Features
What to expect: The Sahara opened in 1952, one of the first hotel casinos in Las Vegas. Compact for easy access to all facilities and attractions, the moderately priced Sahara appeals to guests seeking less noise and the slower pace of a different era. Amenity highlights: Surrounded by a sundeck graced by palm trees and gentle fountains, a large, heated pool provides pleasure during spring, summer, and late autumn. A 15-person spa beneath a filigreed wrought-iron dome offers social soaking next to the pool.
House of Lords - This legendary restaurant features steak and seafood in a posh ambience of draped fabric, plush booths, and jeweled lighting. NASCAR Cafe - This large, lively, two-level restaurant features race cars hanging from the ceiling and offers giant projection screens showing televised NASCAR races. The menu includes ribs, chicken, steaks, pasta, and burgers. Paco's Bar & Grill - This restaurant specializes in Mexican fare and seafood. Sahara Buffet - All-you-can-eat buffets are available here for brunch and dinner, with a champagne brunch served weekends. Caravan Coffee Show - This coffee shop serves light meals around the clock. Jitters Gourmet Coffee - This spot serves coffee drinks and pastries 24 hours a day. Room service is available daily from 6 AM to midnight.
The Amazing Johnathan Show
Internationally-known comic magician Amazing Johnathan moves to the Sahara beginning Friday, May 6 for an indefinite engagement, appearing in the 550-seat Congo Room. The show features new material but still showcases the same impulsive, bizarre humor and abrasive wit that has earned him widespread critical acclaim. Performances are at 10 PM nightly and dark Thursdays. Adult themes and language; those under the age of 18 will not be admitted without parent or legal guardian.
The Platters, Coasters, and Drifters
The Platters, Cornell Gunter’s Coasters, and Beary Hobb’s Drifters return to the stage in the legendary Congo Room with some of the top 20 hits from the fifties and sixties. Performances are seven nights a week in the Sahara’s Congo Room; show time is 7:30 PM. Prices start at $34.50, plus tax and service charges. Tickets are available at the Sahara Hotel and Casino Box office.
Tropical Passions
This large-scale variety show features the Latin Grammy-nominated Tropicana All-Stars Orchestra, and Latin music and dance from the "Roaring Fifties." The cast of 30 dancers and other entertainers performs blues, mambo, rumba, rock, and other classic rhythms from the golden age of Cuban music. Show times are 7 PM nightly except Tuesdays, with additional late show at 9:30 PM on Friday and Saturday. Ticket prices range from $49 - $69 plus tax and fees at the Sahara box office.
Stock cars and Indy cars, in smaller versions of the real thing, race around a simulated track in the 35,000-square-foot Las Vegas Cyber Speedway adjacent to NASCAR Cafe. A 20-foot wraparound screen provides realistic sight and sound, while each car's hydraulic base furnishes realistic motion. Launched from inside NASCAR Cafe, Speed - The Ride is a state-of-the-art roller coaster that passes through an underground tunnel, around a loop, and through the hotel's marquee before stopping 224 feet above ground and then reversing itself. The Sahara Theater hosts evening performances of Broadway’s Saturday Night Fever stage production. Show dates/times vary. Legends of the '50s and '60s still going strong, The Platters, Drifters, and Coasters entertain nightly in the Congo Room. Las Vegas' first true lounge, the Casbar Lounge opened in 1954 and continues to present nightly entertainment from smooth jazz to rock 'n' roll. Comprising 85,000 square feet and featuring an enormous glass chandelier and elaborately decorated columns, the Casino supplies poker, slots, video poker, backjack, craps, roulette, pai gow, keno, and a race and sports book.
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