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This iconic hotel on the Las Vegas Strip is close to shopping, the Las Vegas Convention Center and downtown Las Vegas. The tower rooms feature pillow-top mattresses, wireless internet, cable TV, hairdryers and in-room safes. Circus Circus features free world-class circus acts nightly, a carnival Midway with over 200 games for all ages, and The Adventuredome indoor theme park with more than 25 rides and attractions including a double-loop rollercoaster. Guests also enjoy slots, table games, and a Sports Book by William Hill. Circus Circus has several dining outlets serving breakfast, lunch and dinner ranging from quick eats to casual and award-winning dining. Among the dining choices is a highly acclaimed restaurant - The Steak House, voted Top Steakhouse in Las Vegas by Zagat. The Steak House is open for dinner nightly serving mesquite grilled steak, prime rib and seafood. Reservations are strongly recommended.
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Location
2880 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109-1138
Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
14,373 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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The Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas garners mixed reviews, with some guests finding the hotel rates reasonable but many criticizing hidden fees and the high cost of food and attractions. While the property's amenities are generally satisfactory and family-friendly, reviewers suggest there's room for improvement, especially in dining. Service experiences vary, with commendations for staff friendliness tempered by complaints about efficiency.
Guests frequently mention an outdated atmosphere and issues with room cleanliness, despite some finding the overall cleanliness acceptable. Opinions on the location are divided, as its distance from the strip's center is either appreciated for its quiet or seen as inconvenient.
Location
Inconvenient
Atmosphere
Outdated
Rooms
Unkempt
Value
Expensive
Cleanliness
Mixed
Service
Inconsistent
Amenities
Satisfactory
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In this day and age, what hotel does not have the aforementioned amenities in every room? I get it...they want you to spend money in their restaurants, but REALLY??!!!?? I have been travelling for at least 30 years and can count on one hand how many hotels do not have those basics. How outdated is that?
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Room Tip:The skyrise tower rooms are bigger than the manor rooms and closer to the main building and...
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Response from Emma W, Manager at Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Responded Apr 22, 2020
Hello, thank you for your review. We are sorry that you were not satisfied with the in-room amenities. It is tough to find hotels in Las Vegas that have these, as every property has such great food and beverage offerings. We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback with us, and hope to see you again.
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Circus Circus is a resort and casino with adequate entertainment if you have small, tweens or teens, even young adults as siblings. You can spend a day at the adventuresome, enjoy the short circus acts at the stage located in the casino, every hour alive!. We went there to visit the strip, with a 7 and 5 yo. Check in was a breeze (not a convention week), got to upgrade for $15 a day (do not recommend the manor), so we stayed on floor 34, facing East, could not get a view of the strip, but good enough to view the city, parking was so close and easy to reach, could get in/out without charge, at garage 1. Circus Circus may get a facelift, new owner is announced!.
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Date of stay: December 2019Trip type: Travelled with family
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Response from Emma W, Manager at Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Responded Apr 22, 2020
Thank you for your review, ptepper! We appreciate your feedback and recommendations. You are correct, with a new owner, we are making some great enhancements around property, and are working hard to keep loyal guests like you coming back. We hope to see you again soon!
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I booked Circus Circus knowing the property had been sold and there would likely be some deficiencies during the turnover, but the price was right. Like many Las Vegas hotels, the price you are quoted is about half of what you actually pay, once the resort fees are added on. I knew this ahead of time so no surprises. I stayed in one of the motel-like buildings across the street from the main casino, so the walk to the casino was about 2 blocks. The room was clean, the bed was comfortable, the pillows were the cheapest foam, and not comfortable. The furniture, furnishings, decorations, and equipment in the room were functional but old, like 1980's old. There was hot water and adequate water pressure in the shower, a pleasant surprise. Other reviewers have commented that it is noisy and they are right. You can hear everything from the hallway and surrounding rooms. The staff was friendly and helpful. The valet parking was very reasonably priced. We managed to get some decent alcoholic beverages in the theme park. The steak house was awesome! But that's a separate review.
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Date of stay: December 2019
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Response from Emma W, Manager at Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Responded Apr 22, 2020
Thank you for taking the time to share the details of your experience at Circus Circus. We appreciate all reviews, and appreciate you giving us the chance to improve by providing us with this feedback. We are glad to hear that the staff was friendly, and that you found the rooms to be functional. We hope to have the chance to welcome you back again!
