New tier match = $300 food comps + $100 spa comp + cruise offer.

If you are Caesars Diamond or even a lowly Platinum, they temporarily match to Wynn Platinum, which gets you a $150 food comp and a $100 spa comp. [Edited because of a big omission on my part: The Wynn comps are only available on your birth month. Sorry about that!] And if you stayed at Wynn twice in 2023 or will in 2024, it includes a Holland America cruise anywhere they sail, probably up to 11 days, for just the port fees and taxes. Booking two separate one-day stays a day apart at the Wynn will qualify.

Then you take your Wynn Platinum to the Fontainebleau and get matched to Gold. That gets you another $150 food comp. They also offer a $100 spa comp, but you must be staying in the hotel.

MGM Gold and Stations President among others also qualify in various combinations, but it isn't too often that a Caesars Platinum holder gets much of anything.

https://www.wynnlasvegas.com/wynn-rewards/tier-upgrade

https://www.fontainebleaulasvegas.com/rewards/tierupgrade/

To be fair, a $150 food comp at Wynn gets you a cheeseburger--without fries. And about 60% of the final retail cost of a cruise is port fees and taxes. And I don't even want to think about what it costs to stay at the Wynn in order to get that goody.

Also, does reaching Wynn Platinum, FountainBlah Platinum, etc., by whatever means, entitle you to a free room? Because up until recently, that was the primary reason to make CET Diamond level.

I dunno. I play a few hours of VP at the 4Q and they send me room offers that I can even use on weekends. And I can actually gamble and eat there without breaking the bank. Wynn...not so much.

Kevin, like clockwork.

First, we had a very nice meal for two at Sinatra at the Wynn (or Encore?) for $150, so I'm not sure where you are buying your cheeseburgers. I like Allegro too, and we could probably get a meal for four out of it if we go for the cheap wine. And the port fees and taxes for two on my upcoming 11-day Holland America cruise are $416 for two, quite a bit less than 60% of the final retail cost of the cruise. 

And I've been Diamond at Caesars for years and never gotten a free room, probably because I never play there. I frequently get offers for $10 midweek room rates at Harrahs and $35 rates at Caesars, including all taxes and the (waived) resort fee. But mostly what I get are the result of tier matches, to places like MGM (no longer available), Hard Rock (no longer great), Wynn, and Fontainebleau, or directly with cruise lines. By the end of the year, I will have taken my sixth, seventh, and eighth cruises courtesy of casino matches in the past three years. and this year alone we will have also visited the Wynn and Fontainebleu for our $600 in food comps and $200 in spa comps - plus more goodies at the AC Hard Rock and the Ocean Resort in Atlantic City.

But Kevin, have a great time at Arizona Charlies!!!!*

Wynn Platinum is the next to highest tier, excellent benefits including room, and even more benefits month of your birthday. 

Two years ago they matched Caesars Platinum (or MGM Plat...memory fails) to Wynn Plat, which I already was at Wynn.  But my friend was Caesars Elite (or whatever the highest Caesars was) which matched to Wynn Black, their highest tier.  Friend didn't know about the match until I told her, upon which she signed up and automatically became Wynn Black for the rest of that year plus the whole next year. 

Like all of them, the higher your tier, the higher the multiplier of your play, a bit of help in sustaining the tier through the current year. 

And, Kevin, yes, room is included. And $150 will get you at least two good breakfasts, some in Red 8, etc.  Depends on how much alcohol, etc.  

Candy

Hell Yeah, MP!  Enjoy the cruises!  Good for you.  

Look, I get it. In order to feel maximally happy about all these goodies, you have to a) value them at full retail, and b) ignore/discount whatever blood you had to shed to get into position to get them. I'm glad to hear that you feel you're putting one over on them and that somehow, you're continuing to get free-ish cruises without giving them any money in return. Who knows? Anything's possible.

I know that the tier matching thing is a calculated gamble on their part, that you may turn out to be the typical money-flinger who, let's be frank, patronizes Wynn, etc., has lotsa credit cards, and goes on cruises. Those people also happily play $50 6:5 blackjack. The game is to fool them into thinking you're just another free-spending idiot. Hell, Jean Scott's Frugal Gambler approach has been all about that for decades.

And while they don't carry me around on a sedan chair and feed me grapes, there are still three casinos that send me regular room offers, even though I'm not worth a dime to them. So it's all about beating the game, at whatever level. And I exaggerated--you generally can get fries and a coke with your Wynnburger for $150.

Kevin, I do NOT "value them [comps] at full retail." I live simply and wouldn't spend more than $75 for a Wynn $150 meal. But it IS worth $75. And I value spa comps at $0 but my wife likes them. And my 11-day cruise visiting Norway, Iceland, and Greenland, including about 30 pretty nice restaurant meals, is pretty easy to value at several multiples of the $416 I'm actually paying. 

And as far as the "blood" I had to shed, as you put it: To get Caesars Diamond I had to get a Wyndham Business credit card and pay a whole $95 per year. And since they now give me an extra $20 monthly free bet when I wager $100 at the online sportsbook, my EV pays for that. And to qualify for that card all I had to do for a few years was set my mortgage, auto, and credit card payments to autopay every month, and have enough money in the bank to cover them. So much for "blood," huh?

So Kevin, while enjoying Copenhagen or Reykjavik, I'm sure you'll be having a swell time at the Four Queens. And heck, who doesn't love Magnolias?

I used to be a much higher roller, and yes, the incredulity of my friends at all the stuff I got is something I remember well. They thought I must have been getting my ass kicked to get all those goodies.

I guess I just find it hard to believe that they'd toss you such blatantly +EV opportunities. I guess it's as I said--they haven't found out yet that you're not a money-spewing nutball.

Kevin is not a happy man.  

You aren't qualified, entitled, or knowledgeable enough to offer that opinion.