In a 26 second TikTok, @maddylinelove1 films herself in a Las Vegas hotel lobby holding a folded bill and explains what she has just tried. “I saw this trick,” she says. “If you put a 20 in between your card and your ID when you’re checking in at a hotel in Vegas, they might give you an upgrade.”
Her next line is the result: “So I tried it, and they’re out of upgrades.” Her caption opens with the same verdict, “It didn’t work but it’s okay cause she was super sweet still and we got in our room 2 hours early!” The hashtags on the post are #lasvegashack, #lasvegas, #cosmopolitanlasvegas, #lasvegasnevada and #bellagio.
The clip is filmed in selfie mode close to her face, with a bright, glassy shopping arcade behind her. In the first seconds she holds the bill up toward the camera and then lets it hang from her fingers as she talks.
What she got instead came from the employee, according to the video. In her words, the front desk employee was giving her mom a bar credit for her birthday, and was also “getting us, like, the best view possible.” The auto generated captions on the video render the credit amount unclearly, so no figure is given here. She adds, “So we will see what the view is.”
The final seconds cut to the room. The camera looks out a tall window from a high floor over a large pool of water, a parking structure and a skyline with a Ferris wheel in the distance. “I will say the view makes up for no upgrade,” she says. “Look at that. We’re gonna be able to see the fountain when it’s dark. I’m so excited.”
The tip she tried did not produce an upgrade, and she says so in the first ten seconds. What she credits for a good outcome is the employee’s goodwill: a bar credit for her mother’s birthday, a room ready two hours ahead of time, and a view that she says she was told would be the best available.
For a reader planning a Las Vegas stay, the specifics she reports are the useful part. A birthday came up at check in and a bar credit followed. A friendly exchange at the desk came with an early room and a view she was pleased with. A reader who wants something similar can mention an occasion and a view preference politely at the desk, and can ask whether an early room is possible, without relying on a trick she reports did not work for her.
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