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When one MGM Resorts Amex Offer ends, another appears. The incredibly familiar Amex Offer has returned which can help get you six nights in a Las Vegas Strip hotel for less than $47 per night – including taxes and fees.
The Deals
- Spend $300 on room and rate charges at MGM Resorts properties and get a $60 statement credit, or
- Spend $300 on room and rate charges at MGM Resorts properties and get 6,000 Membership Rewards.
Key Terms
- Expires August 30, 2018.
- Offer valid at Bellagio, ARIA, Vdara, MGM Grand, The Signature at MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay , Delano Las Vegas, Park MGM, The Mirage, New York-New York, Luxor, Excalibur, Beau Rivage, Gold Strike, Borgata and MGM National Harbor.
- Reservations must be made directly through MGM Resorts online at mlife.com, by phone, or via mobile app.
- Excludes all other MGM Resorts destinations.
- Excludes Four Seasons rooms and residences.
- Not valid for BillDirect transactions or air and hotel packages.
- Excludes gift card purchases.
Quick Thoughts
If you’re looking to stay in Las Vegas, this Amex Offer could save you up to 20% on your hotel. Even better, you can get extremely low room rates (before taxes and resort fees) when booking direct with M life. You can also credit stays to World of Hyatt, helping you rack up elite night credits at a low cost. (Edit: Per Steve’s comments below, comped nights might not earn World of Hyatt elite night credits.)
For example, there’s currently a promotion on the M life website offering up to three complimentary nights at the Luxor. (Edit: As per Nick’s comment below, it looks like these offers are targeted, so you might have different offers available.) I actually found five complimentary nights showing in a row and, when adding a sixth night, the total cost crossed the $300 threshold for the Amex Offer.
Note that this includes taxes and resort fees which come to a ridiculous $41.62 per night. Still, when subtracting the $60 Amex Offer you’d be paying a net $276.74, or only $46.12 per night.
You’ll get even more value out of the deal if you have the MGM Resorts Amex Offer that’s offering 6,000 Membership Rewards, assuming you value Membership Rewards at greater than a penny apiece. Add in the World of Hyatt points and elite night credits and you’ll do even better.
If the room rate for your stay doesn’t come to $300, you can charge meals to your room to help take you over the $300 threshold. What’s nice is that you can charge meals back to your room when eating at any MGM Resorts property. For example, when staying at the Bellagio, you can go for the Aria buffet and charge it to your room.
Be aware that when booking directly with M life, the hotel often won’t charge you until you check in, or they might only take a deposit. If your stay is after the Amex Offer expires on August 30, give the hotel a call before booking to ensure they’d be willing to charge your card before your arrival. There’ll likely be another Amex Offer when this one expires, but there’s no guarantee.
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Is it possible to pay the bill with multiple cards at check out to take advantage of this multiple times?
I’d think that’d be down to the individual hotel, so you’d need to contact them to see if they’d be able to accommodate that request.
One option to potentially make it a little easier would be to only book a few nights at a time that add up to $300 (including the resort fee & taxes) and use different cards for each set of nights.
Any idea if the $300 needs to be spent in one transaction? We found a deal that requires a deposit while booking and pay the remaining balance at checkout. The total is greater than $300, but in two separate transactions. Thanks
It should work in more than one transaction.
Thanks!
has any folks bought a GC & charged to the room? that way, will it likely count towards $300?
“You can also credit stays to World of Hyatt, helping you rack up elite night credits at a low cost.”
I would like to see confirmation of this, as what I have heard is that comped nights at MLife hotels do not count toward Hyatt elite status.
Ah, I hadn’t realized that. I’ll update the post to mention that that might be the case.
Do you have the link for the comp nights offer ? I couldn’t find it on their site.
This link should work (you’ll need to be logged in): https://www.mgmresorts.com/en/offers/offer-detail.html#/offerType=ROOM&offerId=dc945b06-066b-4517-9ba2-5df25a492673
If that doesn’t work, click on the Offers tab at the top. You’ll probably need to click ‘Load More Offers’ once or twice. It’s listed as COMPLIMENTARY DELUXE ROOM FOR THREE NIGHTS
LUXOR HOTEL & CASINO.
There’s a similar deal for the Excalibur, but I’m not sure if it’d price out the same.
I just logged into my account and found that my offer was for 4 free nights at Luxor / Excalibur or 3 nights at NY NY / Park MGM or 2 nights at MGM / Mandalay Bay or 1 night at Delano. Looks like it might be targeted with some different offers out there.
Interesting – I wonder if it’s based on status. I’ve updated the post to mention that the offers are targeted.
In general comp offers are gaming offers and are related to your play at Mlife casinos. However, I have seen some instances of the lower level resorts in their portfolio with little to no play. I know there is a difference in offer codes that start with CE vs those that start with GI but I don’t remember the specifics.
Additionally, there is sometimes a difference in the offers on the MGMresorts website relative to the individual hotel websites (i.e. the actual Luxor website) that may or may not be better.
Can you combine those offers into a long trip, or does booking one remove/exclude the others?
To be honest, I’m not sure. I’d imagine you could book a comped stay at the Luxor and then a subsequent comped stay at the Excalibur (or whatever properties you’re targeted for), but I’ve never tried it.
No, Mlife offers need to be 72 hours apart between uses. However, spouses can book individual offers back to back on their own accounts.
Thanks for confirming that.
Do you also get Hyatt elite benefits, stay credits, and points on such stays?
You have to link your M life and World of Hyatt accounts in order to get elite night credits and points. You don’t get Hyatt elite benefits as such, but they do offer a status match to M life status.
If you have Explorist or Globalist status, you’ll be matched to M life Gold status. This gives you priority check-in, a room upgrade, free parking and more.