Downtown Grand coupon

I tried using the no resort fee coupon today.    I camped booking direct without coupon and they're was an $11 price difference.   Frustrated as this is why I bought the book.  What's three point of getting no resort fees only to have them increase the price

Sometimes the hotel will be running a different deal that ends up being a better rate than the discount with the book. Sometimes the book is cheaper. 

Different coupons, promotions, sales etc will result in different prices.

How many nights are you trying to book?

You should still be able to find plenty of value in the book. Using the match play coupons downtown should easily pay for the book. 

     I agree 100%. 

Trying to book 4 nights.   Figure the match play will all I'll use as many of the dining options are but one get one free and I typically go solo.    I'll pass the book onto someone else and hopefully they can use it.  

Check the print on the back of the coupons and maybe even ask the dining venues.....as they made just discount it 50% off since you are by yourself.  Worth asking about. 

Unless you lose 3 of the big matchplays. I encountered different rulings on Black Jack. I was dealt 9-9 by using the 50 dollar coupon. They let me match for additional 100 once and it gave me another 9, so I but another c-bill out of my pocket. Dealer had a 6 showing. I ended with 3 weak hands and the dealer made 20.  It was impossible for me to recover that loss even by playing most of the other coupons that I found in the booklet.

I have to admit that I've had better years also. One time I won each and every match play in downtown, and it went fast because I could do it early in the morning midweek. That was a crazy run of good luck and I enjoyed it. 

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I recommended a simply way to use a $50 match play coupon and get a near-certain return of $24, which is very close to its mathematical value, with zero risk. For some reason, that freaked out a couple of people, and they popped like overripe zits and started attacking me. But I want to avoid precisely what happened to you, so I always "launder" my matchplays this way.

$75 on the Don't Pass. $50 and the coupon on the Pass Line. $1 on 12 to reduce the loss if a comeout 12 is rolled. You win $24 no matter what, unless that 12 is rolled, in which case you'll have a net loss of $20. You can bet $2 on the $12, and you'll win $23 most of the time and $10 if a 12 is rolled.

You can do a downtown coupon run and get roughly $60 in value from matchplays and free play. Would take you a couple of hours, so...worth doing. And when I have a dining twofer, I always ask if I can get half off. I'm rarely refused. Though I have also just shrugged, ordered two meals, making sure one was a sandwich or something that would keep, and taken that back to my room to enjoy later.

Yes, the Downtown coupons are great. Four Queens and Binions will always give you half off a dining coupon if you ask.  

that's correct. The downtown coupon run is fantastic, especially because the casinos are all in reach.  I will do my run in September before heading for Mesquite. Of course I want to find out first what hotel offers free parking because I'm not going to pay 14 dollars for 2 hours .