El Cortez Hotel and Casino
Know Before You Go
No Saturday arrivals are permitted.
Guests must be at least 21 years of age to check in to this hotel.
General Information
What to expect: Dating from the 1940s, El Cortez's original building was once owned by mobster Bugsy Siegel. These days, the hotel maintains an old-fashioned Las Vegas ambience, offering oversized guestrooms and suites, friendly hospitality, bargain dining, and 24-hour gaming action.
Amenity highlights: The casino offers extended multi-race keno that allows participants to play up to 1,000 consecutive games with one ticket. Buffet dining, a steakhouse, a 24-hour cafe, and multiple lounges are located on site.
Property Amenities
Located two miles from the Strip and three miles from the Las Vegas Convention Center, this nostalgic hotel is a throwback to the city’s original glory days. Facilities include a beauty shop, a barbershop, and a gift shop. A lobby kiosk provides a high-speed Internet connection (surcharge) and a reception-area zone offers wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Dining options include buffet restaurants, a casual 24-hour cafe, fast-food and gourmet-coffee outlets, and in-room dining. Two casino bars include a lounge with live piano entertainment every night.
Both valet and self parking in a garage are complimentary. The property also offers complimentary airport transportation from the hotel to the airport; this service is available from early morning to early afternoon Sunday through Thursday. Reservations for this service must be made at check-in.
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* 24-hour front desk
* Air-conditioned public areas
* ATM/banking
* Banquet facilities
* Bar/lounge
* Beauty services
* Breakfast available (surcharge)
* Casino
* Coffee shop or café
* Conference room(s)
* Event catering
* Express check-out
* Gift shops or newsstand
* Hair salon
* Internet access in public areas - high speed
* Internet access in public areas - surcharge
* Internet access - wireless
* Meeting rooms (small groups)
* Number of floors: 15
* Number of rooms: 300
* Parking (free)
* Parking (valet)
* Parking garage
* Porter/bellhop
* Restaurant(s) in hotel
* Room service (limited hours)
* Safe-deposit box - front desk
* Security guard
* Tour assistance
Rooms
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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.
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. All bathrooms have shower/tub combinations.
All guestrooms offer TVs with cable programming and wireless Internet access (surcharge). Compact refrigerators, hair dryers, and irons/ironing boards are available on request.
Room Amenities
* Air conditioning
* Blackout drapes
* Cable/satellite TV
* Climate control
* Clock radio
* Complimentary toiletries
* Cribs (infant beds) available
* Electronic/magnetic keys
* Hair dryer (on request)
* Housekeeping
* Internet access - surcharge
* Internet access - wireless
* Iron/ironing board (on request)
* Refrigerator (on request)
* Shower/tub combination
* Smoking rooms
* Telephone
* Voice mail
* Wake-up calls
Dining
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Careful Kitty's Café - Casual dining. Two-person semi-circular booths in dark-blue leatherette. Extensive menu. Breakfast items, sandwiches, burgers, steaks, seafood, daily specials. Open 24 hours.
Roberta’s Steakhouse - Blonde-wood booths and banquettes. Prime rib, steaks, seafood, chicken dishes. Nightly dinner served, from late afternoon until late evening.
Chinese Kitchen Buffet - Daily buffets, seafood menu on Tuesdays and Fridays. Open from late afternoon until late evening.
Express Breakfast Buffet - Daily breakfast buffets served. Open from early morning until late morning.
Lounge Bar - In the casino. Live nightly piano entertainment. Open from early morning until late evening.
Lobby Bar - In the casino. Open 24 hours.
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 piano 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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Recreation
Skydiving and helicopter tours are popular with Las Vegas visitors. Numerous golf courses are available in the Las Vegas area.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
* Golfing nearby
* Golf - driving range nearby
* Swimming nearby
* Tennis nearby
* Helicopter/airplane sightseeing nearby
Policies
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
There are no room charges for children 12 and younger when staying in the same room as their parents or guardians.
Rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) may be available and should be requested at the time of booking; fees may apply.
Photo identification and credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests made via this Web site cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
* Pets not allowed
* Check-in time is 2 PM
* Check-out time is Noon
