12/30/2023 0 Comments Encore at wynn las vegas king suiteSo if that’s you, just save your money.I stayed at the Wynn for the first time for one night last fall while I was in town for a work trip. I think what has happened is that Wynn management has cracked down on the $20 tip trick in the case of guests arriving under promo codes yielding low rates (as I usually do), that front desk staff must explain whenever such guests are checked-in to any kind of room other than the most basic resort room. Once it got me room 6035, that would be the top floor of the joint, what a view! Prior to that, I found the $20 tip DID get me upgrades at Wynn. In 2009, I stayed on the Wynn side and there I also did not get an upgrade, but was handed my $20 back. Later, she asked if I wanted the tip back, but I declined. Hence I was not being offered any upgrade. She showed me a map of the 38th floor (not high enough to be a panoramic upgrade) and pointed out two rooms, NEAR the corners but not actually corner rooms. I figured a mountain view corner room on a lower floor was not such a stretch, checking in on a Tuesday. What I WAS VERY SUBTLY asking for was an upgrade to a costlier corner view room, where the room has windows on two sides. I said “mountain view” (something most people don’t want) … “away in a corner where it’s quiet.” I did NOT ask for a higher floor room, that’s called panoramic and it’s a pricier room and an upgrade. I looked a bit perplexed so she then said “I can accept it later.” Then, later in the process, she asked me what kind of room I would prefer. The clerk said “Sorry we cant accept tips in the middle of a transaction.” Then she slid the bill aside onto the counter next to her keyboard. As usual, I don’t immediately say anything. Since we were already comped one night in the suite through a Red Card mail offer, we essentially paid for 3 nights at the Panoramic Suite for less than what it would normally cost for only 1 night at a non-panoramic suite.Īs usual, I folded my $20 into fourths, then held it out-of-sight under the credit card (instead of the ‘sandwich between the two cards’ approach). I tried to give her the original $40, but she would only take $20. This is normally a $50 upgrade per night (so a $150 upgrade in all because we were there 3 nights). She immediately upgraded us from a Resort King suite to a Panoramic Double Queen Suite on the 62nd floor (there are 63 floors in the Encore) with an amazing view of the Vegas Strip. I asked her if there were any complimentary upgrades, as we told her we were celebrating a Bachelor-Party week for a friend who’s getting married (we weren’t). She politely split the cards, and placed my money back on the counter and said she couldn’t take any money until AFTER we finished check in. I slipped her $40 between my AMEX and drivers license. Luckily, we were given a nice femaie in her mid-20’s. There was somebody managing the line, so we couldn’t really target any particular agent. Checking out the rates online, this was a $90 per night upgrade, so we saved $360 total! Looking straight down, we could see the two Encore pools. The view to the left was of the golf course, straight ahead was the Wynn, and to the right of that we could see down the strip. I ended up with a Tower Suite King on the 54th floor. I said something high and with a nice view of the strip. The woman asked where my wife was and I said she was still in the parking garage (which was true – she was too embarrassed to be with me when I tried this trick). I told her we were celebrating my wife’s birthday (which was actually a month away). She said she would check and asked if I was celebrating anything special. She let the $50 fall on her monitor, where it stayed for the entire transaction. I handed the check in lady a $50 sandwich and asked if there were any complimentary upgrades available. My package was 1 night comped and 3 nights at casino rate ($149/night) in a standard Resort King room at Encore, set up though my executive host (I am a Red Card holder and definitely not a high roller). This is definitely not the case! I checked in on a Sunday around 6 PM for a 4 night stay. There seems to be a ton of people saying the sandwich trick will not work at Wynn properties.
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