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Under a new program, those with M life loyalty cards can check in via social media at MGM Resorts hotels on the Las Vegas Strip to earn comp points.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 | 2 a.m.
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It no longer takes a roll of the dice or spin of the roulette wheel to become a high roller in Las Vegas casinos. You can now tweet your way to VIP status. Or you can use Facebook, Foursquare or Instagram.
MGM Resorts International today launched a program allowing its M life loyalty rewards members to connect their social media and loyalty rewards accounts to earn free stuff from casinos in Las Vegas, Detroit and Mississippi.
The social media connection is the latest in a trend of developing apps that put the Las Vegas Strip at the fingertips of smartphone owners.
On Monday, the Venetian and Palazzo unveiled their new Pocket Concierge, a navigation app designed to keep people from getting lost in those casinos.
With the MGM connection, it’s not only possible to become the Foursquare mayor of New York-New York casino, you can earn a free hotel room or show tickets to “Zumanity,” the Cirque du Soleil show there.
Location-based updates to Twitter, Facebook Places, Foursquare or an Instagram photo earn 500 credits for each MGM resort visited in day. That’s equivalent of spending $20 on non-gaming activities, such as restaurants or nightclubs at those casinos.
In Las Vegas, M life members can rack up 6,000 credits by checking in at all 12 MGM resorts each day, or a possible 30,000 in a year, just through social media updates. People move up a tier level at 25,000 points.
Those points and tier levels add up to more discounts and freebies. M life members can sign up online.
The social rewards are powered through Top Guest, a product from Switchfly, Inc. Switchfly is a technology company whose services include helping travelers bundle hotels and rental cars through online reservation services.
Top Guest is also used by companies such as United Airlines and Virgin America, along with Best Western and Hilton Hotels.
M life members may link their rewards to Visa credit cards and receive text messages for related offers. A purchase at an Aria retail shop, for example, could trigger an discount offer from a nearby store. Buying tickets to a show could result in a price break on dinner at the same resort.
The VP Pocket Concierge, meanwhile, aims to point people in the right direction inside the 16 million square feet of the Venetian and Palazzo. The app provides a turn-by-turn guide to restaurants, nightclubs, even ATMs and restrooms. People planning trips to Las Vegas may also book rooms, buy show tickets and receive offers from that casino resort’s Grazie Loyalty Program.
The app is one of four planned this year for the Venetian and Palazzo, developed by Meridian, a mobile software developer. The VP Concierge is available at the iTunes Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android.
Wonderful. Their Players Club is so full of glitches and inaccurate account information.This just adds to the frustration and headaches for guests and employees alike.
Mlife only credits one check-in per day and a total of 7500 Tier Credits earned via Top Guest per 3 month period.
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trend is giving cards out to people who don't gamble and don't have enough money to eat in the restaurants or gamble in the casino--but they come and 6 people buy 1 room and walk around for three days sight seeing and eating peanut butter sandwiches in the room and laying at the pool pinching pennies.
this is the insanity of todays casino executives--lets give player cards to people who don't play and don't even come to the casino and award them "points"---while the people who are gambling and losing real cash money and in the casino all the time have to beg and beg to get the smallest "comp" and they are treated like thieves for asking for small requests because they are not losing "enough" money based on some stupid formula created by non gambling executives.
if your a cash customer who buys in for four grand--you get jerked off and can't even get a free buffet--even after you beg the "executives"---now they want to give cards and points to people who don't even go to the casino and have $20 in their pocket. HOW CAN THESE EXECUTIVES CONTINUE TO HOLD THEIR POSITIONS????