There’s been a sort of secret VIP room in different MLife properties.  If you were Platinum or Diamond with MLife, you could check in there and stop in for coffee, water and champagne. For a great trip report that goes into the VIP room in the Mirage, check out Hack …

The Mirage Las Vegas I am a platinum with MLife (through my Hyatt Diamond status) and I get strip-view upgrades at the Mirage every time I go. Since this trip was a girls weekend, I wanted to see how big I could go.  So I folded a $100 bill underneath …

I use my cell phone to stay on top of deals.  I’ve set it up so that I actually get texted when various deal sites post something I’m interested in. I’ve written up how to subscribe to deals on twitter, including the Flight Deal. Did you miss out on Widerøe/Frontier/etc’s cheap deals? …