Inside Gaming: Downtown hotel-casino launches all-inclusive deal

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Plus, a Nevada hotel-casino is launching all-inclusive wedding packages and a giveaway offering one couple the chance to celebrate their wedding at no cost.

Another downtown Las Vegas casino is offering an all-inclusive deal.

Golden Nugget Las Vegas is offering a $199 bundle that includes a two-night midweek stay, a $50 per nighttime nutrient and beverage recognition and nary edifice fees. The woody is disposable done Dec. 28, according to the property’s website.

Guests besides person VIP check-in, a 1 p.m. precocious checkout and a complimentary upgrade to a Premier Rush Tower king oregon queen room, based connected availability. A Dubai cocoa barroom is included arsenic a invited gift.

A afloat deposit is required astatine booking, and reservations indispensable beryllium canceled astatine slightest 72 hours earlier accomplishment to debar forfeiting the deposit. The woody lone applies to caller reservations.

Golden Nugget joins a increasing fig of Las Vegas resorts packaging rooms with food, drinks and different amenities for a acceptable price. Downtown properties Circa and Plaza person offered akin promotions successful caller years.

Plaza introduced its all-inclusive edifice package successful summertime 2024 and has brought it backmost each summertime since. Its 2026 mentation includes meal and dinner, bottomless drinks, waived edifice fees and parking.

Circa’s $400 “All-In Summer” package includes a two-night midweek stay, $100 each successful eating and beverage credits and a reserved daybed astatine Stadium Swim, with edifice fees and taxes included.

Southern Nevada edifice offers all-inclusive wedding packages

CasaBlanca Resort has offered stay-and-play edifice and play packages for 30 years. Now the Mesquite hotel-casino is getting joined to different all-inclusive idea.

CasaBlanca is launching all-inclusive wedding packages and a giveaway offering 1 mates the accidental to observe their wedding astatine nary cost.

The mean wedding present costs astir $34,200, according to The Knot’s 2026 Real Weddings Study, and much than 85 percent of couples accidental the system has impacted their wedding planning.

By contract, CasaBlanca’s Signature Collection bundle costs $4,300.

“We wanted to make an accidental for couples to person the wedding they’ve envisioned without the fiscal strain that tin travel with it,” Justin Moore, CEO of Mesquite Entertainment, genitor institution of CasaBlanca Resort, said successful a statement. “This giveaway gives 1 mates the accidental to observe their wedding astatine nary cost, portion showcasing what we connection couples year-round: an all-inclusive wedding acquisition astatine a terms constituent that is overmuch much attainable.”

The prize includes a two-night enactment successful a recently remodeled king suite and a ceremonial for 50 guests astatine The Grove, an outdoor wedding venue and 1 of the newest additions to CasaBlanca’s multimillion-dollar renovation. The bundle besides features a backstage banquet room, catered dinner, nonrecreational officiant services, an eight-inch wedding barroom and lawsuit setup with seat covers, array linens and location centerpiece arrangements.

The catered meal includes a wedge Greek salad, a prime of seabass with roasted reddish capsicum coulis oregon 12-ounce herb-crusted premier rib with cherrywood smoke, and a prime of dessert.

The nationwide societal media giveaway is unfastened to couples ages 21 and older, with entries accepted connected some Instagram and Facebook. To participate connected Instagram, stock a photograph oregon video highlighting your emotion communicative oregon engagement, travel @CasaBlancaNV and see #CasaBlancaSayIDo successful the caption. To participate connected Facebook, remark connected the authoritative giveaway station with your emotion communicative oregon photo, oregon stock a nationalist station with the hashtag #CasaBlancaSayIDo and tagging @CasaBlancaNV.

Social media profiles indispensable beryllium nationalist for entries to beryllium eligible. Entries volition beryllium accepted from Aug. 31 done Sept. 21, with the victor notified via nonstop connection and announced crossed CasaBlanca’s societal media platforms connected Sept. 28.

The victor indispensable reserve their wedding day astatine slightest 60 days successful advance, taxable to venue and country availability, and the wedding indispensable instrumentality spot by Dec. 31, 2027.

There are respective wedding packages disposable astatine casablanca.playmesquite.com.

Operating profits down for A.C. casinos successful 2nd quarter

Atlantic City’s 9 casino hotels saw gross operating nett autumn 9.3 percent successful the 2nd 4th contempt a flimsy summation successful revenue, arsenic rising expenses continued to compression the industry’s bottommost line.

The 9 properties reported $162.4 cardinal successful gross operating nett for the 3 months ending June 30, down from $179.1 cardinal a twelvemonth earlier, according to figures released Monday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Their combined nett gross accrued 1.3 percent to $836.5 million.

Including Caesars Interactive Entertainment New Jersey, a abstracted online casino licensee, industrywide gross operating nett fell 10.1 percent to $164.9 cardinal portion nett gross accrued 0.9 percent to $844.5 million.

For the archetypal fractional of 2026, the 9 casino hotels’ gross operating nett declined 14.9 percent to $265.3 cardinal portion nett gross accrued 0.5 percent to $1.55 billion.

N.J. Casino Control Commission Chairman James Plousis said second-quarter nett gross narrowly reached its highest level successful 9 years, but casino hotels besides faced their highest second-quarter costs and expenses implicit that period. All 9 properties remained profitable, though lone Caesars Atlantic City and Ocean Casino Resort reported year-over-year nett increases.

Brian Tyrrell, module manager of Stockton University’s Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism, cited inflationary pressures, higher online gaming taxes and the increasing outgo of comps and promotional credits arsenic factors weighing connected profitability.

Casino edifice occupancy accrued 0.6 percent points to 73.2 percent. Hotel occupancy complaint for the archetypal six months was 69 percent, an summation of 1.2 percent points from the comparable play past year.

Contact Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected X.

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