The current state
The 2025 deep-dive is the page's anchor: a renovated SoHo room, the cleaned-up check-in, and a full sweep of what's changed — including an extended run through the Big Apple Arcade (Skee-Ball, TMNT, Nerf) and the coaster's ground rules: lockers required, 54-inch height minimum. The standard orientation is the map-in-hand 2023 walkthrough: Greenberg's Deli for an affordable sandwich, 48th and Crepe, Tom's Urban's Strip-side patio rated among the Strip's best outdoor dining, the compact sports book, Shake Shack, and out to The Park.
The cheapest room and the streetscape
The budget stay takes a 350-square-foot Park Avenue King in the New Yorker Tower and finds the problem is scale — gigantic furniture in a small room — while praising what's outside it: the kept-up streets of old New York and the cheap eats along them, a myVEGAS buy-one-get-one at Nine Fine Irishmen hard-won. A 2022 walkthrough frames the resort as 'the best city in Las Vegas,' at the corner of Tropicana and the Boulevard — Hershey's Chocolate World and its candy Statue of Liberty included. One dated sight in that film deserves its note: the Tropicana it points out across the street was demolished in 2024; its site is now the A's stadium project, which the resort's newer films show rising.
Reopening night
The history film walks in on June 4, 2020 — the day Las Vegas casinos reopened: temperature checks at the door, plexiglass between table-game seats, masks on about half the guests, a good number of restaurants still dark. Its advice was to wait a few months; as a record of the Strip's strangest weekend it's unmatched. Two watch entries close the page: the arcade in four and a half minutes of machine noise and music, and a 2020 streetscape walkthrough that runs on music rather than narration.
Sources: the seven videos on this page — a 2025 deep-dive, a 2023 walkthrough, a cheapest-room stay, a 2022 streetscape tour, the reopening-night record, and two watch-content walks — summarized from their entries in our catalog.