The San Pasqual Band of
Mission Indians is building a 161-room hotel at its Valley View Casino but you won't be able to stay there unless you're a high roller.
The tribe intends to "comp" every single room at the 12-story, $85 million hotel. That's unusual in the casino business, David Schwartz, the director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, said.
But the tribe can probably get away with it since the hotel won't be that large. The tribe doesn't have space for a huge resort so it makes sense to comp all the rooms.
"It's just the most efficient way to do business because, at the end of the day, we're a casino that has a hotel, not a hotel with a casino," Joe Navarro, who runs the tribe's gaming corporation, told The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The tribe plans to break ground on the hotel later this year.
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(The San Diego Union-Tribune 2/28)
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