Mlife. *sigh*

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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 now only worthy of a $5 discount? Fuck you.

So, truth be told, I'm probably not going to spend much time in MGM resorts on the Xmas trip. Just no incentive to. While MGM is downgrading me, Caesars is giving me 5 free nights for basically zero play. I'm not a huge fan of CET but hey, I'll go where the free is. I'm more than happy to switch it up, I love NYNY but aside from there I really don't care much for the rest of the MGM props anyway.

You're losing me again, MGM.

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