Circus Circus is a circus-themed hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, owned by the Mandalay Resort Group. It has a theme park, and features free circus acts on a regular basis throughout the day. It opened on October 18, 1968. Hotel is the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet. ... For other uses, see Casino (disambiguation). ... The Las Vegas Strip is a three-mile-long (approx. ... Mandalay Resort Group is a hotel-casino operator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... The Big Top of Billy Smarts Circus Cambridge 2004. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Circus Circus is located at 2880 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
It is known best to movie goers as Bazooka Circus in the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where Raoul Duke (played by Johnny Depp) while in midst of an ether binge utters the line "Bazooka Circus is what the world would be doing every Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich." Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a novel by Hunter S. Thompson, which describes the protagonists (Raoul Duke, a fictionalised representation of Thompson) chasing of the American dream to Las Vegas through a drug-induced haze with his... Raoul Duke is the pseudonym used by Hunter S. Thompson for the character based on him in his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ... Johnny Depp John Christopher Depp II, widely known as Johnny Depp (born June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky), is an American film actor. ... For ether as it applies to physics and philosophy, see Aether; for the Mormon prophet Ether, see Book of Ether. ...
There is also a Circus Circus in Reno, located at 500 North Sierra Street. This article is about the city in Nevada. ...
External links
Official web site for Las Vegas hotel (http://www.circuscircus-lasvegas.com/index2.php)
CircusCircus Las Vegas is a circus-themed 3,770 room hotel and 101,000 square foot (9,400 m²) casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Las Vegas Strip that is owned and operated by the Mandalay Resort Group.
CircusCircus features free circus acts on a regular basis throughout the day and the only RV park on the Strip.
CircusCircus is slated to be re-renovated to its former self in 2006.