Bison Steve Hotel

The Bison Steve Hotel is a building located in Primm in 2281.

Background
According to Johnson Nash, the Bison Steve Hotel used to be an old hotel and casino and that a woman named Laurie used to rent out rooms in the hotel until she "took off" a few months before October 2281.

Exterior
The semi-broken "El Diablo" roller coaster track wraps around the building. Up to three escaped convicts have taken positions along these tracks, and will often try to snipe the player off. Two more wait on the ground between the hotel and the Vikki and Vance Casino. The front door leads to the main floor; alternatively a door from the roller coaster track provides direct access to the second floor.

Main floor
Six convicts and an escaped convict leader inhabit the main floor. One or two of them will usually be found near the entrance, with most of the rest remaining near the large dining room at the back, where they have kindled a campfire and attempted to fortify themselves with upturned tables.

Behind the reception desk at the entrance, a locked storage room can be accessed with 75 Lockpick skill or 25 Hacking. In addition to a medium-locked safe and other random loot this room is the one of the earliest locations a low-level player can reach which always contains Med-X.

Moving past the entrance area, a gift-shop contains the unique .357 Magnum pistol Lucky, in a hard-locked safe next to a copy of Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor.

The main dining hall where most of the convicts lurk can be assaulted head-on. Alternatively, with 25 Lockpick skill or the Bison Steve maintenance key from the front storage room, one can sneak around the back through the kitchen.

A stairwell leads to the second floor. Alternatively, the elevator can be repaired with a Repair skill of 35, though this provides no experience reward. Once repaired, it leads to the second floor from the first, and vice versa.

Upper floors
The upper floors are inhabited by six convicts. One of them holds the key to the medium-locked gun cabinet on the third floor. A Ransom note which appears to date from pre-War times rather than the current inhabitants.

There appears to be an inaccesible area northwest on the third floor that is blocked by a broken door on one side and a tilted desk in the hallway on the other side of the door. Jumping beside the desk in that hallway still results in being blocked, as does attempts in the adjacent hall, where a collapse blocks a portal through which one can glimpse the inaccessible area. There is no way from the roof or outside ledge into the blocked area.

Related quests

 * My Kind of Town

Appearances
The Bison Steve Hotel appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Its name, style, and the roller coaster built in front of the hotel is a reference to Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino (and its famous roller coaster Desperado), in Primm, Nevada.
 * El Diablo is Spanish for "the Devil".

Bugs
It is possible that the convict that is guarding Deputy Beagle will not attempt to harm the Courier, companions or Beagle when he is freed, even though the compass indicates that the convict is hostile. The convict may also be in a seated position in mid-air to one side of the stool that's he's supposed to be sitting on.