Sunset or Aliante Station?

Since the plan is for Stations to continue to operate Aliante, it sounds like there will be no effect on people's points. Those holding companies that will own it are the same ones that own the Harrahs/CET properties. The "takeover" there did not affect Total Rewards points.

Sue,

I will be staying at Aliante in April, and am looking forward to it. Earlier in the thread you mentioned an easy route to Red Rock from Aliante. Can you give me more details as I have to make at least one trip to RR every year.

Thanks

Exit Aliante and get onto the 215 beltway westbound immediately. Take the beltway to Charleston, exit east, and you're at RR. Very easy. Takes about 25 minutes.

Sue, have they talked to you about the take over? The quote below seems to indicate it will not be run by Station.

"The agreement means 17 of the 18 casinos owned and managed by Station Casinos before the bankruptcy will remain under the company's control. Station Casinos' Aliante Station property could be taken over by its creditors, including TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management LLC. A company spokeswoman declined to comment."

Yesterday and today are my days off this week, so I haven't been there since the story broke. All I know is what the story said -- that Stations would continue to operate the casino. TPG and Apollo are not casino operators. I believe they are financial holding companies whose money could help Aliante. If the Stations were to "give up" running Aliante, who would run it? It would cost BIG money to change the systems to some other program other than the Boarding Pass, don't you think? I don't know much about high finance, but it doesn't seem cost-effective to me to do this.

Sue,
You know better than to use logic when thinking about the casino business.

I guess it depends on my Station is give up Aliante. I can only assume it is to satisfy some of there debt requirements (this is a guess). Generally Equity holders want to then sell the property to recoup the debt. Having Station run it is a good short term solution, but at some point they are going to have to sell the property. Hopefully, it's not to one of the big players. We could use some more small independents.

Of course, who knows what we really happen.

Aliente can't make money, and won't for a long time.

It's too far from the player pool, and players have to travel past too many other slots hungry for their dollars before arriving there.

That area's a modern day ghost(less) town. Not enough people ever lived there to leave ghosts. And not enough are moving there at present to support Aliante.

A beautiful, grossly premature property.

I worked today, and my manager told me that nothing is going to change, from the point of view of team members or guests. The same management will run the casino, it will still be a Station, Boarding Pass points will not be affected, etc. He said that Apollo and TPG traditionally hold onto their investments for at least 5-7 years before selling them off.

The deal is not done yet, but if it happens, expect everything to remain the same for the foreseeable future.

Sue is my neighbor (we both live in the same community) and I can vouch that if you take the beltway (215) to the I-15 it flows very smoothly. It looks like you are going out of your way, but you avoid the traffic lights on the surface streets and the time is shorter too. We do avoid the I-15 and 95, 215, etc during the time periods in the afternoon where the traffic is very congested usually around 3:30 to 5:30.

I too am amazed that people think it is far to drive from the M to Aliante. We do it very often. I guess coming from a very large metropolitan area the Vegas valley seems small in comparison.

Oh, and if you take the 215 to the I-15 you will see the whole valley. It is like being in an airplane. A beautiful view especially at night.

I have a question for you Sue. Stations casinos has decided that my husband & I are Aliante players, thus no offers from the other stations casinos. I am still not sure I like it as I miss the other stations casinos we used to play at. All our offers now come from Aliante exclusively. So, when people from out of town come to Aliante and stay and play at Aliante does the Stations Casino then change their offers to Aliante exclusively? Do they still get offers from the "other" Stations casinos? I know we are getting "local offers" verus being from out of town, but does that make a difference? I wish they would put Aliante in with the other casinos so when we get offers we could choose which "Station Casino" we would like to play at like we used to. I know that we can earn and use points at all of them, but we cannot use our x point offers, or our free play and our food offers at the "other casinos" now. This has us going to other casinos like the M. We don't want to just play at Aliante. I know you said that they pick where you play the most, but when we never came to Aliante before moving close to them, we used to play at Red Rock, Texas, Boulder, etc and they never said you cannot do this, we will pick one where you play the most and you have to play at only one casino. Aliante is really not being a true Station Casino because when we used to get offers from "the other casinos" we could not use them at Aliante either. AND we do not really know where we stand until we get our mailers unless we keep going to the slot club. I like Aliante very much but I miss the other casinos. I wish they would combine Aliante into the Stations Casinos like Red Rock, Texas, etc. I hope I did not confuse everyone.
Thanks
Wanda