FAB here. I wanted to share my own trip report.
Travel and Sight Seeing-- I only go to Harrah’s Southern California Resort (aka Rincon) about once a year but visited last weekend. I had a 80,000 Tier Credits – Diamond Aspirations trip (max $750 in airfare) expiring on March 31st so I decided to use it to fly down with my elderly mother for the weekend. I also had some coupons I could use when I was down there.
We flew into San Diego on Saturday morning, grabbed a rental car and drove to nearby Seaport Village. It was a bit of a tourist trap but we enjoyed walking around, enjoying the warm weather and seeing the Pacific Ocean. After lunch we tried to visit the USS Midway but the crowds and lack of parking drove us off. We then made the one hour drive to Rincon.
We had no problem checking in and getting the Coronado Suite our Rincon host reserved for us in the new North tower. The suite was great and had a wonderful large balcony. The Hotel front desk clerk, Crystal gave us the “Seven Stars basket” and loaded some extra water at our request. The basket had assorted nuts, fruit and bottles of Pepsi and water – it was a nice touch.
Coupons and Scoping Out the Joint – I went to the cashier and converted a “Travel Reimbursement” coupon for $400 in cash – no flight receipt requested. This meant I was able to double dip since Passport travel already paid for my Aspirations flight. I also had $215 in free play as well as a vague promise (only on-line) of “Mystery Cash” from March 1 to March 7th, and another offer from March 8th to March 15. I was to get $100 in free play twice from the Mystery Cash offer which popped up on the machines after about 30 minutes of play on March 7 and 8th respectively.
I checked out the Double Super Times Pay machines written about on this forum. There were a total of four of them. Two had limits of up to $0.25 – 10 play and the other two had limits of $0.50 – five times play. For all four the best games were 8/5 bonus which is attractive even if you needed to play 7 coins per hand to get a chance at the “Super Times Pay multiplier”. But all the machines were occupied – I saw at one of them a man getting a hand pay and guessed it was Dan Druff. My guess was confirmed later.
We used the two free buffets given daily to Seven Stars members. The buffet was good, not the level of the Bacchanal Buffet at Ceasars Las Vegas, but it was fine and the price was right. At the buffet I spotted Dan Druff and correctly guessed his identity, introduced myself, and had a nice chat.
To be continued . . .