<p>Men work on the roof of what will be a five-theater cineplex at Wildhorse Resort & Casino Thursday afternoon. A wet spring delayed the opening of the cineplex to mid-October, but the 10-story hotel and expanded casino will be ready by Labor-Day and the Pendleton Round-Up.</p>

The entire 10 floors of the new hotel at the Wildhorse Resort & Casino should be ready for guests in time for the Pendleton Round-Up, and the bottom seven floors will be ready by Labor Day weekend, said Wildhorse community relations manager Tiah DeGrofft.

If not for a faulty water pipe that flooded the new hotel basement in July and ruined 500 new doors ready for installation, the entire hotel would be opening Sept. 2, not just the lower rooms.

We are on track,?DeGrofft said in an email Thursday. The pool is being filled with water, the fireplace in the lobby will be ready to light by days end, carpet is going in on the 10th floor. Things are going well.

Many other improvements will be ready in time for the holiday weekend, DeGrofft said. The 24,000 square-feet added to the casino gaming floor will be ready, along with the new porte cochere entrance, lobby area and hotel pool.

All 202 hotel rooms are being booked just as fast. The resort is fully booked for Round-Up, with a waiting list. As of Thursday, DeGrofft said, rooms are still available Sept. 4 and 5.

The original plan called for the resorts entire expansion to be ready Sept. 2, but a wet spring delayed construction of the cineplex movie theater.

On July 23, a water pipe feeding the buildings sprinkler system separated at a joint and flooded the basement of the new hotel. The 500 new doors rendered unuseable represented 40 percent of the 1,200 doors in the building, Wildhorse chief operating officer Gary George said at the time.

To deal with the problem, Wildhorse decided to open the bottom seven floors first and leave the top three doorless.

The doors for the last three floors are expected before Sept. 9. The complex is five miles east of Pendleton, just off Interstate 84.

Our hope is that the hotel will be completely ready and the parking lots and landscaping will, too,?DeGrofft said.

After the big week in September, Wildhorse is planning official grand openings in mid-October and November for the hotel, expanded casino and cineplex.

The cineplex will have five theaters increased from the original plan for four screens. Two of those theaters will be 3-D.

The wet spring delayed contractor JE Dunns ability to begin construction by about a month. The Kansas City, Mo.-based company pushed back the cineplex opening until October.

Also near the cineplex will be a new childrens center and arcade.

Though we had them previously, they have been relocated, enlarged and upgraded,?DeGrofft said. Having them over by the cineplex will create a large area for our non-21 guests to be entertained.