Circus Circus Las Vegas is a circus-themed 3,774 room hotel and 101,000 sq ft (9,400 m 2 ) casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Mirage. Circus Circus features free circus acts on a regular basis throughout the day. Circus Circus has the only RV park on the Strip providing additional accommodations in the 399 space park operated by Kampgrounds of America (KOA).
Circus Circus Las Vegas is the largest permanent big top in the world. The clown marquee at the entrance was provided by Young Electric Sign Company, and was constructed in 1976.
History
Circus Circus opened on October 18, 1968 by Jay Sarno, becoming the flagship casino for Circus Circus Enterprises.
Major renovations in 1997 changed the hotel's theme from the standard American circus to a Québec's Cirque du Soleil-style circus, and added a new 35-story tower.
Film history
The hotel's famous midway was featured in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever .
In his journalistic novel of the early '70s, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos . . . but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space." When the Thompson work was adapted to film in 1998, the fictional "Bazooko Circus" was a thinly-veiled stand-in for the world-famed resort, which had refused permission for the filmmakers to shoot on their property.
The Adventuredome Theme Park and the Canyon Blaster roller coaster were featured in the 1999 movie Baby Geniuses . The theme park was known as Joyworld in the movie.
In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery , Austin and Vanessa sneak into the Circus Circus.
Adventuredome Theme Park
Main article: AdventuredomeAmenities and entertainment
Circus Circus also offers:
- Convention rooms — space for up to 800 people
- Race and Sports Book - 80 seats, with 18 big screens
- Three swimming pools
- "Chapel of the Fountain" (wedding chapel)
- "The Midway" - an arcade and games to win prizes such as stuffed animals
Heliport
Circus Circus Heliport - (FAA LID: NV48 )
Gallery
References
- Vegas.com
External links
- ^ http://gaming.unlv.edu/v_museum/neon_survey/surveys/circus_circus.html
- Circus Circus Las Vegas web site
Coordinates: 36°08′13″N 115°09′48″W / 36.13694°N 115.16333°W / 36.13694;
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