Penny For My Thoughts

So I’ve been home from my trip to Vegas for a bit, so I thought I’d do a wrap up on what worked and what didn’t:

I used one of my Restaurant.com gift certificates, the one to the Ocean One Bistro at Miracle Mile Shops-it was quite inexpensive and good.  I did not use my gift certificate to Ben and Jerry’s, but that’s the way the ice cream cone crumbles.  I did not use my Rainforest Cafe/Landry’s, but I can use that elsewhere.   I did, however, strike gold in my discovery of Tix4Dinner, an offshoot of Tix4Tonight.  You buy a “ticket” for either a buffet or a restaurant, which gives you a discount.  In our case, for $3 each we got 50%off our meals at Enoteca San Marzo, which ran in the mid-teens.

We signed up for multiple slot clubs.  While some had mediocre rewards, some has good ones.  Total rewards, for example, gave us two-for-one comedy act tickets, a hat/scarf/glove set, and beads.  But the best sign up was for Planet Hollywood’s a-list club.  You get $5 in FREE slot play, and another $15 if you play $40 (which includes your free slot play), and you can spin a slot once a day.  I did this our first day and won FREE tickets to Stomp Out Loud.   w00t!

Also, ALWAYS pick up those promational magazines they have lying around-I got 10% at an outlet store, and 10% off a lunch buffet.  Our LasVegasAdvisor POV coupons were nice-we used the half off Mme Tussad’s, and at the Eiffel tower (although to be honest we got the same Eiffel tower coupon when we checked into Bally’s).  I wouldn’t subscribe to LVA just for the POV, though-JMO.