Discounts on rooms at the Rio and Harrah's kept both places booked solid through the last night of the tournament.

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Now, the hotel is often booked solid and rates are much, much higher for a luxury experience to rival any other.

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Meanwhile, classes on gun rules in Phoenix are booked solid for months, ammunition is sold out, and gunmakers and dealers alike are scrambling to keep up with demand.

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Unless a director is already attached to a project, the list usually starts with some fantasy names and then gets whittled down to more realistic names when you find out that, say, Christopher Nolan and Guillermo del Toro are booked solid until the year 2025 or that Catherine Hardwicke is out of your budget range thanks to Twilight.

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And she said, believe me, I called every hotel in Eilat and they are booked 100 percent solid.

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