Why this may be the best place in Las Vegas to watch Super Bowl LVIII
Yahoo Sports took a trip to Stadium Swim at Circa Resort & Casino to find out why the outdoor pool may provide the top setup for enjoy Sunday’s big game between the 49ers and Chiefs.
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STEFI PORTILLO: If you like sports, this is your dream.
KRISSY CHANEY: It's the best sports book. Look how high these screens are.
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DANIEL COSSA: I've never seen a screen this big in my life, head and shoulders above any other pool I've ever been to.
ROGER SAVILLO: You can never go wrong coming to Vegas.
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You want to take in the NFL Stadium Swim heated pool, you can't go wrong.
DANIEL COSSA: This is probably the number-one spot to watch a huge game, especially the Super Bowl.
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CHRIS WILBERDING: There's nothing like Stadium Swim in the whole entire world. Derek Stevens built the place, and it's like you're literally on the 50-yard line of a game when you walk in. There's so many games on the screen, and the atmosphere is unbelievable with the bottles popping, the champagne going, and the drinks flowing. It is an absolute blast.
STEFI PORTILLO: This ambiance, it's un-toppable. You can't beat this. There's a lot of people, but it's still a lot of personal space. So it's epic here.
CHRIS WILBERDING: When you walk through the doors, we call it our wow moment-- the energy, and the crowd, and the audio, the pyrotechnic displays that we do at halftime, as well as when touchdowns are scored.
DEREK STEVENS: When we designed Stadium Swim, we always thought that it was a way to create an arena feel to an outdoor venue in Vegas. I've always been biased towards outdoor venues in Vegas, outdoor sporting events.
This goes back to the days of watching Bo Holyfield out in the back parking lot of Caesars Palace. There's an electricity in Vegas for outdoor events.
We have another venue in downtown called the Downtown Las Vegas Event Center. We started having concerts there in, like, 2015-16, and we were just trying different stuff. So we went out and we bought a pool.
This was a massive outdoor pool for all the concerts in July. Let's just see if anybody crawls in. And all of a sudden, it started coming together.
And then what happened was this unbelievable initial year of the Las Vegas Golden Knights hockey team. The year as an expansion team, they make it all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals, and watch parties start taking place. And we thought, hey, let's put the hockey game up on this big screen out here. And then people got in the water, filled up the pool. So a lot of what we designed at Stadium Swim happened in a couple year period.
This was not built to be the best pool in Las Vegas. This was built to be the best pool party venue in the country.
- What do you think this place will look like on Super Bowl Sunday?
ROGER SAVILLO: Bananas-- standing room only. You gotta love it.
DANIEL COSSA: Super Bowl Sunday, I feel like it's going to be packed. The vibes are going to be insane.
STEFI PORTILLO: There's six to seven different table reservations you could possibly get. Starts off with about $1,500 food and beverage minimum spend, and then our owner's suite, you go all the way up to $30,000 food and beverage minimum spend. But the average price of a cabana, you're looking at about $8,000 food and beverage minimum spend.
STEFI PORTILLO: I was here for Super Bowl Sunday, and it was like being at the Rihanna concert live. I loved everything about it. The ambiance is insane.
KRISSY CHANEY: Anybody who comes here is going to have an amazing time for Super Bowl.
DEREK STEVENS: Going to a Super Bowl, physically going to the game, is bucket list thing for a number of people. I think watching in the world's largest sports book is also bucket list thing. It's certainly my preference.
STEFI PORTILLO: I can confidently say I would rather watch the game from the pool at Stadium Swim than anywhere else in the world, unless I might be on the field at the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is going to be absolutely insane, and Stadium Swim just does it better than everyone else.
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