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Fantasy Springs Resort Casino & Special Events Center
The Desert’s New, Exciting Casino Resort Now Open!
The new, $200 million Fantasy Springs Resort Casino & Special Events Center opened on December 21st, reshaping Coachella Valley gaming with its fantastic 12-story tower, 250-room, 10-suite hotel resort casino complex
with the top-level Sunset View cocktail lounge that o ers the best views of the Palm Springs area and features nightly entertainment and dancing.
Fantasy Springs Resort Casino CEO James H. McKennon, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Tribal Chairman John A. James, and Cabazon Tribal Member Prairie Welmas at the resort’s ribbon-cutting on December 21st.
Owned by the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, who led the initiative to bring Indian gaming to California, the hotel tower, the tallest building in the Coachella Valley, features guest rooms with an Art Deco air, high-speed Internet service and 27-inch at- screen televisions, and 24-hour room service.
e spectacular resort casino also features a new 100,000-square-foot special events center that will host the West Coast premiere of
“Balagan” a Las Vegas cirque-style extravaganza open to all ages with evening and matinee performances from January 14 – 23. (Tickets start at $25 per person.) A reinvention of the circus, “Balagan”, is a dazzling theatrical combination of dancing, singing, costuming, comedy and mime, and will also be the focal pointoftheCabazonTribe’sinvitationalgrand openingonJanuary13.
Constructed by Howard S. Wright Co., builders of the Space Needle in Seattle, the special events center can
handle a wide range of entertainment, from the large “Balagan’’ spectacle to championship boxing events and ballroom-sized events and corporate boardroom meetings.
And, right next door to the hotel, the newly renovated Fantasy Springs Casino features 2,000 slot machines, 30 table games that include live poker, blackjack, California craps, video roulette, a high-limit area, vip room, a new high-stakes 700-seat Bingo Palace with separate smoking and non-smoking sections, and the only casino-based o -track satellite wagering facility in the Palm Springs area.
Guests of the resort casino complex have a variety of dining options—from the new 250-seat indoor and outdoor Fresh Grill Buffet, open daily for breakfast, lunch and
dinner, that features interactive cooking stations of wood- red pizzas, pastas, broiled American
selections, Brazilian, Asian Dim Sum and Stir Fry, and Italian and
Fantasy Springs Resort Casino has 2,000 of the hottest slots in the Desert!
Page 12 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAMING GUIDE January 2005