Modern Hotel Tower with Sprawling Casino, Several Restaurants, and Shopping Discounts

Located less than a mile off the Las Vegas Strip, Palace Station Hotel & Casino supplies plenty of Sin City glitz. More than 1,600 slot and video-poker machines greet visitors in the 85,000-square-foot casino, where Texas hold’em tournaments take place 24 hours a day. The hotel is no slouch when it comes to live entertainment, either, with live concerts every Friday and Saturday night. Round-trip airport and Strip shuttle service to Fashion Show is available to all hotel guests. You’ll also get a Premier Passport to Savings for the Fashion Show and Grand Canal Shoppes retail centers, good for discounts at stores including Michael Kors and Kenneth Cole.

A glass elevator brings you to a tower guest room looking out on either the surrounding valley or the Vegas Strip. Furnishings are sleek and modern. Simply decorated courtyard rooms—the smallest of the bunch—are housed within a two-story building adjacent to the main tower. After settling in, you can grab a drink at one of the onsite lounges.

Dining options range from casual Mexican food at Cabo and authentic Chinese cuisine at Food Express to filet mignon and alaskan king crab legs at The Charcoal Room. At The Oyster Bar, chefs prepare seafood dishes right in front of diners, cooking entrees such as steamed new zealand mussels and lobster gumbo. The popular restaurant can seat only about a dozen people at a time, so be prepared to wait.

Las Vegas: The Strip Past and Present

Mentioning Las Vegas usually conjures up images of spinning roulette wheels and stone-faced poker players. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ll want to make a beeline for the casinos lining the neon-lit Strip. But for lower-stakes gambling in a throwback Vegas atmosphere, head downtown to Fremont Street. Vintage signs and showgirls crowned with headdresses recall the days of Sinatra and Martin, but this Glitter Gulch burns much brighter today than it did in the Rat Pack era: beginning at dusk, a canopy of more than 12 million LED lights erupts in a psychedelic light and music show every hour.

Educational attractions have never been Sin City’s strong suit, but the Mob Museum boasts a winning formula: bank robberies, prostitution, and money laundering. Exhibits profile legendary Mafiosi from Capone to Gotti, and mob artifacts include the bloodstained, bullet-pocked brick wall from the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Within the former federal courthouse, you can fire a Tommy gun simulator, participate in a police lineup, or enter witness protection for the rest of your life.

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