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Sahara Las Vegas Hotel and Casino

Hotel Overview

Simulated NASCAR races and thrilling roller coaster Located on the north end of The Strip, this legendary hotel provides the gentle pace of a bygone era. Glittering downtown Las Vegas featuring the open-air lightshow Fremont Street Experience lies just 2 miles away. Entertainment includes 1950s and 1960s musical legends and the opportunity to "drive" realistic race cars.

Location

The Strip, Las Vegas
This 3-mile section of Las Vegas Boulevard is the city's bustling primary tourist destination. Impressive casino resorts house major attractions, dining, shopping, nightlife, and entertainment venues. The Guggenheim museums, the Forum Shops, and Cirque du Soliel are here, along with most of the best hotels, offering one-stop vacationing.

Property amenities

The 1,720-room Sahara features a Moroccan theme adorned with graceful Moorish accents such as peaked domes and jeweled light fixtures. Facilities include a full-service health-and-beauty spa offering body and facial treatments and massage.

What to expect: The Sahara opened in 1952, one of the first hotel casinos in Las Vegas. Compact for easy access to all facilities and attractions, the moderately priced Sahara appeals to guests seeking less noise and the slower pace of a different era.

Amenity highlights: Surrounded by a sundeck graced by palm trees and gentle fountains, a large, heated pool provides pleasure during spring, summer, and late autumn. A 15-person spa beneath a filigreed wrought-iron dome offers social soaking next to the pool.

Dining

House of Lords - This legendary restaurant features steak and seafood in a posh ambience of draped fabric, plush booths, and jeweled lighting.

NASCAR Cafe - This large, lively, two-level restaurant features race cars hanging from the ceiling and offers giant projection screens showing televised NASCAR races. The menu includes ribs, chicken, steaks, pasta, and burgers.

Paco's Bar & Grill - This restaurant specializes in Mexican fare and seafood.

Sahara Buffet - All-you-can-eat buffets are available here for brunch and dinner, with a champagne brunch served weekends.

Caravan Coffee Show - This coffee shop serves light meals around the clock.

Jitters Gourmet Coffee - This spot serves coffee drinks and pastries 24 hours a day.

Entertainment

Stock cars and Indy cars, in smaller versions of the real thing, race around a simulated track in the 35,000-square-foot Las Vegas Cyber Speedway adjacent to NASCAR Cafe. A 20-foot wraparound screen provides realistic sight and sound, while each car's hydraulic base furnishes realistic motion.

Launched from inside NASCAR Cafe, Speed - The Ride is a state-of-the-art roller coaster that passes through an underground tunnel, around a loop, and through the hotel's marquee before stopping 224 feet above ground and then reversing itself.

Legends of the '50s and '60s still going strong, The Platters, Drifters, and Coasters entertain nightly in the Congo Room.

Las Vegas' first true lounge, the Casbar Lounge opened in 1954 and continues to present nightly entertainment from smooth jazz to rock 'n' roll.

Comprising 85,000 square feet and featuring an enormous glass chandelier and elaborately decorated columns, the Casino supplies poker, slots, video poker, backjack, craps, roulette, pai gow, keno, and a race and sports book.

Recreation

Rooms

The Sahara offers 1,108 deluxe rooms in the Tangiers Tower. Brightened by jewel-colored fabrics, guestrooms include dining tables and two chairs, makeup areas with desks and mirrors, and tub/shower combinations. All rooms have individual climate control, voice mail, cable TV and pay movies, and hair dryers.

Deluxe room
One king bed or two double beds. Jewel-toned fabrics. Bathroom with tub/shower combination. Individual climate control.

One-bedroom suite
One king bed or two double beds in separate bedroom. Parlor off master bedroom. May have balcony. May have view. Jewel-toned fabrics. Bathroom with tub/shower combination. Individual climate control.