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South Coast is the old name of the South Point Hotel-Casino, located at 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, roughly five miles south of Mandalay Bay.
South Coast opened in late December 2005. It was planned as the fifth Coast casino, but while it was under construction, Coast Casinos was sold to Boyd Gaming. Shortly after South Coast opened, Coast principal Michael Gaughan and Boyd Gaming parted ways, and Gaughan took South Coast back as his part of the deal. He immediately renamed it South Point, changing only three letters of the name in the process. It’s been South Point since late October 2006.
South Point is the largest locals casino, with nearly 2,200 hotel rooms. In the Coast casino tradition, it also features a big casino with a sprawling bingo parlor, a 400-seat showroom, a 16-screen movie complex, the 30,000-square-foot Costa del Sur spa with 20 treatment rooms and a full-service salon, and a 64-lane bowling center.
Its eight restaurants include the venerable Michael’s Gourmet Room, which Michael Gaughan snagged from the old Barbary Coast (before it was sold to Harrah's and became Bill's Gambling Hall and Saloon), plus a steakhouse and Italian, Mexican, and prime rib rooms, big buffet, 24-hour coffee shop, oyster bar, sports book deli (reviewed extremely favorably in the May ‘08 Las Vegas Advisor), bowling center snack bar, and ice cream parlor.
South Point’s most notable feature is its Equestrian Center, which is touted as "the finest horse facility in the country." It’s certainly the only equestrian center at a casino in the country.
It’s worth checking out South Point if you’re in the vicinity, for example, at Town Square or taking a look at the growing M Resort, which is another several miles south of the Point and is on schedule to open next March.
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