TR Snippet - Overview of expenses

Yes, it was a losing trip.
However, for those of you who travel, here is what a losing trip to Vegas costs.
And for those of you who come back from Vegas and see the eyes roll when you tell friends that you lost $1516, here is the mathematics to put that losing number in perspective.
I like to get folks to give me the amount spent on their last vacation adventure and compare costs.
I did not add in tips, nor did I include the value of free alcohol which easily exceeds value of any tips, especially since free drinks means I tried B-52, Caesar's spicy bloody Mary (tequilla) and enjoyed plenty of Courvasier and never had a morning coffee at the poker table without Sambuca.
Some trip I need to just count the number of free drinks in one trip. I think it would exceed the number of drinks I drink in a year at home.
However, this math gives a pretty good sense of expenses and value.



ROOMS-
Total cash paid for rooms was $146 (minus $32 back from the El Cortez unusual freeplay room deal.)
15 nights computes to
$7.60 a night for rooms.
$10 a day average over 16 days for food
Lost $1516 or an average of $94.75 a day over 16 days gambled away
$5.66 a day over 16 days for transportation and entertainment (including a rental car day trip and hike to Red Rock Canyon.)



So, (not counting any tips,) the trip cost me
$117.66 a day.


*******************************************************
BELOW ARE THE DETAILS OF THE COMPUTATION:
I did not count air as I had two free legs from SW although I ended up spending money to fly other places on the way.


ROOMS
Orleans - 2 nights free - with $10 food comp



Eastside Cannery-1 night free



Sam's Town 6 nights for a total of $146
Note here that because I booked on the B Connected site, even at these ridiculously low rates, I was not charged the resort fee. Since for my weeknights the fee would have increased my room costs by 50%, this was a great value.



Rio was 2 nights free



Four Queens was 2 nights free with $20 freeplay which I computed in my gambling scores.



El Cortez Cabana is complicated. There I got the deal of renting two Cabana suites for $120 which got me $50 in food and $70 in freeplay. I decided the food would be added in my stats as a food expense and I would adjust the cost of the room based on the result of the free play, since teh freeplay was tied to the room promo rather than a reward for past gambling.
On $70 El Cortez freeplay, I cashed out $102 or $32 in profit.
Freeplay could not be used in the best poker machines, so I wanted to limit my exposure to poor pay tables and only ran the money through once.
So the El Cortez rooms compute as free, and the extra $32 I subtracted from my room expense rather than included as gambling winnings.
**********************************************
TRANSPORTATION AND ENTERTAINMENT
Bus day 1 - Airport to Orleans/Orleans to MGM and back- $2
Bus day 2 - Orleans to Flamingo and Flamingo to Cannery East - $1
Bus day 3 - Bus back from Flamingo/then to Terribles/ then to airport $2
Bus Day 4 - Eastside Cannery to El Cortez and back - $2
Trip to Redrock -
Car with CDW- $50.59
entrance $7
gas $10
bus back from airport $1
Total is $75.59
Two Comedy shows at Four Queens $15



$90.59 / 16 = $5.66 a day
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++