Don't believe the billboards you see on I-15
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 5/8/10
On our way to Zion National Park from Las Vegas, we saw all those Virgin River Casino billboards advertizing 24.99/night rate. So when we changed our plan at Bryce Canyon National Park from camping to a day auto tour because of high wind, we thought we could stop at Virgin River River hotel for one night. I did not call ahead since I did not have the hotel's phone number handy and I had to stop for gas any way. At the front desk, I was quoted 79.99/night for the cheapest room available, which I wasn't impressed, to say the least, since it was a Wednesday. Instead of staying there, I called the phone number on my Harrah's Total Reward card and got a room for 25.00 at the Imperial Palace hotel, which was just some 90 mile further south.
When I got home, I checked Virgin River hotel casino out on Internet and learned of its bankruptcy filing in March, 2010. To me, it wasn't a surprise at all.