@SteveSoCal wrote:
I have done a few casinos and won't do them anymore. It's too stressful and you cannot enjoy the stay. Even the ones that offered enough gaming $$ to allow time for drink attendants were difficult.
I got a comp offer to one of those resorts (based on shopping them in the past) and went there last weekend. They gave me free nights, free food and $170 gaming credit. No report required!
To me, casino shops are like cruise shops. They are already budget priced, so there is very little appeal in doing a mystery shop with them. I did a 2-night Coyle resort last month, took 3 days to write the report, had amazing food and got a $3,600 reimbursement + travel expenses & a fee. Those...I will continue to do.
They are exhausting. I helped create the reports for a few of the locations. I only do them when the owner calls or has his #1 scheduler call me. I can't do them and then go back to my full time job without taking time off. Maybe when I retire I will do them more often? I have done some where the reimbursement is over $3000 as well. The fee depends on the location, but the ones that I have done have a pretty decent fee. I like being able to keep the winnings up to a certain amount. That makes them worthwhile to me. It's been a year or more since I have done one. Burned me out.
I have lots of charts, checklists and spreadsheets when I do these. I spend too much time overpreparing.
Side note: Once somebody was murdered while I was on a casino shop. We walked in on the crime scene before it was taped off. Another time, I slipped and fell, HARD on the tile. On a completely different visit, I won so much at the high limit room, I had to go "lose down" on the high limit slots or risk having to return it all. I kept winning. It took an hour to lose enough to be where I needed to be.