The El Cortez Hotel & Casino, a downtown Las Vegas retreat, offers a vintage Vegas atmosphere, spacious guestrooms, 24 hour gaming, and inexpensive dining. In the 1940’s, the hotel’s original building was owned by the infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel. The budget friendly locale is one of Vegas’ oldest downtown hotel casino combinations. It primarily caters to guests looking for great gaming action. One of the highlights is that guests can step right out of the hotel into the pedestrian-friendly Fremont Street Experience, a four block stretch that features live music, festivals, and other live entertainment.
The El Cortez Casino offers 45,000 square feet of gaming space complete with over 1,000 slot machines, 20 table games, and a sports book. Known as the “place to play slots,” the casino slots vary from penny machines to $5 machines. There’s also video poker, video keno, video reels, and multi-game machines. Table games include poker, blackjack, roulette, craps, Pai Gow, 3 Card Poker, and Mini Baccarat. The casino was voted 2005 and 2006 “Best of Las Vegas Keno for variety: there are 12 different pay rates or five special tickets to choose from.
Guests will have access to complimentary valet and self parking, a 24 hour front desk, a full service unisex hair salon, a barber shop, complimentary parking, ATM and banking services, express check-out, housekeeping, complimentary airport transportation, a gift shop, and tour assistance. |
