{"id":10627,"date":"2020-10-05T21:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:15:50","slug":"skycity-auckland-returns-to-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/skycity-auckland-returns-to-business-as-usual","title":{"rendered":"Skycity Auckland returns to business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the government moves the city into level of alert 1, the hotel and casino will operate without Covid-19 restrictions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

New\u00a0Zealand.-\u00a0Skycity\u00a0Auckland will go back to business as usual as of October 8, as the city joins the rest of the New Zealand in Level of alert 1, rather than 2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The casino said in a release: “With Auckland moving to Covid-19 Alert Level 1 from 11.59pm Wednesday, October 7, our casino, the majority of our restaurants and our Sky Tower will once again all operate as usual.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auckland had entered a more restrictive stage of lockdown after a rise in Covid-19 cases with community transmission, while the rest of the country remained on Level 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Level of alert 2, access to\u00a0SkyCity\u00a0Auckland Casino was limited to Premier Rewards members only, and hotel guests could enter depending on\u00a0availability at the time of their visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skycity\u2019s\u00a0properties in Queenstown and Hamilton have been operating without restrictions<\/a><\/em><\/strong> since September 22.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the government moves the city into level of alert 1, the hotel and casino will operate without Covid-19 restrictions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Skycity Auckland's hotel and casino operations will revert to full capacity without COVID-19 restrictions from October 8, as Auckland transitions to Alert Level 1. This move aligns the city with the rest of New Zealand, where Skycity's Queenstown and Hamilton properties have already been operating unrestricted since September 22. Previously, Skycity Auckland faced limitations, including restricted access to Premier Rewards members only under Alert Level 2.","focusai_entities":"Skycity Auckland, Skycity, Sky Tower","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Auckland, Queenstown, Hamilton","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.98), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (0.97), gambler_consumer (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR Forecasts?","query":"What is the projected uplift in Skycity Auckland's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for the upcoming fiscal quarters following the removal of all operational restrictions?"},{"label":"Operational Efficiency Metrics?","query":"How will the return to full operational capacity impact Skycity's key performance indicators (KPIs) related to player visitation, average spend, and overall operational efficiency compared to pre-pandemic levels?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[29,338,1137],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","tag-casino","tag-new-zealand","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}