Why Don't Casinos Have Revolving Doors?

Seeing the doors locked on Vegas casinos (with chains in some instances as they’d not envisioned ever needing to actually lock the doors) got me thinking about the entrances to casinos. I can’t think of a casino that only has a revolving door at the main entrance—these are much more efficient at retaining a stable temperature within a property so why do casinos have either normal or sliding doors at their entrances and exits? Is it to do with the flow of people and they’d rather take the cost of losing cool air as opposed to limiting the number of people who could use a revolving door?

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Rich Emery of St. Louis-based TBE Architects says there’s no significant energy-efficiency difference between revolving door and swinging doors

However, many casino patrons are of an older demographic, some in wheelchairs, and navigating revolving doors is a serious hardship, to say nothing of requiring a greater output of physical energy. “That’s why we don’t put them in,” he says.

In our experience, it also hinders traffic flow, so that would be an additional disincentive.

Casino-design critic Dennis Kranes agrees. “Whenever I have a choice between a swinging or revolving, I choose the swinging. Something in me sees the revolving as an impediment and a slow one at that. I’m sure the revolves are more energy-efficient and money-saving. But hurried/hurrying Americans want to get there now."

Yes, when we want our fix of casino gambling, we’re not in a mindset to wait, even for a few extra seconds.

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slickmv Apr-15-2020

Golden Gate

The Golden Gate casino has a revolving door, flanked by swinging doors, at the entrance from the valet parking area.

O2bnVegas Apr-15-2020

revolving doors

Caesars does.  Bellagio does.

Edso Apr-15-2020

Westgate/LVH/Hilton

Pretty sure the Hilton/LVH had a revolving door flanked by swinging doors on the side entrance where Pizza Hut used to be.  Were taken out some time after Westgate took ownership.

Randall Ward Apr-15-2020

doors

Bellagio, don't push them! They're a mess when crowds get big.

rokgpsman Apr-15-2020

Wasted energy

The revolving doors are not energy efficient. Just watch them in summer time and you see with each turn they bring in warm outside air and remove the cooled indoor air. The one at Bellagio is tall, that's a lot of air being brought inside and pushed outside when it turns. If you stand near it on the outside you can feel the cool air coming out of the building.

jay Apr-15-2020

Air Balance

Revolving Doors greatly improve Air Balancing. Typically A/C units live on the roof. Cold Air Falls and Hot Air expands and Rises. When the hot air has no place to go it forces down the cold air. You open a door on the main floor and you have a massive rush of cold air leaving the building. A revolving door moves a block of air out without the huge loss of energy. Secondly that external door due to modern fire regulations must open outwards to prevent people from being trapped inside. There were several stadium fires in the 70;s where people were pushed up against an outside door that open inwards and due to the crowds behind them it could not be pulled open. Now all external doors must be able to push out. While way more safe - if you have a large amount of air pressure inside, those conventional doors will not close tight always allowing air seepage. This is why sliding doors are popular vs conventional doors for malls and grocery stores.

jay Apr-15-2020

Airbalance-2

Where conventional doors are used you usually see two sets of doors. You open a door, go though, and then 9ft in there is a second set of doors. Again this controls how much air is transferred from outside in, and vice versa. More modern buildings have an air capture (energy capture) to recycle the air in this enclosed space relative to the outside temperature.

Johnnyo Apr-15-2020

Johnnyo

Doesn't Harrahs have a Revolving Door @ their Valet??  Im sure they used to.

RichM Apr-15-2020

Bellagio at the Flamingo pedestrian bridge

The Bellagio revolving door at the Flamingo pedestrian bridge is terrible when it's crowded. It slows foot traffic tremendously, especially when someone tries to push the door. This diverts people to the swinging door on either side of it, where inevitably some impatient jackass will try to force his way down the left side.

John Foisy Apr-15-2020

Please no!

I hate revolving doors, and thinking about trying to flee a casino fire through them is terrifying. They really do slow down pedestrian traffic, too much so to be safe.

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