It's Not A Bender, It's A Lifestyle.

Oh Mlife. I love you and hate you. Was thinking about getting a double book situation going on for the Xmas trip, since I almost always have some sort of Freeplay/Resort Credit in all my offers. Just last week there were still up to three nights and FP/RC in my offers. Logged on to the Mlife site tonight - all gone. I get a "tier discount" of about 5 bucks off on nights I want to book. Just, whatever. I guess I didn't throw enough money away in the trip a couple weeks ago, so now I'm a second class citizen again. In about 2 weeks all my tier credits go away too as they do every October 1st. Wouldn't be surprised if I lose Pearl status when that happens. UPDATE: Nope, still Pearl. Hooray? I don't get the algorithms Mlife uses. After the last time they demoted me I actually got BETTER offers than I was getting at Gold. Now, despite staying and playing at MGM resorts exclusively this year, and staying at MGM resorts on 13 of my 17 Vegas trips, I'm...

Finally, completely, totally done with myVegas, once and for all. Just tired of it. Not fun anymore, too hard to win any chips and the rewards aren't worth the effort, or once you've found a reward you like you can't use that reward again for what, a year or more? Forget it. Also allows me to close my Facebook account, which I only had open as a requirement for myVegas. Try to find me now, high school reunion peeps! Feel like I'm getting an hour of my day back. Won't say it was wasted time all these years, I was able to cash out quite a few good rewards, but the ends no longer justify the means. I mean, I really never NEEDED to spend $150 at Tender to get half off, anyway. So the Xmas trip will be very simple, rewards-wise. No Freeplay anywhere. No resort credit. Just 5 free nights from Planet Hollywood and that seals it. I suppose I could double book with MGM somewhere if they give me a good FP/RC package for those dates and just use up the freebies, but...

So yeah, that happened. Another Vegas trip in the books. Almost exactly as I had foreseen. Drinking, bad gambling, decent food, rinse, repeat. Got in on schedule via United at around 9:30a. Jumped in the Bell town car, easy peasy, straight to NYNY to drop off the bag then headed straight over to Cosmo. Went in to the Henry, had breakfast, Eggs Bene, good as always in there. Headed over to Vesper, losing the first of many, many $100 bills in the slots on the way. The bartender in the afternoon is kind of a jerk (strange for the Vesper), just one of those guys who's been a bartender too long and is cynical and stressed out and needs to find another line of work. So I just had 2 quick ones in there then it was up to the 3rd level of Chandelier Bar, talked to Abel, a good guy who runs that bar in the day time. much better experience. Just me and him most of the time. Had a couple more and by this point it's after 1p and time to head back down the strip to check in at NYNY....