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| - When I first turned 21 and went to Las Vegas I stayed at the Casino Royale. The first time I went to Las Vegas for New Years Eve I stayed at Casino Royale. Now, years later, I am getting offers for free or discounted rooms from many different hotels and have not stepped foot in Casino Royale in years. My friends decided on a last minute NYE trip this year and I could not find a decent deal anywhere. Everyone was either sold out or charging a ridiculous rate for that night, even the off strip motels. So in desperation I turned where it all began: Casino Royale. I got a decent rate at a hotel that has a great location. It is honestly quicker to walk from Casino Royale to the Venetian than it is to walk from the Venetian parking structure to the Venetian. Same goes with Harrah's.
A lot has changed since I last stayed here. They have completed their expansion so no worries about any major constuction, although not everything is open yet in the newly expanded section. The existing Subway and Noble Roman's pizza will be moved back there and a Cinnabon will be opening. I'm not sure if Ben and Jerry's will be moving or not. The expansion did do away with most of their parking lot so you'll have to park in their poorly designed parking structure. All the hotel rooms have been remodeled. Any picture of a room with floral bedding in the pictures section are old. The new rooms have a more modern decor. There are fridges, safes, and coffee makers in each room and a flat panel TV with HBO that is nicer than some of the bigger properties. You won't have a great view, but you will be getting a great value for your money. The only complaints are that there is only heat in the winter and only cool air in the summer. It is an old style A/C system that only lets them choose one or the other in the entire hotel. It was 30 degrees outside so opening the window for 5 minutes got the room cool again whenever it got too hot.
The crowd in the casino is very touristy and more of a mix of young and old than say O'Sheas. The blackjack you have to be careful on as there are only a couple of OK, but not great multideck games. The rest or 6:5 single deck or switch. The roulette is cheap and the craps are decent (they have their famous 100x odds). They also have a bunch of carnival games like 3 card poker, crazy 4 poker, Texas Hold'em table game, etc. Low minimums on everything. The casino staff is a mixed bag since the better dealers often get hired at the bigger casinos so small places like this hire some more inexperienced dealers. One of the pit bosses that was there was freaking hilarious though and made us laugh. The hotel staff has always been pretty good.
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