Sahara Hoses Website

 levans posted on Monday, 16th May 2011 - 11:15 pm

So if you have a reservation for this dump they will honor them at another dump? The least they could have done was offer people rooms at the Stratosphere's renovated rooms.

 jinx73 posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 7:57 am

My prediction is one burrito left behind, after a violent lightning storm, it's given the spark for life, slowly growing appendages to scuttle around the vacant property, eating bedbugs and cockroaches to sustain itself, growing in size and eventually devouring the entire hotel in a scene reminiscent to Poltergeist's finale.

 RockChickX51 posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 9:47 am

Hey, at least you get to get an upgraded room at Circus Circus! What if you paid for a suite at Sahara? Do you get a Circus suite? ::throws up at the thought of a CircusCircus suite::

 levans posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 12:30 pm

I think a Circus Circus suite comes with indoor plumbing and a bed instead of a hammock.

 Romaman posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 2:41 pm

I believe that the Riviera, Flamingo and Trop are the last of the Rat Pack casinos. Am I wrong?

 Chuckmonster posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 4:06 pm

they are of the same era, but I don't think the Rat Pack performed there.

 Dave702 posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 5:08 pm

Yeah, I hear the phrase "Rat Pack-era casino" thrown around a lot. Basically it could be anyplace open in the early 1960s, so Flamingo, Trop, Riv are the last ones as Romaman says. Sinatra actually played Caesars after he left the Sands (more about that in the forthcoming Sarno book), so I'd count that as well. But it'd kind of like calling everything open now "Celine Dion-era casinos," since they really didn't have too much to do with the places they didn't play at, except for showing up to see friends.

 weatherman2111 posted on Tuesday, 17th May 2011 - 11:46 pm

Hunh, they still list the Sahara on the bottom of the page as a hotel they operate. Dicks.

More hunh, apparently Jose Andres's Bazzar restaurant in LA is owned by these slimeballs to. That's disappointing. I was hoping Jose had better taste in who he associated with.

 dpo1013 posted on Thursday, 19th May 2011 - 10:40 am

I suppose they killed the website the same time they axed their (lying) facebook profile- Sahara management couldn't wait to close this place- Even by sunday evening, the windows at the nascar cafe and doors at Sahara/Paradise were already boarded up, and they started chaining the doors of the north entrance at Nascar Cafe nearly two hours before official closing time. (Fire code??? customers were still inside) They waited until the final day to post a 'goodbye' message on the main marquee, and even that was turned off promptly at 2pm. It made me sick to see Sam Navarian strutting around with his 'better than you' smartass smirk- I hope he enjoys paying property taxes on a empty hotel- I know Boyd and Elad wish they still had SOME kind of money coming in from their properties than the empty lots they now have. Sam gave todays economics students a lesson in "How to flush $350 Million down the drain"

 dpo1013 posted on Thursday, 19th May 2011 - 10:44 am

PS- I think its a joke that they think/hope the Sahara slot players will jump to the Circus Circus- I played Sahara for the classic style and history of the hotel, which makes the Riviera much better choice now.

 motoman posted on Friday, 20th May 2011 - 11:48 pm

@Dave702
Yeah, but "Rat Pack" refers as much to an era, and aura, that defined a certain period in Vegas' history about which we like to reminisce, whether we were actually there to experience it or not. (Mostly not, I'd wager....)


(guilt-riddled confession: lost my Vegas Virginity @CircusCircus. True.)
(OK, no guilt, it was a bargain for a full-featured resort, and folks were paying *more* to stay in the little Travelodge by the Clown out front!)