Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

Primm hotel closes rooms during midweek

The company that operates three hotels in Primm has stopped taking midweek reservations at Buffalo Bill’s in an apparent effort to reduce room capacity and associated expenses.

Representatives of Las Vegas-based Herbst Gaming could not be reached to explain the closure of their Terrible’s-branded hotel Monday through Thursday evenings.

Reservations can be made at Buffalo Bill’s Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and rooms are available at the two other Terrible’s Primm Valley Casino Resorts, Whiskey Pete’s and Primm Valley. The property’s casino and restaurants are open.

The company’s Web site lists midweek nights at Buffalo Bill’s through December as “sold out,” but customers are able to book rooms in January.

During slow booking periods, hotels occasionally close wings or floors of hotel rooms, but the Herbst move is believed to be the first instance in Southern Nevada in which an entire hotel was closed to reduce capacity.

In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in August, Herbst Gaming said it was possible the company would seek bankruptcy protection if it could not refinance or restructure its debt. The company incurred that debt when, in 2007, it acquired the Primm resorts from MGM Mirage for $394 million and Sands Regent in Northern Nevada for $149 million.

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