Booking a second MGM room while also booking a comped offer?

[Gnarlymutt]

Howdy all!

Just wanting to make sure I mind my P’s and Q’s before pulling the trigger on anything.

Wife and I have linked MGM Rewards accounts, and she is “primary” (or whatever the proper term is ). We saw an uptick in our offers for September and decided to pull the trigger on trip #3 for the year in November to celebrate mom-in-law’s birthday.

Wifey will be booking us 3 fully comped nights at Park MGM under our latest offer, but we also want to cover mom-in-law’s room as a birthday gift.

I’m curious if I book said room not on an offer, is there any risk to our status going forward.

This is relatively new territory and I want to tread lightly so as to not blow anything up out of ignorance!

Thanks in advance!

 

[nostresshere]

You can book all the rooms you want. Try from each account to see what rates you get.

depending on your level of play, a host may be able to get that second room for you. What sort of offer are you booked on?

 

[Chuck2009x]

In the MGM booking engine, you should be able to book two rooms for the same dates at the same hotel under a single reservation.

Load your offer, pick a comped room and add it to your cart.

If you're booking on the desktop website, a slide-in window will open on the right that gives you different add-on options and it has a Checkout button. Don't checkout, just "X" out of that popup.

The rooms page will reload with rooms priced at either the 15% member discount or better depending on your play level.

If you are not Gold or higher, you will have to pay resort fee on the 2nd room even if you don't have to pay it on the comped room.

If you ARE Gold or higher, resort fee will be assessed on the 2nd room but you should be able to have it removed at check in.

If you want a slightly cleaner process, you can book the rooms separately. Book the comped room, checkout, then book the 2nd room. I'm not sure how that would affect the pricing on the 2nd room. You should still get at least the 15% discount. I think that process would make it slightly easier to cancel the 2nd room if you had to.

I just tried it for a couple of cheap nights at Luxor, without going all the way through to payment and the retail room rate was $21, the member discount price for the 2nd room was $18 and if I booked it all in one reservation, they would give me the 2nd room for $13 (plus resort fee if you're not Gold).

Whatever discount they give you on the 2nd room, I don't think you're on the hook for any extra gambling. Whatever they're willing to give you now is based on your past play. Maintain the same play level and your offers should basically stay they same aside from whatever algo tweaks they'd make in the future anyway.

 

[Patman]

You can book a second (or third or fourth, ...) room. Doesn't have to be together. You can use onebof the other offer codes (advanced booking, flexible rate, ....) you just won't get a second MGM comp offer.

If you are Gold or higher you can get no resort fees on up to 2 rooms

 

[Atrophy87]

If you have a host, just ask for another room. I've had good success with getting extra rooms on the house.

 

[Gnarlymutt]

Thanks for the replies all. Definitely don’t play at a level to have a host, so that’s not an option. We’ll hit Pearl after our short trip in a couple weeks. We fell just short after our July trip.

We booked F/S/Su fully comped including no resort fees with $185 FP and $200 RC.

We’ll probably just go ahead and book the second room for the MIL.

 

[Brandt]

You may get other discounts on the 2nd room. Check the website. You may qualify for like 25% off or a food credit or something like that.

 

[Chuck2009x]

Just watch out for the 20 - 25% discount rate, it's usually called "Advance Purchase" and it's pay upfront and non-refundable.

 

[SlotGuy1979]

If you want a slightly cleaner process, you can book the rooms separately. Book the comped room, checkout, then book the 2nd room. I'm not sure how that would affect the pricing on the 2nd room. You should still get at least the 15% discount. I think that process would make it slightly easier to cancel the 2nd room if you had to.

Related question as I'm going through something similar. I booked a four-night comp stay at the Cosmo in October. My sister has indicated that she would like to join me. Out of curiosity, I checked the identical date range while logged into my MGM account. Cosmo no longer shows up as a comp offer, which makes complete sense, but all other properties are showing my standard comp offer (4 free nights with FP/RC). Historically when I tried this, it would only show me discounted rates, not additional comp stays. It seems a little too good to be true, and I'm apprehensive of booking a second room this way out of fear that it's a bug. I don't want to burn any bridges or impact my offers. Anyone have any insight? I did a bit of Googling and read that people experienced this with Cosmo offers last year, but it was a bug that was supposedly fixed?

 

[Mike349]

Try and add that room to your basket.
It used to work last year but it stopped at some point.

 

[SlotGuy1979]

Try and add that room to your basket.
It used to work last year but it stopped at some point.

Ah ha! That was exactly it. It errors out when you try to add it to the cart. Thanks.