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We had the WORST experience here that we have ever had with a hotel. We booked 2 HOTEL rooms and paid a few hundred dollars for each. When we arrived we were told that we would be across the street in a motel room. Upon someone allowing us to see the room they were put in, the room was about a 1.5 star rating and a complete dump. I don’t quite understand how a hotel can advertise a hotel room and then put you across the street off property in a motel room that is really disgusting. My dad is unable to walk very far so we couldn’t stay off property. The hotel basically told us too bad unless you wanna pay several hundred dollars more to upgrade. We left and had to book a completely new reservation elsewhere and have now lost hundreds of dollars. If you book a hotel room here you better be sure you will be staying in the hotel and not put into a motel off property as a complete dump. Worst experience ever.
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Date of stay: January 2020
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We didn't heed the other terrible reviews for this hotel as we found from previous experiences that some people exaggerate a bit...not this time. From greasy hand and body prints left on the headboard of the bed to the blood stained comforter we will never stay there again.
When we had called housekeeping about these issues, the housekeeping manager came to our door. We first showed her the headboard prints. She stated that the headboards are always cleaned and that we are mistaken as these are stains that will not come off. She then tried showing us by wiping her hand over the headboard...thus causing the greasy marks to smear and also showing that it actually hadn't been cleaned for quite some time as she was causing dust to clump on it. She did offer us another room, but we rathered this one be cleaned in front of us than changing into another possibly dirty room.
Then we showed her the stain on the comforter that looked like a blood stain. She brought us another comforter that came out of a bag directly from the laundry room. She was obviously annoyed and said "See, this one is directly out of the bag and is clean", I responded "That's fine, but I did not pay to stay in a hotel with stained bedding".
When she was leaving, she mentioned she had talked to the front desk and had them give us a discount on the room. (This was not true, they had heard nothing about the complaints)
After she had left, we thought we would watch tv. The colour was terrible and you couldn't change it to the tv menu to fix the settings as the menu button on the tv itself did not work. Then we found the shower was plugged and would hardly drain. Called housekeeping the next day to fix the drain as we didn't want to deal with them again that night.
We had hoped that we wouldn't have to spend much time in the room anyways, but my husband ended up having a kidney stone, which left us having to stay in the room almost all our trip waiting for it to pass.
Yes, the room is terribly dated (not a big deal) but it was also not cleaned properly for quite some time.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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The floors in this hotel was the dirtiest I've ever seen I had the same cleaner floors in Motel 6.
The showers backed up in drained very slowly leaving film and dirt in the tub. The shower curtains had long rust marks on them. That was no soap dish or rack of any sort for you to hang your soap or set your soap in. The shower wrecks in the bathroom have rust on them.
The toilets was so low to the floor that my 3-year-old who is 3 ft tall could stand up and urinate directly into the toilet
No amenities in the room whatsoever other than the TV they didn't even have a clock in the room.
The carpet leading away from the elevators was all different colors and big water spots as if it had rained in it on the floor.
They stayed the room has two queen size beds but they actually are full size beds and the worst mattresses I have ever slept on.
The furniture in the room and the beds look like they was from the '70s, I know those were the same curtains they had hanging in the '80s I remember them.
I will never ever stay in circus circus again it was the worst hotel visit I've ever had.
I watch the cleaning service clean the room across the hall from me and they didn't know sanitation toward cobit they didn't even have the sprayers that they sanitized the rooms with so beware. Upon our arrival we immediately went to Walmart and got Lysol spray and sprayed down the entire room and if you stay there you should do the same because they do not sterilize the rooms.
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Date of stay: August 2021Trip type: Travelled with family
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Response from Emma Winstead, General Manager at Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Responded Sep 14, 2021
Hello there, thank you for your review and feedback. We are very sorry that you did not feel the room was up to cleanliness standards - we most definitely clean and sanitize the rooms after all guest departures. Although we are offering limited Housekeeping service for guests in-house, the team is available for anything you need including additional amenities or room touch-ups. I will be sure to share your feedback with our Housekeeping and Engineering teams for further review. We apologize that you were not more satisfied with your overall visit, and we do hope to have the opportunity to welcome you again in the future.
