I have stayed there many, many times. I DO NOT RECOMMEND STAYING THERE. This was the hotel that offered rebates, refunds, gifts, free play chips, free pulls of the slot machines, free bottle of champane, unlimited free drinks at the bar during your stay, progressive freebies for a $2 payment and time spent. Free parking. They also offered free shows. The show girls (day time show) were modestly clad subteens of modest appearance. They also had an Elvis impersonator (humilator). And they had a Frank Sinatra impersonator). Once we saw Martin and Rossie (one of them) and another time a great impersonator, whose name was Gerwihin (close but not right). None of these freebies still exist, but the shows are still the "mickey mouse" type, as I hear from others.
The view from the rebuilt tower (the tower, not the hotel with the rooms!!!)is said to be great and there are two thrill rides (I do not do these things).
Most of our stays were based on my paying $298.00 in advance and then was give all of the above including $300- 350 in cash on arrival.
Early on they advertised in Playboy. The early deals were refunds of your payment in chips that had limited play. Matching chips for table games and a bank of slot machines to play the slot chips ($500 turns into $2-$8 on the slots). The $500 table games could usually be made into $200 (poor player), $250 (average+ player). Then the value of the gift (camera, jewlery, or clock).
They then went "timeshare, sort of". You bought stock in the hotel and then you got free stays every year+. This was while they were building the tower. Tat went bankrupt and then the place was taken over by others. "Poor" Stupek, he really is a gambler!!
The problem with this place is that the rooms are smallish. The closet is a pole completly hanging in the room. The suites are the same room with a partial wall hiding the bed behind. The casino has little open space. It is very noisy. It is often smelly around the bar (read barf). Think downtown, but without good rooms. They also had a least one offsite motel they would put some people in. It too, was a dump.
Now I have not stayed in several years, but I know that they could not really change the rooms, as they have not had a major remodel. It is actually a teardown.
The good news is McDonalds next door.
My wife hated the place, but she could not argue with the economics. We routinely stayed there and were given $100-200 dollars in cash and merchandise to stay. We alway made our way to other places during the day. Breakfast was free OJ or bloodymarys at the hotel, breakfast at McDonalds, then free coffee at the hotel. Match play on our $2 cards paid for breakfast and lunch each day.
We ate dinner there once on a freebie, but would not do that again.
In fairness, my folks loved it. They went with us twice and once on there own. They did not gamble, except for the freebies and loved to sit and watch the people. They even enjoyed the three free shows they received on check in and the three more (same ones) they received from us. You could get a drink from the bar and take it into the showroom. They would sell the free gifts at a garage sale. They even liked the food in the coffee shop (they did come with us on the breakfast run in the am).
The Maxim often has very cheap rooms and is much nicer. The Hilton at the convention center is often only $25 and is nice, but a bit off the beaten track.