Great price, far enough off from Fremont Street that the Fremont Experience doesn't keep you awake but is a quick block and a half away, Market Street Cafe is a great value. Clean, adequate-sized rooms  and comfortable beds. Gaming tables are reasonably priced. If you want to  goback and forth to the strip without paying too much for taxis, take the double deck er 24 hour bus back and forth for $8 a day. Definitely a hang out for Hawiians as noted by others - pleasant, but almost sedate crowd compared to what is happening two blocks over. Also, none of those peskt \""resort fees\"" the hotels are adding for maintaining a swimmng pool  and expected amenities. You have to watch out for those resort fees as they are only listed in the fine print at websites like Vegas.com and it stings when they surprise you with them at check-in.\n\nLike all downtown hotels, this is not a strip hotel nor anything close to one. Staying downtown to save money and fnd pleasure in an alternative Vegas to the increatingly pretentious  strip hotels.. You don't go to these hotels for a resort experience - you go to gamble less expensively, hang out on Fremont Street night (I described  it as Hollywood Blvd. on steroids to several of my friends) , and see once we would described as a more \""blue collar\"" Vegas feel. If this is your first trip to Vegas and you are under 40 I would recommend you stay on the strip just for the experience. But if you are like me and don't want to spend at least close to $300 a night  on  some of the prettier strip hotel rooms compared to something towards $70 or less per night on a Labor Day weekend at the Calfiornia, then give downtown Vegas and its hotels a try. You might like it.