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Las Vegas Diamond Resorts offer rooms to Health Care Workers, First Responders .....
As hotel rooms across the country sit empty amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some operators are offering their properties to Health Care Workers and First Responders looking for a place to rest away from home (over 2,500 International rooms to date).
Las Vegas-based Diamond Resorts announced late last month that all open, Diamond-managed properties would offer complimentary accommodations to medical personnel and first responders. That offer includes Polo Towers, Cancun Resort and Desert Paradise Resort in Las Vegas.
As of Tuesday, such workers have booked more than 2,500 free nights at Diamond Resorts properties across the country.
“We were able to provide an opportunity for (these families) to get that distance … to make sure those with underlying health conditions weren’t affected,” Flaskey said.
One health care worker told Flaskey she was finally able to afford to self-distance from her high-risk family, and another said Diamond Resorts gave her a way to distance herself from her three children — two of which are high risk and have special needs.
A company statement from March 28 said suites are, on average, larger than typical hotel rooms, and a majority include in-suite kitchens with refrigerators, ovens and stoves, plus full bathrooms and laundry facilities.
........ Las Vegas Review-Journal 4/8/2020
As hotel rooms across the country sit empty amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some operators are offering their properties to Health Care Workers and First Responders looking for a place to rest away from home (over 2,500 International rooms to date).
Las Vegas-based Diamond Resorts announced late last month that all open, Diamond-managed properties would offer complimentary accommodations to medical personnel and first responders. That offer includes Polo Towers, Cancun Resort and Desert Paradise Resort in Las Vegas.
As of Tuesday, such workers have booked more than 2,500 free nights at Diamond Resorts properties across the country.
“We were able to provide an opportunity for (these families) to get that distance … to make sure those with underlying health conditions weren’t affected,” Flaskey said.
One health care worker told Flaskey she was finally able to afford to self-distance from her high-risk family, and another said Diamond Resorts gave her a way to distance herself from her three children — two of which are high risk and have special needs.
A company statement from March 28 said suites are, on average, larger than typical hotel rooms, and a majority include in-suite kitchens with refrigerators, ovens and stoves, plus full bathrooms and laundry facilities.
........ Las Vegas Review-Journal 4/8/2020