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

Whelp, it looks like the well of free rooms at CET properties has run dry. Tried to book my next March (yes, March 2018) trip today for shits and giggles, and I no longer have any comped rooms available. I guess the fact that I've booked 20 free nights over four trips in the past few months without playing more than a hundy or so in CET resorts in the past year has finally sunk in to the Total Rewards computer. I'm all comped up for the next two trips, but after that I'm hat in hand. Sigh. So, now the plan I've been hatching to try to get on Cosmo's comp radar needs to get serious on the next two trips, or starting next year I'll have to start *gasp* PAYING for a room. Like a commoner. Horrifying. I suppose that could be liberating in some sense. Maybe could book a room at Wynn? Venetian/Palazzo? Mandarin Oriental? Hopefully it doesn't come to that. There are still two trips left this year to rack up enough comps somewhere to get roomed up, but at ...

Back again from the happy place. Meh trip, fairly normal, not the greatest ending. Got into town on time via Virgin around 9:30, was over to the Paris by 10p via Bell Limo. Nice big Escalade. Attempted to check into my reserved Fountain View room but was told none were available. This ragged me off as I had called ahead to reserve this specific room. Was finally given a room with twin beds facing the backside of PH that smelled vaguely of poo. No bueno, but what was I going to do. Shook it off and headed out for night one. Walked straight over to the Venetian trying to go to the Dorsey, but some big convention was at the resort and it was full to overflowing with suits, so decided to get some food instead. Went in to the new Sugarcane, just had a couple appetizers but they were quite good. The salmon poke was great. Then headed into Rockhouse for a couple but nothing was really going on there and they were about to close. Walked over to the Parlor lounge in Mirage and had a coup...