Pink Flamingo in the Desert – The Oldest Casino Resort in Las Vegas

The Flamingo is a famous Las Vegas casino, one of the first casinos that have ever been built, in the sin city. Flamingo is the oldest casino that is still operating and where you can still play your favorite games. The pink flamingo bird is a well-known sign of this resort. Flamingo is a part of big casino network that belongs to the biggest gambling operator in the world Harrah's Entertainment.

Casino Flamingo was opened what is hard to believe in the year of 1946, so it is almost one year after the end of World War II. Flamingo was built in the art deco stylization and it also reflects to the Miami architecture style. The whole resort is placed on almost few hectares of space. There are many attractions for the real players and for regular tourists on this area. To this attraction we can include course different casino games like craps, poker, baccarat, roulette, blackjack and more gambling games. At present the casino games are major attraction that are available in the mega resorts, however if we think about casino resort in general we can see that gambling entertainment is only a small part of all attractions available in the resort.

So first of all we can eat here nice food in few great restaurants. When we are not hungry anymore we can relax in spa salon and regenerate our powers before next attractions. After that we can do something more active like playing golf, swimming or dancing in one of the famous night clubs like for example: Te Garden Bar or Bugsy's Bar. After day full of fun we can go to sleep in one of over three thousand hotel rooms. Las Vegas is a city of gambling, everyone knows that, but there is one more thing of which this city is famous, this thing are weddings and marriages. Flamingo hotel also provide that services, so if someone wants to marry under the pink flamingo, should reserve room right now and visit Las Vegas immediately and spend here honey moon. Groups that want to organize meeting or conferences will find here also something for them, because there is some great conference rooms in pink Flamingo.

The history of this beautiful casino is really awesome and very long because it was established in 40's. Interesting is that Flamingo was built thanks to mob money of famous gangster called Bugsy Siegel, who has been shot few day after great opening. The building cost was huge and was equal to six million dollars. Flamingo was the first luxurious casino and hotel in the Las Vegas. The other curiosity about Flamingo is its name. So mobster Bugsy has a girlfriend that he loved much, her name was Virginia Hill, by the way he was shot to death on her eyes. So she had very long thin legs, that's why Bugsy called her 'flamingo. "

For all these years that casino have been rebuild few times, to face new era and new expectations of the players. After Siegel death, Flamingo resort passed from hand to hand was finally taken by the Hilton Hotels and now is a part of big casino network that belongs to the Harrah's Entertainment.

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Source by Robin Luton