The slide through the sharks
The Tank is the Golden Nugget's pool built around a shark tank — with a waterslide that shoots riders through the middle of it and out the other side. The deck-by-deck tour walks it properly: riders launching from the top, the terraced levels rising around the pool, cabanas with drink and bottle-service minimums as filmed, loungers, and the spots where you can simply sit with a drink and watch the sharks. Kids were plentiful on that visit; the upper levels are the grown-up escape. You don't even need a pool pass for the first look — the Strip loyalist's first downtown stay lands at the casino bar overlooking it: 'the most unique pool in Las Vegas, with the Shark Tank in the middle and a slide that goes right through the middle of that pool.'
The hotel around it
This page doubles as the Nugget-through-its-pool, because the stay films keep returning to the Tank as the property's anchor: a first stay sold in its opening minutes by the shark tank (plus the famous front-desk '$20 trick' scoring a 20th-floor room, a casino wander, a Fremont Street night and a donut-bar breakfast); the most current full stay (2026, a Rush Tower suite — room, casino, the shark-tank pool and Fremont in the round, from a repeat downtown visitor); and a return after four years testing the Nugget's 'cult following' from its best bookable room, the Parlor Suite — suite-level luxury at a mid-priced downtown landmark, the slot floor jam-packed every time.
The locals' one-nighter
The staycation film is the short version: a quick downtown getaway — rooms, floor, and the property's other treasure, the Hand of Faith, at more than 61 pounds the largest gold nugget on public display in the world, found in Victoria, Australia and kept in a case at the Nugget ('an absolute must,' its host rules — our Golden Nugget page covers the nugget and the hotel in full). Downtown's pool scene splits cleanly from here: the Tank for spectacle-with-sharks, Stadium Swim at Circa for the giant screen — both on Fremont's doorstep, both on this site.
Sources: the six videos on this page — a deck-by-deck Tank tour, three Golden Nugget stay films (first stay, 2026 Rush Tower, Parlor Suite return), a Fremont-skeptic's stay, and a locals' staycation — summarized from their entries in our catalog.