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Hotel Policies & Fees
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Property Amenities
Rooms
Spacious guestrooms at this Fremont Street hotel are located in a 14-story tower, a five-story pavilion, or on a walk-up level just above the casino floor. Cabana rooms are located in a building across the street.
All rooms have tall headboards and dark woods. Tower rooms include dressing/vanity areas and separate seating areas with love seats, wing chairs, and coffee tables. Vintage rooms, above the casino, have been remodeled to reflect 1940s decor. Cabana Suites offer custom furniture, 42-inch flat-screen TVs, and MP3 docking stations. Tower rooms are non-smoking only.
All guestrooms offer TVs with cable programming, wireless Internet access (surcharge), coffee/tea makers, and hair dryers. Compact refrigerators and irons/ironing boards are available on request.
Cabana, Tower, and Vintage rooms are nonsmoking only. This hotel has a maximum length of stay of 7 days per month.
Room Amenities
Dining
The Flame Steakhouse - Comfortable setting, classic atmosphere. Prime rib, New York steaks, seafood, chicken selections. Nightly dinner served, from late afternoon until late evening.
Cafe Cortez - Variety of food, served in generous portions. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open 24 hours, with a limited menu Sunday-Thursday, 10:30 PM - 7:30 AM.
Lounge Bar - In the casino. Live entertainment; opens at 10 AM.
Main Bar - Open 24 hours.
Lobby Bar - In the casino. Opens at 1 PM.
Dreyer's Ice Cream - Adjacent to the gift shop. Open from early morning until late evening.
Seattle's Best Coffee - Adjacent to the gift shop. Open from early morning until late evening.
Subway - Adjacent to the gift shop. Open from early morning until late evening.
Room service - Available from early morning until late evening.
Entertainment
Under a vault of two million light bulbs and employing a 550,000-watt sound system, a four-block pedestrians-only stretch of downtown Las Vegas called Fremont Street Experience presents periodic sound-and-light shows from dusk to midnight. Other entertainment on the street includes live music, classic-car displays, and holiday festivals. Like nine other downtown casino hotels, this hotel opens directly onto Fremont Street, creating a lively flow of pedestrian traffic.
El Cortez Hotel's 40,000-square-foot casino offers blackjack, craps, roulette, mini baccarat, three-card poker, video poker, both live and video keno, and 1,100 slot machines that accept denominations between one penny and five dollars. The race-and-sports book provides a lounge with multiple large-screen TVs. Live entertainment is provided nightly in the casino's Lounge Bar.
Jackie's Club offers complimentary membership cards that reward play with comps and other rewards.
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“GREAT VALUVE IN DOWNTOWN VEGAS”
VALUE FOR MONEY GREAT SMALL HOTEL ....ROOMS IN TOWER ARE LOVLERY ROOMS EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR STAY... ROOMS CLEANED EVERY DAY WITH NO PROBLEMS HOTEL RUNS A FREE SHUTLE TO THE AIRPORT CASINO HAVE VERY LOW TABLE LIMMTS 25C ROULETE SO IVE BEEN THERE LAST 7 YEARS AND STAY THERE EVERY TIME I HIT VEGAS
“Vintage?”
I have stayed at the El Cortez on several occasions and I did not know of the "vintage" rooms until arriving. Afterwards I finally found the definition of "vintage" on their website stating of the 1940's feel and stair access above the casino. This was tough since I injured my knee and the desk persons only solution was to call security to help carry my bag up the stairs. Even though the room was non-smoking, the air from the casino came up the stairs and into the room. I will stay there again because overall the rooms are nice, clean and comfortable, but if you have mobility issues or allergies/respiratory sensitivities I would not recommend the "vintage" rooms.
“This place is Meh...”
The front desk was kind of rude, but still helpful. Maid service was very friendly. The main hotel is a little run down, but their cabbana suites looked nice. You get what you paid for. The night life at el cortez was a bust but its right off of freemont and the freemont experience section. Neighberhood at night reminded me of sunset blvd. A variety of crazies, homeless and party ppl. It wasnt scary but dont walk alone.
