Vegas Trip - Gift Purchase
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:35 pm
Just returned from a week in Vegas. Pretty full schedule. In addition to all our gift selecting at both Caesars and MGM properties, I got in 3 rounds of golf (wifey and I @ Cascata and Shadow Creek, and then one with my Aria host @ Cascata, which since it's a Caesars' course, he had never played it), two massages, several very nice dinners (I can recommend The Homestead @ Caesars and Sirio @ Aria), and two shows - Shania Twain and the new Cirque show @ Aria, Zarkana. I was supposed to do a Meet and Greet with Shania, but she is still really apprehensive about coming back and performing live on stage. They suspended all her M&Gs until later this month to give her a better chance to settle in. We saw her on Sunday, which was only her 2nd show. Gotta go back now.
I also had a $500 Forum Shop certificate to use from my 7Star Level I Experience. The trick was, though, that you had to use it all at only one store that you selected. So I abandoned my plan of underwear buying, and opted for a nice pair of dress shoes. Now, there is no way that I would actually PAY $350 for Donald J Plinar Northern Italian Leather dress shoes, but what the heck . Rounded out the certificate with a pair of slip on casuals. Wow, do my feet look good now..
We even got in a little gaming. Fairly mediocre trip overall VP-wise. Wifey got two RFs and some nice handpays. We both had one blockbuster night over at the Mirage, but our other sessions were weaker. I got several handpays scattered throughout the week. My best was this one @ Bellagio playing Dream Card.
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One thing that I noticed that appears to be coming up more and more. I get FreePlay tickets in offers at several casinos. They are limiting their use to slots, not allowing you to use them on VP. Probably not every property, but I ran into this more than once this trip.
We are gonna head back to Vegas for SuperBowl weekend, with perhaps a side-trip back to Phoenix to play some golf there also.
I also had a $500 Forum Shop certificate to use from my 7Star Level I Experience. The trick was, though, that you had to use it all at only one store that you selected. So I abandoned my plan of underwear buying, and opted for a nice pair of dress shoes. Now, there is no way that I would actually PAY $350 for Donald J Plinar Northern Italian Leather dress shoes, but what the heck . Rounded out the certificate with a pair of slip on casuals. Wow, do my feet look good now..
We even got in a little gaming. Fairly mediocre trip overall VP-wise. Wifey got two RFs and some nice handpays. We both had one blockbuster night over at the Mirage, but our other sessions were weaker. I got several handpays scattered throughout the week. My best was this one @ Bellagio playing Dream Card.
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One thing that I noticed that appears to be coming up more and more. I get FreePlay tickets in offers at several casinos. They are limiting their use to slots, not allowing you to use them on VP. Probably not every property, but I ran into this more than once this trip.
We are gonna head back to Vegas for SuperBowl weekend, with perhaps a side-trip back to Phoenix to play some golf there also.