Golden Nugget is solid, if you must stay in Fremont area.
Downtown Las Vegas | Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino
One of my favorites (And many locals go there) is The Orleans on Tropicana (Not downtown but very inexpensive and clean.
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Also , regarding burger joints, my opinion is "In and Out" or nothing.
We decided on the Fremont Hotel and Casino for our arrival night. Looked clean, central to everything downtown, less than 50 bucks total.
Here's our agenda thus far... Feel free to add recommendations or warnings.
1st Night (Fremont St Hotel)
- See Fremont St lights
- Let her zip line (ya, I know)
- Go look at the fatties at Heart Attack Cafe (I went with a friend and watched him eat a quadruple bypass. I was nauseous the whole time)
- Take a pic at Binions with $1M
- Play some cheap table games
- Cheap Drinks
- Cheap Sex
- Cheap food at Binions or some place similar
- Rub Buddha's Belly
Second Day (Cosmopolitan)
- Poker Tourney
- Lunch (?)
- Top Golf
- Drink
- Rides at top of Stratosphere
- Dinner at Capo's Speakeasy
- Watch Bellagio fountains from our terrace
- Hit the clubs (Ghost Bar, Moon, LAX, etc)
- Drunk sex with pictures
Third & fourth day (Venetian)
- Absinthe and possibly another Cirque show
- Lunch TBD/ (Some buffet at least once)
- Fine dining TBD (possibly
é, Raku, Bouchon, Sage, SB Brasserie?
- Watch sports (Bowl Games) at Laggase Stadium
- Drinks
- More Clubbing (TAO, Tryst, etc)
- Helicopter ride of Grand Canyon?
- More cheap sex
- Possibly get married again by Elvis at some drive thru
- Gamble on last day
That's just stuff we thought of while sitting around