Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas is closing in two weeks

Bye, girl.

Such a pity. I got to see it last year.

R2 don’t tell me you stayed in that shithole.

I stayed there about 40 years ago and it seemed old then.

It's 67 years old today, so it was nearly 30 years old when you stayed there R4.

No r3! Just had a little peek for some old Vegas nostalgia. Mainly the bits I’d seen in films like the Flamingo. Stayed at Vdara thanks to DL recommendation- a non smoking, no casino hotel.

DThe reporter an OP are wrong about Diamonds Are Forever which featured scenes at Circus Circus and what is now the Westgate Hotel which was the Las Vegas Hilton at the time, and was called the Whyte House in the movie.

^The reporter and OP

If I'm not mistaken, once the Tropicana's gone, that just leaves the Flamingo and the Sahara as the last of the pre-Caesars Palace old school casino-hotel-resorts still existing on the Strip.

Yes everything else is gone

Desert Inn (Venetian), Stardust (Resorts World), Riviera (empty parcel), Dunes (Bellagio), Aladdin (Planet Hollywood), Sands (Venetian)

I was in there a week ago. It already has an abandoned feeling, with a few ghosts wandering around the slots, and out of order signs everywhere. I was there to see Rich Little, who really should be closed down with the hotel. His memory is going and he's quite the MAGAt.

Sorry Desert Inn is Wynn now not Venetian

The Flamingo hotel is fabulous.

Definitely a relic of old Las Vegas.

I really hope it doesn't close.

That's what I thought, R10/R12. I just didn't want someone to say, "Well, such-and-such on the Strip predates Caesars Palace." Yes, but it either (a) didn't become a big time place or (b) did so later in its establishment.

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The pool area at The Flamingo really gives you that 1950's Las Vegas vibe.

It's like a beach oasis in the middle of the desert.

We can't forget the New Frontier, whose land is also a vacant parcel now.

Oh thank goodness, I thought it was the Tropicana nightclub.

Charmless. It won't be missed.

Bed bugs n roaches

it has always been pretty shitty

[quote]DThe reporter an OP are wrong about Diamonds Are Forever which featured scenes at Circus Circus and what is now the Westgate Hotel which was the Las Vegas Hilton at the time, and was called the Whyte House in the movie.

It didn't become the Hilton until July 1971. The movie began filming earlier that year, when it was still the International (which Streisand opened, and where Elvis performed). However, it could've been changed to the Hilton by the time they filmed there.

When is the implosion? That might be worth a trip to Vegas to see it.

April 2

Where will redheads stage goofy attempts to play with their husband's band?

No implosion. And there's still question whether or not the baseball stadium will ever get built there.

I stayed there on my first trip to Vegas in 2019. Everything in the hotel room was pretty scuffed up and shabby. It was the cheapest hotel on the strip that wasn't a total dive (looking at you Luxor and Excalibur).

When Vegas runs out of water it will be sooooo sad.

I saw LITERALLY the greatest show I ever saw at the Tropicana. Jubilee. If you saw Jubilee, you know what I mean.

I visited Luxor for the first time the day after my visit to the Tropicana. I didn't go up to the rooms, but the lobby area was fine, and there was a really good (surprisingly good) Mexican restaurant.

[quote] I didn't go up to the rooms

Why not? Did you try Scruff? Sniffies?

I was there with a friend for lunch and the Titanic exhibition, and then leaving immediately for the airport. No time to "visit the rooms."

The Tropicana has been a dump for a while. I’m sure it was very nice during its heyday half a century ago.

The closing is tomorrow. It had it’s time, but is now run down. It looks like prison towers from the outside.

R26, Jubilee played at Bally’s, formerly MGM Grand. I saw it there around 18 years ago. The video tells you what you might have seen at the Tropicana.

The old and now gone Barbary Coast was my favorite place to play slot machines.

Now, the BC was, well, to use the word "dump" is too negative, but that's why I liked it.

It was all-business, not pretentious, but it had definitely had seen better days.

Thank God, Harry and Bess Truman got the last table!

Now do Circus Circus.

I'm supposed to stay at Resorts World (both the Conrad wing and the LV Hilton wing) in May.

r37 I haven't heard great things about RW, and surprisingly good things about the finally-opened Fontainebleau.

Well, all I can say is that it was a quick taxi to the airport, and I could park in the outdoor covered parking lot for free when I flew home for two weeks, back to the Midwest. And the people who worked there were always pleasant.

[quote] Well, all I can say is that it was a quick taxi to the airport

I think that's the best thing about the Tropicana, MGM, New York New York, and Excalibur.

They're all very close to the airport, right in that Las Vegas Blvd. and Tropicana Avenue intersection.

It's only about five minutes away from the airport.

I've always expected an errant plane from McCararn to crash into one of them.

Las Vegas teen photographer captures historic Tropicana casino in its final days

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