My wife and I used to get comps rooms and resort credits all the time when we were only visiting. Since moving to Vegas and changing our address to a local address, all of it seems to have gone away. We've only noticed this recently as our friends and family would visit and we play the same amount for the same time at the same table most of the times. But they seems to get comp rooms and decent hotel credits while we don't get any offers at all. Often times our rates is even higher than them. This is mainly for Caesars and MGM. Just my theory, any thoughts on this?
It takes a lot more to entice someone who lives a 5 hour plane ride away to spend $XXX on an airplane and hotel to get to Vegas, than someone who can drive 30 minutes. Try a locals casino, like the Stations properties. They almost exclusively cater to locals. Perhaps Resorts World, if you want to stay on the strip. There was a thread recently saying they're trying to target locals also.
Thanks for confirming my theory. Makes sense but IMO the principle is wrong. When f&f aren't around we do tend to visit one of the station casinos more often.
Don't bother with Stations, they give shit comps to locals as well. M Resort, Wynn and Circa gives better comps to locals (I tried changing address to compare) but you have to be going weekly to claim them so you have a better total, room is harder to get for locals.
My CET host once told me to keep our out of state address active, as opposed to changing to a local one, when we had a second home. Probably, they think you don't need any encouragement if you are local.
Another possible explanation is that comps have decreased for everyone regardless of where you live. One way to test this hypothesis is to move away (or give them an address outside Las Vegas) and see if comps increase again.
With all the comments here and what I've experienced, I'm pretty sure this is the case. We only went to Vegas twice last year and hardly even gambled then when we moved here between my wife and I we had a total of close to 14 nights of free rooms from Caesars and mgm. I myself had a few hundred dollars of comps. We used up those comps early on as a staycation. Then we switch to our Nevada license and address in the system even with the credit cards from both Caesars and MGM and spending thousands at each property I did not see any significant tickups on either rewards. My cousin who is here this week visit us once in June when we first moved here and we were playing together for the weekend so the point should be pretty similar but this is not the case. Both him and his wife each got four to five nights of cops room for this week and he had $250 of free play and $150 in resort credits. Even with me being here and has been playing for the last 6 months at MGM I got a sleazy $13 in slot play, no comp room and not even any resort credit. I mean literally $0
In addition to the other point made. You go more often I assume. Being local they know that they dont have to give as much because you'll come back anyway. With so many places in town I would rotate. Try only visiting one players club every 3 months or longer and see if they up the offers to get you to come back. Maybe find a locals places that has good point system for cash back and forcus more play there for a while and see if the bigger name places offer more to get you back. Me personally if I were local I'd be giving all my play to a place like Emerald Island in Henderson just because they always seem to have that wheel promo going among other stuff.
About ten years ago when I sign up with a players card i used my passport and just made up a far away address at my local casinos. Everything is done online these days anyway so it's not like I'm missing offers. I'm sure in some places it helps and in some places it doesn't matter.
Our good friend Travel Ruby touched on this shortly after her move from MId-America to Vegas. The comps virtually dried up. If you think about it, there's gotta be some motivation for me to go from the peninsula (a vacation destination) out to Vegas. That motivation? Comps. When you're in Vegas on comps (or not) you're pretty much a captive until your flight is called. Residents aren't as anchored.
When I was in Vegas last time, my Uber driver talked about how locals barely get anything on the Strip but her son (who lives on the east coast) will be given 4 free nights with $100+ RC, no problem. However, she lives near Green Valley Ranch and that place treats her well for being local.
Stations offer point multipliers for Boarding Pass to locals but not to non-locals starting in 2021. They also notably cut bounce back for video poker players local or non-local, so video poker players need the point multipliers to make up for that loss.
So very true. I moved here 23 years ago and I used to get promised the moon. Not after I moved here. Although Caesars doesn't seem to care if you are local or not (you get the same IMHO). MGM gives me absolutely nothing now as a local. The M is great for locals if you live in the South (meaning Henderson) and Aliante is okay if you are in the North.
Why would locals have boarding passes? Like, if they had to travel for work, vacation, etc. Stations is trying to entice them to come in when they get home?
I'm not local, but I've heard 4Q treats locals pretty well. My son gets a lot of stuff from ELCO as a local.
