. Well, if it is, here is free entertainment.
For folks like me who don't really like slots, it could be time consuming. But I don't spend very much time playing. I spent more time collecting chips. And I spend time sending them to my Facebook friends so they can play.


Sadly, the cost of rewards is up and the ease of getting them is down. I probably won't look for free Mlife rooms again because it took so long to book them. One night at Excalibur took an hour and a half. Another took 4 and a half hours. I was on hold, doing other things, but it was terrible. I was hung up on three times and finally called back and chose the operator booking Aria rooms (there are none offered) and she was both not busy and willing to figure out how to book Excalibur.
So, my strategy for next time will be to buy an Mlife room and then take the buffets for the LP points.

Stations is an entirely different story. I got 3 free weekend nights in a row at Palace Station and then 2 at Red Rock WITH NO RESORT FEE for my trips in September and November. Fewer and fewer "free" rooms now come with no resort fees. It was relatively easy. However, it did cost a good bit of LP points. My Excalibur was 15,000. Red Rock was 150,000.

I don't play much. I just collect chips. I'm networked with other players, so I get the daily chips and then chips from them and let them build up until I have a million chips and then I play for a short while at 40,000 a pop, moving from level to level and gathering enough LP's to buy things.
Sometimes, about when I am losing at 40,000, I dip to 1,000 for a short while and find that I hit more jackpots. I only play one game, the Lucky birds. At 1000, I may put it in a small window in the corner of my computer screen, load a new session and do other computer things while I am "playing" Or I put up 500 spins on the counter and let it run while I cook supper. When I see the eggs come or a jackpot, I give it a few seconds of attention to get it rolling again, and then go back to grating the cauliflower and listening to some old radio comedy. Today it was "Lum and Abner" Lum and Abner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Then there are those days/nights when I am too sick to cook or fish or watch TV and I just sit and let the little birds spin for some diversion.

Also, I go maybe twice a year to Vegas. So the rest of the time I can just gather chips and play. Sometimes on the daily spin I hit LP's . . I think of gathering chips as playing and always winning. Every time I go on computer during the day, I load up my map and collect chips.

One winter I played for me and my wife. When we got to Vegas, in 3 days (no rooms) we cashed $700 worth of value in tickets: O, Zumanity and buffets at Aria. The next year going solo I booked Monte Caro/Mandalay Bay? and Monte Carlo again and covered one weekend of the trip. Weekends are the most expensive to cover and rarely comped at my low level frugal play. that trip on frugal low rolling, I averaged $9.13 a night for a 23 night stay in Vegas. MyVegas helped me do that.

This next trip in September after booking two free MyVegas nights at Red Rock (with a heated pool in November) I rented a car (very rare for me) and it was a better value to rent for a week, so I added in 3 nights in Laughlin and plan a ride to Oatman, Choride and Hoover Dam. Sometimes the freebies just prime the pump for an alternative adventure. Red Rock is pretty expensive and then the resort fee is $28. Free is nice. They don't comp easily at my level of play, so I'll just enjoy the location and pump my play for comps into the D and the Four Queens, Orleans, and maybe soon the Palace Station.

I wanted to go to Palace station anyway because I am scaling back my level of gambling and can play full pay 10/7 DB for dimes there with little to no risk of ruin. I want to see if that would get me any mailed offers. They also have a poker room with 2-4-6 limit and a spread limit game. I'll love it there.

I won't probably play at Red Rock. I'll be at the canyon for 3 days hiking, then in the pool, at the buffet.

In my 20 plus day trips I need to have times for places when I don't need to gamble to keep up getting comps at the places I do gamble. That is what MyVegas gives me.

However, I suspect that the ease of booking Stations will dry up too over the next year. No freebies stay long. Something erodes them. Here the Mlife decision to limit rewards to only one day per trip will drive folks to consider Stations casinos where they can book 3 to 5 days in a row using LP's with half off weekends.
Hopping in to MyVegas while it is still a value is the best bet.

I pay the resort fee at Excalibur for the "free" rooms, but I booked one weekend just before a cheap week.($22 and $22 resort fee) It was helpful. I like being on the strip in the late weekend night to play live poker with tourists rather than local rocks. My second weekend night was $70 plus resort fee. But I won't gamble that entire week except for live poker and except when the game is good. With any Mlife booking I can grab a couple Aria buffets using MyVegas points, so that helps defer the cost of the one weekend night. Then too, the location puts me on the WAX which gets me downtown or to the airport for a shuttle, so location for transportation is an advantage too.

[dewey089]

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So, here is a pragmatic update.
I "played" for about 20 minutes today.
I started with 450,000 playing chips
I played 40 grand a pull, went almost to a million and went up to the second level of puzzle pieces.
I usually never play beyond the second level, but I was close to a level up, so I ground out 1,000 at a time in the corner of my screen while I read my email and checked up on other computer interests.

I quit when I hit the next level up. I have currently 350,00 playing chips. However my LP went up almost 3,000/
Now, I'll wait for another day where there are two levels of puzzle to begin, and I have at least half a million chips. Easily, by the time I go in September I'll have plenty of LP's for buffets. Perhaps I'll have enough in November as well. I love the Aria buffet, so I'll concentrate on using my LP's for those buffets.

What is nice is that we play for free and don't have to worry about gambling in the place we book. To get Red Rock for free, even just for two nights, is just delightful.