wendover recession?

Planning to visit Wendover April 5,6,7. I was wondering how bad the economy has affected the hotels .. ? How crowded is it, and have the casinos also suffered.. ? Thanks in advance. !!

wendover recession?

Hello Jim.

I usually head down to Wendover on a Monday or Tuesday night.

While Mid-week has always been fairly slow, things do seem to have slowed down even more due to the economy.

Weekends are busiest, but weeknights still have enough business for it to be fun. There are times (ie between midnight and 4:00 am) that I have had the whole pit to myself and only see a few people wandering around the slots.

Betweeen 7:00 am and midnight things are still pretty hopping all week long.

Hope this helps,

Boyd.

wendover recession?

Wendover Boyd is certainly the expert with first hand knowledge... however I just read this article in the Tooele Transcript which is really interesting:

';The taxable revenue report for January 2009 from the Nevada State Gaming Control Board shows taxable revenue in downtown Las Vegas is down 25.2 percent; the Las Vegas strip area down 32.9 percent; the Mesquite area down 15.2 percent; the Reno area down 2 percent; and North Shore Lake Tahoe down 10.2 percent.

The figures for Wendover go against the trend. In January 2009, taxable gaming revenue for the Wendover area of Elko County was up 16.5 percent.

“Business is holding pretty steady,” said Saul Andradea, spokesperson for the Peppermill, Rainbow, and Montego Bay Hotels and Casinos. “I would not say it is booming, but it is definitely better than other areas of Nevada.”

Sorry, you can read the text here:

http://www.tooeletranscript.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home_top_stories_news%26amp;id=2129991-Wendover+bucking+the+odds+%26amp;article-Wendover%20bucking%20the%20odds%20%20=%26amp;widget=push%26amp;instance=home_news_1st_right%26amp;open=%26amp;

Thanks for the information Travelin. Very interesting statistics. I wonder if it is because Salt Lake City has not been hit with the recession quite as hard as most of the rest of the country? I also wonder if the cheap casino junket flights also have something to do with it? Whatever the reason, I am really glad to hear that Wendover%26#39;s gaming industry is fairing better than the rest of Nevada.

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