Originally Posted by
baccarat_king
Tables games such as baccarat or craps @ Borgata earn around $15-$20 in comps per hour per $100/average bet. Usually a $150 (or so average) will get you rooms 6 days a week (Sunday to Friday), with $99 to $139 Saturday nights. Will also earn you promotional match plays ($400 to $600 per month) + offers for merchandise, some shows, and events (such as blackjack tournaments, low level - $20K or so prize pools). This is, of course, based on at least 4 hours of play per day. Step it up to around $250/average bet, and you will also see those Saturday nights being comp'ed in the future. Borgata is very good about discretionary comps. You can usually snag a comp for the steakhouse or any venue that does NOT come off your points at least once during your trip. (ask for it at the tables, at least 20 minutes or so before you plan on leaving). Also if you do log the 4 hours per day, they will often comp off any of the room rates (such as a $99 Saturday night) at the end of your stay. Hosts are very good, IMO, at Borgata.
I have found that the room comps are roughly related to your average comps earned per trip on recent trips (thus the amount they can expect to get from you on your next trip). So you can get comp rooms even with lower play than what's described here -- typically if you earn $30-40 in comp dollars per trip (roughly 6-8 hours of $25-50/hand blackjack) you will get 5 nights a week available comped plus some Fridays.
Until recently I had never seen a Saturday night comp on my account, even during the off-peak season, but after a recent trip which would have put my average comp dollars per trip in the $50-60 range I am currently seeing most upcoming Saturdays available comped. I suspect this may be in part due to increasing competition from Revel, though as of last weekend the Borgata casino was packed while the Revel casino was most definitely not (multiple empty $10 tables at 7pm on Saturday) so Borgata probably doesn't have that much to worry about.
Borgata also recently (since January) renovated its rooms in the main tower, almost certainly due to competitive pressure from Revel, and they're now very nice, much improved from having been getting rather worn.