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MGM Grand demo room open

5 June 2007

DETROIT, Michigan -- As reported by the Detroit Free Press: "Today is the first day you can reserve a room at the MGM Grand's permanent Detroit hotel, which opens in October. The rooms will feature luxurious touches -- and a luxury price tag that starts at $299 a night and tops out around $2,500.

"An exclusive tour through demonstration rooms designed to look like the new hotel's facilities is a peek at the high-end accommodations all the casinos are likely to offer visitors. The MGM is the first of Detroit's three casinos to open up hotel reservations.

"'We're really positioning this to be the true luxury offering in downtown Detroit,' said John Hutar, vice president of hotel operations for the casino.

"The demonstration rooms are the result of months of tweaking, as products were put in and taken out, colors changed and brand names swapped. Open a nondescript metal door in the parking garage and there it is: a short (but accurate) section of hallway, with doors on either side leading to rooms that are exactly like the real thing will be..."

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