Posted on 05/05/2015 9:23:43 AM PDT by C19fan
If the ghosts of Frank Sinatra and Liberace were still hanging around the Riviera Hotel and Casino on Monday morning, they wouldn't have found a seat at the bar.
Crowds squeezed onto barstools and milled about the casino floor saying goodbye to "The Riv," a classic that spent 60 years on the Las Vegas Strip and closed at noon.
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We got to stay there a couple weeks ago for a trade show. We were admiring how good it still looked after 60 years, only to find out it was closing in a couple more weeks. Glad we got to stay there while we could.
The only reason why Circus Circus stayed was they had a major expansion done in the 1990’s and are planning even more expansion in the future.
I have been to the Circus Circus plenty of times to take the kids to the Adventuredome. I thought it was dirty although the room rates reflect that.
It’s hard to stay solvent when you can’t kneecap the deadbeats.
Circus Circus I think is the ghetto casino.
Dirty, the people mostly running around there look like good sources for future riots and it smells.
Outside of that, enjoy!
At a bare minimum go to a Luxor which is a better low cost place.
There are two motel cards for Vegas that you can sign up for free on many websites of casinos.
One we have and use is the M-Life. There is another that handles another group of major hotels.
Good to get and will save you money and you get freebees.
I once got “stuck” in Vegas for almost a week due to a bunch of canceled flights. Different strokes I guess: to me it was the most boring, disgusting, unpleasant place I’d ever seen.
Silver City Casino Bites the Dust
I once chased a purse snatcher down the Strip, all the way to Circus Circus, where I lost him.
Stayed there several times. Always reliable.
True. I’ve been to the Luxor and really liked the better “vibe”—let alone the better food!—there. And this on a property that is owned by Circus Circus Enterprises before MGM Reosrts International bought them out.
Must have been a different Circus Circus than the one I went to a few years back. Dirty, dank and depressing is how I found it.
Most of the casinos south of there are good but bring your money. If you must stay on the north side, stick to Fremont Street Experience downtown. Lot of low rent stuff there too but it's policed a lot better and well lit. It's also where you can get deep fried Twinkies and find slot machines that still take - and eject - real coins. Slot machines were a lot more fun when winning a jackpot meant you had to fill plastic buckets with quarters and lug them up to the cashier.
I was extremely disappointed to find winning meant getting some piece of paper rather than cash coins. My wife, who had been to Vegas a time before me, told me that it's been a while since winners got cash instead of a piece of paper to take somewhere and get cashed. How much more fun it must have been to win and actually get coins immediately.
I ended up just playing until I ran out of my allotted quota, ten dollars, and quit. I don't think the casinos were unhappy to see us leave town.
Gambling requires waiting for the right circumstances and then not gambling at all if the whole place looks dead to begin with.
Fremont Street experience is worth once seeing, but the whole place is like visiting an old bowling alley down their.
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