Frommer's Las Vegas 2004

Gerson
15
Morgan
Mesquite
Grand Central Pkwy.
93
California Hotel/
Casino & RV Park 2
Castaways 9
El Cortez Hotel
& Casino 8
Fitzgeralds Casino
& Hotel 7
Four Queens 6
Fremont Hotel
& Casino 4
Golden Nugget 3
Lady Luck Casino
Hotel 5
Main Street Station 1
Wilson
Bonanza Rd.
Bus
Depot
Lewis
1st St.
1
Main St.
3
2
3rd St.
Casino Center Blvd.
6
5
4th St.
4
7
Las Vegas Blvd.
6th St.
Downtown Accommodations
Bonanza Rd.
SQUIRES
PARK
7th St. 7th St.
Ogden
9th St.
8th St. 8th St.
Garces
Reed Whipple
Cultural Center
Bell
Stewart
Clark
Bonneville
Charleston
Mesquite
8
Fremont St.
Bridger
10th St.
0
515
582
Carson
11th St.
15
604
95 95
Charleston Blvd.
15
Harris
Las Vegas Blvd. (The Strip)
Tropicana Ave.
McCarran
International Linden
Airport
93
Cashman
Field Center 515
Maryland Pkwy.
Maryland Pkwy.
95
93
13th St.
Fremont Street
Experience
0 0.25 km
0.25 mi
Fremont St.
582
AREA OF
DETAIL
Sahara Ave.
Desert Inn Rd.
Flamingo Rd.
Maryland Pkwy.
t.
9
15th St.
faux), stone, and woodwork. It was already a good-looking, if low-profile hotel,
and the changes have made it even more attractive. Rates here can be quite low,
so if you don’t mind the out-of-the-immediate-action location (nothing having
a car can’t easily handle—5 min. to Downtown, 10-plus to the Strip), this can
be a decent budget alternative. The rooms have not yet had the benefit of a
remodeling, and given the new owners’ recent financial woes, it may be sometime
before that happens. Currently, rooms are adequately good-looking and
comfortable, though the rooms in the three-story motel building around the
pool can be dark (this is alleviated somewhat by sliding glass doors and small
patios in first-floor rooms). RV travelers may want to take advantage of the 84-
space park with full hook-ups, private showers, a dog run, and a live-in manager.
The casino is popular with locals. And the hotel was the first to offer buffet
meals and bingo, not to mention a bowling alley. The bowling alley, North
America’s largest, used to host major PBA tournaments, and the new owners are
attempting to bring them back again. The Windjammer lounge by the main
casino offers free entertainment (not even a drink minimum at the tables, which
most, if not all, of the other hotel lounges do), including bands such as the
Coasters and the Drifters (pretty good free stuff, if you ask us). The hotel is also
doing a big promotion with local golf courses, with packages including cheap
rooms and special greens fees and the like. This might be a nice enticement if
you are going to golf and not gamble.