Fall 2020 Vegas trip

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As far as the hotel bill - over a month in a thousand dollar a night suite, forgettaboutit. The bill was about nothing.

We had to move after twenty some nights due to the Nevada regulation against "residents" living in hotel rooms, and the bill for that portion:



This had one resort fee that had not yet been comp'ed, and once this was removed,

ended up at thirty-four dollars! The folio did not show any of the room service, which was full comp'ed off, tips and all. That is unusual - I haven't seen room service tips disappear alongside the food.

Also comp'ed off were some two thousand dollars in spa services.

The reason the tips that were not comp'ed off are so low, is that almost all of these represent take-out - for take-out I'd tip anywhere from two to five dollars. The way I looked at it, a full meal, spread out of an hour or two, deserved the usual full service tip, but to place food that the chef had already placed into containers in plastic bags and hand it to me, I figured a small token tip was enough.

As far as tipping cocktail waitresses and VIP staff, I kept a supply of $5. bills for that. I'd cash one of my winning $100. checks every other day or so, and tip all of those fives out.

As well, I put significant (up to $250.) tips for the dealers on the side of my own bets. I'd say, without a doubt, that during the course of my stay I tipped out easily at least ten grand to the dealers. They all love me!

The second half of the stay in the suite, was also almost fully comp'ed, including another fifteen hundred or so in spa.

There were about forty-five dollars in food that the host hadn't comp'ed yet, which he handled before we checked out. He did not comp the spa retail, which left the final bill between the two stays in the two identical suites, at around six hundred dollars. A mere pittance, and representation of a solid forty grand or even more of comps.