El Cortez Cabana Suites — Hotel in Las Vegas

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible!! I booked this hotel because they said there was an airport shuttle. I was only in town for a 10 hour layover getting in at 10pm. I called. No shuttle from airport only to airport. Shuttle start at 7 am. I had to be back by 6am so I had to Uber both ways for $65. I get to the El Cortez and I'm hit by the overwhelming smell of cigarettes and over the top air freshener which was nauseating. The desk clerk was busy so I waited about 7 minutes. She then came and sat down and made my room arrangements. I walked out of the casino and across the street to the cabanas. Cute place on the inside with a nice security guard outside and another desk clerk inside. I opened the door to my room and saw the bed unmade and the room dirty. I went down to the clerk and told her. She attempted to make me keys for another room and that didn't work. She then called the casino clerk and proceeded to have a 15 minute conversation about why rooms weren't clean and why her key machine didn't work, etc. Then I was told to walk back over to the casino for new keys. As soon as I walk up the clerk answers the phone and has a 10 minute conversation. She then sits down again and makes me new room keys. I walk back across the street again and try my room. The keys don't work. I go to the desk clerk and tell her. She wants to know what kind of flashing yellow lights I'm getting. Now I'm ticked. She trys to make me keys again with no luck. She calls the casino again for new keys and says the janitor will bring them over. So an hour later I finally get into a room. Small but perfect for my needs. I just want to sleep. I pull back the blankets and there is a lipstick smudge on the sheets. I couldn't deal with them again. I slept in my clothes on the other side of the bed. It was gross. They also advertise for $39 a night then add the hotel tax when you get there which makes it $75. Don't...

Stayed solo Aug 2025 in the Petite Suite. Comfortable enough, cheap, safe. Would not stay in the same room again, though.||if you're a modern American couple with med-big bags, you won't be comfortable in the Petite Suite. Let's face it, these are 1950s apartments (remodeled more than once) but our bodies aren't 1950s bodies. I'm a single, medium guy with just a 20" roll-on, but I wasn't able to stretch out fully for my morning routine. The photographs are accurate but so well shot that they maximize the apparent space. Spend another $25 and get a bigger room in the Tower, which unfortunately would be closer to the noise of Fremont St.||These are the suites across Las Vegas Blvd from the casino. |- water Very slow (and wasteful) to heat up, no drain plug in sink|+/- Gym had decent machines, including a cable-pull machine, but no free weights.|+ Crossing the street from the casino was safe, both from possible crime (no hooligans, just a couple of employees on smoke break) and traffic (light, slow). |+ Security was good, with card-key entry only. |+/- Noise was minimal-none (didn't hear Fremont at all), except for slamming doors as mentioned in other reviews (including my own door). For some reason they don't maintain the hydraulic door closers, so you have to be aware and catch the metal door before it closes with a bang. I reported mine as a defect. The commercial dumpster next door made a horrible racket grinding on concrete as it was emptied at 4am, and you wouldn't have heard THAT in a Tower room, but I can't blame the...

First of all the Cabana Suites are the only ones that should be reviewed under THIS particular TripAdvisor listing ("El Cortez Cabana Suites"). ||||For the Vintage, Pavilion, and Tower Rooms, look under the "El Cortez Hotel & Casino" TripAdvisor listing.||||First of all, the Cabana Suites are wonderful but a little different. They're actually located in a separate building, across the Street from the main hotel/casino. ||||The Cabana Suites occupy the newest building in the El Cortez family (built in mid 2000s). The rooms look exactly like they do in the pictures (lots of lime green, white, and black). Please note all the Cabana Suites have only a King or Queen bed (in other words, every room has only one bed). Rooms are clean and have a fridge and safe. Please note, you check in at the main hotel, but there is also a staffer at the front desk of the Cabana Suites.||||Almost all rooms in the Cabana Suites are 400 sq. ft., but be careful, as a handful are only 200 sq. ft. Be sure you're getting a 400 sq. ft. room when you book.||||Rates get REALLY LOW a couple weeks before a prospective stay on both the main El Cortez Hotel & Casino website and on Expedia. Rates will drop up to 50% in those last couple of weeks, so spend a little time online and save yourself money to gamble...