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Originally Posted by Quorthon
Unfortunately for us due to the high occupancy rates in Macau hotels it is not necessary to offer large discounts to poker players. As someone in the Macau Poker thread mentioned Macau has over 30,000,000 visitors per year (and growing) so discounts are not really necessary from a pure business perspective.
I understand this for a company but as a customer I must disagree. I don't see this model sustainable on the long run, it is pretty insane that the average hotel rates in Macau are more expensive than Hong Kong, about doble prices than Vegas and most are more expensive than the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. I even got to pay aprox 400HK$ for the most ****** room I have ever seen, a scary dirty motel that wouldn't even have a rating in another country, of course it was 3am sunday morning and they had to take advantage from me
From a "pure business perspective" it's obvious that they prefer a poker player to stay at another hotel and still likely rake 1-2kHK$ a night at your casino and not give him discount, knowing that another (even if he plays roulette 10min at your casino) will pay the full rate, its easy business with no discount
Maybe Macau now is short for accommodation but I guess with what is building atm and more and more hotels coming up it will balance in a few years, occupancy won't be 100% on weekends and you will have to drop prices and pay attention to VIP care and treatment to regulars, kinda the same what happens every single time on every tourist booming area. Macau's casinos x4 profit LV last year has a lot to do with its prices
Last edited by GZPower; 01-18-2011 at 12:45 AM.