"14"^^ . . "The El Cortez has recently gone under the knife and come out a new hotel with beautiful art deco designs. If you stay in the fancier side you get a front door person like a concierge who is so nice and remembered my name during my entire stay. It was like being in a fancy hotel when I would get back, \"Hello, Tiffany, how are you tonight?\"\n\nEl Cortez has pretty comfortable beds, big bathrooms, and relatively nice showers. They also have a small fitness area and complimentary fruit and candy downstairs in the lobby area. The only thing they don't have is free Wi-Fi, but honestly I can't find any place in Vegas that does.\n\nAs for the casino portion, it was also recently redone so you don't have the lingering smoke smell in the carpet an around the tables just yet although smoking is of course allowed. They also have a pretty small gaming area with a really weird version of blackjack called double attack. In this version you get to see the dealer's card first and can at that point decide to make a second bet on your own hand. Odd indeed, but I did play it for a bit and ended up winning so I can't complain."^^ . "11"^^ . "2010-04-20T00:00:00"^^ . "8"^^ . "4"^^ . . .