Penny For My Thoughts

Yes, I am off to Vegas on Friday, and thought I would do a quick pre-trip from a financial standpoint.

Perhaps the biggest thing, money-wise, is that we just switched our hotel on Sunday.  We’re staying at a hotel which is signifigantly cheaper than the one we were staying at to begin with.  While I had used SmarterVegas to look for codes before, I actually got said deal via an e-mail.  I strongly recommend you sign up for e-mails from any Las Vegas hotel you want to stay at, I signed up with the Harrah’s group, the MGM/Mirage group, and Planet Hollywood.

I checked SmarterVegas for show codes as well, but there were no codes when we were going for the show we wanted to see.  Oh well.

I did buy the Ben and Jerry’s coupon at Restaurant.com, as well as a gift certificate to the Ocean One Bar and Grill.  It’s always such a gamble with Resturant.com gift certificates on vacation though-if you don’t use them, you lose.  I also have a $25 Landry’s gift card from Mypoints, which I can use at the Rainforst Cafe at the MGM Grand, or the Golden Nugget.

I subscribe to the Las Vegas Advisor.  I subscribed to it, frankly, because of name recognition-someone in a travel forum posted a link to their site and I remembered my dad subscribing to it when it was a little two-page deal in the late 90’s.  It has a great list of the top ten values in Vegas every month.  It also came with a coupon book-I’m curious to see how many of those coupons I actually use.

I got a decent deal on my plane tickets, but I bought them in May.