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The Xmas trip is booked.

For some unknown reason, I have a free room for 5 nights at Planet Hollywood. I was dicking around on a Vegas blog I follow and clicked on a link to Caesars properties just for the hell of it. When I logged in to my TR account all the rooms I was looking at came up...free. I could have stayed at almost any of the Caesars props for free, for 5 nights. I have literally no idea why, I rarely play in Caesars resorts any more, I think I skipped them altogether on my last trip. I have a comically low TR points balance. Unreal.

So I'm paying just resort fees and taxes for 5 nights in a Ultra Hip Fountain View room, it's $180 for the whole 5 nights, where normally it would be $1300 if I was just Joe Dudeguy with no TR card. I decided on PH since it was about the best room in any of the resorts I could have selected. Could have gone Caesars or Paris, but those rooms looked a little stuffy. The Ultra Hip rooms are fairly newly remodeled and have the "cool" factor going for them. The location's perfect too, pretty much center strip.

The flight was significantly more than I usually pay, I guess I waited too long to book it this time. It's $276 on Jet Blue. I've been getting around $100 round trips, but I guess the avgas prices must have gone up. It is over a holiday, too. Whatev. The total overhead for the trip is still less than $500. Just stuck it on the MasterCard and should be able to pay it off when I get back from the September trip.

So, thank the fuck out of you, Caesars. No scratching for Mlife discounts needed this time. Also no return to the glorious Cosmo room this year, but free goes a long way toward healing that wound.

Xmas in Hollywood this year.

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