Aprilbies. Discounts And Freebies April '22.

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Time she is a' moseying, close enough to lay out the discounts for April.

-6 nights at Mandalay Bay in a Strip View King room: $307, would be $1513 for a disgusting, filthy, unwashed pleb with no player's status. A $1206 savings (!). 4 comped nights in that deal and waived resort fees.

-$40 in FP and $50 in RC in the booking package, $90 savings.

-$145 in FP from MGM Rewards, $145 value.

-$28 in left over value from the old Rewards Points system, usable for RC, value $28.

-$39 on my gift card for Yard House, $39 value.

-A "free enhanced room upgrade" at check in, new with MGM Rewards, value unknown but let's conservatively say it could be a bump to something like an Elite King and at minimum a $100 value?

$1608 saved. Not bad at all. Could have taken advantage of some comped nights elsewhere by jumping around but I don't like to do that anymore and it still wouldn't have saved me much or at all when you factor in resort fees. This averages out to $50/night for a great room in a great resort. Not going to do much better than that as a low roller.

Most of the rest of the freebies will get soaked up by the VP machines but it's a couple extra hundy to hit 4 aces or something, who knows. The RC I can turn into a lunch somewhere and maybe half of one of the splurge meals.

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