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2010-08-13
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I Want a Divorce
My relationship with my belly is dysfunctional. I've stuffed its face with wedding cake and I call it the-old-ball-and-chain. That's certainly evidence that I want out.
( Caution: High levels of emo BS detected... )
( Caution: High levels of emo BS detected... )
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A Day Late and a Dollar... Extra?
I've been fiddling with the Orbitz website, looking at my Las Vegas trip options. This exposed some weird, possibly temporary, artifacts of their pricing algorithms.
If I were to take Westjet on November 25th and stay 3 nights at the MGM Grand, it costs $616 (assuming double occupancy).
If I stay a fourth night, the whole things drops a whole dollar to $615.
Thinking about it, the Sunday night flight back to Calgary must be a lot more expensive then the Monday night flight back - enough so that it completely cancels out the cost of the extra night's stay.
Which is not to say it would be cheaper in absolute terms - I'd be staying in Vegas an extra day. Vegas: The city designed to vacuum up every cent in your pocket. That dollar savings would likely cost me another $200 once the meals, alcohol and shows kick in.
Another weird thing was that they had separate entries for "Paris Las Vegas" and "Gay Paris Las Vegas", the latter being $30 more expensive.
It's the same resort. Now I know that the Harrah's group markets their properties to different segments of the population (PLV towards gays, The Rio towards Hispanics, the Flamingo to older couples. Note, your money is good at any of the properties), but I can't think of any reason why they'd charge gays more. The amenities list didn't seem any different (and my checking it out may have flagged me as gay to Orbitz' data-miners. Oh well, more cruises in my inbox) and PLV itself didn't see particularly gay-friendly or gay-hostile by the standards of Las Vegas - which is to say, they're happy to serve anyone with discretionary income.
All I can think of is they modify the rooms slightly - different set of channels enabled on the TV, different magazines on table. Little touches that make the room less hetero-normative. Or they don't change the room at all and the $30 difference is to make people think that they've done all that.
If I were to take Westjet on November 25th and stay 3 nights at the MGM Grand, it costs $616 (assuming double occupancy).
If I stay a fourth night, the whole things drops a whole dollar to $615.
Thinking about it, the Sunday night flight back to Calgary must be a lot more expensive then the Monday night flight back - enough so that it completely cancels out the cost of the extra night's stay.
Which is not to say it would be cheaper in absolute terms - I'd be staying in Vegas an extra day. Vegas: The city designed to vacuum up every cent in your pocket. That dollar savings would likely cost me another $200 once the meals, alcohol and shows kick in.
Another weird thing was that they had separate entries for "Paris Las Vegas" and "Gay Paris Las Vegas", the latter being $30 more expensive.
It's the same resort. Now I know that the Harrah's group markets their properties to different segments of the population (PLV towards gays, The Rio towards Hispanics, the Flamingo to older couples. Note, your money is good at any of the properties), but I can't think of any reason why they'd charge gays more. The amenities list didn't seem any different (and my checking it out may have flagged me as gay to Orbitz' data-miners. Oh well, more cruises in my inbox) and PLV itself didn't see particularly gay-friendly or gay-hostile by the standards of Las Vegas - which is to say, they're happy to serve anyone with discretionary income.
All I can think of is they modify the rooms slightly - different set of channels enabled on the TV, different magazines on table. Little touches that make the room less hetero-normative. Or they don't change the room at all and the $30 difference is to make people think that they've done all that.