The Amazing Deals And Comps I Have Lined Up For My Late September Trip

* Two Nights Free at the Mirage  Thursday & Friday
* One Night for $69 at the Mirage Wednesday

* Two Nights at the Circa for $100 per night including taxes and resort fees. Monday and Tuesday

* BOGO Bellagio Buffet

* BOGO MGM Grand Buffet
* BOGO Entree Nine Fine Irishmen 

* BOGO Entree  Four Queens Magnolia's
* BOGO Entree Binion's Cafe 
* BOGO Sandwich Snacks @ The Mirage

* BOGO Gelato Cafe Gelato

* BOGO Cocktail Excaliber 

* Free Drink At The Still @ The Mirage 
* BOGO Cocktails Center Bar @ The Mirage

These are just my locked-in comps although I might sell the MGM Buffet back to My Vegas. I still have 230k LP points I can grab more comps with.  I have more coupons in My Four Queens fun book from my last trip. Also, my traveling companion will get a Four Queens and a Binion's BOGOs when she signs up for their slot clubs.  Who says there are no good deals in Vegas. 

Ah...but what kind of action did you have to give MGM, on what kind of games, to get those comps? A comped weekend room is a $250+/night perk.

The casinos have pretty much perfected the "comp them 20% of their losses" metric. So if you get $500 worth of room comps, they must expect you to drop $2500 while you're there.

Or have you managed to game the system? It would be important info if you had.

That's just it. I didn't give them any play. I spent about $120 on the My Vegas app over the course of three months. I could have gotten 2 weekend nights at the Bellagio if I wanted. Giving play to the casinos to get comps is for fools when you can get comps like these for putting nothing at risk.

Those two free nights at the Mirage we worth $499 at the time of booking according to MGM

So what exactly did you have to do to get that?

It doesnt take much to get free room offers.     Usually if you stay at a hotel and give them any kind of play you can get free (weeknight) rooms going forward.    The last time I stayed at the Mirage was 2010.   I gave them less than $100 of play and got free room offers from them for the next 5 years.    Bellagio is probably not that generous but most of the mid level casinos are in my experience.

I mostly stay in timeshare properties these days but I'll couple that with free room offers that come with food/play vouchers.   El Cortez, SLS, Stratosphere, Boulder Station and The D are my go-to's. 

Really if you just chase all the gaming coupons in the MRB you will get on plenty of radars and get offers.   

Kevin, 

Basically, you go to your phone's app store and download myVegas. Start playing their slots and you earn what they call LPs or loyalty points for time played. You redeem the loyalty points for comps at MGM properties. If you just play with the free coins they give you, the available comps they show you aren't going to be that good. Likely, you will get guaranteed room rates or 25% off room rates at MGM properties. You might get one-night free at the Excaliber or Luxor. However, if you spend just a little, your offers will improve. 

I spent around $120 in-app over the course of the last 3 months. My room offers are currently topped out at two free nights at the Bellagio or Aria but I can book any lower rung MGM casino.  For example, the Mirage and Mandalay Bay are considered the next tier down.  I booked the Mirage for 150k in loyalty points. Staying at the Bellagio for two nights would have been 225k in loyalty points.  Staying at the Excaliber for two nights would have been 30k.  Generally, the more expensive the property, the more loyalty points it is going to take to get the comp. Most weekdays are open for use of the comp and some weekends are as well. I was able to get a Friday night comped but not a Saturday. If I waited, I could have booked a full comped weekend (Fri & Sat) in Oct, Sept or Nov.  The weekend nights vary depending on how full the property expects to be and your level of play. For example, I could have redeemed a Fri and Sat night at Mandalay Bay that same weekend whereas I could only get a Fri night at the Mirage. 

You can use the comped rooms once every 30 days. Right now I have enough LPs left over to book the same trip over and never have to spend another penny on the game. So for about $120, I got around $1,500 worth of comps.  

You can also download the myKonami app and the Pop Slots app as all three apps share loyalty points. If you do all three, you can earn 3 times the loyalty points per day. I tend to stick with  MyVegas, but I play a little on the myKonami app too. In the myKonami app you can use your LPs for $25 in free play comps at various MGM properties.   It takes me roughly an hour of play a day to max out the daily LP cap on My Vegas.  Since I am the first one to arrive at work, I usually load up the app on my phone, pick a game and select auto spin so I don't have to mind my phone. It really is painless.  By the time everybody else comes in, I am maxed out for the day. 

Given how much cheaper it is to earn the comps in these games vs what it would take to get those offers with casino-play, it is a no-brainer. The last time I played at an MGM Casino was 10 years ago at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. I put $40 in a VP machine and cursed myself for playing the poor paytable games when I lost the $40 in 30 minutes and didn't even get a free drink out of it.  I haven't gambled at an MGM property since. (the exception being live poker tournaments)  It is kind of unbelievable they are showering me with free weekend rooms at their high-tier properties for playing their slot app. 

Hell, with airfares under $100 RT, and free weekend rooms at MGM properties, I can afford to go to Vegas 4-5 times a year. Since I work 4 10s with every Fri, Sat and Sun off, I won't even have to burn my vacation time.  

I guess the only thing that would worry me is that since you're spending money to get future comps, albeit in roundabout fashion, you can't be certain that you'll get these good deals in the future. Vegas casinos have a way of crushing their own good deals and leaving you holding the bag.

But for now, yeah, this looks pretty good.

That's a good point, that the myvegas program could go away at any time. I won't say that it has saved me money because I have to pay the resort fee on myvegas comped rooms, when I could have stayed somewhere else for $0. I have never bought chips so I am almost always limited to one night comped, which I rarely use my loyalty points on. Once I did have a 2 night comp available to me at Signature that we did use. We liked it. I don't remember what floor we were on but we were up pretty high. It was cool to have a balcony but I'll admit I got a little weak in the knees the first time I stepped out there near the rail.

For food, show and free/match play, with only 2 weeks to accumulate, is LVA the best option?  I don't see a listing of players card sign up bonuses. Does that exist?