Comments on: A Textbook Trip Report Part 2

By: Bob Dietz

Bob Dietz — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:28:42 +0000

Quick question. I know that in an old trip report, you mentioned the issue with sticky buttons at Cherokee. I was there about five years ago and noticed the same thing. The place was clean and nice except some of the vp buttons were sticking, which I found odd.

My question is whether you’ve run into that problem recently at all?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:02:12 +0000

Excited to hear the conclusion!! Thanks for detailing your strategy on CZR rewards. We are going to Las Vegas today. We haven’t booked at Caesars, but may stop in for 3 to 4 hours and work on our status. Or, we may just wait to go to Reno again in September where the best games are more plentiful.

By: Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:18:22 +0000

This combination of an over 99% game AND no drastic tier credit reduction is pretty rare at CET properties—in fact, it may be unique, since I’m given to understand that the Tahoe opportunity is no more. So the returns you find are going to be more like 98% and the tier credits severely penalized. Bottom line, you will BLEED to get that “comped” (ha, ha) room–unless, I guess, you’re playing in Georgia.
So the calculation you have to make is, what are the goodies really worth? It’s never face value, or at least it shouldn’t be. If you get a comped $400 per night room for the weekend, have you really gotten $800 worth of goodies? If you hadn’t gotten the goodies, would you have stayed across the street at $169 a night? If so, you really only got about $400 worth of actual goodies.
The worst scenario of all is if those dangling goodies entice you into making a trip you wouldn’t have made at all otherwise. If the HopaSkipaJumpa tribe in Dirt Flats, Oklahoma sends you an invite for two free room nights, what’s that worth if you have no other reason to go there? ZEEEEEERO! And you had to lose money to get that offer.