Hotel

Quote: Doc

If you really don't care at all about what your room is like and want to save money, then I guess that an average total nightly rate of under $5.05 has to be pretty attractive to you. On the other hand, if you can actually get the Wynn for $20/night total, it seems like a deal you shouldn't pass up. Consider it a splurge on a bit of luxury. If a rate of $20 strikes you as too steep a tariff, then maybe you shouldn't be going to Vegas at all. That amount seems likely to just get lost in the financial noise of everything else that is going on, even if you behave like a puritan. More so if you expect to gamble and live a little while you are there.

I tend to agree. $120 for 6 nights at the Wynn or $30 for 6 nights at the IP. I'm a cheapskate too, so I'd be tempted to have the extra $90 to spend elsewhere. But considering the amount of nights you are talking about, I'd probably "spring" for the extra $90 expense to stay at the Wynn.

Quote: ruascott

... I'd be tempted to have the extra $90 to spend elsewhere.

I can see that part of it, too: you could stay at the IP, place one $5 pass bet at the crap table each day (with double odds) and feel like a high roller. You might even win and get to play another hand. Nah, a $90 bankroll (or bankroll increase) for six days just doesn't sound like a big enough deal to warrant the downgrade in accommodations.

Quote: Doc

...then maybe you shouldn't be going to Vegas at all.

Valid point. I could have a $2K bankroll, but start to sweat the losses when I lose as little as $50.

But that's why I tend to come home ahead, or down very little.

The wife, on the other hand, has no trouble playing the one machine that always pays. You know. The ATM.

If she were coming with me, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Heck, she could probably get free rooms at Rio or Paris instead.

Me? I really don't care. I just need a bed.

Plus, since I probably will play a good deal whereever it is I stay, it makes sense to play where it might actually count.


If I'm gonna spend money on something that I or the wife thinks is extravagant, I'll get a rental car - which I think I AM going to do.

The fee includes internet access which is worth about $15 in and of itself.

But honestly, I'm sure you could get the fee waived if the room is comped.

See if your boss could also set you up with some F&B. His level of play could warrant that.

Yeah, I've always gotten my room comped and never paid a resort fee - including as recently as last weekend.