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| Location | Sitting on the corner of the Strip with Tropicana Avenue, the busiest road intersection in the USA. There are foot bridges connecting New York New York with the MGM, Tropicana, and Excalibur. | |
| Theme | Well what can I say; it's the Big Apple. All of the buildings outside are 1/3 scale copies of those in Manhattan including the Empire State, Chrysler and CBS buildings. There is also a Statue of liberty and a Brooklyn Bridge with a "Coney Island" roller coaster screeching round the whole lot. The theme does not stop outside, as you enter the casino you will see manhole covers with smoke rising out of them, trees in Central Park and hotdog vendors. It is dubbed as the greatest little city in Vegas something, we think, is well earned. | |
| Attractions | The Manhattan Express rollercoaster, supposedly the best in Vegas, runs round the outside of the structure speeding up to 67mph for $7 per ride. The Coney Island Emporium is a state of the art amusement arcade, which includes a shooting gallery and laser tag game. There are Ice shows outside, around Ellis Island, in the winter and tugboats spray water at each other in the summer. | |
| Shopping | Well there ain't no 5th Avenue!! Pretty poor really, the token NYNY souvenir shops, Hamilton's Cigar Shop and Houdini's magic shop. | |
| Dining | No buffet; very unusual
for the strip. America - 24 hour coffee shop, Several Delis and hotdog stalls as well as the village eatery. This has a variety of, eat in/take away fastish food. This is all in addition to the usual array of up-market restaurants way above my pocket. |
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| Gaming | 81,000 sq ft of well themed gaming fun containing nearly 2500 state of the art slot and video machines, along with about 50 tables and 7 roulette wheels. NYNY contains one of the best selections of slots on the Strip with a very large selection of my favourites; the good old low roller nickel machines. They have all the usual wheel of fortune, Adams Family, Winning Bid etc. plus Swing which we did not see elsewhere and Family Feuds. Family Feuds is based on the American TV game show of the same name, which we know better as Family Fortunes. The feature screen involves a digital camera taking a picture of you and running an episode with you in the hot seat having to answer Family Feud type questions. The Family Feud machines are only found in Primadonna resorts, so on the Strip that means NYNY and the MGM Grand. The gaming area is a little dark and in certain parts slightly cramped but didn't appear as noisy as some. Live acts performing at the huge bar at the front makes a nice diversion to the hundred dollars you have just lost. I don't know if we were just lucky but we seemed to have a better hit rate on the NYNY slots than at any other Strip casino. | |
| Drinks Service | Like all casinos the service you receive whilst playing on the lowly nickel machines is never as good as when you are playing on the dollar ones, but the service here, even for us low rollers, was quite good. One thing - steer clear of the coffee. | |
| Best Thing | The whole theme thing as you enter from the upper level is New York; it works well and is great fun. | |
| Worst Thing | I don't think that there is anything that I dislike about NYNY apart from that at busy times we had to wait for machine attendants but this could have been the same anywhere. | |
| Overall | We love it, it’s
exciting and you leave the real world for the time that you are in there.
The theme works very well, with a very good variety of slot machines and
friendly staff. It is our favourite casino, although it may have helped
that we hit a jackpot there.
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