las vegas golden nugget hotel my experiences at old downtown Vegas' finest hotel casino - by Jason

Golden Nugget Hotel Las Vegas

Golden Nugget is the finest downtown hotel and casino having won various awards year after year. Now they have upstaged themselves again. Yes a great new pool! You can tell I am from Florida originally because I am always drawn to the water at every casino. No pool? Then I don't want to be there, especially in Vegas! Well this is a doozy to describe because they actually wrap the pool around a 200,000-gallon aquarium.

So you can sit there in the water in a low rider lounge chair and watch sharks swim by. The whole deal is 3 stories high and includes waterfalls, and for adventure a waterslide that goes THROUGH the inside of the aquarium. So as you slide through the sharks you squirt out on the other side into a wonderful cool pool in the well appointed deck area. Grab a drink, hit the hot tub, cool off again, rinse and repeat. Like the big strip casino hotels you can rent a private cabana for the day poolside if you like.

Golden Nugget Hotel in downtown Las Vegas has a club called Gold Diggers which parties on the 2nd floor right above Fremont Street.

Golden Nugget has some of the most colorful past since it was built over 65 years ago. It is one of the original casinos built in the REAL wild wild west. Originally a wooden structure facing a dusty dirt road and serving every rough neck that came by on their way to California now it is actually quite elegant, even decadent by downtown standards.

Over the years they have steadily spent 100's of millions of dollars to keep her shiny gold world as fine as can be. I like the old world charm combined with modern amenities plus there is a lot less smoke in the Nugget than other "low ceiling" downtown casinos.

The poker room was shown on TV numerous times and it is smoke free. I like it but prefer the much larger Orleans poker room for taking the locals money. The slots seemed to pay out well though so I would come here and play the video poker for sure.

Overview: The biggest, finest, first class hotel in old Vegas
Location: Downtown Las Vegas
Restaurants: typical Italian, steak, seafood choices, an extremely popular buffet where you can sit and see the aquarium attraction, plus Vic & Anthony's a top class top dollar dining establishment
Nightclubs, Lounges: one decent club called Gold Diggers Nightclub plus the lounge most people do their drinking at
Casino: 40,000+ square feet, including a poker room, Blackjack, Caribbean Stud, Craps, Keno, Let It Ride, Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Video Poker, Roulette, more than 1,300 slot machines, race & sports book has seating for 70+ people with oversized TV's for viewing major events.
Entertainment: various shows rotate through the 600 seat theatre, Fremont Street Experience just outside and its free
Extras: room to suite upgrades all the way to penthouse level available, plus they display a giant 61 pound, 11 ounce gold nugget. It is the largest gold nugget taken from the Earth so far in all the world.
Pools: fantastic 30 million dollar pool runs through a giant aquarium holding tropical coral reefs, fish and sharks, plus an outdoor hottub.
Health Club or Spa: Both
Shopping: no shops to speak of. See this list for serious nearby shopping.
Wedding chapel: packages MIGHT be offered in the future
Childcare facilities: None
Pets allowed: No
Parking garage: free indoor parking garage but I recommend valet here
Shuttle service to the airport: for a fee by a private company
Shuttle service to Strip: no, take the bus as it is cheap from downtown
Hotel amenities: typical amenties, plus valet parking, salon, laundry, luggage handling, electronic check-out, pools and aquarium
Miscellaneous: Check-in time is 3 pm and Check-out time is 11 am. The minimum age to reserve a room is 21 years and there is a maximum number of guests per room of four. Must provide a credit card for incidentals

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