Quoted from nwpinball:Stay downtown, the Golden Nugget is great since they redid it a few year ago and there are a few other places where they've redone all the rooms recently. The food is cheaper, the gambling minimums are lower, and drinks are much more free flowing... or if you buy them, they are way cheaper. Plus there is a lot of free music, street entertainers, and it's easy to walk from casino to bar to restaurant, everything is close together. I stopped staying on the strip about 5 years ago, and even when I was staying on the strip, I was doing more of my drinking and gambling downtown.
If you gamble on the strip, go to a place like Casino Royale, where they have lower min bets and you still get decent drink service, but you will get free drinks all day long at most of the casinos downtown.
Completely agree with the Downtown theory, and staying at the Golden Nugget. Stayed there last time we went. 1st time in 6 trips there we stayed downtown. Best choice we ever made. Love the Nugget. Was there 4 nights and gambled at the bar every night, and I NEVER paid for even 1 Jack and Coke. Can't beat that. . . . . . . .