Downtown Las Vegas
September 6th, 2009
Some locals call downtown Las Vegas “Vintage Vegas.” It’s where much of the action took place back before the late 1980s. It’s still a good place to visit. Many well-known casinos are located in downtown Las Vegas. It’s a great place to go if you want to gamble with lower minimums. Over 17 million people visit downtown Las Vegas annually.
Downtown Las Vegas Gambling
As mentioned, the minimum bets in downtown Las Vegas are lower. They also have high-limit gambling. For instance, finding Blackjack tables with $1-$2 minimum bet is commonplace. Try finding a bunch of $2 Blackjack tables at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip.
Downtown Las Vegas Casinos
At the very endalmost disconnected from the rest of the casinosare the Western and El Cortez. They are really down the street by themselves. The Western is a very low-end casino, and not something I recommend visitingunless you want to sell drugs while you play Blackjack. The El Cortez is better and features a lot of gambling for your dollar. They even have 40-cent Keno. However, there are better casinos up the street.
By the Fremont Experience, there is a series of casinos that you might be familiar with. First, there’s Binion’s Horseshoe, which was famous for the World Series of Poker among other things. Right across the street is the legendary Golden Nugget. The Golden Nugget still maintains its class and has tables with higher limits.
Another iconic casino that’s located at the end of the street is the Plaza. Perhaps you have seen their poker tournaments on TV. The Plaza will give you great bang for you buck. You might have seen their Center Stage Restaurant in the movie Casino.
There are many other casinos in downtown Las Vegas such as the Golden Gate, Fremont, Four Queens, Fitzgeralds and more.
Fremont Street Experience
One of the main attractions in downtown las vegas is the Fremont Street Experience. Five blocks of Fremont St. are covered with a huge technical canopyits one large big screen. Throughout the night, this canopy provides state-of-the art light and sound showsall for free. There are over 12 million lights in the canopy.
The shows change periodically. They start at dusk each night and run every hour on the hour. Sometimes there are free concerts as well.
I’ve lived in Las Vegas for over 20 years, and I still go down to see the Fremont Street Experience whenever I’m in that area. When the show starts, the lights dim outside and thousands of people stop what they are doing to watch.
Jake Truman
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September 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
What is the nicest hotel in the Las Vegas downtown?
We are looking for suggestions on which hotel in the Las Vegas downtown is the nicest. After staying twice on the strip we are looking for a change, yet I fear I have standards a little high. I am not caught up in pretentiousness, just neat, clean and comfortable. Also would consider input on convenience of the rooms in regards to access to the strip. Not so concerned about the casino associated with a hotel. Also - any other downtown advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
excuse me - looking for downtown hotel with access to Freemont Street, not the strip.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Golden Nugget is the best of down hotels.
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I love downtown. Stayed there countless times. I like the Four Queens and Union Plaza the best. The Magnolia restaurant (coffee shop) at the Four Queens is excellent. They even have fresh squeezed O.J. at breakfast. Hugo’s Cellar there and the fine dining room at Union Plaza are terrific. The rooms are nice, not fancy, but clean and spacious.
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Definitely Golden Nugget
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Bilagio is awesome. Haven’t stayed there but been by it and was wonderful!
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
No question…The Golden Nugget is the best of the downtown hotels
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
The Golden Nugget is the best in Old Las Vegas (aka: downtown), hands down. Neat, clean and in the middle of all the action, beneath the Fremont Street Experience. Their buffet isn’t bad either and the shrimp is good. Gambling is "better" theoretically speaking that is. You can’t go wrong. Check out the website below and enjoy.
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http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/nevada/las-vegas/las-vegas.php
September 6th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
My vote is the Golden Nugget. I have stayed they a few times but not since the remodel and now they are adding on.
Always use a player’s card.
The Fritz’ gave both my sister n’ law and I 3 nights and $50. We check in for the $50 and stay elsewhere then check out 3 nights later. I have fun playing at Fitz and Fremont Casinos but Fitz was dirty in June and Fremont rooms are very, very small. A king room has no place to put the suitcase but on the bed to unpack.
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
The Golden Nugget is a very nice four star hotel and their new pool, the "Shark Tank" is awesome.
http://www.goldennugget.com
I prefer Main Street Station
http://www.mainstreetcasino.com
IMO - MSS has the best value buffet in all of LV for lunch and dinner - The Pullman Grille is a great restaurant - Triple 7 Brew Pub for prime rib and beer.
The rooms are nice, and the people are the best. MSS is a wonderful hotel to stay/play/eat. Even if you don’t stay here make sure to visit. MSS has so many antiques, artifacts & artwork that it could qualify as a museum, the front desk has a brochure.
My third choice would be the Tower rooms at the El Cortez - the EC casino is not all that nice but their tower rooms are very nice and very large compared to other hotel rooms downtown.
http://www.elcortezhotelcasino.com
Best restaurants downtown
Pullman Grille - MSS
Hugo’s Cellar - Four Queens
Vic & Anthony’s - Golden Nugget
Roberta’s - El Cortez
Best buffet
Main Street Station - L,D
Best Seafood Buffet
Fremont - Sun/Tue/Fri
Convenience stores
Walgreens
ABC
A deal so good it’s a LV legend
.99c shrimp cocktail - Golden Gate
Best meal deals
Market Street Cafe - California - 11pm-9am
Fremont Street Coupons >go to the FSE office, it’s located on the 2nd floor of the parkng garage next to Walgreens, show an out of state ID. Get one set for each of you, these are great coupons. $10 free play coupons to Binion’s & the Golden Nugget, 2-4-1 buffet to MSS and Fremont plus several more good ones.
Travel to the strip
http://www.rtcsnv.com
From MSS you walk straight East on Stewart Ave 2 blocks to the DTC to catch the Deuce which will cost $5 for a 24hr pass
From the Golden Nugget walk East on Fremont Street to LV Blvd S to catch the Deuce.
If you want to visit the LV Hilton or Hard Rock, catch the #108 Paradise bus in front of the Plaza.
This is a good source of info on LV
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com
~Jack~
Later: No problem: The Golden Nugget sits in the middle of Fremont Street, you can walk to every other hotel on Fremont in maybe 2 or 3 minutes.
MSS is actually on Main Street but it’s only a short walk from the hotel cluster on Fremont Street and you can walk from MSS to Fremont Street via the California & Vegas Club hotels the only time you have to walk outside(in case of weather/heat) is to cross the street from the Cal to Vegas Club. It’s maybe a 4 or 5 minute walk if you take your time and check out the sports memorabilia at the Vegas Club.
The El Cortez is located one block East of the main hotel cluster on Fremont Street.
Parking downtown:
We like the parking garage at the El Cortez best. MSS has a nice one too, and they have valet parking on the South side of the hotel. There is a "pay" parking lot just to the East of MSS. There is plenty of other "pay" parking DT, it’s free if you get your ticket validated by the casino(no big deal)
Please feel free to e-mail me through Yahoo answers - I will help you in any way I can. I freely share all of my ill-gotten LV knowledge :))
We go to LV 2-3 times a year for 2 weeks or more at a time and have for over 20 years. We were in LV 6/4 - 7/5(31 nights) and spent 15 nights on Fremont Street(MSS(11) & El Cortez(4)) -
LV maps of hotel locations broken down by area.
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/maps.cfm
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September 6th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Wynn
Bellagio
Venetian
BEst in the town.
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