Scurred.

Starting to question my choice of trying to chase status at Cosmopolitan.

I'm close to getting to Gold in Identity there, and probably will attain it on the July trip. I've piled most of the spend from gambling for the last two years into that place. But the rates, sweet Jeebus the rates.

I have, through Mlife, 5 nights in July at Aria, a 5-star, very nice resort, for a little over $400 all in. If I booked the same standard room with Cosmo, it would cost me over $2300. Fuckity fuck? For 5 nights in a base room? On a nothing, non-holiday weekend? Christ crackers. I know Vegas is "back", but I've thrown in a combined $30K coin in over 2020 and 2021 thus far. And I'm UP through that spend. You would think they would want to comp me a damn room so I'd give them back some of their money. As far as I can tell I'm not even really getting a significant discount for all that spend.

Even if I do get to Gold, get the 2 free nights a year and the comped resort fees, I still couldn't afford to stay in even a base room there more than once a year, and that during a weekday stay in an off-peak time of year like Xmas. I mean damn. Starting to think my whole "chase the Identity Gold" plan was a bust. I could have thrown all that spend at Mlife and may be knocking on the door of Platinum there, who knows. I could be getting comped suites at some very nice properties. Certainly I would be paying for nothing more than resort fess no matter when I go.

So this will be a watershed trip. If I go, get to Gold and still am getting buttbanged on rates at Cosmo it'll be back to Mlife 100%. I might as well see the plan through at this point since I'm so close, maybe the Gold threshold is where the magical comps start to flow, but I'm dubious and disappointed. I know Cosmo is a high end place and $30K is a single roll of the dice for some whales there, but for me it works out to almost half my damn salary for a year. And yes, I got it all back and more, but it's not fucking peanuts for coin-in for fuck's sake. I still love the place and will go there anyway for food and drink but if I'm not getting rewarded for all that play they won't get anymore.

Late July, Cosmo might be bye-bye.

UPDATE:

And now, a couple weeks after I wrote that, I'm now 4K points further away from ID Gold, as since it's a rolling 12-month accumulation some of last year's points must have dropped off. Now I'm over 6500 points away, making it nearly impossible to get in July. Fuck. I think I'm done. I don't think there's any reason to even chase it anymore. With the rates as high as they are and no indication that I'll ever earn any comped nights there I don't see the point.

Which means I'm back to Mlife 100%. Which, at this point of the year, means all I'm doing is trying to secure Gold for next year. No chance, if there ever was one, of chasing Platinum with 1/2 of the year's trips gone. So bummed. I put so much wasted effort into Identity, in the end I'm just not a high enough roller to get/maintain anything there. At least this year I didn't lose any money doing it.