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Las Vegas Downtown Hotels, Casinos & Restaurants

 The Fremont Street Experience has helped revitalize downtown Las Vegas. (Photo: las vegas fremont street traffic sign image by MAXFX from Fotolia.com )


Downtown Las Vegas was already a flourishing gambling mecca long before The Strip was built. The city began here in 1905. After gambling was legalized in 1931, downtown was home to the city's first casinos and hotels. With the creation of the Fremont Street Experience, a five-block pedestrian mall with an overhead light show and entertainment, downtown Las Vegas has been revitalized.

Fremont Hotel &amp; Casino

The Fremont Hotel opened in 1956 as the tallest building in Las Vegas.The hotel launched the career of Wayne Newton, who began singing there in 1959 at the Carnival Lounge. Today, Fremont Hotel & Casino has 447 guest rooms and suites and a 32,000-square-foot casino. The rooms have been refurbished with a bright, modern look, cream-colored walls, light wood-grain headboards and plantation window shutters. The casino is colorful and noisy, with a huge race and sports book a welcome retreat for gamblers. Guests can pick from four restaurants including Second Street Grill, a consistent Zagat winner with prime rib and T-bone steak specials; the tropically themed Paradise Buffet and Cafe; a Tony Roma's rib joint; and Lanai Express, which serves Chinese food cafeteria-style.

Fremont Hotel & Casino

200 Fremont St.

Las Vegas, NV 89101



Golden Nugget Las Vegas

The Golden Nugget Las Vegas is the most luxurious of downtown Las Vegas hotels, having earned the AAA Four Diamond Award for 32 years. The hotel and casino opened in 1946 and is one of the oldest casinos in Las Vegas. The first of four hotel towers was opened in 1977. The Golden Nugget now has 2,300 guest rooms and suites. The rooms are well-appointed with elegant touches like gold-framed mirrors and mahogany furniture. In some rooms, the beds have ornate headboards. The suites are furnished with leather sofas and dark-wood cabinets. The casino is one of downtown's biggest, with 1,200 slot and video poker machines and dozens of table games. It appears less noisy and frenetic than most other casinos with subdued lighting and rich, warm carpets and walls--in contrast to the bursts of color commonly found in other Las Vegas casinos. The Golden Nugget has nine restaurants, highlighted by Vic and Anthony's Steakhouse, a vintage New York-style steakhouse that attracts locals as well as tourists to its thick, juicy cuts of beef. Other restaurants include Red Sushi, a sleek sushi bar known for its thick, fresh salmon nigiri; Lillie's Asian Cuisine, where diners cook their own meals on Japanese Teppanyaki tables with built-in grills; and a Starbucks Coffee shop.

Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino

129 East Fremont St.




Golden Gate Hotel &amp; Casino

The Golden Gate is the oldest hotel in Las Vegas--it opened in 1906, a year after the city was settled, as Hotel Nevada. It was given its current name in 1955, when it was taken over by a group of Italian-American immigrants from San Francisco. The hotel is the birthplace of the 50-cent shrimp cocktail, which it began serving in 1959. The Golden Gate remains a boutique operation with just 106 rooms and two restaurants, Bay City Diner and the Shrimp Bar & Deli, where the signature dish is still the shrimp cocktail. The Golden Gate is a small, intimate place with a stately interior that calls to mind the Victorian mansions of San Francisco--or the dwindling number of classic boutique hotels around Union Square.

Golden Gate Hotel & Casino

1 Fremont Street Experience




Four Queens Hotel &amp; Casino

The Four Queens is a later addition to downtown Las Vegas, having come on the scene in 1966. The hotel has 695 guest rooms and suites, and its 32,000-square-foot casino is one of downtown's largest with 1,025 slot machines, 27 gaming tables, a sports book and a keno parlor. Hotel rooms are ornately decorated but not stuffy; some rooms have gold crown molding and curtains and bedspreads in subdued, warm colors. The casino floor has a regal air, with turn-of-the-century-style chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and brightly colored carpets. Four Queens has three restaurants including Hugo's Cellar, a brick-walled gourmet restaurant with an extensive wine selection; the casual, 24-hour Magnolia's Veranda; and Chicago Brewing Co., known for its handcrafted microbrews and hot Chicago-style pizzas and sandwiches.


202 Fremont St.










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