VEGAS (DOWNTOWN): Gold Spike Hotel and Casino to Close on Sunday

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[h=1]Growing Pains: Gold Spike Hotel and Casino to Close on Sunday; Making Room for Redevelopment[/h]April 13, 2013 | Filed under: Downtown,Featured | Posted by: Debbie Hall
<!-- /metas -->By Debbie Hall, editor
Informer Media Group
Gold Spike Hotel and Casino, originally opened in 1976, is ending its run on a high-note as a renovated boutique 112-room seven floor hotel-casino. The casino will close at 3 p.m. on Sunday with a party to be held from noon to 3 p.m. which will be open to the public.
The Oasis at the Gold Spike, originally a free standing motel before being sold and becoming part of the Gold Spike resort complex, had the distinction of being the only downtown hotel with a Las Vegas Boulevard address. In May 2010, the city of Las Vegas changed the entire Gold Spike property to the Las Vegas Boulevard address. The adjacent 3-story motel, part of the Gold Spike property, was originally built in 1962 as a 57-room Travel Inn Motel.
After the purchase by the Siegel Group in 2008, the property was completely renovated and combined with the 52-room motel located next to the property. In May 2010, the Oasis Pool opened, giving Gold Spike a swimming pool.
In April 2013, it was reported that the property’s debt had been acquired by Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project, a campaign to revitalize downtown Las Vegas. Siegel had sold the Gold Spike to the Downtown Project while retaining its rights to the Gold Spike name.
In a news release, Siegel Group said it purchased the property, which included 112 Gold Spike rooms plus 58 rooms in the adjacent Travel Inn Motel, in 2008. Siegel was one of the first investors in the redevelopment of the eastern portion of Fremont Street. After buying the place, he gutted rooms and refurbished the entire structure, the release said, turning it into “a hip boutique hotel-casino that sought to attract a younger demographic that the company believed would eventually migrate to the area.” With the recession continuing, the projected demographics and profits did not happen.
The party will be held at the Gold Strike from noon to 3 p.m. with $1 drinks, 50 percent off of food and giveways. For more information, visit www.goldspike.com.
Gold Spike Hotel and Casino
217 N. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89101

could've fooled me, thought it was already closed

I guess everyone heads over to the el cortez now..

If they had better management and people who actually knew what they were doing they might have succeeded.

The way it is Steve Siegel hires people, then ALLOWS them to bring in their "Friends" as part of the management team... even tho their "friends" have no prior experience or care for the job.

I've been to Vegas 5 times since 2008....there's no "recession" in that town!

RIP Gold Spike......

I remember the "classic" Gold Spike prior to the renovations... $1 well drinks and $10 blow jobs... Some girls rented there own rooms there and worked out of them... They tried to renovate the place for a hipper crowd but you can not put lipstick on a pig and expect it to become a "10".
THe classic Spike may she rest in peace along with others of her genre..The Western, The Atomic and Ambasador Hotel

kind of a poor location that got shut out of the Fremont St experience being a couple of blocks too far North in area best avoided after dark, it's a place a tourist would likely never find and no reason to seek it out.

TheMailman said:

RIP Gold Spike......

I remember the "classic" Gold Spike prior to the renovations... $1 well drinks and $10 blow jobs... Some girls rented there own rooms there and worked out of them... They tried to renovate the place for a hipper crowd but you can not put lipstick on a pig and expect it to become a "10".
THe classic Spike may she rest in peace along with others of her genre..The Western, The Atomic and Ambasador Hotel

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True words...was not the same after they tried to gentrify it. Loved the cheap drinks and the even cheaper ladies of the night.

TheMailman said:

RIP Gold Spike......

I remember the "classic" Gold Spike prior to the renovations... $1 well drinks and $10 blow jobs... Some girls rented there own rooms there and worked out of them... They tried to renovate the place for a hipper crowd but you can not put lipstick on a pig and expect it to become a "10".
THe classic Spike may she rest in peace along with others of her genre..The Western, The Atomic and Ambasador Hotel

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You'd have to be nuts to get a hooker and go to her room, IMO ! You don't know what is behind that door.

Doug said:

You'd have to be nuts to get a hooker and go to her room, IMO ! You don't know what is behind that door.

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Sounds like you've never had the experience.

I'm not getting led to her place. I've never fucked a prostitute, Blowjobs only in my truck/ car.

You guys really don't pay hookers for sex do you?? (oral or otherwise)

NFLTrends said:

You guys really don't pay hookers for sex do you?? (oral or otherwise)

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No , No RX poster has ever paid for a BJ.....from a taxi driver that steers clients to massage parlors for a kickback !

I never paid over $20 for a hummer and haven't bought one this century.

Lol, just curious.. Nothing wrong with what a person does in his personal life. Just questioning it that some people would put it out there like that lol.

I was thinking it was a joke or sarcasm, but its hard to tell from just reading it and not hearing it

just kind of Funny NFL since your job involves you hooking up people doing sinful things. Nothing wrong with bringing the guy to the massage parlor with the happy ending !



You likely know where to get drugs and other stuff !

Kind of a dirty job where you need to do things to get the real money. It is understood !

Spent many a night at the little ballpark, lets be honest, Ronnie has no clue what happened on the 4th floor of the hotel.