 
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 28
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 10:07 pm: |    |
Maybe Gambling Man can help me here. Just wondering where the Greektown hotel intends to position itself. Are they going for luxury accomodations like the other two to attract the serious gamblers with comps or is the hotel planning to be more of a mid-range property?
With its proximity to the ballparks, they can fill the hotel with paying customers (regular folks like me) every weekend if they keep the rates under $200 and maybe just have a luxury level for the top 50 suites. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 2820
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 10:40 am: | |
Good question - that would be fun to stay there and go to a Lions/Tiger game or concert |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 39
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 9:57 pm: | |
Giving this a bump in hopes that Gambling Man or someone else with inside info has an answer. |
Gambling_man
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Username: Gambling_man
Post Number: 1025
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 11:17 am: | |
Sorry, I didn't see the post....Our hotel should have a four-star feel with a three-star price tag. Our hotel rooms will be smaller than the rooms at the other two.....we are not planning on charging anywhere near the current "asking" price of the other two. I would say we will be at $159-179 weekend and $99-159 weekday, depending upon what kind of gamer you are......... |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2040
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 2:29 pm: | |
"depending upon what kind of gamer you are"
The more I lose, the more I get comped? |
Emu_steve
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Username: Emu_steve
Post Number: 505
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 3:14 pm: | |
I'm not a casino expert ('though I visit Vegas once or twice a year for many years).
When it comes to hotels one needs to figure how the location fits into one's lifestyle and activities.
As Bobj suggests, the Greektown location near CoPa or Ford Field would seem to be a big +.
Based on that, if I were coming to detroit for a Tigers' weekend (I've done that before), I'd most likely choose the RenCen or Greektown (I chose the RenCen the last time).
Each of which offers more to me then say MGM or Motor City. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2046
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 3:27 pm: | |
Don't forget about the Hilton Garden or the newly renovated Milner... |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 43
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 4:07 pm: | |
Thanks Gambling Man. I forgot that a casino's prime time for rooms is weekends as opposed to downtown business hotels. That's great for me as I usually get to Detroit a couple of times during the week in the summer for Tiger games but end up in the burbs or Windsor because the downtown hotels are double the weekend rate. |
Upinottawa
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Username: Upinottawa
Post Number: 1014
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 4:23 pm: | |
Don, you're a Canadian: who cares what the price is in lowly US dollars!  |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 52
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 8:34 pm: | |
UpinOttawa,
I heard the 401 goes east from Toronto now as well? I always thought it was just a long driveway built to get me from my house to Motown! |