Love Downtown and the Freemont Street Experience! Miss you, Vegas!
- April 4, 2009
- Rated 5 of 5 by
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This was my first trip to Las Vegas, so I didn't know what to expect. Upon arrival, I was immediately happy at our decision to try El Cortez, in spite of the neighborhood it is in. There is a block between El Cortez and the Freemont Street Experience that is old, and run down...but the locals assured us that in the near future, that block is going to be renovated, which will connect El Cortez with the other hotel/casinos Downtown...
You can see right away they have recently renovated much of the place!
For the rate we paid, which was really low...the room was nice...we stayed in a pavilion room, which you could tell had been recently repainted and carpeted. The bed was brand new and very comfy...the only complaint about the room was there was some mold near the ceiling of the shower...and when I brought it to the attention of the hotel staff, it was largely ignored...no one ever corrected the problem. I am chalking it up to the fact that it IS an older part of the hotel, and we will pay a couple of bucks more to stay in one of the newer rooms of the hotel.
The casino is very nice...they must pipe in an air freshener because it always smelled good...in fact we purchased t-shirts in the gift shop and they smell just like El Cortez.
Cafe Cortez has wonderful food...great service, huge portions and take advantage of your fun book coupon!!
The service of the cocktail watiresses was hit and miss in the casino...sometimes we got served very well, and other times it was as if the servers were just doing fast laps...we found this to be the case everywhere in Vegas though, even though we did tip generously.
We will be back!