Boof.

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Aria Xmas.

I snapped up a *breathes in* Stay Well Deluxe King Strip View Room for the Xmas festivities.

Say that 5 times real fast.

I guess some of that bad gambling in June/July paid off, at least in a way. My offers went up across the board, had good, better than standard rooms available at at least 3 or 4 comped nights at almost all MGM resorts. Coming in Sun-Fri probably helps, too. No weekend days = better rates and more comped nights.

The base Aria room is one I've had many times and is solid if a bit boring, but the Stay Well package will be a new twist. The location is perfect as always for my generally center-strip tendencies. Less cabbing and hopefully more cash saved by not being on an extreme end of the strip like I have been lately. Plus, baby gets a view.

Couldn't have done much better on the resort/room/rate ratio, really, I ended up spending more on the airfare than on a 5-Star resort in Vegas, as this one all in was only $442 for 5 nights, 3 nights comped and minus $50/50 FP/RC the real cost is a few ticks below $350. AND if I manage to get to Gold on the trip the resort fees drop off and it might only be a hundie and a half all in for the room rate on the trip which is nuts on top of nuts.

So, a tight, cheap little (room) package to close out the year, just like I like them. 5 days in a killer room at a bargain. Now I just have to survive the nearly 5 months it'll take to get there.

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