Originally Posted by
redietz
I'll be staying at three different Boyd properties at the end of the month. For some reason, they offered me a lot of free rooms many different places this summer. I don't grasp the rhyme or reason, but I'll take them. Last time I did the Young at Heart thing, I was told by the booth person that it might take forever to qualify for the free meals playing video poker, but if I ran a few bucks through on a slot machine, that would do it. I haven't been to the Sun Coast in years, but they gave me rooms for many different weeks in July/August, so I'll camp there for a few nights.
Traditionally, there were 2 periods that were considered very slow for Vegas. 1.) is the 2nd and 3rd weeks of December, from right after the National Rodeo leaves town until Christmas Eve. This is still the slowest time of the year. Some Shows and even restaurants close up.
The second slow period was July and August for obvious reasons....about 110 to 115 obvious reasons.
However, in recent years things have changed
a bit regarding the summer months, especially in regards to the strip and downtown touristy areas. This period is no longer as dead as it used to be and those deep discounted rooms aren't as deeply discounted anymore.
However off-strip, which is what the Boyd properties are, this is still a very slow period. The older crowd, that visits Vegas 3-4 times a year doesn't come during July-August. So off-strip properties like Boyd, deeply discount rooms, and free rooms are at the top of the give-away list to out-or towners, that is those with an out of town mailer address. So that is the first offer you will get free rooms. Even before free meals and certainly before free play offer. The rooms are there. Doesn't cost them much give them away, just whatever they pay the cleaning girls. I am sure the logic is that give someone from out of town a free room and if they go to the trouble to travel, they will spend something.