Doing Our Part to Help the Economy

Sometimes I lay awake at night, worrying about all those people in Las Vegas that need our help.  Without tourists, there  won’t be rooms to clean, food to serve, maintenance to perform, security to manage and Craps tables to watch.  It is with this concern that I have decided it is time to help.

Okay, I’m not being completely honest here.  While I do share a genuine concern for all my fellow worker bees out there, that isn’t the reason that we are going to Las Vegas next month.  It turns out that there are some great deals going on down there right now and my sister and brother in law are going and asked us if we were interested.  After doing some quick research on weather.com to find out what the average temperature is in March and talking to my wife, we decided to splurge and have a short get away to hopefully warm up and just relax.  So far it sounds like my sister, brother in law and his sister and brother in law are going.  I booked a flight on Southwest airlines (with the "Wanna get away?" promotion) and now we are on the lookout for a good deal on a hotel.  My sister gets reward points through MGM so they are most likely going to be able to stay for free at one of the MGM hotels.  Unfortunately, I only have a Costco rewards card so I don’t get that bonus.  (I prefer the Costco cash card anyway).

If anyone knows of a great way to get a rock bottom price on a hotel towards the end of March, please let me know.  I’ve been watching fatwallet.com and have found a couple decent deals, but of course, I like screaming deals better.  Any ideas?