As part of its retrofitting with coin- and token-operated slots and $5 blackjack tables, Slots A Fun is giving the Stage Door a run for its bargain money by serving $2 Heinekens, hot dogs, and shrimp cocktails, all at the bar.
You can never go wrong with $2 Heinies in bottles or cans, we like to say.
And the $2 shrimp cocktail isn’t too shabby either. It comes in a two-cup setup, with the tartar sauce at the bottom of the big cup and six medium shrimp and a bed of lettuce in the smaller top cup.
Initially, we were a little unimpressed, counting only five shrimp, 40¢ apiece. But one was hiding under the lettuce, bringing the price down to 33¢ and putting this deal over the top as a new Top Tenner.
Included in the decision are: 1) Slots A Fun is easy to get to if you come in the back way on Sammy Davis Jr. Drive, parking in the Circus Circus lot or garages; 2) parking is absolutely free; 3) the previous Top Ten shrimp at the Fremont dropped out after another price raise; and 4) it’s a two-minute walk across the street to Fontainebleau, which is a must-see if it’s your first time. (By walking through Slots A Fun, perhaps playing a few quarters or tokens, and getting a shrimp cocktail at the bar, you’ve done your duty for parking gratis at Circus.) And 4) the soundtrack of quarters and dollar tokens crashing down into the metal hoppers of the old-time slot machines hasn’t been heard around here for a long time and if you’re at all nostalgic for Las Vegas the way it used to be, this is the place to experience it.
Um, that looks like cocktail sauce, not tartar sauce with the shrimp, no?
Worth a visit just to try out the shrimp cocktail deal. Thanks for the photos.
Slots will be a definite stop for us on our trip in May. This place, along with the Westward Ho next door, was my parent’s favorite places to stay and gamble. The Ho always had reasonable eats and drinks, and playing table games at Slots a Fun was a blast with their newer dealers tossing cards. Vegas really needs to address this underserved market, much success to the “ new” Slots a Fun !
Cocktail sauce it is. Correcting it. Thanks.
AMEN— glad to see a revival of sorts to a place that was fading away
Come on how cheep can you be, try it give a little to bring back old Vegas. Or go to the Mega Casino and pay full price for everything!!!
I remember the “old” Slots A Fun had free slot pull at the back that gave free payouts in quarters. Quite a nice touch for the old gal. Miss that free pull for sure. I remember being over the moon when I hit a payout of 6 quarters. The attendant actually gave you a quarter to put in the machine.
What’s the review on the hot dog?
Hot dog is decent. Not as good as Downtown Grand, South Point, or Stage Door, but good enough.