Originally Posted by
redietz
I'd swap better gambling for players' club benefits in a second. I think that's what we'd see, especially if one of the locals companies managed a takeover of one of the CET properties.
Two things that stick out when I think of the recent CET decisions:
1) Building that giant ferris wheel. I mean, the kiddie trends ended, I thought, with Excalibur ditching the dragon and the closing of the MGM theme park in back. I don't mind somebody spouting that idea at a brainstorming session, but how did that get built? What customer surveys led to that being given the go ahead? I'd love to see the research -- maybe MGM had a mole who came up with that idea.
2) The remake of Bill's, previously the Barbary Coast, into the Cromwell. What the hell? Planet Hollywood is right up the block with the identical target demographic, owned by CET. Caesars was trying to amp up their clubs inside CP. Why transform a property, at enormous cost, into something to directly compete with your own stuff? Why spend a ton of money to compete with yourself? What possible sense did that make? If the CP clubs needed a boost to compete with other clubs, how do you arrive at the conclusion to design a competing property directly across the street, cannibalizing your own customer base?