The entire ongoing kerfuffle about Rio breakfast is something to behold (from someone who will never, ever SNIFF Globalist but stayed with one and used a GoH award or two and is also happy to stay there with zero benefits- I even stayed there when it was a Caesars joint and you could wheedle your way into Wyndham/Caesars Diamond and be excused from the resort fee). The rooms were a dump but it was a $10 stay (and once again those kind of room rates are back during low times if you have Rio Rewards accounts).

I mean... HH was OK? The coffee was regularly, actively bad when you couldn't get an Americano (which was often). Food was fine but nothing special.

If the reports upthread from jerry a. laska and GumboCook are correct it's not a terrible buffet and there's no powdered eggs. And frankly if they serve decent coffee instead of caffeinated battery acid I'd forgive a downgrade on food.

Anyway the Hyatt stuff is going to probably squeeze more value because, as stated, this place was a steal at 12-15k on a weekend in Vegas where rates everywhere are through the roof. 20k not so much since that's $200 if we're talking "cash out UR points". It's also an EDC shuttle stop which is a big plus for those weekends when you're "coming home" at sunrise...

The big thing here is free parking since the MGM properties, that's $20 a night if you're not Pearl, $50+ resort fees if you're not Gold...

(Yeah, I know, I am talking about actually staying there for something other than a Hyatt elite night credit.)