Las Vegas Stardust Casino Will Soon Shut Its Doors

Cheap hotel rooms, once the norm on the Las Vegas Strip, are increasingly more difficult to find and are about to become even more scarce.

The Stardust Resort & Casino, one of the old-guard hotels that still rented rooms for less than $100 a night, has stopped taking online reservations for stays after Oct. 31.

The casino is expected to remain open through most of the year, but its closing is inevitable because of Boyd Gaming's Echelon Place project -- a $4 billion casino-and-hotel complex scheduled for completion in 2010. Echelon Place is expected to have four high-end hotels, a retail promenade and a convention center.

Another landmark hotel, the New Frontier, is also expected to vanish to make way for Montreux, an upscale resort. The New Frontier succeeded the Last Frontier, which opened in 1942 as the second major casino on the Strip.

The Stardust and New Frontier catered to cost-conscious visitors, and their loss will contribute to a shrinking inventory of bargain rooms, meaning less than $100 a night.

Hotels remaining as inexpensive alternatives are Circus Circus, the Riviera, the Sahara and the Stratosphere Tower, although increased demand probably will drive up their prices.

Another older hotel with an uncertain future is the Imperial Palace. The IP is owned by Harrah's Entertainment, which is expected to create a unifying project using hotels and property it owns on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard. That means the Asian-themed casino-hotel is a likely candidate for demolition.

July 30, 2006
Posted By Tom Jones
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