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The Savage Squirrel wrote:

Royback wrote:

Thanks everyone.

Guernsey Globetrotter! Has this worked for you. Thought it was a $100 dollar sandwich!

$50 maybe, $100 is a lot when it may be accepted and your upgrade may just be same room from Mountain View to Strip View. Depends what you’re after and how long you’re staying. For $100 on very short stays it’s getting to the point where you could have just booked and paid for an upgrade for that much or less.

I was once upgraded in Vegas from small mini-suite to an absurdly huge top end suite despite no status and no $ offered at checkin. 1 night stay only and wrote on booking notes that this was a special occasion were the factors that may have precipitated this. So your $ offer may just get you what you’d have been offered anyway…

I used to travel to Vegas a lot for stays of typically 7-14 nights. I haven’t been for seven years though.
I did used to try the $100 tip but I was always very specific about what I wanted (suite etc) and I was successful more often than not.
I never used to bother with the ‘sandwich’ though.