COAST RESORTS INC
8-K, 1999-03-29
HOTELS & MOTELS
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



                                    FORM 8-K


                CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



DATE OF REPORT (DATE OF EARLIEST EVENT REPORTED):                 March 23, 1999



                               COAST RESORTS, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)




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     Nevada                        0-26922                       88-0345704
(STATE OR OTHER                (COMMISSION FILE               (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
JURISDICTION OF                    NUMBER)                   IDENTIFICATION NO.)
 INCORPORATION)
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               4500 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada 89103

               (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES) (ZIP CODE)

       REGISTRANT'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: (702) 365-7000

                                 Not Applicable
          (FORMER NAME OR FORMER ADDRESS, IF CHANGED SINCE LAST REPORT)

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ITEM 5.  OTHER EVENTS.

         On March 23, 1999, Coast Hotels and Casinos, Inc. ("Coast Hotels and
Casinos"), a Nevada corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Coast Resorts,
Inc. (the "Company"), announced the expiration at 5:00 p.m. New York City time
on March 22, 1999 (the "Expiration Time") of a tender offer (the "Tender Offer")
for its 13% First Mortgage Notes due 2002 (the "13% Notes") pursuant to its
Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated February 19, 1999 and
that it had accepted all 13% Notes tendered in the Tender Offer. As of the
Expiration Time, approximately $173,040,000 principal amount, or 99% of
outstanding 13% Notes, had been validly tendered and not withdrawn. Coast Hotels
and Casinos also announced that it had closed its offering of 9 1/2% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2009 (the "9 1/2% Notes") and its new credit facility. A
copy of Coast Hotels and Casino's press release relating to the expiration
of the Tender Offer and the closing of its offering of the 9 1/2% Notes and the
new credit facility is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.




ITEM 7.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND EXHIBITS.

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       99.1          Press Release of Coast Hotels and Casinos, dated March 23, 1999, announcing the expiration of
                     the its Tender Offer and the closing of the offering of its 9 1/2% Notes and the new credit
                     facility.
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                                   SIGNATURES

                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                         COAST RESORTS, INC.,
                                         a Nevada corporation



                                         By:   /s/ GAGE PARRISH
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                                         Name:  Gage Parrish
                                         Title: Vice President and Chief 
                                                Financial Officer
March 26, 1999






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                       [D.F. King & Co., Inc. Letterhead]


PRESS RELEASE

CONTACT:
Kevin Schwicardi
800/829-6551
D.F. King & Co., Inc.
55 Water Street
New York, New York 10005


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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              COAST HOTELS AND CASINOS, INC. ANNOUNCES EXPIRATION
                 OF ITS CASH TENDER OFFER, OFFERING OF NEW NOTES
                      AND EXECUTION OF NEW CREDIT FACILITY


     LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- MARCH 23, 1999 -- Coast Hotels and Casinos, Inc., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Coast Resorts, Inc., announced today that as of 5:00
p.m. New York City time on March 22, 1999 (the "Expiration Time"), its
previously announced tender offer (the "Tender Offer") to purchase up to all of
its outstanding 13% First Mortgage Notes due 2002 (the "13% Notes"), had expired
and that all 13% Notes tendered were accepted for purchase. As of the Expiration
Time, approximately $173,040,000 principal amount, or 99% of outstanding Notes,
had been validly tendered and not withdrawn. The consideration, which has been
determined in accordance with the previously announced pricing formula, is
$1,179.32 per $1,000 principal amount of 13% Notes, plus accrued interest. Such
amount includes a consent fee of $20 per $1,000 principal amount of 13% Notes
payable only to holders of those 13% Notes who tendered by the March 5, 1999
consent date under the related consent solicitation.

     The Company also announced today that it closed its previously announced
private placement offering of $175,000,000 of 9 1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes
due 2009 (the "9 1/2% Notes") and new five year revolving credit facility (the
"Credit Facility"). The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the 9
1/2% Notes, borrowings under the Credit Facility and cash on hand to fund the
payment of consideration and costs of the Tender Offer and to retire other
outstanding secured indebtedness.


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Coast Hotels and Casinos, Inc.
March 23, 1999
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     The offer and sale of the 9 1/2% Notes have note been registered under the
Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States
absent registration under the Securities Act or an exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act.

     Coast Hotels and Casinos, Inc., owns and operates three hotel-casinos in
the Las Vegas area, The Orleans, the Gold Coast and the Barbary Coast.


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