Got in early around 9:30 but went to timeshare thing to waste 4 hours and got $150 cash for that. Anyways so I get back around 1:30 and go up to the counter. Give her my last name, and she says ah King bed non smoking etc etc. I said yes. She then goes looks likes there are no Kings available right now so that kind of threw everything off right there. As I out my ID $20 I b/ and the CC on the counter I ask say there any complimentary upgrades to a suite or anything, and she says nope for $20 blah a night you can etc etc etc. I don’t think she saw it. So I took a few seconds and kind of looked at the CC $20 and ID, and you said are sure there is nothing available, and then she seemed to notice the money, and gives me the “hold on one second” finger and says just a sec wait for my manager to leave. She then says oh you are tall like my husband and he cant fit in the queen size beds. Types away and finds a King, then gave us some buffet coupons, and some other card with some deals on it. So the $20 paid for themselves in buffet since they were $5 each person. I also got a late checkout time of 1:00 instead of 11:00 not complete failure but no room upgrade really.

checked in late on Friday night around 11pm – guy was a young male about 23/24 – did the $20 trick and he looked around on computer and said had nothing as the hotel was booked solid – apologized and said he wished there was something he could do but I should come back the next night – he returned the $20 – I believe that he was being honest

ID, credit card, folded $20, “can you check on any available upgrades?” She flipped the pile over, looked at the 20 and started typing away. Only downside was that we got upstairs to discover it was a smoking room, but the smell seemed to dissipate as the days passed and the extra space and seclusion (I never saw a soul get on/off the elevator with us the entire week) were worth the minor inconvenience of the stale cigarette smoke.

Side note: I had booked the PDMILL package and went to redeem the 2-for-1 Fantasy coupon, only to find it was apparently only good for the cheaper tier of seats. However, another $20 to the usher got us moved to the front row. Never fails to amaze me.

Clerk initially offered a tower room upgrade (initially reserved a pyramid room), I asked if there were any suites, she said yes, there are player’s suites and tower luxury suites. Player’s suites are better equipped but about the same size as a standard room. So I took the tower luxury suite.

I had initially booked the Pyramid Spa Suite for June 3rd and 4th (Sunday-Monday). My schedule changed and I was able to get into town a day earlier. There was no availability on the Luxor web site for the Spa Suite on June 2nd. I went ahead and booked the standard pyramid hoping the $20 trick could get me in the suite a night earlier and a lot cheaper. A young attractive African American woman named Tiffany called me over to her station and I explained my situation to her while handing her the $20 bill between the license and credit card. “I think we are pretty booked, but let me check.” She laid the the $20 bill out on the counter and said “your in luck.” She got me upgraded me from the Pyramid Standard to the Spa suite for Saturday night and let me sign the paper work for both of my reservations right then so I wouldn’t have to check out and check back in. I’m only upset that I spent the extra money to book the suite in the first place. I have no doubt I could have had the same success had I just booked the standard. I’ll know next time.

I had never tried front desk tipping before but after reading the postings I decided to give it a try. I arrived at the hotel around 2pm and there were only four people in front of me so I decided it was a good time to try the $20 trick. I folded the twenty between my id and cc and ask if there were any complimentary upgrades. The clerk (who I assume must have been new) had to go ask her supervisor but came back and said that a non-smoking king Tower Luxury Suite was available on the 20th floor.

By Luxor standards the community check in line was short (around 15-20) which fed to 5 check in stations that were open. I made some small talk about liking this property, and politely asked about upgrades. Like others, after my request, my agent spoke with his supervisor. I was provided a Tower Deluxe Suite (size 1,050 sq feet) on the 21st floor (22 floors in that building). Later on I checked the room rates, and since it’s a slow time of the year, the Tower Deluxe Suites were available for $180/night, so they must have had a lot of room inventory. Though it was great to have all that room, the furnishings/towels/etc. were nothing special. HEY but for $20, it was a great deal. Cheers.

I made it a little early to the hotel – because I knew that my dates of stay were very busy for the hotel (2 huge conventions ~70000 people in LV at the time). I saw online that all rooms were completely sold out, so didn’t know how much the trick would work. Went with my ID, credit card, folded $20. “Are there any complimentary upgrades?” He typed away and wrote down all these room numbers on a small piece of paper and then crossed one by one out telling me that those rooms (it appeared) were all reserved. He then wrote down one more number and told me that he got me a tower suite that was also non-smoking (exactly what I wanted!).

ID, credit card, folded $20 in that order. “Do you have any complimentary upgrades?” Clerk typed away and put us in a top-floor suite on a seemingly empty floor!

Clerk tried to look up rooms, all suites were sold out. She said it was a very busy weekend. She did try to upgrade me