Las Vegas - Charging things to your room from other hotels/casinos

Example: If you are staying at the Paris, can you have meals at Ballys or LV Hilton charged to your room at the Paris because they are all a part of Park Place Ent?

That was the case last year when I billed meals at Caesars to my room at the Flamingo. Just show your paper "credit card" or ID at any cashier and it will show up on your bill. I did not do it on this years trip, but they did tell me at check in that I could.

Yes, in general you can charge meals at any Park Place property (Bally's, Paris, Flamingo, Caesars Palace, LV Hilton) to your room at any other one.

Some non-hotel-owned restaurants may be excepted but I don't know any specific exceptions.

QL

Same with any of the MGM-Mirage group of hotels.

So is it better to charge everything to your room, which will add to your total $$ spent, and therefor be tracked? Could this then lead to possible Comps, or promotional deals?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PITflyer2:
So is it better to charge everything to your room, which will add to your total $$ spent, and therefor be tracked? Could this then lead to possible Comps, or promotional deals?</font>

I have found the more charges to your room the better, that way when you see your host on the day you are leaving there are more opportunities for them to comp these charges.

I have had stays were the entire room charge, meals...including room service and fine dining, have been comped. About the only thing left would incidentals like dry cleaning. I never have had charges from any of the casino retail establishments comped though.

Any idea as to how much you have to charge to your hotel per day in order to get comped? I am assuming this depends on what hotel you stay at and what your average $ per hand is as well? But if I am charging say $500 a day to the room (food and beverages), will I be comped anything, or am I dreaming?

The comps you get really have little to do with how much you charge to your room, other than the fact that you can't get any food or beverage comped off your bill if you didn't charge anything to it.

It still comes back to the formula of average bet * time * house edge * comp rate.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PITflyer2:
Any idea as to how much you have to charge to your hotel per day in order to get comped? I am assuming this depends on what hotel you stay at and what your average $ per hand is as well? But if I am charging say $500 a day to the room (food and beverages), will I be comped anything, or am I dreaming?</font>


We need to change gears from FT comps to LV comps.
As you know from above responses, the comp depends on your play.

If you're playing just to try to get more comp, this is a losing proposition. You start betting more, play longer than you wish and that $9.95 comped buffet costs you $100 (or that gourmet comp costs $2000 if that's your betting level). Plus you start to feel binded within the one casino as opposed to bouncing around.

Pick a hotel that you find fits your budget. If $79-$99 (at a non-peak time) is what you're looking for then you'll wind up at Harrah's, Flamingo, Imperial Palace, or such. Play the amount you are comfortable with losing. If you win Great. At the end they'll take some money off the bill. It's either a reduction of your losses or an increase of your wins.

Remember, always use your player's card when playing so you get the comps.

If you do bounce around to casinos where you're not staying, you are able to receive the comps there too. It's best to use these comps on the spot if you're a table (non-slot) player as these comps don't accumulate trip to trip. So you play BJ or craps at a table for an hour or two. Ask if your entitled to something to eat. They'll let you know what scale of restaurant (buffet or coffee shop or mid-level or gourmet, etc.) you're entitled to. Enjoy the free food.

A lot of people go to Vegas and focus on comps. They lose their shirts and don't take advantage of all that LV has to offer. Go to Vegas, have fun and create memories that will last forever.