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So I booked ahead and had a confirmation which said I had paid including all fees and charges. Not so. They still wanted a resort fee, although I’m not sure for what, since pools were closed, attractions were closed, cable wasn’t working and wifi was barely functional. Then I get to my room to find full garbage cans, dirt and stains all over the carpet, black mold in the shower, and urine stains on the bathtub. They did change my room on being shown photos. Fast forward to check out, they charge a $70 damage deposit and assure you it is instantly refunded on check out. Nope. 3 days later, no refund, and no response to 4 emails and 2 phone calls. Pay a little more and stay somewhere else. This place is criminal.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled solo
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4/2022. For the price they charge expectations were not met. Not a resort even though they charge as such, it more like a Motel 6. Buildings dilapidated, stains on floors, rooms smelt heavy of cigarettes and pot. Wall paper pealing and stains on walls. Took 45min to check in. The buffet food was very pricy for what tasted like frozen food. Our room had been smoked in smelt heavily of pot, and a plastic bag was wrapped around the fire alarm, called front desk asking for so room freshener and to have the fire alarm checked and plastic removed. Front desk said they'd send someone right away. Also wanted it on record we did not smoke in our non smoking room, no one ever came and we left with plastic still on fire alarm. Asked to have our room cleaned (Mostly for fresh towels and trash removed) put the door hanger on door, found door hanger on our floor and nothing done in our room. Numerous employees approached us trying to upsell into a membership or whatever else they were selling. 3 fast food restaurants located within, late one night we went to DQ, stall bread, soggy french fries, extremally slow service. Highly over priced for such a run down, trashy place. They only good thing I can say is the bed was comfy, and sheet clean. The throw blanket was dingy with stains.
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Date of stay: April 2022
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Room Tip:bed was comfy, sheet clean, comforter dingy and stained
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Horrible service, got physically locked out of our own rooms (because housekeeping locked the horizontal lock inside) and was refused to get back into the room because "the original booking person wasn't physically there" even though we still managed to get our keys in and despite our family had a child emergency that needed to do first aid asap and all our stuff needed was inside the room. We were even given attitude from the staff throughout, and housekeeping didn't even bother to clean on our 2nd night of our stay. Keys were constantly not working and had to be changed every day.
Another note: there is no complementary water either and calling guest services from the room was pointless as nobody ever picks up overtime. Only good point is that parking is free, or else I would not recommend this place.
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Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Travelled with family
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If you’re a normal person who is respectful to people in large crowds, this place is not for you. You have to be able to freely loudly curse in front of women children and strangers. You need to have your ass hanging out of your pants with face and neck tattoos. Make sure you smoke in areas that you aren’t allowed to, drop all your food and trash on the ground when done, and cut in any lines you are in.
Now for the hotel. Our room wasn’t cleaned after we checked in - arrived to a totally destroyed room full of trash and laundry. It took two trips in to finally get a clean room at 7:45 at night. The key cards failed twice - huge pain to have to go all the way back through the casino areas to the front desk to repair. The food courts are gross and homeless people have psychotic breakdowns everywhere inside (security is nonexistent). Don’t bring your family or yourself here.
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Date of stay: June 2021Trip type: Travelled with family
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Depends on what you think is cold water - I'm from New England and will swim in Florida waters in January but local Floridians think it is too cold. I would recommend calling the hotel to ask what will be open. We were there in early November and the hot tub and pool were open, but the water slides were closed for the winter. The hot tub was great. I didn't try the pool but folks also using the hot tub said the were running back and forth between the pool and hot tub to warm up (they are both outside). Weather mapping puts daytime temps in the 60s-low 70s (16-18 Celsius) in early March. It is the desert so it drops in temp quickly at night - as soon as the sun goes down. That said, Circus Circus has an indoor amusement park (check ticket price) and arcade that the are good for the 4 yo and multiple free daily short shows that are family friendly - like clowns, trapeze, etc. It is at the end of the Strip so if you want to go to the main area, like the Bellagio, you will have to take a cab with the kids or rent a car. Even with a car Vegas is a lot of walking and it is visually very stimulating. You will want a stroller for both of the kids because they will get tired very quickly. If you rent a car, get one that has pickup/drop off in the airport. The cheap rental agencies require at least one bus and 20 mins to get to. You will definitely want to go to Fremont Street in Old Vegas. Free to walk around, lots of lights and entertainment - bands, performers, etc.
There are more places to choose from in the Las Vegas area.
PRICE RANGE
C$88 - C$150 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
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LOCATION
United StatesNevadaLas VegasParadise / The Strip
NUMBER OF ROOMS
3,773
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Is Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Las Vegas accessible?
Yes, it offers wheelchair access, reduced mobility rooms, and facilities for disabled guests. For specific enquiries, we recommend calling ahead to confirm.
