Caesars Information

First, a frugal tip.  Not a major thrifty move but it counts up in the long run:  Use Quick Rewards (paying with your Reward Credits at the point of purchase) to pay for your meals rather than charging them to your room and then paying the whole bill with Reward Credits when you check out.  No taxes on the former, but taxes on the latter.  (A tip from the just-full-of-information Seven Stars Insider newsletter.)

Another frugal tip you may – or may not – want to embrace:  Caesars recently linked up their Total Rewards players club with the Fuel Rewards Network (FRN).  This has the potential to save you up to $10 a month on filling your gas tank.  However, the details, like so many in Caesars promotions, are quite complicated.  I suggest you go to the August issue of the Seven Stars Insider (use link above) for a thorough discussion of this promotion and look at the pros and cons to see whether you want to participate.  I guess everyone knows I am big on frugal ideas but this freebie extra is giving me a headache just trying to understand it.  I think I will just forget it! 

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is joining a trend that is spreading in casinos all over the US, requiring more coin-in on “good” VP machines to get one players club point.  All their $5 JoB 9/6 machines now require $25 to earn one Reward Credit, rather than $10 as in the past.  This has not yet spread to all Caesars properties, but you need to watch for little warning stickers that might appear on your favorite machine.  Some casinos are also adding other warnings, i.e., labeling machines that are not eligible for multiple points or other casino promotions.  The “fine print warning” is not limited just to casino mailers anymore!

I get a lot of complaints about the resort fees charged by Caesars properties.  However, I think everyone is going to have to get used to them – they are probably here to stay, not only at these properties but at most hotels these days.  Best advice I can give for those looking for the best bargain:  Add the base price and the resort fee and then do your comparisons.  Sometimes a property that does not have a resort fee pencils out at a higher total price than one which does have the fee.

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10 Responses to Caesars Information

  1. Clare says:

    I recently booked a two night stay at Bally’s, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a notation on my confirmation that the $18/night resort fee WAIVED. Maybe it’s because I’m at the Platinum level?

  2. George Bauslaugh says:

    Jean,

    I don’t believe “resort fees are here to stay”, if we get our state legislators to ban them and consider them as deceptive practices. The problem with our country today (this coming from me, a Republican)is that the government refuses to fully regulate business and allows deceptive and fraudulent practices.

    I have been trying to bring about a class action against Priceline, due to these hidden charges: through their “name your own price” option.

    Again both Florida & Nevada at the state level should pass “Truth in Pricing laws, (for the hotel & Rent a Car industries) similar to what the airlines have currently!!!

  3. Robin Heller says:

    The Fuel Rewards Network almost works for me…the only station in our area is 30 cents a gallon more than any other, but if I wait until I get at least 40 cents off, it is worth going there. We have a van with a 19 gallon tank! Just registering and learning how to use the rewards card is simple…I don’t pay attention to more details! I am expecting CET to lower the rewards rate earned outside of the FRN, and then I will just un-link my card!

  4. Bill Lockhart says:

    I just returned from a two day trip to Atlantic City. I play at Caesars property exclusively because I am able to get a comp room two days a month. They had a 3x and 10x point promotion on the days I was there. The sign said the promotion time ran from 6:00am to 5:59am. Is that 24 hours? Not really, you could not sign in until after 9:00am. So it’s actually from 9:00am to 5:59am. On Friday I went to sign in for the promotion at Caesars only to find out that on Friday the promotion was only available at Ballys or Showboat. Yes They are all the same company and Caesars is physically attached to Ballys but those are the rules. So I played at Ballys instead of Caesars. I would love to know the reasoning behind making the promotions so complicated.

  5. Mick says:

    Jean; The Fuel Rewards Network in our area is linked up to our local grocery store. (Almost the very center of CA). Purchase a certain amount of groceries and receive a discount off gas, up to 20 gallons. Credits expire within two months. No rollovers. This store is one of the most expensive stores in the area and the gas is Shell stations. Good gas, but expensive. Not like Costco or other stations. For us FRN does not work.

  6. Kevin Lewis says:

    I haven’t given CET any of my business (in Vegas) since they carefully calculated their Reward Credit system so that it was impossible to play any of their games, at any time, with positive EV. Now, it looks like they don’t even want you to break even. If you play 9/6 JOB at anything less than an 0.5% return net of Reward Credits and other goodies, then you’re playing a losing game. One Reward Credit is worth ONE PENNY in comps or ONE-HALF OF A PENNY in free play. To get this penny, you have to bet $25 on a JOB machine–and your theoretical loss on that $25 is about TWELVE cents. So they’ve changed the time-honored formula of rebating 20-40% of theo in comps to rebating…8%. No thank you Caesar’s!!!
    (I realize that mailers, etc. may boost your net EV but since you never know what, if anything, you’ll get in perks, and they can cut those off at any time, their value is functionally zero.) The simple fact is that you’re far better off playing quarters on a fullpay machine at Coasts, Stations, etc. than dumping $25/hand in a Caesar’s, etc. short-pay machine and getting nothing but a $100/hr loss. I’d rather make $9/hr playing deuces at Stations, even if they do no-mail me for doing so. Better than paying the freight to achieve (and maintain!!) “status” at CET.

  7. G. Anderson says:

    Jean, You taught me (years Ago) that the host was the key to comps for rooms and associated fees. The last three visits to the Palms, room & resort fees were comped.
    Play where you stay.
    Ask, politely and a gift card for $25 will get you a better room and no resort charges.
    Thanks for the Blog.

  8. You aren’t the only one who has told me about this problem. However, I think it is a Yahoo issue or some other computer problem for just some people because I and others are having no trouble clicking on the link in the e-mail and be taken straight to the current blog. Wish I could solve this – but it seems like there is no fix on my end.

  9. J.R. Decker says:

    Jean,
    I always read your post and find them worth my time, but
    now in yahoo mail they do not come up highlighted to click on and go direct to your address to read your post. Don’t know if it’s yahoo mail or your new way of putting your address in.
    Hope you know what I mean.

    https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=3219

  10. david says:

    My two cents about Ripoff (resort) Fees. I will never pay this asinine fee- therefore many casinos will never get any of my gambling action. The casinos that do not charge this thievery are the only places I will stay or gamble. And to those who do pay these Ripoff Fees, I ask, don’t you feel stupid? The casinos know that you are and will keep ripping you off until you get tired of paying more for less.

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