Brief Reno Trip Report

[theacequeen]

It is always awesome when you find your "soulmate".   I finally found mine and she is my best friend as well.

   I'm happy for you as well. I never use the word soulmate (although everyone who knows us uses it about us). I'm simple -- he's just my best friend.

[chattycattty]

chatty, thanks so much for all of the seven star info. I think I had already learned all or most of it, but it is great to have all of the info in one place. I keep learning things by asking at the individual casinos. We should probably start a topic just for this.

For example, at Joliet, if you eat at the Reserve (their steakhouse), you and your companion each receive a free dessert (and their desserts are very nice -- we usually have them wrap something and take it back to our room for a breakfast). They also offer free wifi (to all guests) and free movies to seven stars. They are very generous with food comps in the casino. The Diamond Lounge and daily lounge buffet is so-so, but they do have a separate seven stars room attached with a seven stars menu. Quality of food varies. Another tip, not just for seven stars, at the Reserve on Wednesday nights, a bottle of wine from the wine list is half price. Oh, and if you are seven stars and stay overnight, they slip a breakfast comp for two at the buffet (not lounge) in with your room keys. By the way, the food at the Flavors buffet is generally less than average, but their soups are usually excellent. So I usually have soup and salad and one small dessert item. It is a shame about the quality, because they do offer quite a variety -- it just seems that everything is overcooked or dried out. They had a much larger buffet at Harrah's Reno with many of the same items, but Reno cooked theirs beautifully and thus the food was much better.

Reno, as I've mentioned earlier in this post, will give show ticket comps and also you can get boat ride comps down in Tahoe. They also gave us free Wi-Fi and movies. If you are a guest, you can go to the gift shop each AM and get your choice of a free paper (applies to all guests, not just seven stars).

I hope others will share more about comps from other Harrahs casinos and I'll add more as I think of them.

That trip you are taking from New Orleans was the one that was available when we became seven stars. We thought about it for quite a long time, and had we known you or someone else who was going on it we might have been inclined to give it a try.

When does Harrah's send out the seven stars info for the next year?

And, Chatty, congrats on getting back on the board!! CET usually does not start releasing info for the following year in regards to seven star benefits and changes until March or April. Sometimes they may share a few things before that. It seems like a couple of years ago when they changed the tier requirements from 100,000 to 150,000 and added the 1000, and 5000 tier score bonuses, we became aware of these sometime in January I believe from sevenstarinsider.com. I do remember that none of these changes were on the Total Rewards website until April. So in some ways we were kind of flying in the dark for the first couple of months.

In regards to current 7 star benefits we take full advantage of the free internet and in room movies. We have not paid to go to the movies in over 5 years. One word of caution though. Each property has different policies regarding this. With some, the media package is unlimited and others you are limited to one or two movies per day or a specific overall dollar amount per day.

Thank you for the encouragement in regards to the monthly contest. My ship has been sinking fast the last several days. I am going to give it another try as soon as I finish posting this reply. In the meantime I will still be pulling for you to win it all.

[theacequeen]

My ship has been sinking fast the last several days.

Yuck! Mine too. Feels too much like my typical "real" VP experiences. Good luck to you!