Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Last I heard, this is how it works:
If you check into the hotel, you are in the system for 2 days of play, regardless of how much you actually play. The timing of the play doesn't matter (if you do it right when you check in, during the middle, etc). If you check in, run play to rack up $4000 worth of theo, and check out after 1 or 2 nights, your ADT is $2000.
If you do not check into the hotel, you are only in the system for each day you show up there. However, if you come on consecutive days, it counts as one "trip", as if you had stayed there. I am not sure how it works if you aren't staying there, show up on one day, and then show up again 2 days later.
Regarding the play times, this only matters if you aren't staying there. If you're staying there, it's a 2-day minimum trip, and the number of days beyond that matches how many days your hotel is booked. If you aren't staying there, I believe it does track it by Caesars day, which usually begins around 6am. So if you show up at 5am, play 2 hours, and quit, it might track you as 2 days. Maybe they have a mechanism to stop that from happening, but I wouldn't chance it.
Also be aware that they utilize something called Marketing Daily Value (MDV), which is your ADT minus any comps redeemed (food, rooms, freeplay, etc). They base your comps on MDV, not ADT, in most cases. However, there's more complexities which go into it, and I won't discuss those out here.
Additionally, do NOT swipe your card for anything if you're not staying there and you aren't playing that day. That will count as a trip. That means don't swipe it for parking, RCs at the restaurants, gift shop, etc, unless you're either playing a lot, staying there, or don't care about your ADT. Actually not a bad idea to get someone else's card for the parking, in the case you're going to visit without playing sometimes (if you care about your ADT).
Some of this might be different now, given the weird state of Vegas at the moment.