Las Vegas Gold Coast Hotel my experiences at a great budget hotel casino just off the strip - by Jason

Gold Coast Hotel Las Vegas

Gold Coast Hotel and Casino is located beside Rio and across the street from Palms one half mile from the strip on Flamingo. Stayed here and played poker, blackjack and slots. All staff were helpful, pleasant, and upbeat.

The room was clean, had great water pressure in the shower. The Gold Coast had loose slots, fast check in, efficient valet, coupon books for new members of the free players club, and was quite affordable. It's a great casino to base camp from which to explore all over Vegas cheaply because they have a free shuttle to the strip and are located right next door to the Rio and across from Palms. So you could hang at the Gold Coast affordably, gamble where its good, then walk right to one of the other casinos for a great pool scene, 50+ floor views of Vegas, concerts, movies and more.

Gold Coast Hotel Room photo, small but clean with wide flat screen television and window in the shower that opens outside.

Gold Coast had good food for the price, great service in the Monterey Room, which was open late and it wasn't smoky. Here breakfast is served till 11 pm plus they have a Chinese menu. Food court options are limited.

On the down side the Gold Coast room was pretty small, with a tiny bathroom, and it was noisy through the door to the hallway. The pool and hottub were extremely small probably too small to even host 30 people comfortably. This casino serves the locals heavily and they probably aren't swimming much so maybe it was adequate.

Gold Coast Hotel Casino picture shows brightly lit exterior facing Flamingo road across from the Palms Casino.

Overview: Gold Coast has 3 most important elements for a great cheap base camp to explore Vegas from: low price, close to the strip, and clean.
Location: Off strip on Flamingo road
Nightclubs, Lounges: small open lounge scene with live music frequently
Restaurants: typical small food court, Ports O' Call Buffet, Monterey Room, Ping Pang Pong, Cortez Room
Casino: The casino has 150+ seat sports book that gets pretty loud on weekends with 70 decent size screens, casino is about 130,000 scquare feet with all typical games both live and slots.
Entertainment: fun showroom for live entertainment
Extras: 75+ lane big loud bowling alley, kids arcade,
Pools: small, seating for about 40, outdoor hot tub seats about 13
Health Club or Spa: small gym but no spa
Shopping: none to speak of, small liquor store
Wedding chapel: not last time I checked
Childcare facilities: None
Pets allowed: No
Parking garage: ample parking garages though you may have to walk far
Shuttle services: free shuttle runs connecting sister casinos Gold Coast and Orleans every half hour daily, some runs to the strip and back
Check-in time: 3:00 pm but earlier is often allowed by requesting it
Check-out time: 11 am
Minimum age to reserve a room: 21 years.
Policies: maximum number of guests per room is four.
Incidental charges: Hotel requires a credit card for incidental charges

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