Free Cosmo room...

I booked mine for 1/19 staying two nights. It's funny that date was available. I tried using a legitimate offer at Suncoast and they had the date blacked out.

In case you haven't stayed at Cosmo before, on the LVA offer you DO have to pay resort fee of $25 a day on free room. Additionally, the incidental hold on credit card at check-in is $150 per day--which is steep, IMHO. Resort fee gets you fitness center access, tennis court access, wi-fi & local/long distance phone calls.

Additionally, the hotel does not allow coolers unless it is for special dietary or medical needs--clear with front desk or call ahead. It also says no outside food or drink but I imagine that could be easily circumvented.

Everyone who has read any of my posts about the rip off "resort fees" knows where I stand. As for this "free room offer" from the Cosmo is concerned, if I wanted to take them up on the offer - I would not. They say it is a "free room", well free means just that to me. This offer really isn't "free", it is just discounted. That's all it is. I miss the real "free room offer" from the Stardust- now that was really free. And of course, there all those of you who will say I am an idiot for refusing this offer- well, so be it. Just don't lie to me and tell me that I am getting a "free room" when, in reality, the room is not without cost. To those of you who avail yourselves of this highly discounted room offer, I do hope you have a great time. Merry Christmas.

I played for about two hours there last year at Christmas with the $100 loss/free play included in that. I have been receiving free room offers ever since (a whiff of desperation on their part). Those rooms are really free, with no resort fee--if you ever want to stay there. Just drop by and run a few bucks through the machines and wait for the offers.

Amen Doc,exactly what I was thinking.It reminds me of the commercials that state they will double your order for free,just pay separate processing charges.

I just stayed at the Cosmo for the first time using the LVA offer and regret it. I appreciate getting a $28 room rate but didn't like the casino as they commit the unforgivable sin of having bad gambling odds. Garbage VP and 6/5 blackjack with a $25 min. Even Hooters has 3-2 single deck for $10. They're also in a bad location, surrounded by other MGM properties and with no access to the monorail it's very hard to find better odds or lineshop sports bets. Non gamblers might like the hotel but for me it was too much of a gilded cage.

What prevented you from knowing all these "terrible" things about Cosmopolitan before you booked the room there?

You didn't know where Cosmopolitan was located? Seriously?

You didn't know what gambling odds or minimums to expect at a high-class, mid-strip casino? Really?

You didn't know that fancy Cosmpolitan isn't looking for the same gamblers that downmarket Hooters is?

You didn't know that MGM sports books were next door at both Aria and Bellagio, or that CET's line was available across the street at Planet Hollywood?

How could a LVA subscriber seem this ill-informed about Cosmopolitan, let alone seem this ungrateful for such a terrific bargain? It's like you booked a trip to a Maui and were shocked to have to put up with a lot of sun, sand, and surfers.

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12/26/13 6:36 PM

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Originally posted by: guynoire
I just stayed at the Cosmo for the first time using the LVA offer and regret it. I appreciate getting a $28 room rate but didn't like the casino as they commit the unforgivable sin of having bad gambling odds. Garbage VP and 6/5 blackjack with a $25 min. Even Hooters has 3-2 single deck for $10. They're also in a bad location, surrounded by other MGM properties and with no access to the monorail it's very hard to find better odds or lineshop sports bets. Non gamblers might like the hotel but for me it was too much of a gilded cage.

What prevented you from knowing all these "terrible" things about Cosmopolitan before you booked the room there?

You didn't know where Cosmopolitan was located? Seriously?

You didn't know what gambling odds or minimums to expect at a high-class, mid-strip casino? Really?

You didn't know that fancy Cosmpolitan isn't looking for the same gamblers that downmarket Hooters is?

You didn't know that MGM sports books were next door at both Aria and Bellagio, or that CET's line was available across the street at Planet Hollywood?

How could a LVA subscriber seem this ill-informed about Cosmopolitan, let alone seem this ungrateful for such a terrific bargain? It's like you booked a trip to a Maui and were shocked to have to put up with a lot of sun, sand, and surfers.

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"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
- Abraham Lincoln, Liar, 1861------------ DRMilled----Now does anyone have any questions after reading this rant by this know-it-all blowhard Chilcoot why I despise him as I do? He is a real piece of work.

Chilcoot, point taken but a bit heavy handed.

drmilled doesn't like things being called free when they are in fact $28 (I am with him on that one)
guynoire doesn't like the place. Everyone has a different agenda and tastes. At least his stay didn't cost him much!

Great offer LVA! I wish I could have used it.

Definitely heavy-handed.

But sheesh, it's inexcusable for an LVA subscriber and a participant in these forums to find onesself at a casino so unaware of its fundamental nature.

LVA does something really nice for us, gets us a great rate on a Cosmo room, and someone crabs about it. And all the crabbing was due to his own failure to know what Cosmo's like and whether it would be for him.

But if it finally got drmilled to finally put me on ignore after years of saying he'd do so, it'll cut his posts by about 95%, so everybody wins!