Boardwalk Hotel & Casino

RIP. This place was great. I miss it so. The location was perfect. The price was cheap. They had a deli here that was great served fried shrimp chicken and fries for like 6 7 dollars it was insane. When i first started coming to vegas when i was 21 i would always stay here. I loved it. Not the best for a hotel but was good enough, i would compare it to motel 6.

Man, how I miss this place! When I first moved to Las Vegas over 10 years ago, this was my first casino job (hard count, than soft count)…so many great memories!
Even before I moved here, as a tourist I loved dropping in here and playing because I would actually win a little bit each time. Mind you, not enough to retire, but enough to make it fun…
They had a cool little Race and Sports Book, (which has some interesting history behind it!) the Del Mar Deli downstairs… and, if you were feeling truly fearless, they had the Surf Buffet up the escalators! Anybody else remember those commercials with Butterbean? lol
Plus, Trent Carlini used to bring his great Elvis impersonation show to the Boardwalk… that is, until «Prince» and the «Purple Reign» came in! lol
Yes, its was small. Yes it wasn’t the cleanest place on the strip. But this place exuded personality and charm at every step. How I wish I could step back in there one more time! So many fond and happy memories!
I really don’t care what anybody says… this is MY Unilocal!,MY rules, MY page… so I’m giving it…
5 stars!
…and if you don’t like that. I have 2 words for you… one of which is «off»…

The Boardwalk Hotel and Casino is no more and is now where the Mandarin Tower is located but it’s nice to remember that it still exist in my long term memory as far as when I was a kid going to Las Vegas back in the 90’s.
What I liked was looking at the fake fair on the front of the hotel with the fake roller coaster in the front and I thought it was real and wondered why I never saw it being used and the ferris wheel was fake too!
All in all it was a nice looking sub par hotel on the Las Vegas strip that lived up to it’s glory with the land put to better use with the construction of City Center with the Mandarin Tower located right where the Boardwalk Hotel use to be.

i am *glad* this place is no more… i never stayed in the hotel, but this is the single worst buffet experience i’ve ever had in vegas. i walked out after 5 minutes of eating here… and did not feel well with the little food i ate.
a box of oreos and a soda would be better for dinner!

There’s a good reason why this hotel has closed down. I won’t get into details, but I was comped a room… I should have just paid to get a room in a better hotel, but you live and learn.
First of all, I was by myself, and for all you females out there, listen to me when I say, use the internal door locks, regardless of where you are staying. Anywhoo, after a long, debaucherous night, I go back to my room and pass out. Which was surprising because it seemed every Frat house in America had booked there and judging by the noise had plans on reliving Animal House there that night. So a moment of silence finally comes and I’m awaken by a key at my door, I don’t know who was on the other side of that door, or why they were there, but they had OPENED my door. That’s when I ran to the door, locked the internal lock, called front desk, packed and got the hell out of there. Good riddance.

…and here are some photos right at the end.

Grated, this was one of the most dilapitated establishments on the strip… but although The Boardwalk Hotel & Casino is closed, it still holds a special place in my heart. A review is in store for providing a memory that will be stamped in my head forever.
New Years 2006
Two Hotel Rooms: $ 250
Three Bottles of Moet: $ 90
One Bottle of Goose: $ 40
Mixers: $ 15
5 Girls under 21 wishing they were of age to attend
all the clubbing, gambling and other fun during one
of the craziest nights & and getting plastered beyond
oblivion instead: ***PRICELE$$***

Oh, so everyone else gave the Boardwalk one star… Not me, baby! Yes, I realize it’s been torn down/​blown up/​otherwise undone by human hands…
Why do I love thee so? Well, this was the site of my wedding. My marriage. My betrothal, if you will…
Okay, so we were broke kids in love, looking to elope in Vegas after a (LONG ASS) drive there from SF. In July. With no air conditioning. If our love can survive that, it can survive anything, right? So far, yes.
Also, the Boardwalk had a fabulous and small casino, unbelievable Prince revival every night and pretty damn good odds. Also, a very sincere but cheesy ministeress who performed our wedding (much to our delight, althoug it was difficult, née impossible, to supress our giggles)…
Great place, now gone. You know they’ll build something better in its place. We’ll be there for our 10 year, 25 year and 50 year reunion. Oh yeah…

You know what, I’m actually a little bit sad to find out that this hotel was closed down, blown up, or whatever… the only reason being that I’m such a dork, I actually LIKED their buffet!!! ;-) When I stayed there, I wanted to go see the Prince cover act, I swear I really did, if only it didn’t start at 2 AM… geez…I took a late nap and woke up the next morning so I missed it…

I don’t get it. Its about time they tore down this casino and put up a real one.

I was delighted to stumble upon a Prince lounge act at the Boardwalk Casino. Who doesn’t love a little Prince in Vegas? On Saturday night, you can find a few fake Princes lounging around — my friends and I saw the purple jumpsuit prince (yay!) and a strangely large Prince in a tiger striped blazer (boo!). And remember they take their lounge acts seriously in Vegas. My friend was so delighted to see him, that she busted out her digicam and started snapping pictures. Much to our dismay, we got booted out of the lounge. All my friend could yell as we were escorted out was «What’s the problem? It’s not like he’s the REAL prince.»