Gambling is the sole attraction as far as I could tell. Rooms were big, overlooking the train yard which was noisy in the middle of the night even on a high floor. The accomdations were good we had a suite with a sitting room with a wet bar and frig (no mini bar though), 2 bathrooms and 2 double beds in the other room. Would begreat room for a family traveling together (if you wanted to take your family to a casino) Large dirty windows and the room was dusty. Not much happening in Sparks...........but if you needed to be here this is probably the hotel of choice.

Went with a few friends for a fun weekend! This place is great, food is great, service is great and rooms are big! Hands down the place to stay in Sparks.... A lot to do and great service!

I attended a conference that was hosted at the Nugget and was terribly underwhelmed. The West Tower has not been renovated, yet the hotel services folks claim it has the best views. Don’t be fooled, the West Tower has not been renovated since what feels like 1956. The rooms have teal and red velour as the accent colors and bedspreads. My bedspread had a huge cigar burn in it. It was the type of place where you didn’t want to walk from the bathroom to your bed without shoes on. The décor is terribly dated and overall, made the aesthetic experience underwhelming. If they don’t remodel the West Tower, they should simply bulldoze it.

The East Tower has been renovated to perhaps a 2-star standard. The views were average. The entire hotel smells like smoke, even on the non-smoking floors, but I guess that is what you expect from a casino.

I will however give credit to the staff at the Nugget because they were some of the friendliest and helpful people I have ever met in my many travels around the country.

We went down the weekend of the 16th of Oct. to celebrate my birthday. We stayed in the West tower on the 26th floor. When you are up that high, you will not hear the trains or the freeway. We did have a lovely view of the Sierra mountains and of downtown Reno. My husband upgraded us to a deluxe suite with the jacuzzi, which I recommend!! Yes the rooms do have flower wallpaper on them and velvet bedspreads and a velvet loveseat, but really... who cares. The only thing I hated about the bed was that the pillows were really small and very fluffy, almost too fluffy. And yes, they do have stained towels there in the hotel rooms. We came across one.

All of the restaurants are pretty expensive in the hotel. About 50.00 per person, except for Rosie's Cafe. I wasn't at all pleased with Rosies. I had their fish and chips one night for dinner and the next morning I had frenchtoast down at Rosies for breakfast and it tasted like the french toast was made in the same grease as the fish the night before.

The casino was ok. The slot machines are pretty tight and it's hard to win anything in them. They were pretty good about coming around and offering drinks. I did not see a blue smokey haze like others said and the cigarette smoke wasn't too bad for a weekend.

We did take advantage of the swimming pool and jacuzzi. Nice pool, no issues there.
Also, there is a movie theater across the street that I would recommend going to if you get tired of gambling.

Yes, the hotel does slap with you with all sorts of "fees". We checked in and they told us there is a $5.00 fee for every day for "resort fees". We ended up paying 20.00 for that. Then the day we were checking out, the hotel made two transactions on our debit card without letting us know... one for 36.00 and the other for 46.00. The hotel said that was for the "upgrade" to our room and when we said we were paying cash for that, they said they knew that but still charged our debit card anyway and said they would release the funds when we checked out and funds would not go back into our bank until 3-5 business days. We still had to give them the cash for the upgrades. So we were pretty annoyed by just tossing stuff on our debit card.

I honestly would not waste your time with this casino. Yes, it's nice. It's nice if you are only staying for about a day and a half. Any longer and you are going to go stir crazy. I would just say forget it and stay in Reno at the Sliver Legacy or Eldorado or at the other hotels down there.

I forgot to mention, the hotel is 3 miles from Reno. It's about a 10.00 taxi ride to downtown Reno. They do have public transportation (city buses) as well. They also don't do anything for birthdays.