MGM Resorts to close Mirage, Mandalay Bay hotels midweek due to visitor slump

[TexasTowelie]

LAS VEGAS – Due to a lack of demand in the aftermath of COVID-19 travel fallout, MGM Resorts will shut down hotel operations during the midweek at the Mirage and Mandalay Bay resorts.

Starting on Nov. 30, the hotel towers at Mirage and Mandalay Bay will open at noon on Thursdays and stay open until noon on Mondays.

Casinos, restaurants and amenities inside The Strip resorts will remain open.

“We are constantly evaluating occupancy levels and adjusting operations accordingly,” MGM Resorts said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/11/25/mgm-resorts-close-mirage-mandalay-bay-hotels-midweek-due-visitor-slump/6420977002/
(Reno Gazette Journal)

[liberal N proud]

1. They all are convention hotels

All those conventions have canceled or gone virtual.

I used to attend a conventions the week after thanksgiving every year. I know it was virtual this year.

The question becomes, will those types of events ever return?

[underpants]

2. So many hotels rely on conventions

At my previous position I coordinated conferences. One was 250 One was 400. It takes a long time to get everything including speakers but for the hotels there is the actual host and always spill over hotels too. The anchor hotel in Charlottesville worked with smaller hotels all the time. The anchor was operating in a full schedule and the spill overs were certainly expecting those room sales.

Not on a Vegas schedule but there are Omnis and Doubletrees and Hamptons Suites etc all over who are built and staffed for nothing but this.

Just a few weeks ago I did a virtual that’s usually at Va Beach in the dead of December for 700 people in hotels.

[samnsara]

3. did the pro rodeo event cancel? That fills at least 3 convention centers with vendors for..

....the Cowboy Christmas that accompanies the competition. Ive attended it many times ( during a Pharmacy convention that happens at the same time) and its packed....normally.