Hello All,

Has anyone been to Vegas or has anyone else heard of the free hotel rumour? A load of peeps have told me that if you gamble in certain hotel casinos you can blag free/cheaper rate rooms. Does anyone know if this is the case? I’m wanting to go next month for my birthday but unsure as to whether to book a flight/hotel package here or just flights?

Any help’d be appreciated

 

That is the case.

But im told you would have to be gambling a far amount of money for them to keep you for free.

If your going to vegas, purely to gamble, then its deffo an option, but if your going for the novelty value, to see the area, i dont think it would be benificial.

All that coming from word of mouth mind.

 

Yes, it is true.

One of my friends is a professional poker player, and has been staying in the Bellagio for the past two months......... although he does gamble at a very high level, and that is the thing. Gambling a few hundred dollars and the best you're likely to get is comped munch/drinks etc

Getting "comped" in Vegas is the key to any trip out there, and getting rooms is all about the blag. Not very easy to do, especially in any of the decent places, as they aren't short of medium to high rollers at the proper places. I would never chance not pre-booking if it's just going to be non-gambling holiday.

As one site says:

How to Get a Comped Hotel Room in Las Vegas
Where: Las Vegas, NV, United States
Mon Jul 31, 2006 at 10:54:39 AM EST
Tags: Tips, Vegas Hotels, Room Comps


In the City Of Compin', Las Vegas, comps are a hotel casino standard. These are freebies that the casino gives you in return for spending money playing the games at their casinos. So if you're spending a considerable amount of time gambling, you are going to get some comps thrown your way. These could be food and beverage comps (usually for the breakfast buffet) or even a comp for something at the hotel gift shop or show tickets.

Yet who cares about a buffet comp when what would really make your trip is having your room tab picked up by the casino. So how do you do that? Well, we talked to some casino folks out in Vegas to try answer that very question. Needless to say, in order to have a shot at a coveted comp you will need to drop some coin at the tables. Here are the top five ways to get yo'self a Vegas room on the house:

·Ask for things
That's the key: Ask for things. Casinos are never going to just give you free stuff (aside from that breakfast buffet comp) so you need to ask for what you can get in exchange for dropping your life savings at the casino. (It also doesn't hurt to tip the pit boss.)

·Join the casino players club
If you are a regular visitor to Vegas (or any casino for that matter), it pays to sign up for the casino's players club or players reward club. In fact, in order to even get a room comp or other types of comps you must first be a "rated player." This means you sign up for the players club, and are given a card which keeps track of how much money you are gambling, at either the tables or the slots.

If you plan a trip to Vegas to do some medium to heavy gambling, the hotel rooms and amenities should probably not be the first thing that you are concerned with. You should be concerned with which players club gets you the most rewards. And if you spend all your time gambling in that casino, you can get your room tab discounted or even comped.

Just ask to have your bill evaluated when you check-out. If you have spent a considerable amount of time gambling, at least a few hours each day of your stay, the hotel will be able to knock off some charges on your bill.

·Gamble Big
We are talking big money in one sitting like betting more than $5,000 in less than a few hours. Playing the slots will often take much more than that. Different casinos have different minimum bets and time requirements involved in the comp equation. It's also important to gamble big when the pit boss is looking and less when he's not. Yet even when you're on a winning streak, looking like a loser (ie stashing some chips) can always earn you some pity comps.

·Charge everything to your hotel room
Dinners, shopping, drinks, it all adds up. You can't avoid having to spend quality time at a high limit table to earn a comp, but charging anything and everything you can to your hotel room certainly doesn't hurt your chances for ending up comped.

·Spend all you money in the casino where you are staying
The folks in charge of comp giving are more likely to hand you freebies when they see that you've kept a lot of business in the hotel.

We break down six comp strategies at six casinos post jump.

VENETIAN
Table Games: $100 a hand for at least five hours to get room comp or casino rate. Casino rate varies from day to day depending on level of business.

Slots: Vary from slot to slot but every 100 points you earn equals $10 cash back.

Rewards Program: Venetian Players Club

Our tip: The Casino Host is the only person who can make a room comp or casino rate happen. So get to know him/her well and ask for what kind of comp you can earn.

WYNN
Table Games: $75 average bet a hand for fours hours a day will earn you casino rate or other higher-end comps. $150 average bet for four hours is needed for the room comp.

