Nate Corliss edits the Value section. He covers what downtown Las Vegas hotels charge, how those charges are structured, and how prices move around the convention and event calendar. His reporting draws on the hotels’ published rates and fees, Clark County and Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority data, and company filings where the operators are public. Figures in his articles carry the date they were observed and the source they came from.
Six of nine Fremont Street hotels charge a mandatory nightly fee of $39 or more. Two charge nothing. The fee can exceed the advertised room rate on a midweek night.
CES, the National Finals Rodeo, Formula 1, and five other dates push downtown rates to several times their off-week levels. The rest of the year, midweek rooms are among the cheapest in the city.
Boyd Gaming holds three properties, Derek Stevens three, and the rest are single-asset owners. A map of who controls what on and around Fremont Street.
Lower minimum bets and better blackjack rules remain downtown Las Vegas's clearest advantage over the Strip. What the casinos actually offer.
A card from the Golden Nugget earns nothing at Circa. The seven ownership groups downtown each run their own loyalty program; what they are and where each works.
Room counts for the twelve downtown casino hotels, from the Golden Nugget's roughly 2,400 to Binion's 81, and what the inventory means for rates.
Ten days in December bring the rodeo's crowd to Fremont Street, where the casinos have built an event schedule around it. How the week works and what it does to rates.