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Property Amenities
Located three miles from downtown Reno and four miles from the Reno-Tahoe airport, John Ascuaga's Nugget offers a wide array of casino entertainment and nine restaurants. There are four live music venues on site, including the Celebrity Showroom, which features weekly performances.
The hotel's spa offers an extensive selection of body treatments and beauty services. A fitness center adjoins the pool. Guest amenities include an elevator/lift, wireless Internet access (surcharge), business center, arcade/game room and gift shop.
The hotel provides scheduled shuttle service from the airport from early morning to evening (included in the resort fee). The shuttle is on-call during other hours of the day (schedule and availability subject to change without notice).
Valet parking is included in the resort fee. Self-parking in a secured parking garage is also included.
Room Amenities
Rooms
John Ascuaga's Nugget hotel has 1,382 guestrooms in two 29-story towers. Renovated in November 2007, East Tower guestrooms feature warm tones, dark woods, and crystal accents. The traditionally-furnished West Tower guestrooms offer comfortable sitting areas. King rooms have a sofa. Both towers offer sweeping views of the Reno skyline and Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Room amenities include pillowtop mattresses, desks, TVs with cable service and pay movies, multi-line phones, complimentary wireless Internet access, clock radios, hair dryers and air conditioning with climate control. Bathrooms feature marble counter tops and floors.
Accessibility Options
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests” section of “Trip Preferences” when you book your hotel.
Dining
Restaurante Orozko - John Ascuaga's tribute to his Basque-immigrant parents, Orozko features an evening martini lounge serving tapas and live jazz. Under a vaulted ceiling painted and lighted to resemble the sky, the restaurant serves Basque specialties as well as Mediterranean and American favorites such as steak, seafood, pasta, and salt-roasted prime rib.
The Steakhouse Grill – This warm brick-walled restaurant accented with Parisian posters and booth seating offers a varied menu of contemporary cuisine and favorites including steaks, chops, chicken, seafood, prime rib, and pastas.
Trader Dick's – Inspired by the island tropics, this Polynesian-themed restaurant features large booths, tropical gardens, and exotic drinks with umbrellas. Asian and Polynesian-accented dinners include wok-charred lobster and Peking duck breast. The Tiki Bar adjacent to the restaurant wraps around an enormous tropical fish tank. The lounge has dancing to a disc jockey and karaoke.
Noodle Hut – Hot noodle dishes from Lo Mein to Pad Thai to Shrimp Scampi are prepared in front of guests. Open for lunch or dinner.
Rotisserie Buffet - The restaurant offers lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch buffets, as well as nightly themes such as Italian, seafood, or barbecued ribs. Decor is gleaming brass and cozy booths. Premium Prime Rib is served every night.
Rosie's Café - Pressed-tin ceiling, ceiling fans, and brass and glass-enclosed booths. Serves a varied menu of snacks and dishes, such as the Awful-Awful (double-patty cheeseburger), and other items from the original roadside coffee shop menu that grew into this casino hotel. Daily specials include roast turkey, grilled trout, and coq au vin. Open 24 hours.
Starbucks - Offering light fare, coffee, and other drink selections.
John's Oyster Bar - Furnished in nautical style with gleaming woods, this restaurant serves seafood stews, chowders, pan roasts, raw oysters, steamed clams, seafood salads, and seafood sandwiches.
Gabe's Pub & Deli - The deli serves sandwiches, pizza, snacks, light meals, and pastries. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service – Full service. Available 24 hours.
Entertainment
Entertainment every weekend includes headliners such as Lyle Lovett, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Hall and Oates, as well as boxing matches and other events. The 700-seat Celebrity Showroom offers classic seating in booths tiered down to the stage.
The Rose Ballroom seats 2,000 for entertainers such as Clint Black, Chris Isaak, and Wynonna Judd. The Casino Cabaret features jazz, blues, and rock and roll. Live jazz artists play in the Orozko Lounge and dancing to a live DJ is offered in Trader Dick's.
Beginning on one side of I-80 and running under the freeway to open onto downtown Sparks' central plaza, the casino supplies 85,000 square feet of slots, video poker, keno, blackjack, craps, roulette, poker, and other table games. One level below the casino are sports and race books, with the race book featuring desks illuminated by green-shade lamps. A tile path leads around the casino to restaurants. There also is a bingo parlor.
Wednesday evenings, the Orozko Lounge hosts nationally known jazz recording artists.
John's Club The club offers complimentary membership cards that reward table game, slot, bingo, keno, and race and sports book players with "club dollars" that can be used for rooms, meals, shows, beauty services, and gift shop purchases.
Recreation
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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“Awaiting a Return Visit”
This is a very clean and well run hotel that has a variety of good restaurants, fitness area and pool. At the time I stayed the price was low and a great bang for the buck. It is next to the freeway so it is easy to jump in the car and go to Tahoe or Virginia City for more fun. I highly recommend this hotel casino and it is on a par with the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.
“Great Hotel! Cost effective hotel.”
Great resturants and friendly people.
“Had fun and would return if in that area again.”
This is an excellent hotel and I enjoyed my stay.
“Outstanding;”
Frinedly service, Good Food,
“Pretty good”
A nice place to stay and good coffee available 24/7. Wireless internet access is pretty fast and the rooms are comfortable.
“Very Nice....I”
I was scared at first, but overall it was very nice. Nice clean room, very nice bathroom. Very clean Hotel, very well kept up. Very Nice...I would definitely recommend this Hotel to others. Although we did not get room service. Our menu was missing from the room & it took a little while for them to come up and by the time they did I was ready to go to sleep pretty much :-) but other then that the place is GREAT!!
“Very well done.”
Even in these tough times when hotel guests and casino players are fewer and further between, this hotel/casino is still taking very good care of its guests. Plenty of staff on hand and lots of comfort to go around. There was no high pressure to spend big in the casino, with even 50 cent Roulette tables and penny slots to have fun at while spending very little. My wife and I enjoyed our business stay very much. Very pleased and would go again.
“When always in Reno/Sparks I know exactly where I will stay at.”
This place is worth every cent.
“Old style casino service”
Since this hotel is off the 'reno strip' in Sparks, the hotel takes the extra step is the service department. Probably the only Casino in the area I'd feel comfortable bringing my kids. Why? Because I could get to the room without exposing them to typical Casino 'adult' things. Several great restaurants, good room service, great pool and fitness facilities. The list could go on......
“Great stay”
We stayed one night before flying out early the next. Everything was great, the room was very nice and spacious. Airport shuttle was ready for us bright and early!
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The preferred airport for John Ascuagas Nugget is Reno, NV (RNO-Reno-Tahoe Intl.) - 3.4 km / 2.1 mi.
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