Exclusive: Word is Boyd Gaming Selling Shuttered Eastside Cannery

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  Vegas sal May 10, 2025

  Boyd should have never bought the cannieries. They ruined them. North cannery closed buffet, pizza place, italian restaurant. Tripled and quadrupled price of rooms and resort fees. Eastside cannery before closing. Took away the starbucks cart by front desk. No more free coffees and danishes per day for guests. You got voucher one of each per day. Jacked up room rates added on resort fees jacked up incidental hold. Closed so many places to eat, had a good brunch buffet so reasonable. The steakhouse the deli. The cafe cut the menu and jacked up prices and got cheap products. The burgers were like frozen walmart burgers. They closed bingo, keno. Pool started charging to use their so called cabanas wasnt even cabanas. Closed the concerts there and events, the nightclub up there. Got rid of the shuttle to sams and fremont and harrahs from sams town. Then just closed hotel and let it sit there all this time.

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  Sheila Armistead April 26, 2025

  An RV dealership? Boulder Hwy already has quite a few of them. When casinos close, they are never repurposed with the community in mind.

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  B. Gates April 23, 2025

  If you're a local, you probably never go to the strip so the outlying casinos were the next best thing and even though Eastside wasn't exactly a beacon of excitement, it did offer some good stuff. On occasion you'd catch a good concert at a good price and most of the food was decent, especially to the drunk 2am crowd but what I liked the most was no huge crowds, easy parking and you didn't need to walk a mile to get a drink. it's sad to see it go and with the buying restrictions Boyd put on the sale, you end up with nothing but a hotel. I personally would strip almost the entire gaming floor and build a pool so elaborate, it would make the news and attract tourist and family's that want to actually relax. also make it at a better price than the strip or, cut a deal with other casinos for a percentage if they book at your hotel. hotels are profitable which is why the build so many. you just need to be ingenious and creative to beat the competition. also, there's lots of money in food and drinks if you choose wisely on what to offer. P.S. don't overpay for the property, we are in a economic downturn.

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  Linda Murphy April 23, 2025

  They had good payouts on the video poker machines and the best dance floor (with NO smoking) and bands in Las Vegas. Snaps was a great cafe. And they had great acts in the showroom at low prices. I saw Neil Sedaka and Mickey Gilley there. I am sad to see it officially closed.

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  Vice April 23, 2025

  The buffet was the worst!

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  Repent dude April 22, 2025

  I was only in there once, many years ago. I ended up eating lunch there, probably at their cafe. It seem like a cool property. It's a casino without an elaborate theme, how cool can it be? But I could see the appeal if you were getting a decent room rate to stay and did not want to walk 5 hours from your room to the lobby, like Sam's Town next door.

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  Garry Lem April 22, 2025

  So sad. They had the best Chinese food in the coffee shop. Eric was the best! 😔

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  Mark S. April 21, 2025

  What on earth costs $500,000 per MONTH to maintain when the property is essentially abandoned? The math isn't mathing, Scott.

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  Scott Roeben April 22, 2025

  Security and maintenance of the grounds, mostly.

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  Joyce April 22, 2025

  That is such an exaggeration, it is not far at all from the rooms to the lobby. Maybe if you stayed on the strip it's hike but definitely not true at Sam's Town.

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