Slots: 700 points a day for a casino rate of $159 (standard room) during the week or $239 on Friday and Saturday. 3,500 points a day on slots will get you a comped room. $3 equals one oint on the regular slot machines. $9 equals one point on the video poker machines.

Rewards Program: Red Card (which is also your room key.)

Our Tip: None of this information is listed on Wynn's fancy, flash-happy website so ask to speak with someone in Casino Marketing when you phone the hotel if you want to learn more about their rewards system.

BELLAGIO
Table Games: Must play at least four hours with considerable bets (most likely a $100 a hand) for casino rate of $149 during the week and $219 Friday and Saturday.

Slots: One dollar is equal to one point. Casino rates are offered for those who earn 1275 points.

Rewards Program: Players Club (which is available to the MGM properties, and several big strip hotels like Mandalay Bay and Excalibur will be joining this program come Fall.)

Our Tip: This place has a pretty tough room comp requirement and is probably something only high rollers blowing $20,000 in a few hours are entitled to.

MGM
Table Games: For a room comp, you need to average $100 a bet for four hours.

Slots: Averaging 3,500 to 4,000 per day of your stay will get you a room comp. $1.50 is equal to one point.

Rewards Program: Players club

Our Tip: Definitely speak with casino hosts upon checking out who are likely to at least comp some of your food and beverage when you gamble there. Remember, asking is the key to unlocking comps here.

PALMS
Table Games: Typically, four hours of $100 bets a hand can get you a room comp. Anything under that, try to ask for a casino rate.

Slots: $1 equals one point. 400 points will get you $1 in comp money to use at the hotel.

Rewards Program: Club Palms

Our Tip: Be a high-roller. Who cares if you will spend the rest of your life and your children's and grandchildren's totally destitute. High-rollers here get amazing treatment and access to some of the Palms' Fantasy Tower fun suites.

HARD ROCK
Table Games: Can only earn comp dollars here. There is no set formula but they tend to stick to the 4 Hours/$100 a hand that most casinos use has measurement of how comp worthy you are.

Slots: $20 equals one point. On the video slots, $40 equals one point. Ten points get you $1 cash.

Rewards Program: Back Stage Pass

Our Tip: Again, like the Palms be a high-roller to experience some of the premiere rooms and services at this notorious party hotel. If you can't be a high-roller, then its good to know that you comp dollars can be used at the spa, hair salon and retail shops, although the latter only give you 50 percent of your comp dollar worth. I.E. You have a $100 comp they will only see it as $50.

HOOTERS
Table Games: Finally, some respect here at Hooters for the hard-working man (or woman.) $25 a bet for four hours will get you a casino rate room. $100 a bet for four hours will get the comp.

Slots: 1,500 points a day for the casino rate rooms. 7,000 points for a room comp. One dollar equals one point.

Rewards Program: Club Orange

Our Tip: The hotel encourages you to spend money in the hotel if you are staying there and that will count towards your comp status. Although, there's only so many bad-tasting chicken wings we can handle.

 

i'm off to veags at the end of sept, we have booked our rooms etc

its possible to get a 'better' room by turning up un-announced, ie my friends went there for one night and managed to get a luxury suite in the luxor for $50 for 1 night, with jaccuzzi spas etc.

persoanlly i would book somewhere, flights vary massively but the hotel rates stay pretty level.

i hope you have booked your flights as they go up day by day.

my friends booked theirs at £412 each, and when it came to booking mine (1 week later) the price for the same flight rose to £600. they are £700+ now

looks awesome though, cant wait to go

 

flights are still around the £450 mark for Sept

you can get a package deal for about £550

 

Cheers all.

Rich, you are a EALTH of information lol. Ta

DB: I’ve found a fab one, staying at Circus Circus (Fear and Loathing lol) 470 all in for flights, leaving 6th back on the 12th. Just goes to show. We’ll leave it til next week anyway and see what happens

 

Good lord - trippiest scene from any film ever!

