Next AFTER Next.

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Because, mystifyingly, CET continues to provide me with free hotel rooms for no apparent reason, and because I'm silly, I have booked a March trip for next year.

5 free nights at Paris in a brand new Burgundy room with an Eiffel view. Just paying resort fees again, less than $200 where normies would have to pay over $1200. Arriving on a Wednesday night late and leaving on a Monday. In on Frontier (UPDATE:Frontier dropped the SFO/LAS route, so had to spend $25 more to go in on Virgin), out on Virgin. Arriving around 10p, so really it's 5 nights, 4 days, then out in the afternoon on Monday. Round trip flight ridiculous at exactly $100 (UPDATE: now more like $125. Still good). All told should only have to take Th/Fri/Mon off work, and it's usually slow around then at my job so no big whoop.

Haven't spent much time at Paris in all my trips, so this should be interesting. Good location as it is with PH for Xmas. Again just paying the resort fees for 5 nights, so around $170. If all goes well on the IRS refund tip I should have it and the CA refund in hand by March, so that will help on the saving. The two together are usually around $1500, so a pretty easy save up on this one, just $2500 really, can do that in a month and a half.

I'm getting in and out before any of the March insanity next year; there is NASCAR the next week which I'll be missing, a big Con/Ag expo of some sort, and of course St. Patty's Day and March Madness nonsense later that month that I'll be safely out of town for.

So, it's another Caesars property trip. This might change the plans a bit about where I gamble...if I'm not going to be able to use any potential compage at Cosmo until at least what, June or July, there's no urgency to spend a lot of coin-in there. Frees me up even more on the Xmas trip.

Good times.

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