South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas S-T
South Point Hotel & Casino
9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89183,
United States
Phone: (702) 796-7111
Website: southpointcasino.com
About the Casino
This hotel has a confusing corporate lineage that I won’t bore you with here, but the short version is this: after opening as South Coast the place was bought by Michael Gaughan, part of a famous Las Vegas casino family, and rebranded as South Point.
Originally conceived as a sister to locals’ favorites like Orleans, Suncoast, and Gold Coast, the South Point continues to follow the successful locals’ casino formula: lots of low-limit gambling, plenty of low-cost dining and entertainment options, and comfortable and relatively inexpensive accommodations.
When the hotel first opened I complained that it didn’t have much of a personality. It felt bland and a bit impersonal, but it’s amazing what a new owner and a new attitude can do for a place.
South Point is located on Las Vegas Boulevard South, more popularly known as The Strip, but not in the region most tourists consider when thinking of the destination. It’s about six miles south of Mandalay Bay, right along Interstate 15 in a rapidly developing area of condos, apartment buildings, shopping complexes, and houses that was nothing but scrub brush a few years ago.
The overall scheme of the property is Southern California sunshine, all muted earth tones with white and gold accents. To be honest, this contributed to the bland complaint I had about the hotel but I guess every hotel can’t be the The Cosmopolitan.
The main floor is given over to the casino of course – an 80,000-square-foot barn of a space that when it opened provided absolutely no intimacy. But a reorganization of the floor along with additions like a high-limit area and a lounge has broken up the sight lines so that I don’t feel exposed like I did before, which is great because you don’t want to feel exposed when you’re feeling guilty about blowing the rent money or little Billy’s college fund.
There are plenty of games on which to do just that – more than 2,200 slot machines with plenty of video poker, several dozen of the most popular table games, a race and sports book, a keno lounge, a poker room, and a giant bingo parlor on the second floor.
See full review of South Point courtesy of Rick Garman's Vegas4Visitors.com
