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SO HOW TERRIFIC IS THE RELATIVELY NEW CIRCA RESORT IN DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS?

  I haven't been to Las Vegas for around 5 years.  I have historically stayed at the California Hotel, or sister properties of Boyd in the past because the price was low and food was essentially free. I'm here for five  days this time and picked the almost new Circa Resort and Casino.  When it opened late in 2020, it became the first all-new hotel in downtown Las Vegas in 40 years. Is only for adults. Has 777 rooms.  The adjacent California Hotel has 325 rooms. Said to have attempted to have the feel of hotels of the original Vegas, in that there are no kitschy themes, waterslides, and so forth, but has the technology of today. So much so that there is no phone in the room.  They rightly assume everyone coming to their hotel has a functional smart phone.  You need to use what looks sort of like an iPad to do everything.  No good for people like me. For example, I wanted to talk to the front desk to send someone up to show me how to plug in a device.  It took me half an hour to