“El Cortez - cheap and adequate”
Stayed 4 nights at this hotel in a Pavillion room. Was looking for cheap accommodation in a reasonable location and this was perfectly adequate. Our room was close to the parking garage and it felt safe and secure moving between the two. It is an old hotel, so it feels dated and a bit shabby in parts, but the rooms were well cleaned and comfortable. The only negative was the stained grouting around the bath, but the water supply was hot and plentiful. Only ate at the Cafe Cortez (again to save money), and for burger dinners and stir fry at USD7 a meal, you get what you pay for.
“The Price is right!!!!”
The room was kind of small, but for the price that we paid, it was good enought for us, plus we only need the room to sleep for a couple of hours, beacuse in VEGAS you don't really sleep.
“Enjoyed the stay”
The hotel is located a couple blocks from the Fremont Street Experience, and multiple RTC bus stops. There's also a Walgreens and a Starbucks nearby. The mexican/cuban restaurant across the street is amazing, and the pizza joint down the street is great, as well. As for the hotel itself, it's a great place for the price. The slots here are much looser than most of the other hotels, they have $3 craps, $3 blackjack, and $1-3 max limit Texas Hold'Em. I'm not a high roller, so this was right up my alley. My only real complaint is the drink service. The cocktail waitresses don't come by very often, and I had a couple of them forget my drink.
“Bad News”
Well, where do I start first off the stair well from the parking lot of the old hotel stunk like mold and cat urine, Then they gave me a non smoking noisy room on top of the stairs on the second floor and it smelled like smoke like the casino, My door key card or lock took like 4 times each time i wanted in to the room. The room was not very well lit two forty watt bulbs for the whole room, the floor were uneven a creeked like a haunted house , the bathroom was very small,and where they had the tolit was in between the wall and the sink and you better be a small person to fit in there, oh yah the lid did not stay up for men. oh they had a news paper in the ceiling to block off a vent about 2x2 feet so you could read in bed if you could see a little better with the bad lighting , oh also the coffee maker did not work the outlet did not so i had to move it, very limited nite menu,
“don't want to stay there again”
dirty,food not good,bathtub stopped up,
“El cortez in Fremont St in Vegas”
Its an older hotel, but I knew that when I made the reservation. The only real complaint was the ventelation in it. The cigarette smoke was exessive and wasnt ventelated properly. I realise its and older hotel but the others on fremont didnt have this problem. Our room was clean and very nice. If I wanted high end, I would have stayed at the strip. I stayed in the tower.
“Awesome decorating!”
The Cabana Suites were awesome. The decorating in the building is the most unique I've ever seen. You do have to carry your room card to get into the building in addition to your room because it's seperate from the main casino hotel part. The bonus coupon book they gave us was nice. It gave free gambling money and money off at the resaturant. The restaurant was a bit of a downer though. Most of the entrees are expensive and don't include sides. And it costs extra to share an entree. You end up paying for two whole meals even if you want to share with someone. If felt like we were being ripped off. It was more expensive than just going down to Fremont for something equivalent to eat. It does have a Subway inside the main hotel though which was a cheap and close option.
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Hotels in Fremont Street - Downtown
600 Fremont St Las Vegas, 89101 Nevada
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The preferred airport for El Cortez Hotel and Casino is Las Vegas, NV (LAS-McCarran Intl.) - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi.
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Fremont Street - Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America: The neon, twinkling lights of vintage Vegas are on full display downtown at the Fremont Street Experience, a five-block area that features a few of the citys longest-operating casinos, a pedestrian mall, and an overhead electronic canopy for laser and light shows. Downtown Las Vegas also houses city hall, the 18b Arts District, and a large outlet mall.
600 Fremont St Las Vegas, 89101 Nevada