 

For sure.. that's why I want to stay there. I have a vision of filling Dave full of Jack Daniels, getting him onto that carousel and then spinning him

 

we wanted to book the same flights as our friends, they'd obviously got the last of the 'low fare economy' and we had to pay for the next tier up.

we saw deals for between 500 and 700 with flights and hotel, but we are staying in the more expensive suites in the luxor, and could find any deals for these. got a cracking deal by booking direct with the hotel over the phone

its location location location in vegas, remember to look up where your hotel is in relation to everything else, for example some great deals can be had if you stay at the stratosphere, but its miles form everything else, right at the top of the strip

enjoy though

 

Ginge, how much was your room, if you don’t mind me asking?

 

ROFL - pics definitely needed of THAT!

 

think it came close to $1000 for the seven nights. they get really expensive @ weekends

its works out at approx £600, which is £300 each for us

its the tower suites at the luxor, which cost more but you get a king sized bed, bigger telly, lounge area, bigger bathroom etc.

 

We stayed there when we got married.. i loved it!!

 

I'm there for a stag party on Friday Its going to be fookin anarchy! LOL! (Probably not with a bunch of mid 30's blokes!)
Cool drive through the desert for 4hrs to get there

 

I spent a fortnight in vegas in June/July this year and it was top notch. You will get free tickets for many things handed to you, even outside on the strip.

I stayed in Hooters a couple of nights and it came to $100 for a king size room with pool view. As long as you gambe all the casinos will give you comp drinks(just tip the girl)

Vegas is the greatest place on the planet, you can seriously do anything you want. Everything has a price in Vegas. Caesars palace is stunning and puts anything Britain has to offer to shame.

Me and my mates are going for a fortnight next year again. We flew out with Virgin this year and got top notch service. Here are some of the hotels:

 

u getting married there as well ??

have fun cola

 

Rene, we went to a weddign at the weekend... everyone who mentioned marriage to Dave was treated to a 'sharp exit' routine.. so I doubt it

Ooh pretty pictures. Just can't wait

 

looks cool!!

*must contain excitement*

 

When I went in october last year, it was fantastic. We stayed in a cheap Super-8 motel on Tropicana Avenue and enjoyed the freebies of free drinks and brekfasts in the casino resteraunt attatched to it

Didn't do much gambling at all, mainly went out sightseeing - hoover dam, redrock canyon, and other places out there - was an absolute scream.

Be sure to visit the car museum that is on top of one of the big hotels (I think its near newyork newyork somewhere) as there are a whole host of amazing cars in there, from James Bond DB7's to an RS200


Daft as it sounds, if you want cheap clothes and the like out there, visit the out-of town hypermarkets like Wal-mart, Cosco and Sears - they all have fantastic stuff on sale for no much money, clothes, power tools, air tools, - good example, in walmart, Meguiars super clear coat wax - $4 a bottle, over here you pay £18


Hire a car aswell, its not overly expensive, but well worth it, and they all come with aircon too

Here are a few of the pics I took while out there















































Would I go again? at the time, I said no. But now, fuck yeah - If imigration wasn't strict, i'd be living in america


Also, make sure you test drive some cars from the showrooms, but be wary, some of them take your driving licence and won't give it back unless you comitt to buying a car, crafty cunts

 

Graceland - now you've done it. Dave will spend three of the six days drooling at power\air tools!

Everyone's saying that we should get a car for a day or two. Must get our licences out. Deffo want to do a bit of shopping whilst we're out there.

And must find the RS200. Not what I would have expected at all

 

Also

Not what you'd expect to find in Vegas - double deck Volvo Buses bodied by Plaxton (yes - thats Plaxtons of Scarborugh, as-in, east coast, near Bridlington UK)





These were brand new on the Strip 2 days after we arrived - something else Brittish invading vegas



The RS200

 

quality

cant wait

roll on sept 21st

 

For designer clothes go to the Premium outlets at the North End of the Strip, also a shopping centre at south end of strip. Caesars palace also has a shopping centre in it and I thought here we go rip off prices, nope just as cheap as the outlets. Car makes easy travelling in and around vegas, and you park for free in all the hotels parking lots.

There is loads to do in Vegas and anyone who tells you its just gambling has never been before. My favourite hotels where, Caesars, Treasure Island, Hooters and the Venetian.

For the blokes looking the err gentlemens clubs... Industrial Road has about 15 on it.

http://www.vegas.com/ for info

 

Ooh ta Seriously, thanks for all your help. Less than three weeks to go