Dear Canadians Having Been to Las Vegas

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Tree

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I am going to be living in Windsor in the near future and have been thinking about taking a trip to Vegas. Can you offer any suggestions for getting there as cheaply as possible (without staying in a dive once I'm there)? I was searching Priceline and I can't seem to get anything that screams GREAT DEAL!

The reason I mention Windsor is because I can hop over the bridge and take a flight from Detroit to save money.
 
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21gunsalute

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Tree said:
I am going to be living in Windsor in the near future and have been thinking about taking a trip to Vegas. Can you offer any suggestions for getting there as cheaply as possible (without staying in a dive once I'm there)? I was searching Priceline and I can't seem to get anything that screams GREAT DEAL!

The reason I mention Windsor is because I can hop over the bridge and take a flight from Detroit to save money.
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Check out Southwest Airlines. You can usually get good deals on airfare and rooms.
 
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alwayssplitaces

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Get a Total Rewards card at Caesars Windsor, then play $200 through the slots the first day until it's gone or you hit the jackpot. Then you'll get comped rooms at all the Harrahs properties in Vegas, which can save you more than $200.
 
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Tree

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alwayssplitaces said:
Get a Total Rewards card at Caesars Windsor, then play $200 through the slots the first day until it's gone or you hit the jackpot. Then you'll get comped rooms at all the Harrahs properties in Vegas, which can save you more than $200.
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Hm comps come that easily? Forgive my ignorance, I'm just used to the Lac Leamy 0 comps policy haha.
 
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alwayssplitaces

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At Harrah's Chester, if you sign up for a Total Rewards card, you get a free stay in Atlantic City AND a free stay in Vegas just for signing up. You might get the same deal at Windsor. If you run $200 through the slots on the first day, your ADT will be very high. They'll assume you will spend that much every day you play.

Although I have to admit that it is a complete waste of my time (and money) to spend an hour losing money at a slot machine. What I do is find someone playing the slots without a player's card and insert my card in their machine. Sometimes I bribe them by inserting an additional $100 in their machine if they run low, which people just can't seem to refuse. It sure beats paying for a hotel room. I ever take someone with me to Atlantic City, they're going to be playing the slots with my card in exchange for a free ride there.
 
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Tree

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That sounds like something I could get my fiancee into...just sit down at a card table and wait for them to swipe me in, then send her off to the slots with a hundo or something.

Do you know if the machine includes spending tokens you've won or just money you've deposited? I.E. deposit 100, win 100 on the frist spin, play down to 0 = 200 spent minimum?


EDIT: at Lac Leamy people were notorious for tracking down the popular dollar machines and sticking their player's card in then walking away. I did this once accidentally and came back to find my card with a tonne of extra credits on it.
 
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Tree

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I priced everything out and it looks like we are going to take a trip in February while my fiancee is on her study break; it works out nicely since she's in law school and getting away from the city will do her well. We were originally going to go in September for our anniversary, but decided that 1) I should get much better at the game before we go so I don't lose my shirt, and 2) the whole "what happens in vegas, stays in vegas" saying is true but having some freaky (good or bad) memories associated with your anniversary could prove to be deadly.

The final cost of flights from Michigan to LV plus Sunday-Thursday in a nice hotel on the strip seems to be about 400-500 per person USD (hopefully your dollar stays lower than our until then :cool2:)
 
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Tree

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Does it make sense to buy dollars at the current exchange rate? I was half kidding when I said I hope the dollar stays lower, I would have thought that unless the difference grows larger it wouldn't be worth the bother.
 
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MangoJ

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Tree said:
Does it make sense to buy dollars at the current exchange rate? I was half kidding when I said I hope the dollar stays lower, I would have thought that unless the difference grows larger it wouldn't be worth the bother.
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If you would know the exchange rates for tomorrow, you would be a rich man.

If you know that you must buy USD in short time, and you like the exchange rate that is offered now, then you should buy now. This way, you get a price you are comfortable with.

If you wait, you are effectively gambling on a bet that the exchange rates will be lower. Whether or not this bet is +EV or -EV is hard to tell. If you assume the market is efficient, the bet has zero EV. Prospects then are already included in the current exchange rate.

Even if a bet is zero EV, you would not want to take it, as it adds variance and thus risk (CEV is negative). As long as you have no other source of information, you should take the price offered now (CEV=0).
 
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Tree

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I'll consider it over the next week, it's gonna be a while before I get out of this place, who knows what will be happening then, job etc.
 
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The Chaperone

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MangoJ said:
If you would know the exchange rates for tomorrow, you would be a rich man.

If you know that you must buy USD in short time, and you like the exchange rate that is offered now, then you should buy now. This way, you get a price you are comfortable with.

If you wait, you are effectively gambling on a bet that the exchange rates will be lower. Whether or not this bet is +EV or -EV is hard to tell. If you assume the market is efficient, the bet has zero EV. Prospects then are already included in the current exchange rate.

Even if a bet is zero EV, you would not want to take it, as it adds variance and thus risk (CEV is negative). As long as you have no other source of information, you should take the price offered now (CEV=0).
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Either way you are gambling. If you buy now you are gambling that the USD will go up vs. CAD.
 
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