Does MGM Tier Status Actually Improve Offers, or Is It Mostly Based on Play?
I go to Vegas 2–3 times a year and hope to keep doing so for the foreseeable future. Late last year, I signed up for the MGM Iconic World Elite Mastercard. I liked the resort credit since it offsets most of the annual fee, but the biggest draw for me was earning 6x MGM Tier Credits on spend at MGM properties.
I’m Gold now largely because of the card, but I’m realizing I may have misunderstood the relationship between tier status and offers. I assumed that as I climbed the tier ladder, I’d start seeing better offers regardless of my actual coin-in/play. That hasn’t really happened.
For comparison, my mom is also Gold, but she gets significantly better offers. She’s received charter offers where MGM flies her to Biloxi with a free room and free play, regular concert and sporting event offers, and comped rooms at higher-end Vegas properties like Bellagio and Cosmopolitan.
The obvious difference is our gambling. My wife and I each have our own MGM Rewards card/account, although MGM has told us they’re “synced” together somehow. I’m not entirely sure what that means or whether our play is actually combined for offers. Between the two of us, we probably put $1,500–$2,500 through tables/slots during a typical Vegas trip, plus I spend a couple hundred a month on BetMGM. My mom is primarily a slot player and probably puts around $6,000 through during a trip.
So is the difference simply that MGM offers are driven much more by actual gambling activity/theoretical loss than tier status?
In other words, should I basically view Gold status from the credit card as giving me the published Gold benefits, like waived resort fees and the cruise benefit, while expecting my personalized offers to remain based primarily on how much and what I actually gamble?
Just trying to figure out if I’m missing something or if I misunderstood how the MGM Rewards ecosystem works.
Thanks, all!