I haven’t been to Vegas since last year, so I guess it is now time again to go and donate to the Casino Upgrade/Build charity!! 
. Yeah a summer trip. I know it will be hot, but what the heck, I’m bored!
Heading out the end of June for the 4th of July holiday. As usual I’ll stay at the Four Queens downtown. Decent hotel/casino right on Fremont St, and no resort fees!! My room rate if I end up paying for the room at all is $35/night on Sunday through Thursday and $80/night on Friday and Saturday. But I usually end up comped for my room and all the food I eat at the hotel.
It ain’t fancy but it is good enough. They just finished remodeling all their rooms last year and it was a good remodel. Coffee pot in room, tv and refrigerator, no mini bar so you don’t get stuck for overpriced stuff. Every time I’ve stayed they only had showers in the rooms, no tubs. But I don’t know if they have rooms with tubs.
Dining there is good to great depending on which restaurant you use. Hugo’s Cellar is superb but costly. Magnolia is their main restaurant and all the food is reasonably priced and generally good to near excellent. They have a 3rd food venue with craft beer, can’t remember the name, but it is good as are the beers they serve. Pizza, sandwiches and salad and some really great bloody Mary’s too.
I love Fremont Street!! But I get a room furthest away because it is VERY noisy to the wee hours. Live entertainment every night of variable quality, often in early evening someone will set up and do some playing and singing, I’ve even saw a revival meeting of sorts right outside the hotel.
Downtown doesn’t have buffets in all the hotels, but there are some and they are good. Not cheap, those days are long gone. Fremont Hotel right across the walkway from 4 Queens has one, Golden Nugget has an excellent one just across the street and the California has one just a few blocks away. But there are many different kinds of restaurants in the various hotels really close by with pricing from reasonable to “oh my God!”
Pools are few and far between downtown and I’ve seen none that are worth bothering with.
For the gamblers there is low stake craps ($3-$5) and plenty of $5 table games of other sorts. Binions used to have $.25 roulette but I think that is $1 now. Slot machines of all sorts abound! From the misnamed penny machines that cost a minimum of $.35 to play to multi-dollar machines. Weekdays they seem to pay out much better than on the weekend but the huge progressive jackpot’s mostly hit on the weekends.
My sister and brother in law are meeting me out there and they are driving, so we may do some sight seeing outside of town or hit some of the casino spots that we like but don’t stay at. No shows for us.
. Yeah a summer trip. I know it will be hot, but what the heck, I’m bored!Heading out the end of June for the 4th of July holiday. As usual I’ll stay at the Four Queens downtown. Decent hotel/casino right on Fremont St, and no resort fees!! My room rate if I end up paying for the room at all is $35/night on Sunday through Thursday and $80/night on Friday and Saturday. But I usually end up comped for my room and all the food I eat at the hotel.
It ain’t fancy but it is good enough. They just finished remodeling all their rooms last year and it was a good remodel. Coffee pot in room, tv and refrigerator, no mini bar so you don’t get stuck for overpriced stuff. Every time I’ve stayed they only had showers in the rooms, no tubs. But I don’t know if they have rooms with tubs.
Dining there is good to great depending on which restaurant you use. Hugo’s Cellar is superb but costly. Magnolia is their main restaurant and all the food is reasonably priced and generally good to near excellent. They have a 3rd food venue with craft beer, can’t remember the name, but it is good as are the beers they serve. Pizza, sandwiches and salad and some really great bloody Mary’s too.
I love Fremont Street!! But I get a room furthest away because it is VERY noisy to the wee hours. Live entertainment every night of variable quality, often in early evening someone will set up and do some playing and singing, I’ve even saw a revival meeting of sorts right outside the hotel.
Downtown doesn’t have buffets in all the hotels, but there are some and they are good. Not cheap, those days are long gone. Fremont Hotel right across the walkway from 4 Queens has one, Golden Nugget has an excellent one just across the street and the California has one just a few blocks away. But there are many different kinds of restaurants in the various hotels really close by with pricing from reasonable to “oh my God!”
Pools are few and far between downtown and I’ve seen none that are worth bothering with.
For the gamblers there is low stake craps ($3-$5) and plenty of $5 table games of other sorts. Binions used to have $.25 roulette but I think that is $1 now. Slot machines of all sorts abound! From the misnamed penny machines that cost a minimum of $.35 to play to multi-dollar machines. Weekdays they seem to pay out much better than on the weekend but the huge progressive jackpot’s mostly hit on the weekends.
My sister and brother in law are meeting me out there and they are driving, so we may do some sight seeing outside of town or hit some of the casino spots that we like but don’t stay at. No shows for us.