Fly July.

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July trip a done deal.

Booked the flights today, doing a one-way flight in from OAK on Allegiant, using up $100 of flight credit with them, bought a seat and a bag and total cost just $12. Then the other one-way came down from a hundy to $80 on Alaska today, so I snapped that up for a total round trip cost of $92. Probably not going to do any better than that by waiting, what with vacations likely to surge this summer as COVID abates. Flight times are good, flying out around 4p on the Thursday so can leave work around 12p and get over there for that, then flying back on the 10:45a flight on the Tuesday so not TOO early of a wake up call.

I put in the PTO request at work and got it approved, so barring an unforeseen event this trip is locked in. Good gap between late April to late July to build up the Vegas fund again. Getting a little raise in April that will bump me up to about where I was before I got into employer health care this year, so getting the save done shouldn't be too rough.

Sticking with Aria for the stay at this point. Will have plenty of time to adjust after April depending on where I'm at with Identity at Cosmo, pertaining to what my comp sitch is there post trip. If I've got Gold, 2 comped nights and no resort fees for the other nights it'll be a no-brainer to switch, but we'll see.

So I'm halfway booked on Vegas-orama 2021. Likely one more trip sometime late summer/early fall then Xmas of course. Hopefully things will go smoother than last year and I can slip back into something like a normal Vegas year.

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