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Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (12:46 p.m.)
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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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Too bad for the Herbst Brothers that they were the last in a chain of organizations to own those three properties, Primm Family got out, Kerkorian got out and Herbst was left holding the proverbial bag. Goes to show you everything is in the timing for all of us, including casino owners.
"Vegas is recession-proof. Vegas is recession-proof."
Anyone out there STILL throwing that one around?
Thank you harry Reid and ms. pelosi. We don't need to drill, we just need to conserve. Now the public is conserving and not flying to Las Vegas and not driving to Las Vegas and we are losing our jobs. We need an everything now policy that expands our energy resources with American jobs to save our jobs NOW. We don't need a President with a NO energy policy.
neiman1, Are you insane? Herbst is trouble because he made a bad busines decision. You and your ridiculous rant about drilling reminds people why people need to be medicated. LET OIL DRILL ON THE 86 THOSAND ACRES THEY HAVE LEASES ON AND WON'T DRILL ON. Take your meds and go lie down.
neiman1, Not to mention Bush and McCain along with Phil Gramm deregulated the banking industry and now everyone is broke.
WE'D LIKE TO DRIVE TO VEGAS - IT'S OUR FAVORITE PLACE & WE PREFER ROAD TRIPS. BUT, ALAS, THE HIGH COST OF FUEL FORCES US TO GO A CASINO CLOSER TO HOME.
OF COURSE THIS COUNTRY WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF WE PRODUCED OUR OWN FUEL.
MCCAIN & PALIN WANT TO DRILL-BABY-DRILL. BUT IF THEY DON'T GET IN, LOOK FOR PRICES TO SKYROCKET AT THE PUMP. OBAMA, REID & PELOSI IGNORE THE ABUNDANT NATURAL RESOURCES WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN. HOW RIDICULOUS THAT WE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES!
"WE'D LIKE TO DRIVE TO VEGAS - IT'S OUR FAVORITE PLACE & WE PREFER ROAD TRIPS. BUT, ALAS, THE HIGH COST OF FUEL FORCES US TO GO A CASINO CLOSER TO HOME."
Now that gas has come down close to it's historical norm, I guess this means that you will be able to drive back to Primm?
no, I think you will think of another reason to blame Obama, Reid and Pelosi, since you obviously are not willing to consider rational reasons for the spike in oil. Regardless where we get oil from, the companies will make sure they profit on our backs. Exxon Mobil, in the midst of a worldwide financial collapse, still managed to post the highest profits for a quarter in history. wherever we get our oil, we will still get screwed.
Some day, even those who willingly slit their wrists for three letters - GOP- will finally come to their senses.
"Some day, even those who willingly slit their wrists for three letters - GOP- will finally come to their senses."
Ha ha nice. It'll be too late for the d-bags by then. They're the same idiots who voted for Bush in 04 despite all the criminal acts and destruction he had perpetuated already.
Really? No one wants to stay in some stinky hotel in the middle of nowhere?
--geez..what a shocker!