I love Downtown Las Vegas also known as the 9th island. I'm a Hawaii girl living in Los Angeles, so when I go to Vegas, I always stop at the Cal for a slice of home. The local style food at Market Street Cafe (they have bomb Butterfish) and the plate lunch style grinds at Aloha Specialties are ONO!
If you're not from Hawaii, you probably won't understand why a 30-something would want to hang at the Cal, the place is like a Hawaiian version of the movie Cocoon. But I love seeing the old Japanese and local people from Hawaii gambling with their wheel chairs and sometimes even oxygen tanks. They go!
I've been staying at the Cal since small kid time, so its very nostalgic for me, lots of memories there. I love seeing the mixed faces and pidgin accents :) Also I've been brainwashed since childhood (they mail regulars a magazine with pictures of all the Hawaii winners) that I will win if play at a Sam Boyd hotel. Sure enough, I won 1000 quarters on Wheel of Fortune on my last visit, must be because I rubbed the shaka buddha's belly :)
See you in March 2014, yay :)