Venetian Las Vegas Rolling Out New Loyalty Program

The Venetian Resort Las Vegas will soon launch Venetian Rewards — a new customer loyalty program that will replace Grazie Rewards.

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Venetian Las Vegas. The venue is launching the new Venetian Rewards program in March. (Image: Vegas Means Business)

Venetian Rewards is slated to debut in March, though an exact date wasn’t given. The new customer loyalty plan will feature four tiers — Jade, Sapphire, Ruby, and Diamond. The new program is dubbed by the operator as “the most rewarding program on The Strip.”

Venetian Rewards will be the way to make your stay at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas shine. You will be able to earn Tier and Rewards Points on everything from gaming and dining to entertainment and spa experiences. When it comes to perks, think things like suite upgrades and complimentary stays,” according to a statement.

The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is operated by private equity giant Apollo Global Management, which acquired the venue’s operating rights from Las Vegas Sands in early 2021. That transaction included the venue then known as the Sands Expo and Convention Center and ended, perhaps temporarily, the seller’s domestic exposure.

Inside Venetian Rewards

Venetian Rewards members can earn points and tier credits in a variety of ways, including through non-gaming avenues. For example, for every $1 spent on dining, entertainment, hotel rooms, retail and spas at Venetian and Palazzo, rewards members will earn two points.

That could set Venetian Rewards apart from competing offerings on and off the Strip because some operators only grant customers points and tier credits on gaming activities.

Speaking of Venetian Rewards and gaming, the program grants participants one point for every $4 wagered on slot machines and a single point for every $10 bet on video poker. Regarding table games, plan users get two points based on average bet and length of play.

Venetian Rewards points can also be spent in various ways. For every 100 points earned, customers get $1 in dining, entertainment, hotel rooms, retail and spas credits. For gaming, every 100 points entitles a bettor to $1 in free play on slots or video poker.

Jade is the lowest tier and participants graduate to Sapphire after accruing 3,000 points. Twenty thousand points are required to move up to Ruby while 50,000 points are required to gain Diamond status. Ruby and Diamond clients get annual dining credits of $100 and $200, spa credits of $150 and $300 and airfare credits of $150 and $450, among other perks.

Why Venetian Rewards Matters

Casino guests love accruing points and tier credits, and data confirm that rewards programs are effective at bolstering customer loyalty.

However, customers of all stripes have complained in recent years that it’s increasingly difficult and costly to move up the tier ranks and benefits offered by gaming companies are less attractive than ever before.

That could signal that Venetian Rewards has an opportunity to potentially pilfer business from rival Strip customer loyalty programs.

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Venetian Slot Outage NOT a Cyberattack, Las Vegas Casino Insists

An outage taking at least 50 slot machines out of service at The Venetian on Friday was not the result of a cyberattack, officials with the Las Vegas Strip resort insisted.

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When The Venetian suffered an outage of its slot machines on Friday, casino attendants reportedly told guests it was from “a system-wide upgrade.” (Image: beatthefish.com)

At around 2:45 p.m., gaming-floor guests began posting on social media that slot machines were either down or glitching. The outage apparently ended around 4:30 p.m.

Today, we experienced a brief outage of some of our slot machines,” read a statement from The Venetian to the media. “This was not a cyber-related incident. Slot machines have now been restored, and we are working with guests who were impacted.”

A normally trivial slot outage at The Venetian — and the casino resort’s need to issue a media statement about it — illustrates how on edge every casino on the Las Vegas Strip is right now about cyberattacks. This week, MGM Resorts International (MGM) and Caesars Entertainment (CZR) admitted to being hit by them.

According to KLAS-TV, attendants at The Venetian told guests at the time that the outages resulted from a “system-wide upgrade.” Perhaps The Venetian upgraded its system security in light of current events.

Caesars paid a ransom after getting hit by ransomware a few weeks ago, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. However, it stated that the company paid half of the $30 million originally demanded. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Caesars said its breach compromised customer driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers that were part of a customer loyalty program database.

Citing an ongoing investigation, MGM Resorts has yet to confirm what kind of cyberattack it is facing or what customer data, if any, was stolen. However, according to the credit rating firm Moody’s, it faces potential revenue losses, litigation, and a big hit to its reputation regardless of the damage the attack did.

Maybe Not Now, But Then…

The Venetian was the target of a cyberattack in February 2014, back when it was owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

The attack had no financial motive and was apparently orchestrated to punish Sands’ CEO and largest shareholder for comments he made the previous October during a panel discussion at Yeshiva University. During that discussion, Adelson suggested that the U.S. should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Iranian desert if Tehran continued its nuclear program.

According to former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the Iranian government was behind the attack.

Adelson died in 2021. A year later, his family sold the casino resort and its sister property, The Palazzo, to its current owner, Vici Properties. Apollo Global Management operates it.

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