Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

El Cortez Related Stories

  • Candidates for Las Vegas mayor debate behind closed doors
    They weren’t allowed into the event, but that didn’t stop 15 Larry Brown supporters from campaigning outside a board room of the El Cortez on Wednesday evening to show support for their favorite Las Vegas mayoral candidate.
  • "The Big Sleep" designed by Tina Enard of Reno-based Urban Design Studio and the winner of the Design a Suite contest at the El Cortez in Las Vegas Thursday, February 3, 2011.
    Mob-themed 'Big Sleep' suite wins El Cortez design contest
    A design that used the El Cortez's mob ties has won the property's Design-A-Suite contest.
  • Tina Enard of Reno-based Urban Design Studios examines a suite at the El Cortez September 8, 2010.
    El Cortez aims at younger downtown crowd with revamped suites
    High above the casino floor where customers are tethered to the slot machines, the El Cortez has spent months revamping its hotel to attract the young, hipster crowd finding its way to the new downtown.
  • Designer Tina Enard of Reno-based Urban Design Studio puts the finishing touches on their suite "The Big Sleep" at the El Cortez Hotel during the designer reveal of the suites that were redesigned for the Design a Suite Downtown competition at the El Cortez Thursday, January 27, 2011.
    70-year-old El Cortez aims at younger downtown crowd with revamped suites
    High above the casino floor where customers are tethered to the slot machines, the El Cortez has spent months revamping its hotel to attract the young, hipster crowd finding its way to the new downtown.
  • Tina Enard of Reno-based Urban Design Studios examines a suite at the El Cortez September 8, 2010.
    A suite deal: El Cortez redesign contest, on a budget
    The secret to success may be in improving the most basic of hotel amenities — the room itself.
  • Tina Enard of Reno-based Urban Design Studio examines a suite at the El Cortez September 8, 2010.
    A suite deal: El Cortez redesign contest, on a budget
    While posh Las Vegas Strip hotels boast touch-screen remotes and 600-thread-count sheets, the El Cortez mostly leans on its 70-year history and downtown roots. The El Cortez thinks the secret may be in improving the most basic of hotel amenities — the room itself.
  • Clockwise from top left: Alaskan halibut, Chicago-style garbage salad, steak Diane, pecan crunch cheesecake, insalata caprese, T-bone steak.
    The Flame still burns nightly
    Despite upgrades to appeal to partiers, the El Cortez hotel maintains an old-Vegas vibe, and its main restaurant (now the Flame, formerly Roberta's) keeps a foot in both worlds and hardly ever stumbles - at least when it comes to what's on the plate.
  • Your new Downtown crash pad
    Your new Downtown crash pad
    If you think a Downtown hotel room has to be a cigarette-burned hole in the wall, you overlooked the Cabana Suites.