Caesars has massively downgraded the "4 free drink" benefit for all Diamond levels in the Vegas market

[jpfromla]

BTW one thing I noticed when it comes to food and beverage comps at Caesars, no matter how much you have played and earned in theo, on check out they seem to tap your rewards points first! and then the host comps off the rest. They don't seem to do this against the room comp but yes against the food and beverage. That sucks if you were planning to use the points for something while not staying at the resort, just for little food purchases when you don't want to bother with a slip comp.

On a stay with a lot of food and beverage this may wipe out all your rewards points.

Yup.

My host there told me they were not even allowed to comp anything until after you used all your rewards credits first.

On-going for many years. Visit the gift shop, before you visit your host.

[Dan Druff]

BTW one thing I noticed when it comes to food and beverage comps at Caesars, no matter how much you have played and earned in theo, on check out they seem to tap your rewards points first! and then the host comps off the rest. They don't seem to do this against the room comp but yes against the food and beverage. That sucks if you were planning to use the points for something while not staying at the resort, just for little food purchases when you don't want to bother with a slip comp.

On a stay with a lot of food and beverage this may wipe out all your rewards points.

Yeah this goes back over a decade. Occasionally you could get a host to make an exception to it in the past, but I think even that stopped.

There used to be a trick where you could use up your RCs booking a non-Caesars hotel at lolbad rates, then get your host to comp you stuff because you now have 0 RCs, and then at the end of the trip, you cancel the reservation and get all the RCs back. But that partnership ended because nobody used it, since it was a terrible deal otherwise.

To take it one step further form what jpinla said, it's possible you can buy something expensive in gift shop with RCs, don't open it, and then return it after the host comps off your bill, and get the RCs back. But make sure beforehand that they accept returns and can refund the RCs in the case you do. Make sure you specify that you will return the item untouched/unopened. For example, you can say, "I'm buying this bag for my girlfriend but I'm not sure if she will show up this trip, so if she doesn't can I return this and get my RCs back, provided it's still in new condition and untouched?"

[jpfromla]

Apparently Caesars has backed away from cutting off people with their four drinks. On August 1st, I know at least four people have had their drinks restored. The word is that Caesars was threatened with the class action and they retreated.

[Dan Druff]

Apparently Caesars has backed away from cutting off people with their four drinks. On August 1st, I know at least four people have had their drinks restored. The word is that Caesars was threatened with the class action and they retreated.

Interesting.

I don't think a class action would be successful, as comps are never guaranteed. But I could see how this would be a bad look if it got publicity.

I think there weren't too many Seven Stars who lost the drinks, so it didn't cost them much to restore them. Killing most of the drink options for Diamond Plus and Diamond elite saved them a lot of money, as you no longer had a massive number of Diamond people loading up on expensive (for Caesars) prepackaged drinks every day.