Current thoughts on booking frugal rooms

EL CORTEZ
The El Cabana or Tower rooms are better than 4 Queens rooms.
The blackjack ($5 single deck 3/2 ) and the craps ($3 with ten times odds) is better.
If you look, you can find video poker that is full pay.  Not JOB, but coin dropped DB 10/7.
FOUR QUEENS
There is not DB 10/7 better than what they offer in the world.  It is full pay and a progressive royal on top of that full pay table.
9/6 JOB is there.
Nickel single zero roulette give you the best video roulette in Vegas for low rollers.  It still earns points.  In my opinion, one only plays roulette for fun so why not make it cheap.
Binions pool is hit and miss.  Some days it is not open.  I don't like the music. It is better than the El Cortez pool because their pool is still an imaginative dream.
Location is much better. 
And live poker is more accessible.  Golden Nugget is nearby.  El Cortez now closed their poker room.
I find the 4 Queens comps unique.  Mailings are for three nights rather than the usual 2 nights and can be used over the weekend.  Separate mailings for slot tournaments may mean that I can get two weekends covered in the same month.  Overlapping months lets me cover two weekends with comps.  Freeplay is very generous. And everything I earn is from playing those best in the world DB 10/7 machines.
El Cortez has of late reduced comps even to long time customers.  Some folks do really well, but others write their frustrations on the board.  If I was going to seed a casino with play for a future trip, it would be the 4 Queens and not the El Cortez.
I've been filling my downtown days with 4 Queens weekends backed up with 2 for 1 D comps for weekdays. The check in and check out are very easy.  No early check in fees.  Hardly any distance between the two back doors.  Often I can make a few trips during the time I have both rooms and so I don't have to pack it all up carefully, cut carry it in loads and empty the suitcase.
I've been filling in with American Casino Guide coupons which were giving me 2 nights at the Cabana for just over $50, but I think I got caught in the resort fee coupon invalidation, so now I have more math to do and I don't think it will work.  I won't stay in Pavillion or Vintage.  Too basic and too noisy and no room.  So, I'm considering using MyVegas for some free nights on the strip, or a week or so out Boulder at Sam's Town where I can average $20 a night some weeks even with resort fees. Good VP.  Full pay deuces at the dime level (nickel machine with 10 being the needed bet for full pay)  Full pay also at Eastside Cannery but I've yet to score a free room there even with some play.  I do get free buffets and some other benefits from their Web game section, but it is a hassle and focused more on locals than on me.  Still, I love their rooms and I might just pay for them.  They offer $10 to seniors off rack rate.