September Sold Out

I tried to book a room at all of the Boyd properties Sept. Sept 21-28.All of them were sold out - I even contacted a host with no luck. Does anyone know why?

Try again, I'm seeing rooms at the Orleans and Gold Coast?  Limited but they show rooms for those dates. 

Were you trying to book under a promotion/comp/deal?  That may be what is "sold out."  I looked via the websites of several, put your dates in, there were rooms available.  Not bargain prices, of course.

No hotel is ever "sold out", just the promo/comp/deal offer type rooms, perhaps. 

Candy 

I'm quite certain that hotel are sometimes sold out.  Come to Indianapolis and try to find a room on Indy 500 weekend, and you'll understand what I'm talking about.

I get that, of course with Indy 500 weekend.  College town homecoming or graduation weekends, better make reservations a year ahead.  

But in Las Vegas rooms are held back for high players who might show up at the last minute or others willing pay rack rate or higher.  

There's no big event, convention, etc. on those dates to the extent that Vegas rooms would sell out.

Boyd very often holds back as many as 2/3 of its rooms for rack rate sales. I found that out a couple of years ago when I tried to sign up for a 3 nights for $99 plus slot tournament entry deal at Orleans. I was told, on the website and by the live reservations agent, that the rooms were "sold out." As this was for a Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in December, I kind of doubted that.

Turns out that the hotel was at 20% capacity on those dates, but they'd only set aside a grand total of 50 rooms for the promo. And it's not like this was any screamin' hot deal--not after $87 in resort fees plus taxes were added in. So, fine, I said, let those rooms sit empty.

This is just one of many examples of how Boyd shoots themselves in the foot with their player-unfriendly asshole policies.

"Turns out that the hotel was at 20% capacity on those dates, but they'd only set aside a grand total of 50 rooms for the promo. And it's not like this was any screamin' hot deal--not after $87 in resort fees plus taxes were added in. So, fine, I said, let those rooms sit empty.