Steady State.

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Nothing exciting on the Xmas trip booking front, or any front for that matter.

MGM Rewards booking is back up. Not MGM Rewards, though, strangely. The quoted rates are more or less exactly what they were before the hack. A couple good deals ($37/night at Aria, about the same at MB for an Elite King, $12/night at Delano, $6 at NYNY, etc.) but I'm thinking they just reloaded whatever was there before the hack and rates may change when the full system is back. 

So I'm going to hold off, which may or may not be a good move...at some point as we actually start to get close the rates will by nature start to bump up. And I've already lost out on better rates from a couple months ago so I'm not going to wait much longer. Still kinda hoping for a reno'd room at Bellagio to come back in range. Would be the best option for a short hop from Cosmo on the first night and it's perfect location-wise in general.

Otherwise, just due to the finely tuned room/rate/location algorithm that's constantly running in my brain it'll likely a be a boring-ass Aria room again. Will save the most from rack rate and be well positioned for a cold weather trip.

Other than that not much to report. Life in the work/play/work rut. I'm boring. But content.

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