Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich."
Circus Circus WAS a pretty neat place to go ... when I was 6.
For some reason, it just always struck me as this cheesy place, and I never bothered coming again until fairly recently when I decided to try getting a drink at the merry-go-round bar.
Sadly the bar is now a gelato stand.
And this Americana gem I thought I'd re-discover in my adult years (once I was finally old enough to appreciate "Fear and Loathing") was just so uninteresting. I mean, they have free performances on the Midway, but they're so short and the wait is so long.
Aside from the Midway, which is more and more like Chuck E. Cheese with carnival games, the rest of the place looks like any other casino.
Circus Circus appears in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" as The Clown's Pocket in Las Venturas.