Flamingo Pushes Back Go Pool Reopening a Smidge

By Scott Roeben, on April 11 2025
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As the premier purveyor of awkward in Las Vegas, we are forced to share the premiere of Flamingo’s $20 million Go Pool renovation has been postponed.

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Anyway, Go Pool was supposed to open March 17, 2025, then April 11, 2025, but the date has been moved back to May 15, 2025, fingers crossed.

Here’s a progress report as of 2:00 p.m. on April 11, 2025, or Stardate 78741.5. GMT. Don’t you dare check our work, nerd.

As is the case with all important Las Vegas news, we were the first to share the Go Pool delay, information the Las Vegas Review-Journal immediately stole without attribution, of course.

We first got wind of a possible delay back in March, despite the fact Caesars was confident in the April 11 date.

Flamingo and Caesars Entertainment have been mum on the subject of the pool’s progress ever since a February 2025 news release about the pool complex overhaul.

The original announcement said the Go Pool would open in the spring of 2025. Technically, it’s still spring, despite the fact Las Vegas is already experiencing summer temperatures.

Technically, summer doesn’t start until June 20, 2025, so Flamingo is still on track to open in the spring. Just not early spring.

Creating new things isn’t easy, Las Vegas just makes it seem that way.

The impetus for the renovation (really more of a ground-up build) was two-fold: 1) The pool was leaking a metric hell-ton of water, 2) the Flamingo pool wasn’t optimal for monetization.

Massive water leaks are not good in a place that recently went 214 days without rain, but the renovation was mostly about the monetization thing.

The pool at Flamingo is easily three decades old and a lot has happened in the realm of hotel-casino pools since then.

For starters, the new Go Pool will have a 30-seat swim-up bar. Liquor sales are a huge revenue source.

Another feature of the new Go Pool: 33 VIP cabanas. Cabanas print money at Las Vegas pools.

DJs weren’t a thing 30 years ago, Go Pool will feature those prominently. We aren’t entirely sure why DJs are a thing now, but that’s a discussion for a different day.

Beyond the economic elements, the new Go Pool will have temperature-controlled pools, cool-deck surfacing, night lighting, a new sound system and a 50-foot-wide “rain curtain” waterfall and adjoining grotto pool.

Main Go Pool, three elevated smaller pools, family pool. That’s five pools for one hotel if you don’t include sports betting pools, which Flamingo doesn’t, as it recently turned its sportsbook into a slot machine area. Long story.

The Go Pool project comes on the heels of three new venues at Flamingo: Pinky’s by Vanderpump, Gordon Ramsay Burger and Havana 1957.

Simply put, Flamingo is badass again.

Then again, it was always sort of badass.

One of the best things about the Go Pool? It’s 21 and older only. Flamingo has a family pool as well, despite our best efforts, it’s already open.

Please don’t bring kids to Las Vegas, they’re ruining it for everyone.

Is Flamingo going to hit its target opening date of May 15, 2025 for opening the Go Pool?

We’ll take the “under” on this one. Every day of delay is costing Caesars Entertainment money, and with a dip in visitation due to tariffs and economic uncertainty, nobody in Vegas can afford to leave money on the table, or in the cabana, right now.